"But, you know, it reminds of how this war could have been averted. It could have been ended in March, April 2022, when there were substantive discussions in Istanbul. And there has been denial, but there’s also been acknowledgment that Victoria Nuland, who was in the State Department — the State Department — and Boris Johnson, who’s Boris Johnson, came in and upended it, sabotaged the possibility back then. So they should take that to their grave."
--- Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation magazine, interviewed on Democracy Now
what follows below is not an update but a forgotten post, now offered as a restrospective.
originally scheduled to post on the first anniversary of the invasion but lost in some html coding snafu back when as I was trying to learn html
it now stands as a commemoration --and a partial anamnesis of where I was at and what I was doing and the work I published in response to all that very near war and the flood of Ukranian and internationa student refugees passing suddenly through the streets of Poznan, making it seem like Manhattan with crowds of 40 people standing for the crossing signals to go green
Over the next year and a half I would publihs the double Vigilance Suites CD on Ramble Records --
and the self-released Dnipro -- and Zaporizhzhia on Plus Timbre (links all below)
on the day of the invasion it seems I went to war with the news of the war
and sounded it out like this
video from live FB feed. I wrote:
"hello! is anyone really alive? those tank transports that went into ukraine had a Z written on the side.
not zorro but zombie zero. it's a zombie raid. what will the russians do when they take some acid and realize homeland is africa? ok, we know, they won't take the syd and africa is all about diamonds and emeralds. the ice. south african ice.it's always about what the people take as "concrete value"
-- which to me is the slavery of their signs -- "
After calming down a bit, I began recording the tracks on acoustic guitar and zither
which became, eventually, The Ukraine Vigilance Suites I & II,
released as double CD on Ramble Records
Later came a transitional piece, acoustic guitar and shortwave radio captures.
Given the title Buzca, commemorating the massacre there.
a poem that preceded the recording or followed...
Bucza
who had rights to remain
unmurdered came
in blurred voice robe
to my ears innermost
amid social silences
far too loud
photos of bodies, tethered
they try to smear the overcome
merger with the mud
and scattered machinic metal
wind ripping through distant
sheets in slivers
recluse
banditry
warrior
pancreas
blossom
midnight
penetralium
she had a phone,
a green bike,
ebony hair,
cobalt eyes, ancestral
horses would
stop and fondly
reverence her
when there were
horses,
those last
gentle souls
of the steppe
Later in March, for electric prepared guitar and synth, I composed
the album DNIPRO
then came
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