Music Friyay: Devendra Banhart, Wojciech Kilar & Antoni Wit, Nina Simone
By Joanna C. Valente
Here’s some music, new and old, you should listen to and check out:
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Banhart’s 2007 album is his folk melodic strangeness at his best. My favorite? “Rosa.”
Wojciech Kilar & Antoni Wit - Bram Stoker’s Dracula / Death and the Maiden / King of the Last Days
Kilar’s music is something from a dream, a kind of eerie dream. This compilation of the music he composed for soundtracks is outstanding. My favorite is, of course, all of the Dracula songs.
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
Simone’s 1958 album is transformative, like everything Simone created. My favorite: “I Love You Porgy.”
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Sexting Ghosts, Xenos, No(body), #Survivor (forthcoming, The Operating System), and is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault. They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes Poetry and the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Them, Brooklyn Magazine, BUST, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente / FB: joannacvalente
