April 28ths
Today's (somewhat sad) abstraction is drawn from two sources: Brian Eno's diary entry for 4/28/1995 and a passage from W.G. Sebald's The Rings Of Saturn --as well as Oneiromancy, the divination through dreams . The Sebald passage was also the source for Cantley II , which was on Music For Places IV . The finished song will be appropriately "Sebaldian" and moody. Rings was also about the evocation of dreamy imagery, which Sebald depicted through the use of degraded black and white photographs. Both sources are about the psychological scars of war (World War I and II and the Balkans war). Nothing to be seen But the grass and the reeds Little houses once held life Meeting daily needs Dreams may serve as windows Beams of light through the seams When the wind is blowing A little glimpse of the sea Finding all the spaces Between never and the night Looking out the windows Prevents the loss of sight An old diesel train The grinding of the cogs East of the city Into t...
