motel de moka

…
They didn’t say anything.
The man and the woman moved closer to each other,
The round table between them.
The stove was still on and burned the empty pot.
She started to get up.
One of them shot her.
She leaned over the table like a schoolgirl doing her lessons.
She thought about being beside him, being asleep.
They took her long gray socks
Put them over the barrel of a rifle
And shot him.
He went back in his chair, holding himself.
She told him hers didn’t hurt much,
Like in the fall when everything you touch
Makes a spark.
…
- Frank Stanford , Freedom, Revolt, and Love .

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” Freedom, Revolt, and Love ”

01. LSD Pond - We are LSD Pond
LSD Pond (Disc 1) (Archive, 2008)
02. Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto
Everything Is Everything (1970)
03. Bettye Swann - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
Bettye Swann (2004)
04. Ben E. King - Stand by Me
Spanish Harlem (Collectables, 1961)
05. Willie Tee - Teasin’ You
Teasin’ You (Night Train Int’l, 2002)
06. Fontella Bass - Talking About Freedom
Free (The Paula Recordings) (Varese Sarabande, 2003)

note: The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. That always strucks me as unresolved and vaguely defined statement that leads to the exact opposite situation to most people but few who sits up top. Who exactly define what freedom and its physical manifestation? Yeah I know I am ranting, but that’s the mood I have for this list. Inside mid tempo soul and incredible melody, everybody is screaming something that hasn’t been resolved yet. Freedom. A great soul piece always spooks me. Like a soundtrack for a metaphysical movie scene that’s about to go terribly wrong. Hey, you figure it out, maybe this list should be about nothing but a textual exercise of composition. Freedom or no freedom. … Give cheers to the great soul singers peeps. Work like that will never be recreated.

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