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    El Museo de la Rendición Incondicional (eBook, ePUB)
    Esta luminosa novela, un clásico de la literatura europea de las últimas décadas, narra la vida de unos personajes que se ven atrapados entre varias culturas, a medio camino entre el pasado de su propia tradición y el futuro de lo que les depara la Historia, de la que, sin pretenderlo, formarán parte. Tras la guerra de los Balcanes, la ciudad de Berlín cobra vida gracias a la llegada de los expatriados, que luchan por preservar lo que les queda de su cultura y de una nación que ha sido eliminada del mapa, mientras sustituyen todo lo que una vez conocieron por lo nuevo y desconocido. Para aquellos cuya vida ha de caber en una maleta, los recuerdos pasan a ser su posesión más importante, pero a veces adoptan un significado extraño. Dubravka UgreSic recompone así la vida de su madre a través de las fotos halladas en el fondo de un armario, en un antiguo bolso de piel. Y, a la vez, también su propia historia: sus años de profesora en Berlín, donde compartió apartamento con tres jóvenes indias; los encuentros nocturnos con sus amigas para cenar y echar las cartas del tarot; un viaje a Lisboa, adonde fue cargada de equipaje, pero sin llevarse absolutamente nada, dependiendo de cómo se mirase... Un collage de recuerdos que la autora fusiona para lograr un sublime retrato de la soledad del desterrado. CRÍTICAS «Si el mundo fuera un lugar justo, Dubrakva UgreSic ganaría el Premio Nobel.» -Publishers Weekly «Las novelas, ensayos e historias de UgreSic merecen ser leídos, especialmente El Museo de la Rendición Incondicional, nutrido de grandes formas literarias.» -Publishers Weekly «Uno de los mejores libros que existen.» -Publishers Weekly «Un libro mágico. Imposible de describir, pero apasionante de leer.» -The Guardian «Una de las más profundas reflexiones sobre la cultura, la memoria y la locura que jamás leerás.» -The Independent «Un libro perturbador y bellísimo, nada convencional, que conmocionaba sobre todo por el enorme e infinito catálogo de rastros de vida.» -RTVE «Hay que leerla, como una terapia colectiva, desde la hondura de la conmoción.» -Diario de Sevilla «Una brillante muestra de narraciones y reflexiones de alta velocidad. Es una escritora a la que seguir. Una escritora a la que apreciar.» -Susan Sontag «No conozco a nadie que escriba mejor o piense con mayor lucidez sobre estos tiempos difíciles. Una novela original, hermosa y extremadamente inteligente.» -Charles Simic «Ninguna novela ha evocado con tanta agudeza los costes personales del cambiante mapa político mundial.» -Marina Warner (Historiadora) «Dubravka UgreSic ha escrito una obra maestra que explora el conflictivo espíritu de la Europa de finales del siglo XX.» -Larry Wolff (Historiador) «Dubravka UgreSic despliega una prosa cargada de pólvora y dinamita.» -La Razón «Dubravka UgreSic es imprescindible.» -La Vanguardia
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    Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty
    Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty: ab 17.49 €
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    Branded
    In Northern California, not too far from the coast, Producer/Guitarist/Engineer Jason Richmond was working at his local record store when Songwriter/Musician Peter Bergquist came in with a resume. 3 years later, "Branded" was recorded, Tallpaw was born, and the record store had been taken over by a businessman from Toronto, forcing former employees to pursue other careers. "Branded" (****The first 100 copies of this CD are mounted on plywood and fire-branded with a branding iron from a New York State dude ranch****) Peter Bergquist - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Harmonica, Moog, Synthesizer, Vibes, & Rhodes Jason Richmond - Electric & acoustic guitar Ian Cunningham - Drums Chris Sturniolo - Drums Bryan White - Electric & Upright Bass Dave Wild - Bass Jen Lapinski - Background Vocals Chris Ochsner - Background Vocals Tira Neil - Clarinet All songs by Peter Bergquist except 'Looking for You' by Townes van Zandt Produced by Jason Richmond and Peter Bergquist Mixed by Jason Richmond Mastered by Aaron Leiff Assistant Engineer: Chris Sturniolo Raised in Tacoma and Omaha by a homemaker/mother and an evangelical preacher/father, Peter Bergquist has lived in Newmarket, Barrington, Albuquerque, Grand Canyon, Santa Cruz, Cincinnati, Chicago, Key West, New Orleans, Fennville, San Francisco, Sebastopol, Germany, Mexico, Central America, and Ireland. He studied with the u.s. poet laureate and a post-post-modern Jungian analyst, was a scuba diver, a woodworker, a park ranger, street performer, painter, record-store clerk, worm-farmer, antiques dealer, and ink salesman. He lives in California with his partner and their 2 daughters. Some notes on the songs .... Oregon. I was 20 years old when I met a self-proclaimed wise-man on the Oregon coast. My short and wild stay with him was the beginning of this song, something I originally conceived as an allegory. The old wise-man taught a blend of judeo-christian mysticism blended with astrology and numerology, and he had a technique of opening up the body's energy flow that involved something almost unspeakable here. Needless to say, after my energy flow had been sprung loose, I began to see the world in a different way, hence the killing of the old, beginning the new theme. Young Love. I was living in a 1978 Ford Club Wagon named Charley (named after John Steinbeck's poodle). I was parked in New Orleans, hanging out in Jackson Square. A young guy with 'FUCK YOU' tattooed on his knuckles (he said he