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Full playlist by Bennie Mols

23 Aug 2005 next playlist >>

:: Track 1

Kroke: Time (6mins 10secs)
Album: The Sounds of the Vanishing World
Oriente Music, 1999
Web Link 1: www.kroke.krakow.pl

:: Track 2

Frank Sinatra: It Was a Very Good Year (4mins 26secs)
Album: Romance (originally on 'September of my years')
Reprise Records
Web Link 1: www.franksinatra.com
Web Link 2: www.franksinatraromance.com

:: Track 3

Willem Breuker Kollektief : Time is an Empty Bottle of Wine (3mins 18secs)
Album: Hungry!
BVHaast CD9916
Web Link 1: www.xs4all.nl/~wbk/


BACKGROUND
Philosophers, writers and scientists have been debating for a few millennia about the question what time is. Music shows it all:
In a piece called "Time" The Polish band KROKE lets you feel what time is, without using words. The clock is ticking, and the heart is beating.
In the melancholic "It was a very good year" Frank Sinatra sings about growing older, getting to the autumn of the year, and feeling "life as vintage wine". The best answer, I have heard, to the question of time (again a reference to wine) is: "Time is an empty bottle of wine", a line in the cheerful composition with the same title from the unorthodox Dutch jazz musician Willem Breuker.
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