Kiran Leonard - Derevaun Seraun (2017)
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Verenigd Koninkrijk
Pop / Rock
Label: Moshi Moshi
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Could She Still Draw Back? (4:21)
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Living with Your Ailments (7:34)
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A Particle of Flesh Refuses the Consummation of Death (7:58)
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The Mute Wide-Open Eye of All Things (2:20)
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The Cure for Pneumothorax (10:16)
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geplaatst: 4 september 2020, 00:30 uur
Geweldig album waarin Leonard vijf van zijn favoriete literaire werken op muzikale wijze van commentaar voorziet. Niet dat de lyrics voor mij heel belangrijk zijn, de muziek is vooral heel fraai! 
“DEREVAUN SERAUN” is a piece I wrote a couple years back in five movements for voice, piano and string trio. Each movement is written about a different piece of literature, exploring the value I see in each work and the impression it has made on me, and there is nothing more to it than that. The pleasure of books – of good verse and stories and ideas – is a very simple thing, and I felt that some lofty unifying theme for the entire piece would be a betrayal of that belief. I think that when a work resonates with you it is an instinctive response to something. You can be taught to understand a challenging book, but not to feel affection for it; I think a lot of conversation around art, especially around literature, sometimes forgets this. In my experience, the art I like the most, irrespective of its 'difficulty', is the art I can advocate most directly and plainly, and about which I can say: “I read this piece and now I do not read or think in the same way that I did before”, or: “This is a story that I could not explain to someone; I do not understand it word-for-word, yet I feel like innately I understand the whole, and that the whole spoke to me”. This is a piece about five books that I like and why I like them." - Kiran Leonard
Opdraging:
1. James Joyce
2. Albert Camus
3. Henry Miller
4. Clarice Lispector
5. Manuel Bandeira
“DEREVAUN SERAUN” is a piece I wrote a couple years back in five movements for voice, piano and string trio. Each movement is written about a different piece of literature, exploring the value I see in each work and the impression it has made on me, and there is nothing more to it than that. The pleasure of books – of good verse and stories and ideas – is a very simple thing, and I felt that some lofty unifying theme for the entire piece would be a betrayal of that belief. I think that when a work resonates with you it is an instinctive response to something. You can be taught to understand a challenging book, but not to feel affection for it; I think a lot of conversation around art, especially around literature, sometimes forgets this. In my experience, the art I like the most, irrespective of its 'difficulty', is the art I can advocate most directly and plainly, and about which I can say: “I read this piece and now I do not read or think in the same way that I did before”, or: “This is a story that I could not explain to someone; I do not understand it word-for-word, yet I feel like innately I understand the whole, and that the whole spoke to me”. This is a piece about five books that I like and why I like them." - Kiran Leonard
Opdraging:
1. James Joyce
2. Albert Camus
3. Henry Miller
4. Clarice Lispector
5. Manuel Bandeira
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