Write about what has been called ‘noise music’ it's a particularly slippery business, its parameters are so elusive that there is not much to hold. The term itself seems, in a sense, oxymoronic: the tortuous character of noise pulverizing the pleasant virtues of music.
MUSICAL REVIEWS
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…
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…
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…
POETRY AND STORY
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…