JohnOfPatmos

@ trell: always a pleasure to see you again! If I'm not mistaken, we left off in Zelenka!! @ Mullah: you know that if I weren't the one who wrote the Apocalypse, I would have converted to Mecca after reading your reviews!! :)) @ Copernico: thanks for everything, and just so you know, I also have Beethoven's Ninth in the works!!

@Massimof: I don't know if prayer is a hope recited among us. But your words made me reflect a lot tonight. In my case, though, I can assure you that Great Love saves, believe me. But it's not the same for everyone. For Cobain, for Curtis. I remember well your review of the Nirvana live show. And even I, when I hear words like "In the pines, in the pines where the sun don't ever shine/I will shiver the whole night through," understand the difference between my way of feeling (vulnerable and trusting) compared to Cobain's (desperate and despairing). And those shivers I feel too, along my spine. And that’s when I look for that hand, steady, strong, which holds and no longer makes mine tremble! :) Personally, I absolutely do not agree with Cesare Pavese, who said: "Whoever does not save themselves, no one can save." No, it’s possible. When someone is drowning, you have to dive in, just like in life, after all, and not teach the guy who’s drowning how to swim while you’re comfortably standing on the shore with dry feet!! Thank you for your wonderful comment!

@ a.c.: thank you for your music, which has been accompanying me for a few weeks now, every evening, and which always floats in my mind like the thought of her. @ occhirossi: moving comment, which also left me speechless :)) "Un giorno dopo l'altro" is definitely one of "my songs" of all time. As for why "we must suffer," I don't know. Perhaps it's us who cannot see and enjoy happiness (as Lello once rightly wrote to me). Happiness that we foolishly deny ourselves sometimes, just because we are overwhelmed by our (childish) fears and our (daily) selfishness. It would be so easy to break the silence with words in the warmth of a kiss, sometimes, and that would truly save us! :)) Just like your hand that you offer me, which I feel, present, here, now, Traveling Listener! :))

@ odradek: what happened? I'm in love, my dear :)) As Leopardi used to say, "brothers, at one time the same love and death..." I’m joking, as obvious, she is only l i f e (a bit troubled, but L I F E!). Anyway, while I’m at it, I send you a warm greeting, dear "uncomfortable anonymous" from "Ease Down The Road" :)) @ salieri: you also deserve a review, I will try to take care of it as soon as possible! :))

@ Enea: more than a hero, I’m a "heroine" (when I feel bad it's like I'm a bit "high" :)) @ zigghio: Céline is the singer of precariousness, instability, and meaninglessness, but also of overcoming, of transcendence (the wonderful figure of Nora in "Death on Credit"). But perhaps the meaning lies precisely in rebellion, in "not compromising" with one’s suffering. Like when Céline in "Journey" tries it with the chambermaid and screams: "Girl, I love you, enough being alone!"

I would really like to respond to each of you individually, dear friends. But it's not easy in the face of such a shared sentiment. Therefore, what I will write now are just a few "free" thoughts that have floated in my mind while reading your messages. @Hal: I too don't know what to write to you after reading your words this morning. And I too have a difficult relationship with sleep. As Céline wrote in "Death on Credit": "If I had always slept well, I would never have written a single line." Yet in this "lack of sleep" there is something that saves us. And it is our desire to be present. Always. And to expose ourselves just as we are, in our nakedness and truth.

What a beautiful review! I'm not familiar with the album, but I've been listening to Mehldau lately in Charlie Haden's "American Dreams." And I really like it. Congratulations, JoP!

Come on... I don't even know this track! Your style, though, that’s something I know.

Everything is splendid. There's even the "SONETO DE SEPARAÇÃO" by Vinicius in this album! ZiOn, great mention of "Stone Flower," which I just picked up these days at a bargain price!! :)) As for "Triste," I recommend everyone to listen to it in the beautiful instrumental reinterpretation by that giant of the piano, Oscar Peterson. Hello everyone, JoP

Thanks to everyone, as usual, and especially to Viaggiato Ascoltatore for writing such a beautiful phrase ("intrise di un amore per tale musica che si noterebbe anche ad occhi chiusi!"; it generally holds true, trust me!) and to whom I feel compelled to recommend the splendid duo with Kenny Barron "Night and The City". Hal, thanks for clarifying the quote from "Hyperion with Higgins", the second chapter of the collaboration with Charles Lloyd after "The Water is Wide" (another great ECM album!). See you soon and warm regards to all, JoP. PS Dear and multifaceted Mr. Green Genes, I eagerly await your review on the Liberation!