The Sound and the Sway (reprint from MySpace)

The Sound and the Sway
Category: Music

When Dick and I first started talking about working together, before Hormone Junkies became manifest and long before we even mentioned the idea of a project together, we spoke about how music makes us feel. We listed bands, composers, artists and their works that caused that special surge in our internal systems, and those that initiated intellectual movement - soul and substance. We were up front about the fact that music, for us, was not a vapid method of passing the time, it was not a place holder for physical and mental inactivity, but an engaged essential state and process. Music was not to be played then not listened to. It was not to be performed and then not moved to. It was not just artificial environmental decoration - no. It is essential. It moves us on the inside and the outside. It engages us from the top of our brains down, through our eyes and mouths and throat and lungs, down and into our muscles and bones, our hips, our thighs and calves to our feet and our toes. It makes us dream and it makes us dance.

And that is how we got to "dance" music. A dance band. That's what we wanted. We wanted to dance. But, we realized immediately between us that our dancing was not limited to 120 beats per minute, kick drum on the down beat, syntho-throbbing, sub woofer pulsing club tunes, though we by no means dislike that type of dance music - we, in fact, love and embrace it. To us, though, dance music is so much more. We spoke to one another about bands like Talking Heads, the Orb, Underworld, and New Order. Groups that have gotten our hips and feet moving in the past - dance music. But, we realized that we also would dance to Yes's The Ancient or Sound Chaser and to Eno's King's Lead Hat and Energy Fools the Magician. Hell, we'd dance to the music of Elliot Sharp and Henry Cow. Our idea of dance music seems much broader than that of some of our colleagues. For us it's the sound and the sway, the meaning and the movement.

So, the sounds that channel through us, the music that we facillitate and the vibrations that we initiate, that music is all dance music. Sometimes it will make you dance, some times it will let you dance and sometimes it will dare you to. In any case, it is there for your head and hips alike. Al Gore reminded us that an African proverb states "when you pray, remember to move your feet." We offer foot moving music for all sorts of prayers.