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Non fermarti sull'orlo delle cose disse la signorina Emily
alla signorina Bishop, ma nemmeno avanza con imprudenza
verso l'abisso delle parole, disse la signorina Bishop
alla signorina Emily. Le due si inseguivano come il sì e il no
di una margherita, entrambe avevano una collezione di farfalle
con insinuazioni. Non illuminarti con il celeste
disse la signorina gotica alla signorina mappa dell'isola,
così si parlavano dandosi del tu con l'oscurità
le umili contadine alla fiera del sole.

Alexandra Dominguez (Cile)




http://www.casadellapoesia/No te quedes al borde de las cosas le dijo la señorita Emily

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

-The-Sound-Of-Someone-You-Love-Who's-Going-Away-And-It-Doesn't-Matter

Obscure No. 7: Music from the Penguin Café (1976) 

Composed By – Giles Farnaby

Ukulele – Neil Rennie 

Bass, Ukulele, Electric Piano, Percussion [Mouth], Vocals, Harmonica [Cheng], Effects [Ring Modulator] – Simon Jeffes (tracks: A2 to A8)>
Cello – Helen Liebmann
Composed By – Wright* (tracks: A1, B1 to B3), Liebmann* (tracks: A1, B1 to B3), Jeffes*, Nye* (tracks: A1, B1 to B3)
Electric Guitar – Simon Jeffes (tracks: A1, B1 to B3)
Electric Piano, Engineer – Steve Nye (tracks: A1, B1 to B3)>
Executive Producer – Brian Eno
Lyrics By – Neil Rennie (tracks: A2 to A4, A6)
Mixed By – Steve Nye (tracks: A2 to A8)
Performer – Penguin Café Orchestra*, Penguin Café Quartet* (tracks: A1, B1 to B3)
Producer – Simon Jeffes, Steve Nye
Violin – Gavin Wright*
Vocals – Emily Young (tracks: A2 to A8)
Recorded on location between 1974-1976 

Music From The Penguin Cafe was the first album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and was recorded between 1974 and 1976, and released in 1976. The line-up for much of the album consisted of the original Penguin Cafe Quartet: Simon Jeffes (electric guitar), Helen Leibmann (Cello), Steve Nye (electric piano), and Gavyn Wright (violin). Tracks 2-8 were performed by the ensemble "Zopf", which included the members of the quartet as well as Neil Rennie (ukelele), and Emily Young (vocals). Later reissues have mistakenly listed those pieces as though they were movements of a suite entitled "Zopf", instead of being performed by them. 

The executive producer for the album was Brian Eno, who released this album on his experimental Obscure label, with catalogue number "Obscure 7". The original cover was by John Bonis. The reissue cover painting was by Emily Young. The album was later released on CD by E.G. Records in 1991 and later in remastered form in 2006 - both using the reissue cover instead of the original. 

PETER RILEY, Szàszcsàvàs: THE OLDER STRATUM

Quickly on warm day I walk up
through the smell of moist leaves ...

In un tepido giorno cammino veloce
traverso l' odore d' umide foglie
                       (PETER RILEy, ALSTONEFIELD: first 8 stanzas of Part VI)




SZÁSZCSÁVÁS: THE OLDER STRATUM

Needing new shoes and remembering everything.
The voice shaking but true, treading across the pain.

 I’m going to where no one knows me. The strangers,
and the sky with its stars. Don’t weep, little mother,
I’ll buy you a red scarf with polka-dots.

 At night there is nothing, silence of the earth,
impenetrable darkness of the eye, that cannot see
a human face turned up to it or tell the difference
between a turnip and the head of a child with nothing.

 I have nothing, I earn nothing, but I have a good time.
I remember only one thing: an oak root under my foot.

 And when they arrived, in the early morning,
the star was hidden. The beautiful shining star.

 You should see this place in the spring.

PETER RILEY /  Photo Kathy Riley

Scarpe nuove  mi occorrono ed ogni cosa ricordo
Trema la voce  ma è vera,  traverso il dolore cammino.

Andrò dove nessuno mi conosce. Gli sconosciuti
ed il cielo con le sue stelle. Non piangere, piccola madre.
Ti comprerò una sciarpa con i pois rossi.

Di notte non c'è nulla, il silenzio della terra,
l' impenetrabile oscurità dell' occhio, che non può vedere
un volto umano che lo fissa  né  può spiegare affatto
la differenza che passa tra una rapa e la testa di un bambino.

Non ho nulla, non guadagno nulla, però mi diverto.
Solo una cosa ricordo: un ceppo di quercia sotto i miei piedi.

E quando arrivarono, di primo mattino,
invisibile era la stella. Bella  la stella e splendente.

Dovresti vedere questo posto   a primavera.