Playlist:

1 – Ryuichi Sakamoto / Alva Noto - Noon (2002)

2- Eliane Radigue - Trilogie de la mort (1990)

3- Biosphere - Circulaire (2004)

4- Tim Buckley - Lorca (1970)

5- Robert Wyatt - Alifie (1973)

6- Robert Ashley - The Park (1978)

7- Jon Hassell - Blue period  (2008)

8- Third Ear Band - Ghetto Raga (1970)

9- Nick Drake - Tow the line (1974) 

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“We do not really own anything/What is then this competition haunting us/Before leaving, one by one/Through the same door?” says Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), one of the greatest Sufi mystics. It is sad to ponder how little his thoughts are remembered, nowadays. Yet, people like Jon Hassell and albums like his “Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes In The Street” (a straight quotation from Rumi) help us to remember that all of this world’s evil cannot extinguish an ounce of light ” 

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Published in Italian on Blow Up Magazine, April 2014.