Woman in the music
René Peñaloza for Latin Pulse Recognition for women's artistic work has been quite a slow process; in the sphere of concert music such recognition has been specially late. To these…
Trans look
It arrived on ‘72. I feel that jazz is a language that privileges freedom and search, maybe more than any other genre. A repressive movement against this type of jazz…
The other mexican jazz
The other mexican jazz: music in the borders of borders by René Penaloza Galván Personality itself is technique. - Gary Giddins writing on pianist Cecil TaylorFew creative endeavors have suffered so…
Airplane
“If you had a window seat available, and as near as possible to the front”, the girl was at the next counter, and this near she was still more gorgeous.…
23 Staples
by René Peñaloza Galván Twenty-three staplesRise 8 along My diaphragm Twenty-three stepsOn a stairwellTo redemptionOr its cousinSelf-deception Twenty three bindsOn a wounded MonsterOf boundless interjection Twenty three fastened AmensThat say it is…
The Temple of Dandor (@the MET)
by René Peñaloza Galván Your eyes like two bright beaconsAtop your smiling cheekbonesShine upon the sandy stonesAnd I can almost seeThe ghosts of priestsGrasping at so manyUnanswered prayersAnd hear the…
Where did I go?
by René Peñaloza Galván Awake on a reclining bedMy insides felt like snow(No more? made?) fluids in hollow needlesThinking where did I go?
Chorus (?)
At the temple of DandorIs where I found my soulFloating face down in the NileBloated with all I did wrong. At the temple of DandorThere she fished out my soulThere…
in your wake
somehow you always find a way to remind meof all the times I've forgotten you a thousand dogs have looked at me with your eyesbrimming with irony’s longing spilling onto…