the intolerant brightness of your charms
I just found something out that probably won't interest anyone besides me. Since Karen dubbed it for me last year I have been obsessed with a Robert Wyatt song called Experiences no.2. I googled around months ago trying to find out what album it's on. I couldn't figure it out, but I did learn that the words are from an e.e. cummings poem, it is at moments after I have dreamed, though there are some bits that get repeated and couple of lines left off from the end. Today I was listening to it and wanted to look up the poem to see the words, and I accidentally found out why I couldn't find the song on any Robert Wyatt albums I found--it's not strictly a Robert Wyatt song. It's a John Cage composition, from an album called Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices and Instruments. Wyatt is the performer (the sole performer, because there's no instrumentation, just the sung/hummed vocal) but he's not an "author" of the album as it were, so it doesn't show up on discographies of his work or in any anthologies or anything. Of course, from what I can see it's pretty much impossible to find. It's even on a label called "Obscure," which was apparently run by Brian Eno. And it's old, too. From 1976. So the odds of my ever laying eyes on the thing are pretty low. It's too bad. But I'm glad I figured out where the heck that song came from.

eta: See below for a link, courtesy of handwriting...