The sound of someone you love who's going away and it doesn't matter

Ao ouvir “The sound of someone you love who's going away and it doesn't matter”, às escuras, com uma boa aparelhagem, só apetece dizer: eu seja ceguinho se algum dia perder a minha capacidade auditiva.

“Music From The Penguin Café” é o primeiros álbum dos Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

Gravado entre 1974 e 1976 conta com:

Simon Jeffes (Guitarra eléctrica)
Helen Leibmann (Violoncelo)
Steve Nye (Piano eléctrico)
Gavyn Wright (violino)
Brian Eno (produtor)

“In 1972 I was in the south of France. I had eaten some bad fish and was in consequence rather ill. As I lay in bed I had a strange recurring vision, there, before me, was a concrete building like a hotel or council block. I could see into the rooms, each of which was continually scanned by an electronic eye. In the rooms were people, everyone of them preoccupied. In one room a person was looking into a mirror and in another a couple were making love but lovelessly, in a third a composer was listening to music through earphones. Around him there were banks of electronic equipment. But all was silence. Like everyone in his place he had been neutralized, made grey and anonymous. The scene was for me one of ordered desolation. It was as if I were looking into a place which had no heart. Next day when I felt better, I was on the beach sunbathing and suddenly a poem popped into my head. It started out 'I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random' and it went on about how the quality of randomness, spontaneity, surprise, unexpectedness and irrationality in our lives is a very precious thing. And if you suppress that to have a nice orderly life, you kill off what's most important. Whereas in the Penguin Cafe your unconscious can just be. It's acceptable there, and that's how everybody is. There is an acceptance there that has to do with living the present with no fear in ourselves.”

Simon Jeffes (Sussex, England, 1949-1997)


· Peço desculpa aos PCO pelo corte que fiz na faixa….mas os seus mais de 11 minutos não permitiam o upload (inglês para partilha).