I walk through my blindness the way I saunter down streets in Paris: unfettered and alive, ever delighted by the raw material of the senses. Come along with me. Just don’t try to take my arm unless I ask. What’s a flaneur? Read the first post, 
The legendary Kiki of Montparnasse posed for Man Ray’s 
If there is an emerging genetic underclass, I could run for class president or class clown. Read more in ![Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/04/isle_royale_fog.jpg "Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]")
"Brendan, this is what the world looks like all the time to me. Just a little fog. It’s a fine day for boating on the Great Lakes.” Without missing a stroke he turned to dart a skeptical glance at me. Brendan the Navigator. When we named him I didn’t tell his mother everything the legendary Irish name implied. But I imagined him taking on the role of navigator for me. Growing up with Coastal Survey charts and tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks, he came to know Superior as another home. He never doubted the wisdom of canoeing there with a father who was half blind. ![Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/02/charlotte_casiraghi_red_dress.jpg "Charlotte Casiraghi in a red dress. [Source: Stylophile]")
When I figured out who Charlotte Casiraghi was, I realized that I once sent a poem to her mother. ![Eugène Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830. Louvre, Paris. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/05/delacroix_liberty_1830_2.jpg "Eugène Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830. Louvre, Paris. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]]")
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March 20, 2023 at 3:39pm
by Mark Willis Often when I wake up during the night I flip on the clock radio to listen to the BBC World Service. It puts me right back to sleep unless breaking news gets my attention. Sometimes I listen subconsciously while I sleep and have the strangest dreams. That happened this week when I heard haunting, alluring songs on Charlie Gillett’s World of Music. I tracked down the playlist later to figure out what I had heard. I can’t begin to recover what I dreamed with Lula Pena (Fria Claridade) and Marta Topferova (Semana Azul).. Listen and dream it for yourself.
Encore: Another surreal sound from this dream state was an arrangement for tenor saxophone of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude). The musician was Yasuaki Shimizu. I couldn’t find a clip of his solo performance, but an ensemble version will give you a sense of it.
Café Mouffe opens on Fridays at 3:00 p.m. Please drop by for a listen and a chat. Sometimes the embedded videos don’t work here due to bandwidth constraints, but you’ll always find links to video sources in the set notes. Try them. If you’re curious about the Mouffe, here’s the original idea behind it’s creation.
2 Comments
#1. DJJackDaw 03.22.2009
Many thanks for finding these great clips
I have borrowed your links for the applicable threads on my website http://www.soundoftheworld.com which documents thr weekly playlists and has opened up into a forum for music fans in general
Charlie
#2. Mark Willis 03.23.2009
Charlie, what a thrill and honor to have you connect with Café Mouffe! I am a longtime listener to your BBC radio show, which has led me to much marvelous world music. I’m pleased to learn about The Sound of the World. It’s a great extension of your BBC web page. I will follow it!
p.s. Is there any prospect that your BBC show will also become a podcast?
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