Sometimes I think I'm smart. And then I listen to conversations like this.

I can not begin to describe how amazing this episode was! Eric Lewis is a stunningly complex and authenticly beautiful human being. Literally one of the best pieces of content I have consumed in the past year. When Eric W states to EL, "You are in touch with something that most people have no idea that's even available" I almost jumped through the roof. Exactly the reason for the immense importance of these discussion masterpieces.

Thanks to both Eric and Lewis for sharing this moment. To make content like this accessible for all of us is a true gift. Music is a truly fascinating thing on so many levels.

It's amazing that 50 years after his death, geniuses from so many fields still find John Coltrane to be a primary musical, philosophical and scientific inspiration.

@mikhailmikhailov8781

4 жыл бұрын

Coltrane is up there in the list of 20th century "mutants". Somebody should redo Grothendiecks "mutant" list and/or expand it for the 21st century tbh.

@MiqelDotCom

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikhailmikhailov8781 - I wasn't aware of that list but just checked it out. Definitely some anomalously functional individuals listed! He's not a musician, but check out the works of Paul Laffoley sometime. He's another contender to be high on the list of 20th century mutants.

Brilliant! Thank you both for making this video and sharing this with us. Your generosity is deeply appreciated.

By far the most mercurial conversation I've heard in a Very long time.....filled with deep, thoughtful, and self reflective moments. If ever I've appreciated the complexity of the world I experience, that appreciation has grown.

@l.sibylnorth2134

4 жыл бұрын

mee too!

Thank you so much for this Eric W. Please keep giving what you are giving. I'm an architect.....I move space through the centre and edges of ideas. Elew's words bring me home. Your comments about these beautiful moments that can only be appreciated by one or two people in the world free me to carry on. Frustration from not being seen has stopped me in the past. Elew's talk of generous compensation, making a mistake into a fleeting work of art. At this level all the small emotions evaporate and the truth is all that's left.

This whole thing was beyond my minds realm, so profound my body responded with goose bumps. Wow thanks guys for upping the bar.

ABSOLUTELY PERFECT example by Eric when he brought up the song “Jolene” by Dolly Parton. The White Stripes cover version of that song is amazing and it’s hilarious how even the artist who created it could miss the entire point when she criticized Jack White on his interpretation. And BTW Eric you don’t need to get so apprehensive on the whole Kenny G. comparison as it relates to Jazz or ELew. If you are truly hip to Kenny G, though he might be a meme to popular culture because of the millions of records sold as “bubble gum” jazz. Or that held a note on a flute for a Guinness world record, but he is Jazz musician through and through. You can tell ELew is hip/has love for Kenny and wont let Eric off the hook when trying to walk his comparisons back. I only know this inside baseball, about Kenny G, for completely coincidental reasons. He’s actually a world class scratch golfer and an absolute menshe. A stand up comedian comparison would be: “Miles Davis is basically Rodney Dangerfield/Bob Hope of stand up. ELew is Dave Chapelle(mark twain prize winner and the most influential and avenged stand up today)...Kenny G is is Larry the Cable Guy. Meaning if you went to The Comedy Store you’d see Larry the cable guy at the same table with Chapelle and they have love and respect for each other. Then if you asked both who their idols are they’d both mention Hope and Dangerfield.

@snubbe314

4 жыл бұрын

This is an excellent comment.

@ElecDashTronDotOrg

4 жыл бұрын

Second that, the White Stripes cover has waaay more emotion

i used to go to rehearsals of a jazz group, Dreams, who had a contract with Columbia Records for an album. I lived, as a friend/rommate, in Boston with John Abercrombie, one of the Dreams, members before it formed. The Brecker brothers, (Michael&Randy)who had a jazz club on 7th Avenue South for a few years were also in the group. Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer were also members. I loved listening to moments of improv genius which was also something that would arise in the Boston Back Bay club where John Abercrombie would play with Art Blakey and my then boyfriend Frank Capi. Music at its highest levels of creation is transformational. Loved hearing Elew. Thanks!

@onetwothree4148

3 жыл бұрын

Woah.

Hands down the best episode so far! Eric, you could not hide your excitement when the conversation kept on building on itself. Like in a play or dance perhaps, the protagonists enabled each other and ended up touching new horizons. The level 'movement' across abstraction levels and domains was profoundly enjoyable, eye-opening, delicate. Your exchange created new possibilities for me and today I can probably appreciate a bit better the world and its edges. Welcome to the portal!

