This album is a collection of three dark piano preludes and a larger poetic piece for piano and electronic instrumentation. The title track was inspired by a similarly titled poem by Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921-1995), who was a frontline figure in Finnish post-WWII modernism.
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All compositions and instruments by Lena Selyanina
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Engineering and production by Doc
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COUNTERPOINT
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They all fell from my arms,
garden, courtyard, house, voices, rooms,
child: with a sparrow and a fish in its hand,
fell to the earth
which brought forth the stones.
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I am an empty room,
around me the points of the compass
and snow-enshrouded trees
cold, cold, empty.
But in my hand
rises everything I loved,
courtyard, roses, flowerpot house,
perfect,
house like a capsule, quiet seeds,
death and movement in their tissue,
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a small well, a small dog, an invisible collar.
A small room, small windows, small lively lace-up shoes
for the heart and running.
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The shoes run from chamber
to chamber, and in the blood
the child’s fingers are building
a stone jetty for oarsmen of stone.
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Dreams like stones
in the depths,
numbered, dedicated to death.
And through the windows, ears
the tuned birds float
laughter in their beaks,
drops of mozart
zart zart
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- translation © 2011 David McDuff and Hildi Hawkins
http://nordicvoicesinprint.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/this-journey/
