Luis Soares's Blog, page 66
April 17, 2020
W.S. Merwin - Separation
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Ultramarine
Roger & Brian Eno Ultramarine
Brian Eno and Chilvers have worked together on videos for the album "Mixing Colours" that distil the albums essence, marrying the simplicity and contemplative qualities of its soundscapes with suitably uncomplicated, mesmerising imagery of slowly-changing, dreamlike panoramas. Whether or not these settings are familiar, their impressionistic character lends them an enigmatic anonymity, encouraging the mind to wander into worlds both real and imagined. The more...
I Contain Multitudes
Today, tomorrow, and yesterday, too
The flowers are dyin' like all things do
Follow me close, Im going to Balian Bali
I'll lose my mind if you don't come with me
I fuss with my hair, and I fight blood feuds
I contain multitudes
Got a tell-tale heart, like Mr. Poe
Got skeletons in the walls of people you know
Ill drink to the truth and the things we said
I'll drink to the man that shares your bed
I paint landscapes, and I paint nudes
I contain multitudes
Red Cadillac and a black mustache
Rings on my...
April 16, 2020
C.P. Cavafy - Monotony
Monotony
On one monotone day one more
monotone, indistinct day follows. The same
things will happen, then recur
moments all alike come upon us, and go away.
One month passes bringing one month more.
What comes next is easy enough to know:
the boredom from the day before.
And tomorrows got to where it seems like no tomorrow.
Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
Μονοτονία
Την μια μονότονην ημέραν άλλη
μονότονη, απαράλλακτη ακολουθεί. Θα γίνουν
τα ίδια πράγματα. θα ξαναγίνουν πάλι
η όμοιες στιγμές μας...
Para o estudo da melancolia em Portugal
Do Site do Museu Calouste Gulbenkian:
A obra Encontro de Natália Correia com Fernanda Botelho e Maria João Pires, de Nikias Skapinakis, é a última de um ciclo temático intitulado Para o estudo da melancolia em Portugal que o artista iniciara em 1967, com a obra As Três Graças. Ambos os trabalhos se aparentam pois pela abordagem do retrato conjunto, de personagens femininas plasmadas na tela sobre um fundo branco, encerradas no seu mutismo apesar da coexistência no mesmo espaço plástico e...
April 15, 2020
April 14, 2020
Bonus Material
Bonus Material by Jenny HvalToday, Norwegian multidisciplinary artist Jenny Hval presents a new single, Bonus Material. It follows the widely acclaimed The Practice of Love, which was released last year via Sacred Bones. Bonus Material is sparse and celestial, floating with Hvals light vocals and twinkling keys. It features saxophone by Espen Reinertsen, who appeared on The Practice of Love. It is an unfinished track about unfinished substances leaking into one another, says Hval. Trash...
Mark Strand - Orpheus Alone
It was an adventure much could be made of: a walk
On the shores of the darkest known river,
Among the hooded, shoving crowds, by steaming rocks
And rows of ruined huts half buried in the muck;
Then to the great court with its marble yard
Whose emptiness gave him the creeps, and to sit there
In the sunken silence of the place and speak
Of what he had lost, what he still possessed of his loss,
And, then, pulling out all the stops, describing her eyes,
Her forehead where the golden light of evening...
FROM: NUNO LOPES TO: YOU
Diz o Nuno: Sendo actor e dj tentei criar uma playlist visual de alguns dos meus momentos favoritos em que a música se aliou ao acting ou à performance (sobretudo humorística). Algo eclético e, espero, divertido. Do pianista Stefano Bollani (que afirma ter aprendido a tocar o Fur Elise de ouvido num disco riscado) aos maranhenses Fundo de Quintal OFC numa louca versão funk do Ameno dos Era. Espero que se divirtam.
