Dennis Hollingsworth

Music in the Mail

Professor Winkler sent me these two albums.

?Muy bien, Tio!

Acoustic Guitars, simple arrangements, melodic songs and straight ahead lyrics. Everything exotic (surrealist evocations, hippiness overtones) is handled lightly and a lot of stress is placed on pushing their vocal and instrumental talents to the limit. From my (albeit naive) point of view, they are staking alot on their ability to craft songs. Poetry.

(I pause to ask myself why I wrote the last two lines, ending with the evocation of the grand art of poetry. First of all -who am I to compare songwriting to poetry? I have no background, not even an amateurs stake in being able to toy with poetry with a capital "P" no less. Secondly, Why subordinate songwritiing to poetry? Writing songs, like any artform, is one of many others and richly deserving of an articulation of its' own abundant world.)

From Bara:

You are alone
Another time
Take the step and cross the border to

In the loaves of Promised dreams
You still think twice
So better come to
Indigo wonderland
The place where only lovers come... to

Indigo wonderland
The place where only lovers come... to

Is that where you should go
'Cause fortune comes and goes
in Indigo the purple moon will glow
Hand in hand in wonderland
The place where lovers come to

I like them, both albums. It's rare that I do, music-wise. I'm not sure right now how to say why.

The professor is tuned perfectly into songcraft. I thought of McCartney/Lennon.

(These shallows will have to do right now... music crit is not my muscle. I'm so out of my depth. It's time to cut bait and relieve myself of the muscle strain.)

You can hear it for yourself right now. Click here for a rawer PruessPress version of Professor Winkler's "Naked". Click here for more songs. Remember that the CD is tighter than the PruessPress studio sessions.