AWAKENING | Alim Qasimov & Michel Godard
In Coronadagboek #6 het witte huis refereerde ik aan een concert van zanger Alim Qasimov met Michel Godard op serpent . Ik heb via Muziekweb nu hun nieuwe cd 'AWAKENING' in huis, waarin onderstaande boeiende conversatie tussen de Nederlandse filmer Frenk Scheffer en Michel Godard staat afgedrukt. Maar eerst de muziek... Michel Godard Dear Frank, after our concert in Amsterdam, you gave me very nice compliments about the music which was encouraging. Would you mind going back to that moment? Frank Scheffer When I listened to it for the first time, and then again recorded, it was as if the music was in a cocoon. I pictured Hieronymus Bosch's "The garden of Earthly Delights", where we see two people in a cocoon, creating a feeling of peace and beauty. We do not belong to any existing culture, but we create a new entity. Here 1 + 1 =3. It's a separate world. I feel that's very important today. In Western musical tradition, the idea of renewal has come to an...