„time of farewells“ – revelations of september

„The passage of time
Is flicking dimly up on the screen
I can’t see the lines
I used to think i could read between
Perhaps my brains have turned to sand“
(From Another Green World)

the sad news at the beginning: brian whistler will leave us after so many years, he will be missed, honestly. thank you for everything. my fave story was the one including a missed opportunity and the vibes of steve winwood.

this time i am on a journey facing north when september comes, so the objects of desire will be presented in a minimal way. some of the stuff will be put together in third class freeway restaurants and hinterland railway stations. or is there somebody coming along with something more elaborated? thus, a few words only in this or that category, sometimes a cover only. the album of next month is by enzo favata and named „ritornare“. The archival discovery will be a double cd, the re-appearance of two albums of mr. „infinite guitar“ alias michael brook. the book in question will be „kala“ by colin walsh, the film a documentary, worth re-watching and centered around ryuichi sakamoto, „coda“. And, no doubt, andy beta’s conversation with steve tibbetts is worth staying just a little bit longer. i have to think, too, about a very good tv-series. possibly i go back in time for a buried treasure, nearly forgotten.

in regards to the radio column nothing new under the sun, except this: in my last radio show ever there will be a quite uncanny and intense story told by laurie anderson for a radio portrait i did way back in 1994 – thanks to the people in the archive it didn‘t get lost. robert wyatt can be heard, too, in that forthcoming „blue hour“ – he really was in „talking mood“ (in fact it is a collage of my three interviews with robert in london between 1991 and 2003). and finally you can hear brian eno speaking on his iphone today, on august 24. someone told me he‘s on holiday…. so thank you, brian, for sending me and my listeners these nice words and a memory from older days – what a fine closer!

postscriptum:

jan bang‘s text on nils petter molvaer‘s be quiet can be found HERE!