There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. Jean Cocteau Marionettes bestride the interface between the real world and that of fantasy.
Marionettes are a metaphor for the life of an artist.
To do this, one has to maintain an environment of open sinuosity or a looseness. Taking care of the business of real life paying bills, family life, politics, and getting to gigs is the 'high wire' that every artist must traverse. This temperance comes from a true artist, a pivotal figure in the creative music world both as trumpeter and composer. Since the early '70s, he has written music for theater, dance, television, film and live concerts, including acclaimed plays by Emily Mann and August Strindberg, among many others. Cross-disciplinary sensibility forms the heart of every album Baikida has made as a leader.