Tequila Sunrise by The Eagles

 

About the band: The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. They are one of the world's best-selling bands, having sold more than 200 million records, including 100 million albums sold in U.S alone. Their highest popularity was in the seventies, when they released six of their seven studio albums.

 
About the song: the hit single Tequila sunrise from the 1973 album Desperado is a prime example of early Eagles, when their country-rock style still leaned very much toward country rather than rock. A simple melancholy ballad, lyrics that are rather run-of-the-mill, and somehow, some way, this song settles in your mind and you like it forever. The title is a play of words on the sunrise observed after a night of drinking, as well as on a well-known cocktail.

 

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The rag collector by Marianne von Werefkin

 

 

Russian artist Marianne von Werefkin (1860 - 1938) is one of my favourite expressionists. I first encountered her work on the internet, then we saw a few of her paintings in musea before Corona, and a few weeks ago we saw dozens of her works in a fabulous exhibition in nearby Zwolle.

 

This 1917 work, which was also in the exhibition, is just one example of her style. Could this landscape be more menacing? And to top it, we have the figure of the rag collector upfront, collecting rags from the seashore or lakeshore, likely remains from a boating accident. Morbid.

 

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Cherie

 

Covers of sheet music from the twenties are often great pieces of art, but this stylish one from 1921 by Art Phillips may be the most beautiful I've seen so far. And if you wonder what the song sounds like, I found it on YouTube here.

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From Me Flows What You Call Time by Tōru Takemitsu

 

From Me Flows What You Call Time is a concerto for 5 percussionists and orchestra from 1990 by Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu (1930 - 1996). It fits in with the 20th century tradition of writing concertos for unusual instruments. The title is taken from a poem by the Japanese poet Makoto Ooka, titled “Clear Blue Water”. It's a beautiful and evocative piece that deserved to be better known than it is. The version shown above is by percussion group Nexus and  the Pacific Symphony Orchestra under Carl St. Clair on a Sony CD.

 

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