Dino Saluzzi, Albores

Jorge Luis Borges in his poem 'Music Box,' contemplating the music of Japan, decides 'When I hear it play/I am. I want to be. I bleed away.' Listening to Albores regardless of geography that sense of flesh and bone but also retreat and a …

Published: 15 Nov 2020. Updated: 3 years.

Jorge Luis Borges in his poem 'Music Box,' contemplating the music of Japan, decides 'When I hear it play/I am. I want to be. I bleed away.' Listening to Albores regardless of geography that sense of flesh and bone but also retreat and a disappearance into the soul of things is very real. Bandoneón great, Borges' fellow Argentinian, Dino Saluzzi, now 85, in this very moving recording made between February and June 2019 in the Saluzzi studio in Buenos Aires, presents his first solo collection in more than 30 years, work that in its entirety leaps as if from music to the hymn and realm of poetry itself. All Saluzzi compositions, linger long, delve deep into 'Adios Maestro Kancheli,' 'Ausencias,' 'Segun Me Cuenta La Vida/Milonga,' 'Íntimo,' 'La Cruz del Sur (2da cadencia),' 'Ecuyere,' 'Ficcion,' 'Don Caye/Variaciones sobre obra de Cayetano Saluzzi' and 'Ofrenda/Tocata'. Do and gain a sense of wonder. On ECM

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Lilith, Karen Underwood, Cork Opera House

''Don't cry for me, ain't nothing like being free,'' sings Karen Underwood. Blessed with a powerful operatic voice, especially needed to delve into the world of demonised badass Lilith (''you can call me feminist but I'm older than that'') the ever …

Published: 14 Nov 2020. Updated: 3 years.

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''Don't cry for me, ain't nothing like being free,'' sings Karen Underwood. Blessed with a powerful operatic voice, especially needed to delve into the world of demonised badass Lilith (''you can call me feminist but I'm older than that'') the ever so slightly overshadowed, to say the least, wife of the bible's Adam.

Written by Eadaoin O'Donoghue and John O'Brien performed by Underwood with Dave Whitla on bass, Fionn Ó Ceallacháin on drums and O'Brien on piano all unobtrusive in support, Lilith, Michelangelo's half-woman, half-serpent, James Joyce centuries later in Ulysses changed her profile to give her a new edge: ''Then spake young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom, of law of canons, of Lilith, patron of abortions, of bigness wrought by wind of seeds of brightness or by potency of vampires mouth to mouth.''

The song cycle has a compelling trajectory and mood music to goad you, just go on, exorcise your own demons but leave Lilith's alleged shortcomings all to her own safe keeping, thank you very much. She ain't much bothered about what anyone thinks. The jaunty funeral song finds a joy in the attitude ''I'm having a funeral for everything that I know so I cry my tears out in one go.'' The biggest taboo as it turns out, relevant even in these desperate Covid times, Lilith knows she has to break, and she's bringing you with her, and that's urge you on to join her very own, at times, delicious dance.