You must have been dozing.

You find you are in a deep green wood by a pond on this drowsy morning, surrounded by the music of some birds, some crickets, some frogs, some very playful dragonflies. How did you get here? Too much effort. You’d prefer to keep enjoying the beautiful halfdreams still lingering from your morning reveries.

A little light rain brings new music into the mix. It doesn’t last long, but it excites the dragonflies, who embark on a game in three dimensions, but who’s chasing who? For a moment you realize that this small world around you and the boundless world within you have both become still. The stillness stays, even as the dragonflies are at it again, this time less urgently, hovering and humming.

Some peepers decide to join the chorus- is the sun behind a cloud or has the day already passed? Does it matter? They sound as sleepy as you are. What else would one do in this curious place?

“When I dream I fly with you.”

Matthew Labarge has released seven albums of solo piano music, nine albums of mixed instruments as Larkenlyre, and an album of pirate-themed lounge music as Cane Bay Cabaret. He works tirelessly in a tiny studio in Blacksburg, Virginia to bring you albums that unfold like a novel, are worth listening to carefully, and still yield new insights after many listens.

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