You have made such beauty here.
You beautifully hit the object
and you didn’t stop, trusting it to teach you
the music the object’s muses guided you
and the object to making — moment by moment.
I can feel that beautiful fragility of
concentration and trust and
freedom from expectations. And then
your voice used the poem like a sail boat
gliding over the rise and flow of the music.
My eyes filled with love as I listened. My muses
danced in their cages and stirred their fires
with excitement to hear a rebirth of poetry
take song back from the musicians
who have strangled it for so long.
by Jerry Gordon
credits
from Won't Kiss Any Saint,
released January 31, 2024
Jerry Gordon (lyrics, guitar, then voice)
Improviser and composer Lara Alarcón has created an experimental opus rife with moments of wildly free jazz and lovely melodic passages. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 28, 2021