Sensenta

Wind and water flow through this episode. Pete Namlook reminiscences about the sky, Else Marie Pade sketches the castle of the Sea King, Yuya Ota brings silver rain and Olivier Messiaen paints a celestial banquet. At the end of this episode, the wind touches the grass, in Valiska’s 24 minute piece A Day as a Blade of Grass.

00:31 Pete Namlook – Master of the Sky
07:00 Yuya Ota – Viento / Max Eastley – Monochord
13:03 Olivier Messiaen – Le Banquet Céleste
19:47 Else Marie Pade – Illustrationer: Himmelrumet
22:31 Else Marie Pade – Illustrationer: Havkongens Slot
29:00 Yuya Ota – Silver Rain
33:41 Yuya Ota – Knife
35:37 Valiska – A Day as a Blade of Grass

Sources:
Silence IV, 2000, Fax +49-69/450464 PK 08/149
Arctic April Mother, 2013, eigen beheer
Organ Works Complete, 2007, Brilliant Classics 8639
Electronic Works 1958-1995, 2014, Important Records IMPREC406
A Day as a Blade of Grass, 2013, eigen beheer

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