This is an amazing interview. Eric, you are a badass to the harmonica. Very soulful and bluesy. Fun

Thanks so much for having ELEW on the portal, he's one on my heroes for over 20 years. Two of my favorite humans in conversation, and at play, this made my week!

It makes me sad that I don't have anyone in my own personal life with whom to have conversations like this. I wish I knew more interesting people :(

@MCASDI

4 жыл бұрын

My problem too. I guess we will have to be more interesting ourselves Matt.

@marleyjanim5033

4 жыл бұрын

Just exchange email with each other

@mfruji

4 жыл бұрын

that's how i feel about life; i don't feel like i'm better than anyone but strongly think that i see and think much deeper about pretty much anything than the usual Joe, and everyday small talk fucking kills me; the closer person to this that i've got is my sister, and she gets bored or takes herself with other things all the time while conversing with me, i get it, deep talk is boring to them, even tho again, i don't think i'm a very smart person or smth like that, love to listem to really smart people like these two tho.

@DutchSowieso

4 жыл бұрын

Join the Portal discord :)

@mfruji

4 жыл бұрын

@@livepathsearching5140you got ig? 😂

I especially enjoy Eric W's meetings with artists, particularly when they take place in alternative locations. Post-pandemic, if I might humbly suggest a conversation with world-renowned mix engineer and producer Jack Joseph Puig, a true savant and masterfully insightful and articulate speaker with regards to the nature of making art, the role of technology and the creative process. Very grateful for this podcast, thank you

Doing the Lord's work, Eric.

@wolvie90

4 жыл бұрын

Preach it. I have zero personal interest in soul and jazz music but this man is absolutely captivating and I would never had heard him speak without the Portal. In this fucked up world of low attention spans and "fake news", thank "insert deity here" for the Portal.

@l.sibylnorth2134

4 жыл бұрын

me too!

Eric's other brother 😄😄

@highneedforcognition9660

4 жыл бұрын

56:33

@Hot4Thot

4 жыл бұрын

100% there's a bit of a resemblance there

@northstar7694

4 жыл бұрын

brutha from anutha mutha! lol

@blacksagetao514

4 жыл бұрын

We're All Brothers From Other Motha Fuggas, The New Generation of RockPopSoul

At the end of the Sweet Home Alabama performance I jumped up out of my seat and cheered. I never thought I'd do something like that going into this episode. Truly joyous and magical performance.

Loved the hell out of it. The level of sophisticated conversation is just so attractive. To get exposed to such levels of brilliance is just awesome, damm i feel lucky. I feel humbled. My gratitude, honestly. I could mostly keep track of the conversation [a success for me, personally!] and man it sparked such ideas, and god the time just flew. I didnt even notice until it was already an hour. Thank you so much eric! Lots of love, charms, and luck!

@ruburtoe1

4 жыл бұрын

Eric is such a font of insight and understanding/clarity and creative rationality! A beautiful mind, really

That was great. The harmonica playing came through well too. Love this podcast!

This is perfect. Thank you!

Hahaha when Eric Lewis started DJing and improvising super catchy stuff, and then it pans to Eric in the background and he’s just standing rock solid, hands at his sides, not even bobbing his head. 😂

How many of these things are sitting on the back burner just waiting to get released? Holy crap.

@sillysissyphus4877

4 жыл бұрын

Same on iTunes

@Russman

4 жыл бұрын

Magus TheGreat agreed!!!! I'm awaiting these with much nerdly eagerness 🤣🤣🤣

@futureproofd

4 жыл бұрын

or just goto podcasts.google.com

I saw Eric play piano at a friend's wedding reception. Eric is incredibly gifted...just amazing.

Brilliant! Thank you for bringing us this phenomenal treat!

Eric found someone with bigger hair than him.

What a truly fantastic conversation... I could write an entire essay on it (and might).

Thank you so much for reintroducing me to Eric Lewis! I saw him perform in Tokyo more than 10 years ago, and was blown away... he’s only gotten better and more interesting since then

the variation of the guests bravo Eric loving it.

Wonderful conversation and music! Thank you!

I may have mentioned it before, but I think that I should again at least once: I love you. I could simply state my admiration for you, but it seems insufficient. I love you like I loved Christopher Hitchens. I still love him as I will love you. Take care, dear individual. You are also one of those who make life bearable. Thank you!

