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featuring John Ashbery
lyrics
A Boy
I’ll do what the raids suggest,
Dad, and that other livid window,
But the tide pushes an awful lot of monsters
And I think it’s my true fate.
It had been raining but
It had not been raining.
No one could begin to mop up this particular mess.
Thunder lay down in the heart.
“My child, I love any vast electrical disturbance.”
Disturbance! Could the old man, face in the rainweed,
Ask more smuttily? By night it charged over plains,
Driven from Dallas and Oregon, always whither,
Why not now? The boy seemed to have fallen
From shelf to shelf of someone’s rage.
That night it rained on the boxcars, explaining
The thought of the pensive cabbage roses near the boxcars.
My boy. Isn’t there something I asked you once?
What happened? It’s also farther to the corner
Aboard the maple furniture. He
Couldn’t lie. He’d tell ‘em by their syntax.
But listen now in the flood.
They’re throwing up behind the lines.
Dry fields of lightning rise to receive
The observer, the mincing flag. An unendurable age.
-- John Ashbery, from Some Trees (1956)
"A Boy," from Some Trees. Copyright (c) 1956, 1985, 1997, 2008 by John Ashbery. All rights reserved. Used by arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the author.
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from Thunder Lay Down In The Heart,
released March 18, 2014
poem and reading, John Ashbery
music and violins, Christopher Tignor
cello, Michael Unterman
First thoughts on being introduced to the album were that it's too intensely complicated for me to enjoy, with harsh strings demanding attention, but it's slowly become a piece I can work to effectively. Rich Hims
“With Julius, he was based in repetition, but here was a spirit of openness and improvisation. His scores, if they were written out that way, were often like jazz scores. He loved multiplying instruments – four pianos, ten cellos – so there was a real feeling of the presence of the instrument, not just using an instrument in some kind of equation, as a means to an end.” ~ Mary Jane Leach
Enough said. pt
Compositions with somewhat cinematic feelings and good chunk of diversity between them. Bandcamp doesn't allow me set Draft of a High-Rise as my favourite, so I have to go with second best track Gremlin Monroe