JANELA
more than it needs and continues to plummet
as i cruise over Leeds and down into Dublin
I'm reminded to wear the necklace you bought me
which hastens to bear the inscription you penned:
"a best friend isn't worth more than a friend"
it carves my engagement into a ring shape
and glazes my throat in a salty elitism
and imposes a tone that i have no relief from
and it hurts and it hurts
a chance to wash the windshield
a chance to call it a day
an opportunity to say, if you'd been wanting to:
"i love you"
but what it took to be your favourite
to become your special lady
transformation within me
to accept the changes you demand
all the time misspent independent of your love
I reset to your will
step to the window
left
right
This is a most exciting surprise bag of unusual songs, each of them thoroughly different from the other ones. But they have one thing in common: They are ingenious. It's not easy to find a drawer where to put this music in. I'm reluctant to use the term "experimental", because this can mean anything, and nothing as well. Out of the established genres, "alternative rock" probably fits best, but this music is so alternative that it blows up the confines of the genre. In my collection, I'm tagging music like this as "avantgarde", to express that it's somehow ahead of the usual listening experiences. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)