Coltrane changes � instead of Dm7 G7 you visit two other tonal centres on the way to C. The two centres are a major third away from the destination ie E and Ab. So the changes go Dm7 Eb7 Ab B7 E G7 and finally C. I have been playing with this progression � its central to Countdown which is the most ferocious of the Giant Steps tunes. There are various areas of continuity � for example you can carry the Ab triad on over the B7 to enrich the sound and then take it down to an Ab minor over the both the E and the G7 � or maybe carry the E triad over the G7. I am also wondering about sustaining a D pedal or maybe switching between a D and an A.

Another interesting possibility in these changes is � say � to voice the Ab as a 2nd inversion with added major seventh. That is from the bottom: Eb G Ab C. If you raise the top three notes by a semitone to get � Eb Ab A Db � or D# G# A C#. This is rootless B 7th with 9th and 13th added. The 13th is added under the 7th which is a Herbie Hancock voicing.

I have had a first go at the mix of the 2nd of the pieces which Gilbert has sent me the guitar parts for � I am just listening to the two one after the other. One is very violent, the other much more about individual musical events. I have taken out some of the instrumental variation on the 2nd pieces � at the moment its for synth, two organs, bass and guitar.

We drove the car down the valley about a mile and then past the Law College up Sandy Lane � and walked around in a square � West along the Pilgrims Way for about a mile and then south through the Upper Greensand for a third of a mile of so. Then back in the other direction through the Loseley Estate. For some reason we had never done that walk before.

Good views to the South and East � across to the ridge where Charterhouse stands � over an area that I suspect used to be the floor of a lake (which is where the pub is that we had lunch in on |Saturday) � and also across to the Chantries and Chinthurst Hill on other side of the Wey Valley.

A little tributary valley opens up just in front of Loseley which is a beautiful grey symmetrical Elizabthan House which has been owned by the same family since the early 17th century � since the time of Hobbes in fact. This valley has been dammed to make an ornamental lake. We had a look round Littleton which is just outside Loseley grounds and is the estate village. Pevsner some of the large cottages in the village date from the building of the big house. It has a funny little church joined to a house which says it was built in 1843 - a kind of rather cosy Surrey gothic � before there was lots of pressure to be too historically accurate.

The density of Elizabethan houses is surprising. The Law College has a couple of rooms which date back from that time and which still have their original ceilings and just across the Wey is a place called Great Tanguley which is half timbered and was built in the 1580s. Henry VIII built Sutton Place which is about three miles down river the other side of the Downs earlier in the16th century � this is one of the few houses in the country to have a surrealist graden.

The other architectural period that is well featured on this side of the Downs is Arts and Crafts � Lutyens, Voysey, Baillie Scott and others. I suppose the common link is a rather whimsical sophisticated ruralism.

The Leonardo programme on BBC1 was annoyingly interesting. We have seen a fair amount of Mark Rylands at the Globe where he is artistic director.

These are some of the sites which are referring business to www.kwase-kwaza.org. My guess is that Derek�s pictures have something to do with it.

http://skunk.spray.se/

http://forum.zwaremetalen.com/forum_index.php

http://forum.fok.nl/