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Ezekiel Saw the Wheel

from Heard the Voice by Andrew Jamieson

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Ezek’el saw the wheel ‘Way up in de middle ob de air, Ezek’el saw the wheel ‘Way in de middle ob the air. De big wheel run by faith, An’ de little wheel run by de grace ob God, ‘Tis a wheel in a wheel — ‘Way in the middle ob the air. 1. Some go to church fo’ to sing an’ shout, ‘Way in de middle o’ de air, Befo’ six months dey are all turned out, ‘Way in de middle o’ de air. (Text from Religious Folk Songs of the Negro from the Hamton Institute, 1920) The songwriters called it a wheel in the air. I might have called it a flying saucer, perhaps the one that brought Sun Ra. Our limited linguistic and cultural vocabulary encounter a profound and unknown power. We respond but never fully grasp it. Meditating on this experience, I present the simple 5-note melody in the futuristic polytonal sonorities that might capture the sounds of a UFO. A cloud of dissonant and disjunct notes makes its own statement, as startling and overwhelming as the divine.

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from Heard the Voice, released August 18, 2015

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