Manafonistas

I really have been following the musical life of Neil Young. Wonderful companionship. Timeless music. The new one, THE MONSANTO YEARS, is, well, dealing with politics, corporations, and boring beyond belief. Good moments don’t justify this album, which is one of a handful of really uninspired albums he has made in his life and times. The best ones during the last years: PSYCHEDELIC PILL, and, the controversially reviewed  LE NOISE, produced by Daniel Lanois. I’m not even in the mood to go in the details.

Charles Haldeman
Der Sonnenwächter

Aus dem Amerikanischen von Egbert Hörmann und Uta Goridis
Mit einem Nachwort von Martin Meyer
Metrolit Verlag, Berlin 2015
335 Seiten

Of course, this a book for grown-up time travellers, too, who will enter, in parts, an old Germany, the 50s of the last century. Very strange, this book has never before been translated into our language. In many ways, it is a very, very moving novel, and an experimental approach to novel writing by underimining linear time lines, text types etc. And, believe it or not, a key scene is happening in a jazz club with a lot of Roma people around.