We still are in Winter but today I felt Adonis is missing, very much so! It was all this sephardic romance music by valuable contemporary Spanish Jewish artists (Jodi Saval, Montserrat Figueras, k.Zuckerman, but also the Ensemble Accentus. Consciencious artisans as well as gifted with natural talents. The sensuosity of Jewishness and Mediterranean warmth, the sense of ancient routes and connections, moved my soul and my blood away from daily light into the mystery of love. Memories of past times, sensations of the childhood sweetheart, teens and mature years, of feelings and possibly even of past lifes. But Adonis is not here yet. It is not me that I left him behind; it is him, with his mysterious ways that appears all of a sudden, when less expected and disappears again in that silence and invisibility that makes him all the more desirable.
I send him my silent messages, we reach hands in the cold streets and the warmth interiors and I know Spring will be back again ...
(But first, on the 7th of February is the Chinese new Year - 2008, the year of the rat!)
'Rachel dance,
Moxinico sing.
The fat rats,
they clap their hands.'
A Jewish Castilian song
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The one song that he sings (called Jass) has got everything.
Nostalgia, pathos, eternal longing. joy, dancing. I can play a 6 times a day and not get tired of it.
Adonis??? Why don't you read some of my stories and poems...if you dare.
Lady Raven, ravishing ...
I came to some of it through 'tous les matins d monde;, as Savall makes all the music of this film; also remarkable and not well known compositions by St Colombe and Marin Marais.
The other newest rediscovery is the Ghost trio by Beethoven. Fascinating and surprisingly different than the usual symphonies ... I found there something of my latest painting. In this trio there is extensively an '8-twist', from piano continuo to cello continuo, from dark to light, from deep to high. All in a vistruoso way; in a way that blows your brain ...
Beethoven did not, 'knowingly' belong to any of the esoteric societies, although he was a brother to the musicians and admired, to then hate, Napoleon. Being a Sagitarious, one would expect him indeed to be a non group person. But, his German music teacher was a member of an esoteric society and he must have infused a lot of ideas, started paths, and turn his head and his music into these ways ...