Peter Riley, GREEK PASSAGES

Una magnifica serie di "passaggi" in Grecia del prolifico poeta inglese Peter Riley.

Greek Passages (First Part)

10 Preludes

Exománi 2002

There was no journey. The moment we opened our eyes he was there / in the colours across the bay / the red on the blue /Trinakrian Sea, its / turning islands // Bringing trouble. That lives here like a stone. / Bringing upright posture, anxiety and longed-for repose. That live here like the flowers of the mountain.

Non ci fu alcun viaggio. Nel momento in cui aprimmo gli occhi lui era lì / nei colori traverso la baia / il rosso sul blu /  il Mare di Trinacria, le sue / isole frastagliate / Portava dolore. / Che vive qui come una roccia. / Portava una postura eretta, ansia ed una quiete tanto attesa. Che vivono qui come i fiori della montagna.

                                                          

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At dawn, a white light on the top of a mountain / things start to move / an old woman side-flank on a donkey, at dawn /wobbling up the mountain, picking over the stones / a Mercedes glides past, the light there / in her eye ever shining //Slowness of the dawn beetle / western promise / worth goat-dung.

All'alba, una luce bianca sulla vetta di una montagna / le cose iniziano a muoversi / una vecchia di traverso su un asinello, all' alba / oscillando su per la montagna, raccogliendo  pietre / Una Mercedes  le scivola dietro, la luce lì / nei suoi occhi sempre splendenti // Lentezza  dello scarabeo all' alba /  promessa occidentale / pregevole sterco di capra.

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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.