Jun 21, 2008

ROBYN HITCHCOCK Jewels for Sophia (UK,1999)

Robyn Hitchcock, one of the greatests psych princes of all ages, equally important to Syd, reached his artistic zenith at 80`s by paying forever his debts to eternity with "I Often Dream of Trains" (1984) and "Fegmania" (1985), albums able to make you seek not existing words to speak after them or leaving you just mute. Almost one and a half decade later, and after numerous good to very good (Robyn is always like no other) works, - the man with the light bulb head turns once more himshelf on in the dark, ready again to change your strawberry mind... "Jewels For Sophia" is a grandeur ceremonial visiting to all the old haunts (also to some new very chilling ones). A black-humoured imagination, a poetry-blooded eccentric view of beauty that builds in dreams its everything...
If we sometimes feel we owe something to the world, we do because people like him have been...


..into the hatless rainy night, struck by that victorian pale lamplit

1 comment:

paramo said...

G.V.,
excuse me if i'm being indiscreet, but why have you choosen to connect your so nice commentation with a commercial advertisement?