SCOTT WALKER – Phrasing

It’s not God, it’s Pain that enjoys the advantages of ubiquity. (Cioran)

De ídolo adolescente e posterboy, junto ao seu grupo The Walker Brothers, a crooner de música romântica e genial intérprete, em língua inglesa, das chansons de Jacques Brel, à sua produção tardia, de radicalmente experimental e deliciosamente perturbadora… que metamorfose! O que se passou com Scott Walker? Enlouqueceu? Tornou-se “monstro” musical. No conjunto da obra, destaca-se Bisch Bosch (2012), uma absurda odisseia musical, a definição mesma da vertigem.

PHRASING (Scott Walker)

Pain is not alone.P-a-i-n is n-o-t alone.Pain is not a-l-o-n-e.P-a-i-n i-s not alone.

Neath a protein moonin a protein sky,running protein fieldswith my protein eye.

There’s a protein songhowling throughthe meat.Driving protein bodsfrom my protein street.

P-a-i-n i-s n-o-t alone.Pain is not a-l-o-n-e.Pain is not alone.P-a-i-n i-s n-o-t a-l-o-n-e.

From the souththe Klan sendsroses.

Lymph-lacquered nailshoverin waifedautumn sun

for dragging downthe backof summer.

From the eastcome killerposes.

Khuschev’s shoebeats a blacktattoo

in the middleof the day.

From the northflow floatswith quiveringvirgins,

fresh from frozencatacombs.

Did ya spotthe die-cut…