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"In Horn’s music, time becomes a shared experience. It isn’t simply “there,” in the background. It unfolds. Maybe you’re listening just to keep track of the downbeats; as you do, it’s possible to hear the musicians agreeing on them, or implying other ways to think about them. Time becomes a way of accessing all the other truths embedded in the music – the stark beauty of a perfect melody told in ghost notes, the ways a simple walking rhythm can be shape-shifted ..." The truly amazing thing about "I Though About You" is that it's not stretched out for any cheap effect but to do exactly what you are saying, "to [access] all the other truths embedded in the music. Just one kind of perfection.

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