I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. – Frank Costello

Domi and JD Beck are an interesting duo. Domi is from France, although she has since recovered. JD Beck is a Dallas, Texican, but it didn’t seem to hurt him none. They’re both child prodigies. Domi was playing stuff when she was three, and was enrolled at a conservatory when was five. I have no idea when she found time to play Pokemon Go. Then again, like someone famous once said, I’d have a hard time believing that Mozart was a good pool player.

JD Beck was playing piano when he was five, and switched to drums when he was eight. A year later, he was playing gigs. That sounds familiar somehow.

These kids have something I don’t have, but have seen often enough to recognize it when it appears. They have a metronome in their head. No matter how far out on the syncopated branch they shimmy out, they always know where they are. Where the One is. Regular people have to count, and are prone to getting lost. These are not regular people.

I’m sure they’ve heard plenty of Weather Report records and other offbeat rhythm merchants, but they sound original to my ear. They’re entirely in a world of their own making. It’s an exhausting, calm place, isn’t it?