Traveling has been my life and music has lived close to my poetry. When the musician Alexandr Alexandrov proposed we record a CD of poetry and music, I thought this was my opportunity to bring together my poetry, music and places. And since the British-Russian musician Vladimir Miller and I spoke of working together, this project seemed the perfect occasion. In this CD, each piece is a musical improvisation. Each poem is influenced by the traveled moment, by the people I met and was with, by the voices and melodies of the sceneries and memories. Traveling Rooms wants its listeners to part from the curtain standing between the eye and the ear, part from the shadows standing between people and places, part from the clouds of one mind to the next. Finally, we are eternal travelers pausing for a breath of memory.

 

London 1999