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Frenzy (sample)

by Laila Salins

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Music: Laila Salins - voice and chamber jazz ensemble
Poetry: Anne Sexton
CD Cover Illustration: Baiba Baiba

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Frenzy

I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul.
I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.
Very quick. Very intense, like a wolf at a live heart.
Not lazy. When a lazy man, they say, looks toward heaven,
the angels close the windows. Oh angels, keep the windows open
so that I may reach in and steal each object,
objects that tell me the sea is not dying,
objects that tell me the dirt has a life-wish,
that the Christ who walked for me, walked on true ground
and that this frenzy, like bees stinging the heart all morning,
will keep the angels with their windows open, wide as an English bathtub.

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released January 28, 2013
Performers: Laila Salins, vocals; Jamie Reynolds, piano; Matt Wigton, bass; Jim Matus: laouto and laoutar; Tony Vacca: percussion

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laila salins New York, New York

"Captivated the crowd" (NY Times), "exceptional in her singing ability and performing intensity (Zurich Times), Latvian vocalist Laila Salins has enjoyed a richly diverse musical career, performing chamber music, world music, jazz, tango, and music theater/opera, performing widely in Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. Her new CD, Elevator into the Sky, is with jazz chamber ensemble. ... more

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