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"In Kidira, as I approached the border station a hundred paces away, I stopped to catch the words of a man standing by himself, reclining on an electric pole. The street was busy: idlers mingling with passengers; hooting cars synchronous with bleating goats. The man’s head was inclined downwards and his voice was subdued as a whisper, but I’d been walking so close I heard him.
SARA SINGS: He said: Today and tomorrow, God’s time is the best. His backpack, similar to mine, looked emptier and ragged. I stood beside him. For a minute or more, he didn’t look up. When he did he smiled, and when I smiled in return I got the sense that there was potential for conversation, a story.
Then we sat under a mimosa tree. The words I’d heard him repeat were the same used often in the book. I wasted no time. It seemed timely that a man standing on the roadside agreed to read a book I carried around. The uncanny comes unrehearsed. I was making this trip because I chose to write a book about the Senegal River and its tributaries, and the lives of the people who lived along its banks. I wasn’t courting a better life in Europe. His ragged backpack told the opposite— his travels were an imperative harsher than a choice. I had read only the epigraph before he stopped me. Even a life full of holes, a life of nothing but waiting, is better than no life at all. In the length of time his eyes remained closed, I thought he had fallen into a trance. But soon his face was folded in a frown.
He spoke with his eyes shut: I have been travelling for a long time, going and coming many times. I have even gotten as far as Tangier, then sent back. Then got there again, then sent back again. See this paper I have, I got it there.
It was two-sided, crumpled and timeworn, advertising an exhibition of photographs. Two children in the picture were playing in front of an advert box in a port’s transit area in Tangier. The ship in the picture was luminous with fluorescent light, harboured on a blue sea, or approaching anchorage, calm as a stone."
credits
from Intimate Strangers,
released December 3, 2021
Sara Serpa – voice, composition
Emmanuel Iduma – text, spoken word
Matt Mitchell -piano
Qasim Naqvi – modular synth
Linda playing and directing this great composition in collaborating with these great musicians is such a colorful musical adventure for my ears & eyes, Thank you! 1bigfan
Beautiful poetic, inspired, musical, dramatic, melancholic - always interesting... a wonderful new album from a great new composer and bandleader. Tudor
The seventh full-length from De Beren Gieren walks the line between spooky library music and free improv, shapeshifting constantly. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 12, 2024
