does Descartes need a reason...? on a sunday..

posting a couple of songs, for no real reason (except listening to loads of Châteauneuf-du-Pape 'plinkety-plonk' as fab as it gets ...) and then there's Bowie...lordy lordy: one forgets the Beaux Ameriques Song Book:

I Have Dreamed

Something Wonderful

a (the) song sung my someone who was someone before they became someone (as an e.g.) ......

                                                   so many possibilities...

R.I.P Alan Rickman         an interview                               a little chaos and a lot of love

This Tortoise Could Save a Life

A couple of exciting musical encounters (no reason except they were encountered..). Composer Erkki-Sven Tüür and conductor Paavo Järvi met at Estonian music school and both were deep into ‘art rock’ music.

Vítězslav Novák knew that the new was the Czech way forward but often struggled quelle surprise with rejection and thence depression. He wrote some gorgeous music even if a little in the romantic tradition.