Collisions

I love it when seemingly disparate events, people, concepts or things collide unexpectedly.  It’s one of the reasons I love John Irving books so much… all those unrelated pieces that come crashing together in a climax you never saw coming.  These collisions happen in subtler forms as well.  This morning I was reading a review of the remastered Joshua Tree album and came across this sentence, “Trip Through Your Wires is the rare blues track to prominently feature co-producer Eno’s favored novelty, the Omnichord.”  Wait wait.  I guess I knew in the back of my head that Brian Eno worked with U2, but I was not aware that the omnichord, an odd instrument I once encountered enthusiastically at a party in Cambridge, was his “favored novelty”, nor did I know it was featured in one of my favorite, lesser known, U2 tracks.  Listening again, I’m not just reminded of running down New Hampshire country roads, I’m hearing the sounds as if for the first time.