@consciousobserver5952

4 жыл бұрын

Another very strange comment... Am I the only one thinking this of a good few of these comments? 🤔

@johnahooker

4 жыл бұрын

23rd upvote.

@theweegit

4 жыл бұрын

Aw shucks, thanks man!

@mrJety89

4 жыл бұрын

@@consciousobserver5952 Whatever floats their boat

@mrJety89

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry for butting in but I do think this is important to know about. Breaking the narrative on ncv kzread.info/dash/bejne/p46JrMqEhcXKYM4.html Coronavirus: Are Our Scientists Lying To Us? •Premiered May 4, 2020 Peak Prosperity medium.com/@yurideigin/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-through-the-lens-of-gain-of-function-research-f96dd7413748 web.archive.org/web/20200508080304/nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake.html proteinmusic.blogspot.com/2020/05/prra-smoking-gun-of-genetic.html

I found it enjoyable to pause the video every time an artist was mentioned and ask Alexa to play some music by that artist. I would listen for a minute then stop the music and continue with the interview. Thanks Mr Weinstein.

Thank you so much for this! I don’t know if I would have ever found Eric Lewis on my own but my life is infinitely richer because I you shared him with me.

1:34:40 smells like teen spirit on piano. awesome

Brilliant. All around. Keep it up.

You have a remarkable circle to run in, Eric. I see the great difference in potential and thought between the rural, in which I now reside, and the metropolitan, which I used to. One is immersion in revisionist traditionalism and the other confronts that impulse with challenging personalities and cultures. There is so little cross-over. It's sad. But we have this! Thanks, Eric

Eric I'm 42 minutes in and this is your best one yet already! YES!

I am certainly enjoying the uniqueness of the format you're choosing, Eric. The music exploration is a nice mix of interesting and humbling.

LOVE THIS SOOO! MUCH. Thank You.

Did anyone notice that these guys are like physical mirrors of each other lol

@autonomousthought4106

4 жыл бұрын

they don't look alike at all. they look very different. one is clearly a black person and one isn't. not even close to looking alike. you must have a homosexual delusional race denial complex

@kasherri4889

4 жыл бұрын

@@autonomousthought4106 chill out man

@kasherri4889

4 жыл бұрын

yeah they look alike in some kind of way

@ryanheath9974

4 жыл бұрын

@@autonomousthought4106 woah chill dude

@olafgutbrod828

4 жыл бұрын

especally the name :-)

What a beautiful dude. Thanks so much for Introducing me to this guy, Eric. I'm ... Moved both by this guys performance at USI and both of your words in the interview.

They look so much alike. It's amazing. They could be twins. Look side by side at 2:00:46 till the end. Same body type, same head shape, same hair, same height, similar faces. Both named Eric, spelled with a c. Maybe it's a synchronicity. If a soul is a pattern, then it can split without loss, and manifest twice. But all patterns are contextual, so you'll get two version even with with the same name, named by different parents, because the context is part of the soul pattern. These are like two of the same person on different career paths. Intellectually, emotionally, physically, contextually.

The music was sublime as was the talk.

One of my favorites of your podcasts.

Yikes! How do I describe what I just heard.... exceptional I will select the section where Elew is playing, place it on repeat and listen continuously. You both have improved my quality of life during this broadcast. Just outstanding Thank you both

Two beautiful abstract launguages that compliment each other- Mathematics and Music by two amazing talented intellectuals. Just love it. Thanks for sharing your talent to the world! ❤

i definitly never knew something like that is avaiable... thank you eric!

Over an hour in to the conversation ... I haven't heard his music yet, but his articulation, his thoughts - they already signal to me of the universality of his ideas and expression, and they are touching me quite unlike what I have heard articulated before ... so it almost doesn't matter what his music sounds like to me now ... but I sure am looking forward to hearing it :D Furthermore, Eric Lewis has expressed so much about musicianship (I am one too) - his comments about taking sound as it is... is music to my ears!

Utterly and profoundly extraordinary!

That was awesome! love what you're doing!

Talk about an awesome jam sesh. 👏👏👏

One of the things I love with his podcasts are the crazy personal ads he creates "If you are listening to this podcast I hope you are drinking heavily" .-. and then an ad for a winery. Someone should do a compilation of these for us all. I think they are gorgeous .. and I trust his judgement. Cheers 🍷

Thank you very much Eric to bring this awesome musician to our knowledge. And the sqEric duo was great too. Cheers

Wonderful episode!

