I saw James Blake On the ‘Jools Holland’ show Last night He opened his latest Tune With a hauntingly Whispering Gentle wail Sampled and thus Repeating hypnotic The same sound over The more I listened The more I likened It To Warhol’s ‘Marilyn’s’ Perhaps it was the Repetitive, Melancholic nature Of the singing. That made me think of This particular piece A shared melancholic Sentiment Amidst a patchwork Of colourful repetition Sound and vision And sound and Vision and… As Blake’s Sampled echoes Filled the room Repeating I could picture A multitude of Stamp shaped Marilyn Icons In my minds eye The composition grows as The band adds layers And Discordant keys Merging Into the Foreground The drummers beats Permeate Adding depth Mark making Gestures Sweeping over The whole… A Warhol/ Blake creation /connection (((Different times Seemingly Unconnected Something to do With repetition? A timeless concept? Started by Andy? Now, (repetition) Technologically Ubiquitous What with the Multitude of Keys and buttons Press, press, press Press))) Sound and vision And vision And Sound… When I heard Blake’s Sampled Gentle Wails I thought of Marilyn’s Iconic pose Subtly yet Tragically Distorted Similarly If I were to see Warhol’s piece In the raw… I wonder if I would be Confronted by The discordant keys And haunting wails like that Of James Blake Sound and vision And Sound And Vision, Endlessly Repeating and Entwined Through time
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