Luis Soares's Blog, page 55

Calm Waters

Calm Waters, 1910, Vladimir Nikolaevich Fedorovich (Russian, 1871–1928)

Malika Booker - The Little Miracles

After ‘A Winter Night’ by Tomas Tranströmer (translated by Robin Robertson)

Since I found mother collapsed on the kitchen
floor, we siblings have become blindfolded mules

harnessed to carts filled with strain, lumbering
through a relentless storm, wanting to make

our mother walk on her own again, wanting to rest
our palms on her left leg and arm like Jesus, but

constellations do not gather like leaves in a teacup,
so what miracle, of what blood, of what feeble wishes

do we pray, happy no nails hamm...

Wildfires

Wildfires · SAULT / Untitled (Black Is) / ℗ 2020 Forever Living Originals / Released on: 2020-06-19

Leave in the night
Tell the truth
White lifes
Are spreading lies
You should be ashamed
Don't got shit on your hands
Another man
Take off your badge
We all know it was murder
Murder, murder
Murder

We are dying, it's the reason we all crying
We all crying

But we will never show fear
Even in my eyes, I will always rise
In wildfires
I ain't never been scared
Even through my tears
I will always care
In wildfires

But w...

Pepe

Euan Uglow (British, 1932-2000). Pepe, 1984-85. oil on canvas

A Valsa do Imperador

Johann Strauss : Emperor Waltz, Op. 437 / Norwegian Chamber Orchestra / Arvid Engegård, conductor

Tomas Tranströmer - A Winter Night

The storm puts its mouth to the house
and blows to get a tone.
I toss and turn, my closed eyes
reading the storm's text.

The child's eyes grow wide in the dark
and the storm howls for him.
Both love the swinging lamps;
both are halfway towards speech.

The storm has the hands and wings of a child.
Far away, travelers run for cover.
The house feels its own constellation of nails
holding the walls together.

The night is calm in our rooms,
where the echoes of all footsteps rest
like sunken leaves in...

The Bumblebee

Percussion duo DoubleBeats, formed by Ni Fan and Lukas Böhm, performs Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Live on November 8, 2018.

DoubleBeats interprets both early and contemporary music. Their repertoire reaches from Bach via Piazolla up to Bartók and contains numerous adaptions and commissionary compositions for traditional as well as modern instruments.

AIR – Live at Sydney Opera House

The enigmatic French duo, AIR, brought their compelling cosmic grandeur to the Concert Hall in a special performance for Vivid LIVE 2017. Reviewed as “the best of AIR's subsequent sonic adventures” and an “absorbing exploration into the most artful of sounds” by The Sydney Morning Herald, prepare yourself for a Friday night dance with AIR’s international hits including ‘Sexy Boy’, 'La Femme d'Argent' and many more.

Keeps Me Alive

Moses Sumney - Keeps Me Alive / Visual by Josh Finck

Finding it hard to differentiate
Are my proclivities of society
Or innate
Well, the source is irrelevant
When it comes to truth
And the truth is I want the same thing that you do
Childlike curiosity about my fate
Is the only thing
That makes me stay

It keeps me alive
It keeps me alive
It keeps me alive
It keeps me breathin' right

And yet the holy grail beckons
“Hey, your chalice could still be filled some day by someone”

Childlike curiosity about my fate...

Fiona Benson - Mama Cockroach, I Love You

Blattodea

Because you cosy with the aunties in your reeking
slums, and are intimate and sweet.

Because you begrudge no one a meal, but ooze
a faecal trail to lead your commune to its source,

like a dirty bee. Because you are joyfully promiscuous.
Because you pouch your young and hide them

in the sweaty creases of the house
near suppurating food so they’ll hatch to a feast;

or, keep your eggs with you in a special purse
shaped like a kidney bean, and clutch it fast;

or reinsert them into your abdom...