I loved it Eric. Too cool.

Thanks Eric keep 'em coming

I am in awe... Did not want this interview to end. Now I have a second Eric in my life.

I'm so excited!

Best episode so far! I’ve seen them all in order, and this dynamic had the most obvious sharing of the heart and stylistic gabbing.

@MrRyanhartnett

4 жыл бұрын

My lord, and then I heard him work on the keys 😵

Thank you both.

Today I played my favorite 70s rock on the drums. I got very emotional when I realized how I'll never live in that world with them, but how wonderful it is to travel back in time. Luckily I have a dream world to escape to at night.

This is transcendent stuff. Thank you Elew. Thank you for the introduction, Eric.

I love listening to your thoughts Eric.

Errol Garner piano spirit too, in that harmonica jam. Good show. Thanks for turning us on to this man. I especially liked it when he muted the strings and I could tell the piano was also a stringed instrument. Sounded great!

This is where I found out about Eric Lewis, and I'm more grateful than I can say.

Hello from Barbados, beautiful episode, wouldn't pretend to know music at the level of which you all spoke but that was plain awesome, Eric thank for bringing Elew to us, not so much your viewership but the world, and I loved episode 16 with Tyler Cowen. Your decision to do the Portal podcast was a decision well make, and I appreciate you doing a bit of house keeping to begin each episode on issues affecting us as a race despite America is more your focus as that's home but I love logic and your logic works beyond your shores and is applicable to the world. thank you.

it took me a few days to get to this after it was posted but as soon as i saw that there was a new portal episode i googled the guest. Not knowing anything of him and only going into the video knowing that he was a jazz pianist i was immediately pleased and impressed with the way he plucked at the internal strings of the piano rather than take them for granted. At times it was as perfect as anything from the great composers and at other times it was perfect chaos.

Fabulous!! I’d by an album from Eric Lewis!! appreciated the conversation as well!

Thanks for introducing me to Eric Lewis!

Did not expect him to play Smells Like Teen Spirit like that and DAMN was it amazing

Eric Lewis has the most beautiful mind I've yet seen today. The range of his depth and intelligence, which you can see him playing on Eric W.'s remarks like he plays on a theme as a musician, is itself gorgeous, but then his generosity and humanity make it all the more wondrous. I watched performances from him based on this and have rarely been so moved, even in live performances. Thank you, Eric. W. for this, and thank you, Elew/Eric Lewis. (Also, my goodness, the playing...when he plays Nirvana it's like Scriabin and Liszt wrote the song and then a jazz genius improved it...)

amazing!! thank you!

The world is starved of content like this, we simply need more Eric.

@Aceofsp4des7

3 жыл бұрын

The discussion of dimensions of craftsmen ship and the event horizon is a literal portal to the hidden world beneath the surface. Those words resonate, and need to be heard by so many more people.

My friend, the late electronic music composer and so much more with her Deep Listening Institute, would have loved hearing Elew. Grateful to learn of his music.

9:20 -- It wasn't the COVID virus itself that frightened me into panic attacks that I could not control back in February... it was knowing (or believing) what you say is true about the depraved and dysfunctional institutions that we all are relying upon, that what we will eventually be dealing with is cascading systemic failures. We aren't out of the woods at all... I'm afraid... really afraid.

@jasoncharles8651

4 жыл бұрын

Yikes!!

@Captain1nsaneo

4 жыл бұрын

I'd recommend listening to Jocko's podcast if you don't already.

this made me take out my keyboard i had stored for 15 years in the closet

@red_ford23

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah. My Saxophone is out Ill be at 18th and Vine

He just invents words on-the-fly too: "Lackage" - love it (analogous to "blockage").

a lot of modern artists are great. it's a shame that modern audiences don't appreciate real jazz enough.

@rivulet491

4 жыл бұрын

I understand the skill that must go into jazz, but for the life of me I cannot take hold of it like I can with other genres. I find the occasional satisfying note in jazz, but I am clearly missing something big. I wish I could hear it through someone else's ears.

