English
2012 seems favorable to the rereading of Edgar Allan Poe. From his very threshold there is something in him that seems to presage disaster and decay. If stories like The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, or The Fall of the House of Usher might seem, among many others, obvious choices to illustrate in different ways, the growing sense of millennial end of the world faced an era of to an unprecedented crisis that persists in deluding monstrously itself in a trance related to that caused by the arts of mesmerism, only temporarily able to steal the most frightening vision of internal decay and putrefaction (global warming of the earth and including the energy of crisis), the way it´s extraordinarily powerful, films such as Lars von Triers Melancholy make you rhyme of depression, they with the advent of symbolic or literal end of the world fatally announced, by the always amazingly accurate Mayan calendar brings to mind, so subliminal and unconscious some of the texts of science fiction and psychological-philosophical speculation lesser-known of the admirable American writer, the horrifying mystery of his death still makes the streets of the city of Baltimore shake.
A mystery only comparable to of the mysterious and sudden disappearance occurred in the shocking and controversial end of that journey to the limits of the world, is the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Did Poe have to leave for some reason the story at the climax, or rather a pioneering wanted to leave an open work after the events narrated brought to a point that no language could reach and to account for them, except perhaps the famous and ominous “Tekeli-li!” the herd of gigantic birds across the sky before it opens the abyss of the cataract to the players giving a glimpse of that vision and evening gigantic figure whose skin has the perfect whiteness of snow?.
Matter of such paramount importance in Poe, the disappearance seems to have become today, in fact, a central concern of our twilight time. It is therefore perhaps no coincidence that the last and most interesting album of the Balearic artist of Andalusian and Macedonian origin, Maika Makovski- who will offer a concert at the Sala Apolo in Barcelona on the 19th ofJanuary http://www.sala-apolo.com just take the title disappear, name of the play by Calixto Bieito inspired by Poe´s works that has been recently co-star.
Makovski, far of being one of the most seductively figures of the contemporary Spanish music scene, was so productively drunk with the Poe’s texts that could not stop reading them, during rehearsals and performances. She composed fifteen songs in a month in an extraordinarily smooth way. Twelve of them are part of the disc.
Most of those songs are superb, and despite their apparent darkness, they are endowed with a prodigious sense of love and transparency. If you rent apartments in Barcelona this part of the year, you will find few concerts so genuinely attractive.
Translated by: Hans
