The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

May 25, 2012


last of the good-time boys for Tyler Stallings

http://www.alansondheim.org/lonesome.mp3

the good-time boys hear that lonesome whistle blow
the good-time bows have their ears to the track
they have their ears to the telegraph
anywhere there's steel, you'll find the good-time boys
anywhere there's noise, you'll find them breathing

*/debris
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a linguistic carapace or skeleton referencing something absent, something 
lost in language or thought

face

My face is made from human skin.
My arms are made of human muscle and human skin.
My human lungs are made from human lungs.
My human face is made of human skin.
My breasts are made from human flesh.
My human hands are made from human flesh.
My human bones are made from human bones.
My human hair is made of human hair.
My human face is made from human skin.
My human legs are made from human flesh.
My human penis is made from human flesh.
My human feet are made from human skin.
My nails are made from human nails.
My human knees are made from human bone.
My eyes are made from human eyes.
My lips are made from human lips.
My teeth are made of human teeth.
My penis is made of human skin.
My blood is made from human blood.
My back is made from human skin.
My human neck is made of human skin.
My human belly is made from human flesh.
My palms are made from human palms.
My scars are made from human flesh.
My human soles are made from human soles.
My human wrists are made from human bone.
My lungs are made of human lungs.
My throat is made of human flesh.
My human tongue is made from human tongue.
My human breasts are made from human skin.
My bones are made of human bones.

Mexico!

Chris Diasparra, tenor / Alan Sondheim

http://lounge.espdisk.com/archives/826 (easiest)

http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mexico1.mp3
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mexico2.mp3
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mexico3.mp3
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mexico4.mp3
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mexico5.mp3
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mexico6.mp3
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/mexico7.mp3

Why Mexico? I just received a book on Mexico.
From here on a series of duets.
In the middle of them I'm lost.
Chris' tone is beautiful.
Here and there, I'm ok: viola for example.
Flute kept me hearing MA-SA-SA-sa in my head.
DA+ on sarangi and sindhi sarangi.
I must restring that sindhi sarangi!
I must do that! Good effort on oud.
Good effort on parlor guitar.
Chris saves the day! I squander the night!
Mexico!

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