Do the encounters that transform our lives happen by chance? Even the most skilled puzzle-solvers would struggle to connect the dots linking Carl Jung, Sting and Riccardo Del Fra, with whom we spoke at length about the deeper threads running through his artistic life. Yet if one traces those dots backwards, the connection becomes clearer. Again and again, the most international of Italian double bassists returns to the ideas of synchronicity and acausal connection. It was Sting who, in 1983, proposed that The Police build a concept album around a theme remarkably close to one first formulated by Carl Jung thirty years earlier. Once the points are mapped, one is compelled to revisit Jung’s notion that apparently unrelated events may be connected by forces that unite visions, encounters and circumstances which only seem accidental. Reframed by Sting and, in his own way, by Del Fra, the idea suggests that our […]
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