Liner Notes, Selections

selected from his series "Liner Notes"

By Roger W. Hecht

Lightning

Seemed to me I found

our most

natural &

grateful casting.

Such an ecstacy, extending

from these

romantic settings

our outstanding demands—

music fashioned from fields.

Likely experimental,

its personality ranging

quite immense, if not

uncommonly practical.

It was clear

days covered a range,

diverse nature from a difficult

approach. Astonishing.

You’re a long voyage, an individual as

such, contributing to the common opera.

Gradually words come. First

lightning. Immense singers fashioned

about them a

string, a cycle, and entire association.

Songs, a set of songs.

Philip Glass, Songs for Liquid Days

CBS Records, 1986. CD

Arizona Skies

Knock. He climbed out the window.

It was ringing. It was in the

know. The white one came

over. The right one

lifted the real morning.

Out of the light: the cat.

Shade came over his face. The real birds

laughed blue specks.

One by one they went away:

brown, kinda purple, a little scared,

one or two of them.

Soon the moon laughed. It stopped ringing.

Los Lobos, Kiko

Warner Bros, 1999

Notes by Bob Blumenthal, 1999

Never Knows

Released it arrived

extending the previous

vocal gap

on what turned out unusually

long compared to

very backward

evolution.

Revolutionary advances,

bounce-down mixing

embraced the spirit

artificial/automatic double

tracking. An art student friend

later in the states created startling

effect, but no

single materialized.

The Beatles. Revolver.

Parlophone, 1996. CD.

Roger W. Hecht is the author of Talking Pictures and a chapbook, Witness Report. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Diagram, Puerto del Sol, Gargoyle, and many other journals. When he's not teaching literature and creative writing at SUNY, Oneonta, he plays drums in a blues band, Off the Rails. He lives in Ithaca, NY.

Find him here: https://rogerwhecht.wordpress.com/