Even when they didn’t have to be there, Huck, Rich, and Kyle would sit in the booth with Simon, keeping vigil, as Jane crossed into another realm, retrieving melodies, and transporting them back to earth. In these moments, it was as though her spirit expanded to fill the whole room, stretching beyond the limits of her own consciousness. And yet, if you were to speak to Jane between takes, she was as lucid and focused as she had been standing over Huck with the güiro. The part of her that was creating the album and the part of her that was producing it coexisted within her like two sides of the
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