The Flowers of Buffoonery (New Directions Publishing) vinyl without screen

without screen

Will Alexander’s improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance—incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery

Anna Webber and Angela Morris brought together their arsenal of skills as composers-performers-conductors to form the Webber/Morris Big Band

Taylor Haskins is fast becoming one of the most diverse talents in music

With many twists and turns along the way and several hundred people waiting in the school’s parking lot to await Monk’s arrival before purchasing tickets

The Flowers of Buffoonery (New Directions Publishing) vinyl without screenThe Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba the narrator of No Longer Human is convalescing after a failed suicide attempt. Friends and family visit him, and nurses and police drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, Yozo and his visitors try to maintain a lighthearted, even clownish atmosphere: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, vying for attention, cracking jokes, and trying to make each other