did it in jail) had a 15 year-old girlfriend who said she'd run away from suburban Minneapolis. The 2 of them, along with a wandering alcoholic named Papa Smurf, rode with me in my van down to Key West. They panhandled for gas money along the way, and I provided a case of Keystone Light. Eventually the 2 kids were run out of town by other panhandlers for agreeing to be interviewed by the local paper, and saying how easy it was to get money from the tourists. The last time I saw Papa Smurf he was passed out in a flower bed next to the sidewalk. Blue on Yellow. I was falling in love, again, with a woman who wasn't the woman I was living with. The images come from the rootless feeling you get when you're on the verge of shunning the responsibility you once chose to shoulder. I'd moved to Newmarket, NH and was living with Jeremy Hill, a great bass player, and had a nice little room where I could stay up late and record. A friend of Jeremy's, a trumpet player, was in from out of town, and I played him my first recording of this song at 3 in the morning. Waltz for Paul. D.H. Lawrence's short story, 'The Rockinghorse Winner,' was the inspiration for this song. I was living near the seacoast of New Hampshire in a town called Barrington, in a cabin on the property of what once was a catholic summer camp. The landlords had converted the church into a house. I lived with 3 roommates in a little cabin where the priests would live during the summer months. It was poorly insulated and we had a couple cords of terrible green wood. There was a cat named Buddy who was allergic to his own fur, and in my room, on the wall, was the impression of a crucifix where the sun hadn't faded the wood paneling. That's Why. I finished this one in the Barrington cabin as well. It was an attempt to honestly convey my most despondent self. The sound and visual artist, M. Deragon (The Great Invisibles), was living in the room across the hall, and I would hear him doing yoga grunts in his room early in the morning before going out to his technical writing job. I was also taking poetry at the U of New Hampshire with the pretty decent poet, Charles Simic. Just what these things have to do with this song, I'm not sure. Maybe being surrounded by interesting people is impetus to push your creative self a little further than it's gone before. Michael was an inspiration in my poetry and my four-track endeavors, and he turned me on to some great musicians like Stephen Meritt and Will Oldham. He'd luckily blown most of his student loan money on a great CD collection, and I worked my way through it like a Bible while Buddy the Cat puked up fur-balls. Taking my Time. My friend, Jess Klingberg, an unusually talented musician and writer, said that this song was archetypal, and I've tried to figure out what he meant by this. The best I can figure is that it captures a mood and a desire that has always, and always will, exist along the continuum of time - the emotional state of limbo, where you're waiting for something to fall into place, and trying to feel right about the natural progression of things. Jess also suggested I sing this song to my boss at the woodshop every time he asks me to do something a little more quickly. Looking for You. A song by Townes van Zandt. Timeline. I was living in San Diego, getting ready to hitchhike down the Baja, reading Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski, taking jogs through rattlesnake canyons with a black lab named Abbey, and somehow this song came out of it all. My Life. Staying in a hotel in Guadalajara, drifting in Mexico loosely following the steps of DH Lawrence and Frieda, stung by themes of mystical connections, unlikely love, the dark shadow of the industrialized world, romantic involvement with nature, self, and sensual instinct. I first played it for a sculptor named Tom on the rooftop of our hotel.
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    Californisoul
    "Californisoul ist der Soundtrack eines Roadtrips von Los Angeles nach San Francisco im Jahr 1971!" - Fabrizio GrossiSupersonic Blues Machine sind zurück und machen da weiter, wo sie mit ihrem gefeierten Debüt "West Of Flushing, South Of Frisco" aufgehört haben. 2017 begrüßten sie mit einem Headliner-Slot beim Notodden Blues Festival in Norwegen und spielten seitdem zahlreiche Shows u. a. in Texas, Holland, Indien und St. Petersburg. "Californisoul" wurde im Fab's Lab im Norden Hollywoods aufgenommen. Während Produzent und Bassist Fabrizio Grossi einen Großteil der Texte selbst schrieb, komponierte die Band gemeinsam die Musik im Studio. Das Ergebnis ist ein gefühlvolles, modernes und dennoch klassisches Bluesrock Album. Auf dem Album findet sich kein einziger Lückenfüller. Jeder Song ist für sich tiefgründig und einzigartig im Songwriting. Supersonic Blues Machine sind Lance Lopez (Gitarre, Gesang, Songwriting), Fabrizio Grossi (Bass, Produktion, Songwriting) und Kenny Aronoff (Schlagzeug). Ihre Devise lautet: "ohne Freunde keine Party" und so luden sie sich einige prominente Gäste ins Studio ein. Auf dem Album sind Billy Gibbons ("Broken Heart"), Steve Lukather (Toto) mit einigen atemberaubenden Licks, Eric Gales ("Elevate"), Robben Ford ("What's Wrong"), Alessandro Alessandroni Jr. an den Keyboards, Serge Simic (Co-Schreiber und Backgroundsänger bei "Love" und "Hard Times") sowie Andrea und Francis Benitez Grossi (Backgroundgesang) zu hören. Supersonic Blues Machine sind nicht einfach nur eine Band, sondern eine richtige Familie. Ihre Gäste schauen nicht nur kurz vorbei, sie bleiben zum Abendessen. Die Gemeinschaft ist ihr größter und wertvollster Schatz.
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