motel de moka

…
So here is a list of what she left behind: a husband, an abortion,
a mathematical education, and a black market career in
trading currencies. And what she brought: a gray poodle,
eight dresses and a fearful combination of hope, sarcasm,
and steel-eyed desire to which I have surrendered. And now
I know her secrets: she will never give up smoking.
She would have crawled across Eastern Europe and fed
that dog her own blood if she had to. And her mother’s secrets:
she would have thought, at last, that you were safe with me.
She hated men. Let me, then, acknowledge that last generation
of the women of the enemy: they are a mystery to me.
They would be a mystery even to my most liberal-minded friends.
…
- Eleanor Lerman, Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds.

“ Languide Morning ”

01. Sofia Gubaidulina - Hommage a T. S. Eliot: V. ‘The Chill Ascends From Feet To Knees’
Gubaidulina: Offertorium (1999)
02. Alexandr Vasil’yevich Mosolov - Two Mazurkas Op. 7: Lent, Languide (by Arthur Lourié)
Soviet Avant Garde, Vol.2 (Hat Now Series, 1999)
03. Leos Janácek - Sur un sentier recouvert : VIII. Anxiété indicible
Mikhail Rudy ~ Janácek - Piano Works (2001)
04. W.A. Mozart - Sonata No. 2 In F Major: II - Adagio (by Glenn Gould)
Mozart: The Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 (1991)
05. W.A. Mozart - Sonata No. 2 In F Major: III - Presto (by Glenn Gould)
Mozart: The Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 (1991)

note: A small list, contemplating meta. What lies beyond music than series of fun sonic and physical exercise of making it, the thing that makes music resonate and connect at more than passing thoughts. If the act of creating music is utterly personal gesture, how can that idea bind a person who listen to it? Is this question even meaningful? etc.

see also: Oscar Peterson and Miles Davis

image: eesti