I just saw a very nice documentary on Belgian Television Channel CANVAS about the making of Novastar’s latest album ‘Inside Outside”, released in March 2014.

None other than John Leckie produced the album, the legendary producer who earned his spurs in the Abbey Road studios with Pink Floyd and George Harrison. Leckie was also behind the buttons for the monumental albums of The Verve, The Stone Roses and Radiohead.

The documentary reconstructs the musical influences, inspiration and obsessions of the bandleader Joost Zweegers, a quite intense Dutch-born Flemish guy who started as a street musician, and who perfected his style, and got noticed by Neil Young who invited him for his support act.

The program resonated strongly with me; I made some notes, and got in some sort of poetry mood…

Picture: Solsbury Hill via Barnflakes

Drone cameras,

Intensity of Solsbury Hill

The artist

With fascination, Mystique and Commitment

Get outside

For inside rest by solitude

His heart is in Belgium, and his fantasy in England

My heart comes from a Flemish Primitive, and my fantasy is in Spain

White page for content, space design and experience design

With performers, craftsmen and artists, 

Reinventing once more

To unleash the unknown self in me

This is autumn,

Point of light in the depth

Creating intensities

Everything has to be perfect, rehearsed, must be right.

But leaving room for happenstance and personal emotion and interpretation in the moment,

“Right” like in Music: the art of getting all the notes out within the constraints of the right tempo and with my very personal interpretation

“Right” like in Poetry, just for the beauty of the language, the rhythm,

There is no usage for it…

No efficiency games, nor pragmatism, nor KPI’s

Just for the beauty of it.

Romanticism.

But music is without words

I am tempted to make another composition without words.

Just images, light, sound, songs, poetry, …