Category: Music
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What accompanies us
Music rarely needs explanation. It accompanies us, marks time, fixes memories. Here I write about music as presence: records, concerts, voices and sounds that settle into everyday life. Not as a specialized critic, but as an attentive and personal listener. Some music fades away. Other music stays with us forever.
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Hans Zimmer Live – The Next Level | Between Two Points, Something Happens
“To love is to give someone the power to destroy us, trusting that they won’t.” Clarice Lispector. The music begins before the first chord… It begins the instant we realize that something is going to happen inside us. On the night Hans Zimmer returned to Portugal for two concerts at the MEO Arena, it quickly became clear that it wasn’t…
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Famous Blue Raincoat, Leonard Cohen | The Letter That Was Never Sent
“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen. Some songs don't just occupy space in our memory. They settle in like unopened mail, always waiting to be reread. Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" belongs to that rare territory where the song ceases to be an artistic object and becomes a dialogue…
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Wine & Music Valley 2019 | The melody of a see you later
“"For me, happiness is being lucky enough to talk to a great friend and listen to good music while drinking a good glass of wine. In this way, I can be myself, while meeting people with whom I agree, and others with whom I disagree, but from whom I can always learn something." Maya Angelou