J.P. Rangaswami just led me to Genghis Blues, which I'm sure George knows about, and if he were at home right now I prod him to tell me everything, because I just followed J.P.s links and then went to the itunes store and listened to snippets of New Train (can we link into the itunes store--i mean i want to share the link but it's a desktop app on my macbook and i don't know how to show you where I am).
All of this left me in that weird place -- you know, of feeling at the same instant overjoyed to have encountered special music and devastated that the musician making that music is gone -- so it's kind of a simultaneous embrace and release, which, mirror-mirror, you also feel listening to Pena's music...
...because sometimes artists are born forward from their death into our lives, if you know what I mean, which is to say that's how they meet us so succinctly, right at the exact spot of the hole in our hearts where they resonate...
...which is to say, I found Paul Pena and reading his bio and am listening, which at least you can do partially on amazon, so then you can buy it.
January 11, 2008
imagination images and emotion
imagemotion, twitterized.
 | jeneane "imagemotion" = the emotion evoked by powerful images in patterns of appearance. less than 5 seconds ago from web   |
| | jeneane Nicknaming @davewiner's FlickrFan "trauma tv" because I can't reconcile the image disonance of deep tragedy followed by tragic shallowness. less than 5 seconds ago from web |