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Music Swims Back to Me (sample)

by Laila Salins

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Music: Laila Salins - voice and chamber jazz ensemble
Poetry: Anne Sexton
Photo of Anne Sexton from Spanish TV documentary

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Music Swims Back to Me
Wait Mister. Which way is home?
They turned the light out and the dark is moving in the corner.
There are no signposts in this room,
four ladies, over eighty, in diapers every one of them.
La la la, Oh music swims back to me and I can feel the tune they played
the night they left me in this private institution on a hill.
Imagine it. A radio playing and everyone here was crazy.
I liked it and danced in a circle.
Music pours over the sense and in a funny way music sees more than I.
I mean it remembers better; remembers the first night here.
It was the strangled cold of November;
even the stars were strapped in the sky
and that moon too bright forking through the bars
to stick me with a singing in the head. I have forgotten all the rest.
They lock me in this chair at eight a.m.
and there are no signs to tell the way, just the radio beating to itself
and the song that remembers more than I.
Oh, la la la, this music swims back to me.
The night I came I danced a circle and was not afraid. Mister?

credits

released January 28, 2013
Performers: Laila Salins, vocals; Jamie Reynolds, piano; Matt Wigton, bass; Fred Kennedy, drums; Marty Ehrlich, saxophone

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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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