15 janeiro 2007

postcards: 'the starsailor'

timothy charles buckley III (february 14, 1947 – june 29, 1975) was an experimental vocalist and performer who incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul, and avant-garde rock in a short career spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s.
buckley often regarded his voice as an instrument, a talent most exploited on his albums g
oodbye and hello, lorca, and starsailor.
he was married to mary guibert, with whom he had a child, musician and singer jeff buckley, also known for his three-and-a-half octave voice, who died in 1997.
- in wikipedia

isto é dizer quase nada sobre este rapaz que navegava por entre as estrelas. mais, muito mais, dizem as canções.
abaixo encontram uma pequenina seleccção pessoal - 7 canções que nos revelam um rapaz extraordinário (tim) que, por um daqueles sentidos cujo alcance último não descortinamos, foi pai de outro rapaz extraordinário (jeff).
a mim, quando me falam de linhagens de sangue, de uma certa forma de nobreza hereditária, lembro-me sempre de um nome: 'buckley'.

morning glory
dolphins
happy time
once i was
song to the siren
hallucinations
sing a song for you