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Originally Posted by Son of Stopped
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That's a really good read.
It's sweet that he's been in contact with the family...
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“We had some nice correspondence, they were very complimentary and very accomodating. They were very pleased that someone is still taking inspiration from their father and carrying if forward.”
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And his thoughts on cultural appropriation is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect and want to hear/read...
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“But I want to make this clear, this record is a European and an outsider’s take on Victor Jara and his legacy. I was never going to go down the route of trying to co-opt Chilean musicians, rhythms or instruments. I don’t want to get in that argument of appropriation.
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Please, he prayed, now -
A gray disk, the colour of Chiba sky.
Now -
Disk beginning to rotate, faster, becoming a sphere of paler gray. Expanding -
And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity.
Inner eye opening to the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America,
and high and very far away he saw the spiral arms of military systems, forever beyond his reach.
And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face.
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