Said the Gramophone

SOMETIMES I WONDER IF ART CAN JUSTIFY A SORROW

Viking Moses - "Sandstorms". A song for what Viking Moses had. A stamp he licks and places on an envelope. He must have worked for weeks, for whole weeks, writing, composing, shaping this song. And somehow he found it, just right he found it. One night he was finally finished and he could put it on the turntable and listen, headphones on ears, wood-shavings at his feet. A song to mark what he had. A stamp he licks and places on an envelope. A lesson in reverb. When the piano comes back, at the end, my heart breaks every time. A song that begins down, below a lover's navel. A song that ends very far from that place. A stamp he licks and places on an envelope. A song for what Viking Moses had.

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Eleanor Meredith, she of the fairly recent guestpost, now has an online shop where you can buy prints of some of her lovely, whimsical artworks.