@dalejames486

3 жыл бұрын

@@rivulet491 Jazz is adventurous music that often has an element of tension and release. Though "jazz," is casting a really wide net. Think of how many different sub-genres are within "rock." I fell in love with jazz as a musician who was trying to expand his horizons beyond blues and rock. You need to hear some good jazz to turn yourself on to it. It's a lot like coffee. The first cup you ever drink, you ask yourself why on earth anyone would choose to drink such a bitter beverage. After consuming coffee everyday, you really begin to enjoy the flavor and can't imagine what life would be like without it.

I found this podcast from joe rogan podcast now i listen to it often it is very intellectual and thought provoking thanks for making the portal

Wonderful podcast, cheers Eric

Let the hair jokes begin. They both genius

Thinking about this genius not being able to get a record deal fills me with fury and rage which might lead to panic attacks. What kind of world are we living in, where the absolute best of the best can't get signed? That "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was so incredible! I randomly saw him playing at Zinc Bar in NYC back in 2012 at an open mic with Manhattan School of Music students, at like 4 am, playing "Inner Urge" at twice the tempo with an unbelievable drummer and saxophonist. There aren't words to describe these kinds of musicians.

@rlperez4

4 жыл бұрын

ILoveMapleDrums Spaun i agree with your entire statement but it’s like hiring a physicist to teach high school freshman math, while it’s amazing to have, it’s a waste of talent, knowledge is far beyond the student. The average music lover who buy music doesn’t have time to study it, digest, and let it consume them. It’s an instant gratification world, up tempo, heavy drum, and words to convey thoughts. He is opposite in most of those aspects. “Jazz is hard to love” was a quote my wife said. “I just don’t get it and I’m bored”. That was while watching her own son. Unfortunately that’s the common feeling and labels know it.

Eric's mom had some extra-marital fun apparently

@zuggrr

4 жыл бұрын

They are on the efficiency frontier, more brain glucose consumption would have required them to drag an orange juice transfuser wherever they go.

@andy_travis

4 жыл бұрын

Really? That's your takeaway? Wow guy.

@mitchmarvinmartian

4 жыл бұрын

This is a joke.

@flowerpt

4 жыл бұрын

Who says things like this?

@joemcjoe8382

4 жыл бұрын

His brother from another mother.

As a musician and artist this was a fascinating conversation.

@winfriedbauer2280

4 жыл бұрын

As a South African and blonde this was a fascinating conversation.

After being introduce to Eric Lewis here I have since viewed a number of his performances, He is absolutely brilliant and taking the piano to a new level which some are unprepared for, it is like fireworks. I have tried to comprehend at what level his brain is operating at as I watch the movement of his hands and finger at time one hand operating at a different tempo than the others. Are we sure he is from this planet? Yes he does take us through the portal.

re Chomsky - in a hundred years he will be remembered for his pioneering work in linguistics, in a way that is similar to how Freud is remembered in psychology - the founding father who's work is out of date but paved the way for everything the came later. in politics and history Henry Kissinger will be remembered - because he is the only persona in our post ww2 world that was able to navigate and manipulate world affairs to his (and America's) benefit. the middle-east, south-east asia, europe - the world order since the early 70s was shaped by his vision and diplomacy. he will be remembered among the likes of Bismarck - because history remembers those that put their ideas and theories to the ultimate empirical test - reality. as to morality - in the words of William T. Munny - it's got nothing to do with it.

Fun episode!

I love this place!

that was....AMAZING

Thanks Eric, for this one. I've been losing my mind trying to put a visual to this, since I listened a few weeks back on i tunes.

Awesome, just awesome man.

Ah yes! Finally a bridge I can cross from an appreciation of rock to an appreciation of jazz.

HOLY SHIT STILL LISTENING DUDE IS FUCKIGN AWESOME!!!

Thanks for making me aware of Eric's music.

As John Lennon said..."Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

@nonFireresist

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJ6L09aOfJW4ZdI.html actually... :-D

Actually met ELew when he opened for the Trans Siberian Orchestra several years ago. He put on an excellent show, and was an absolute gentleman afterwards

If you are one or have really known any in depth, really skilled musicians (and their brains) are just wired in a way that's different from a lot of other people. I can't explain it, but it's there, and you can see it if you know enough of them, and if you study music (and realize they have something different). They just have a facility with the language of music that is on its own level.

Conditionings of paradigms. Paradigms of conditioning. True art.

the best musician i never heard of. thx for the referal , hes quite impressive, to say the least.

Love the Portal. Also like Alfie Kohn’s critique of education. His book: No Contest 4 Myths of Evolution was a great read and helpful in this context. Ty