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Song for Tulio
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St. James Park
07:14
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A CONVERSATION AT TRIALS
Curated and written by David Perez
Creative prompts by Cellista
It was the hour where the night is golden, and we were sitting at the pub
talking about art and faith, but really just making jokes about moxie.
The whole time we were thinking of reasons not to quit,
hoping none sounded too convincing.
Little is worthy of perfection—
the leaf bed of a garden hiding place, sleeping with eyes open,
and the resonance of spruce and maple
to name a few things.
Somehow free beers kept coming: a sovereign and uncomplicated good.
Our faces were Christmas red and got redder as we laughed
at imagined pick-up lines from American men with Celtic knotwork tattoos.
Suddenly the place felt like home, which is to say we felt captive in it.
The mahogany slanting inward and the second-hand smoke
that moments ago an aging marine held tightly inside him.
A beacon in the crowd. Here it seemed okay to hate yourself
as long as you did not say so, as long as you chose
some pieces to tear and did it quietly.
One of us said something (or maybe just thought something)
about truths we cannot repeat or un-see. And we played the game
where you flip the coaster and catch it, mid air, still talking
about trauma and risk and whether feeling whole is a prize in a case
or something that breaks the fall when you let go.
The marine seemed to be listening. He was famous of course,
for his unwanted advances, but the cigarette cloud around him shimmered
in an Irish stained glass sort of way. And the openings in the gutters
and the black of the alcoves appeared to widen as if making a confession
in a language we had forgotten.
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Interlude I: Mon Voisin
01:38
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Interlude II: No Hope
00:45
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The Rip
03:37
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It Used To Be Orchards
01:04
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Fountain Alley
03:00
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SJ (I Know the Way)
01:40
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Finding San José
02:04
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Finding San Jose
by Frank Seeburger
Call it a brute sense of simple animal well-being.
Stuck in my memory is one recollection of it,
When I was back still going to college, I think.
I was riding in my 1959 bug-eyed Austin Healy Sprite
With the radio on but the convertible top down,
Driving up Evergreen Canyon road one bright morning,
And I didn’t have a care in the world.
Just then the words of the old song came to me—
Simon and Garfunkle singing “Feelin’ Groovy.”
And I did, for just that one endless moment.
Many years later, I also felt the very same thing
Once in Washington, D.C., when you were still a baby, in a carriage.
Pushing you along, walking beside your mother,
I felt—reminder of the one time past, and herald of any yet to come—
That same brute, simple sense of sheer animal well-being again,
As if God was in his heaven, and all was right with the world.
There have been other times, too, I’ve fleetingly felt the same.
The body itself somehow retains the knowledge, it seems,
Of how to go back there to that bodily well of animal well-being,
If I will just get out of the way and let it lead and guide me there.
And that, I think, may really be, at long last, the way to San Jose.
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Lament
02:47
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Lament
by Cellista
We gazed ahead and past what was there
I saw you, a beacon of light in a crowd
We are already here
I am confessing
This is my home.
Captive
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For Ferlinghetti
02:43
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Cellista Los Angeles, California
Cellista's penchant for performing music in unconventional spaces, and her devotion to collaborating with artists across mediums has led her to create unique performances that incorporate elements of classical music, improvisation, and visual art.
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The spaces between silence and noise are compelling
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raucous cello
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I, Norton: An Opera in Real Time
by Gino Robair
Avant-garde brilliance
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Con Todo El Mundo (N & S America Edition)
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This contains a lot of great melodies. I am glad this is avaible on bandcamp to can support the band
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