The Sick Bag Song
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Descrizione dell’editore
The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave’s 22-city journey around North America in 2014. Racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the significant moments – the people, the books and the music – that have influenced and inspired him, and drops them into his sick bag.
The book began its life scribbled onto airline sick bags and later evolves into a restless contemporary epic, exploring love, loss, inspiration and memory.
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This short tour diary puts the reader into musician Cave's frame of mind during his 2014 North American tour. Cave occasionally veers into verse and spontaneous compositions scattered within his diary. He muses about different events in his life that pop into his head while on the road. A bridge near Edmonton, Alberta, reminds him of when his "father and mother told about the boy who had died jumping off the railway bridge." Cave writes about books he reads and records he revisits, including John Berryman's Dream Songs and Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate. He also shares anecdotes about other musicians, such as Bryan Ferry of the influential glam rock band Roxy Music. The book includes drafts of songs inspired by life on the road, such as "The Beekeeper's Wife," which, Cave writes, "hints at growing anxiety about my wife not answering the phone." The book's title comes from a song inspired by the refrain on the back of a Delta Air Lines air sickness bag: "Call the stewardess for bag disposal." Cave's stream-of-consciousness writing definitely makes this an engrossing read, enmeshing the reader fully in the musician's perspective.