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The Many Sides of Erik Satie
“The Satie life contains so much murk; his music sparkles with riverine clarity.”
Technically, there is no better description than this, from Constant Lambert: “Melodically speaking we find the juxtaposition of short lyrical phrases of great tenderness with ostinatos of extreme and deliberate bareness …. His day job — or night apprenticeship — was in small clubs, memorizing the melodies of popular songs: things that made people dance and smile and sing. There is copious testimony as to the utter shambles of his living space — yet the moment he steps outside this tiny cell he is a smiling dandy, spick and span, his own ambulant branch of Yohji Yamamoto.
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