The average reader of Darker Than the Deepest Sea is not someone who bought it choosing at random in a bookshop, knowing nothing about the life and the work of Nick Drake: their involvement ranges from mild fanatism to strong obsession… even though reading a book requires that the readers are able to move eyes [...]
“very” and “unsound” are two common words but, using a search engine, I’ve just discovered that, not including “Fruit Tree”, their combined use is quite rare.
Listening to “Clothes of sand” once again, I started to think about its sentence
Given you meaning but taken my place
How many times have I bartered my own nature for knowledge? I don’t see myself and I won’t anymore.
Clothes of sand have covered your face
A few days ago I was wondering what life would be like without electricity: no hot water in the morning (using a traditionally controlled boiler, of course) and no light after sunset either. I know that it’s not so rational but one of my concerns at first blush was that I would never be able [...]
In “Black Eyed Dog”, Nick Drake sang
I’m growing old and I wanna go home
I suppose that you might think you are growing old when
you have no more déjà vu but a well known daily routine
the man in the mirror looks more rather frazzled than you
you wear an unknown number of masks but you don’t care [...]
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
Is Nick Drake really dead?
I’ve got three words to say: shame on you.
After listening to it many times and with the invaluable help of my friends Vivien and David, I’ve transcribed here the lyric of Time Piece, a song I previously wrote about: I think it is accurate enough to be published. Moreover, I noticed that the “intro” of the tape of “Joey”, on a well known [...]
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
How to find Nick Drake’s grave
Who do you really hope to find there?
He is not there anymore nor will you find yourself by the gravestone. I always try to remember what Marcus Aurelius wrote:
Nothing should be done without a [...]
I’ve just read the short book that is shipped with Family Tree, the CD whose tracks are a selection of the amateur tapes that Nick Drake recorded in Tanworth-in-Arden and Aix-en-Provence.
In the first part of the book, his sister tells us what made her decide to release them: to make a stand against the bootlegs.
to [...]
Through the decades, I’ve listened to hundreds of albums but I’m sure that the two composers that I’ve listened to most are Johann Sebastian Bach and Nicholas Rodney Drake. Even though listening to their works doesn’t make me especially happy, I try very hard to stop. However it is interesting to note that the morning [...]
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