this is nice, like herzog music
8 track album
holuzam.bandcamp.com
this got a reprint and so i listened again the other day - it's really good. puts me in mind of mamman sani
or even otis g johnson
maybe Juana Molina as well
although not really the same thing as those last two, cos they are more obviously songs with vocals.
but similar mood in my ears. just that thing of a peculiar sound, worked over in a few different ways.
I was looking into the blurb that comes with the album and had never heard of this guy mentioned, Victor Segalen. Sounds very interesting, has anyone heard of him?
en.wikipedia.org
Striking portrait:
I did a bit of digging last night but only found a few bits and pieces, but all seemed well worth looking into. This is one of his poems from his "Steles" series:
Mongol Libation
It's here we took him alive. As he fought well we offered him some office: he preferred to serve his Prince in death. We cut his hamstrings: he waved his arms about to witness to his zeal. We cut his arms: he bellowed his devotion to Him. We sliced his mouth from ear to ear: he signaled with his eyes that he remained faithful. Let's not pierce his eyes as one does to cowards. Let's cut his head off respectfully, and pour the
koumys of the brave, with this libation:
When you are reborn, Cheng-ho-chang, do us the honor of being reborn among us.
And his book "Paintings" sounds brilliant - "This unclassifiable masterpiece is a series of prose poems describing Chinese paintings, which do not exist."
Filling ones eyes, the waters of the long river; Richly verdant, the mountains of an unknown district The hastening of ten thousand m...
thelectern.blogspot.com
Gonna try pick up some of his bits but wondered if someone had read him.