From our friend and today's guest Daniel Gay "I chose Philip Glass’ “Solo Piano” because it’s the most transportive record I’ve ever heard.  It’s music for all seasons of life; it can be warm, cold, stark, ambitious, unrelenting, but more than anything it’s constantly beautiful.  Each track, each arpeggiated run.  It’s reference points have always resonated with me.  Kafka, Ginsberg, the Dali Lama, Buddhism, social justice, anti-authority.  For more than 25 years, this music has accompanied me through the births of my kids, deaths, degrees, jobs, marriage, love and loss, and I attribute some of its power to helping me quit alcohol and remain on a path of alcohol sobriety.  It’s mindful music, not in the “Life is Good” hippie way, but in the way that it centers me.  It’s classical music for punk rockers, or  music for thinkers and dreamers.  Glass won’t physically  be around much longer, but the next generation, guys like Richter, Tiersen, O’Halloran…they’ll push the minimalist form forward and continue to inspire people to step out of their boxes, focus, and be conscious of the beauty of the world and my place in it."

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Daniel Gay YouTube Channel

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Daniel Gay Bandcamp Page