Quattordici anni senza i Dead Can Dance

La prima volta che ascoltai l’attacco di “The Host of Seraphim”, brano di apertura di The Serpent’s Egg (1988) rimasi di sale. Il post-punk aveva spesso giocato con la serietà, ma da saccenti studenti d’arte. Qui ci si trovava di fronte a due sacerdoti ortodossi la cui musica grondava di aldilà, di filosofia, metempsicosi, karma, ecc., una reazione postmoderna al pop come genere di consumo che aveva avuto nel folk-rock il suo equivalente vent’anni prima. Continue reading “Quattordici anni senza i Dead Can Dance”

Jack Adaptor’s I Saw A Ghost

These days, we are endlessly confronted with injustice, which is to celestial mechanics what rate rigging is to bankers. In fact, we have always been; only, less on the receiving end, so to speak. The difference now is that it has become blatantly visible, at least as long as social injustice is concerned.

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Santa Claus(i)

Yeah Santa Claus Where have you been?

I’ve been waiting here Just to let you in

Yeah Santa Claus What you got on your back?

Is there something for me inside that sack?

I want a brand new car

A twangy guitar

A cute little honey

And lots of money

Santa Claus Won’t you tell me please?

What you gonna put under my Christmas tree?

And he just said

Nothin’ nothin’ nothin’ nothin’

Nothin’ nothin’ nothin’ nothin’

Yeah Santa Claus

I’ve been waitin’ oh so long

Now don’t you, don’t you do me wrong

I want a brand new car

A twangy guitar

A cute little honey

And lots of money

Santa Claus Oh won’t you tell me please?

What you gonna put under my Christmas tree?

And he just said

Nothin’ nothin’ nothin’ nothin’

Nothin’ nothin’ nothin’ nothin’

Oh no

Oh no no no

Nothin’ for Christmas

No

Oh no

I got nothin’ for Christmas

No no

Oh no

I get nothin’ at Christmas time

Bowie, tonight

a lad insaneDavid Bowie è stato un idolo dei miei teenage years. Nel secolo scorso marinai il liceo per andare alla conferenza stampa che fece, mi pare al Piper, in occasione del Glass Spider Tour, il (purtroppo brutto) tour del (purtroppo altrettanto brutto, uno dei suoi peggiori) album della carriera del Duca bianco, Never let me down.

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