Images: Ana Ventura.

My thumb is embarking on a great adventure. ‘Don’t go, please,’ say the fingers. They try to hold him down. Here comes a black limousine with a velied woman in the back seat, but noone at the wheel. When it stops, she takes a pair of gold scissors out of her purse and snips the thumb off. We are off to Chicago with her using the bloody stump of my thumb to paint her lips.

- Charles Simic, excerpt from ‘The world doesn’t end’.

Giacinto Scelsi – Ave Maria
(Natura Renovatur / 2006)
Carlos Paredes – Cancão Verdes Anos
(Guitarra Portuguesa / 1989)
Tape – Moth wings
(Luminarium / 2008)
Stella Chiweshe – Kasahwa
(Ambuya? / 1975)
Larkin Grimm – the last tree
(The last tree / 2006)
Arvo Part – Berliner Messe – Agnus Dei
(Te Deum / 1993)
Paavoharju – Tuoksu Tarttu Meihin
(Laulu Laakson Kukista / 2008)
A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Built then Burn
(Born into trouble as the sparks fly upward / 2001)

note: Fuck your zen garden. Get your feet in the water. Get your feet in the mud. Let’s crash all our planes in the river. Let’s build strange and radiant machines at this jericho waiting to fall.

See also: My blood is clean Pt. 1 & Pt. 2.