The Lass of Aughrim

Cantada por Frank Patterson, do filmes "The Dead", de John Houston.

Roberta Sá - Samba de 1 minuto

Sei não, mas deste batalhão de cantoras que anda por aí, a Roberta Sá é quem me parece ter mais consistência...

Aleksandar Ristovic

About Death and Other Things

(tradução para o inglês:Charles Simic)

How strange will be my death, of which I've been thinking since childhood:
A sedentary old man leaving a small-town library
leans to one side and eventually collapses on the lawn.

I've every reason to believe that I'll experience what the others have
experienced
while I climb the stairs carrying my supper in a plastic bag,
not even turning to look at the one who in that moment descends curly-haired
and wearing a party dress.

It could be an ordinary death on a train:
a man who carefully studies the fields and hills in snow,
shuts his eyes folds his hands in his lap, and no longer sees what only
a moment ago he admired.

I'm trying to remember other possibilities and so, here I am once again,
disguised as myself in a small, merry company,
where, after emptying my glass, I fall on the floor laughing, and pulling after
me the tablecloth with the vase full of roses.

My death, of course, would have a spiritual meaning
in some mountain sanatorium for the insane
where croaking we complain to each other in beds with freshly changed sheets.

It could happen that I'll die in some way very different from the one I
anticipate:
in the company of my wife and daughter, surrounded by books,
while outside a neighbor is trying to start a car that the night has surprised
with snow.

Anouar Brahem

No clima do poema, uma música deste instrumentista maravilhoso que nossos preconceitos - físicos, econômicos e quetais- não nos permitem conhecer. Na Amazon é possível encontrar os CDs de sua (dele)autoria, e eu recomendo Astrouding Eyes of Rita" e "The"Astrakan Café".

Afzal Ahmed Syed

If My Voice Is Not Reaching You

If my voice is not reaching you
add to it the echo—
echo of ancient epics

And to that—
a princess

And to the princess your beauty

And to your beauty—
a lover's heart

by Afzal Ahmed Syed
translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi


And in the lover's heart
a dagger

ELLA FITZGERALD "MOOD INDIGO"(with JOE PASS)

Só para comparar com a gravação da Dinah Washington. Quem se der ao trabalho, por favor, releve o acompanhamento....

Dinah Washington - Mood Indigo

Eu adoraria postar a briga dela com o Brook Benton, da qual só tenho o áudio. Ou então uma gravação de Castles in Spain, da qual só tenho o vinil. Mas esta gravação também é uma perfeição!!!