I sometimes check on talented people I know to see what they are doing lately since it is so easy to do with Google, and learned that my friend Garry Kvistad is playing with a group named Nexus which is Toronto based.
I know there is at least one person here based in Toronto, so if you get a chance, check out Garry's music if you happen to be there.
Speaking of the pull of the universe, I notice that Garry and his ensemble did the sound track for the film "The Man Who Skied Down Mt. Everest." But for all the bodies strewn near the summit, it sounds pretty good - and I'm sure the sound track is great. Should you see Garry and his group tell him I said hi if you can get close enough.
Garry is also a very entrepreneurial fellow whose line of Woodstook Chimes includes the very best of wind chimes. He makes a number of varieties of them all tuned to various specifications. If you buy wind chimes, look for the Woodstock Chimes if being in tune matters to you in addition to having a wind indicator.
This is not a paid advertisement - it's intended to be in the category entitled "The Pull of the Universe." I prefer a universe that pushes and pulls to one that sucks and blows.
Then again, if in an orchestra, you have a string secton with its upbows and downbows (or pizzacatos) you've got to have a wind section too. If that section blows more than it sucks, so much the better even if the only instrument one tends to pull on is the slide trombone.
So here's that more interesting percussion section I mentioned, Nexus, based in Toronto:
http://www.nexuspercussion.com/http://www.nexuspercussion.com/Nexus2.html
