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Hermanos Gutiérrez (Alejandro Gutiérrez, guitar, lap steel; Estevan Gutiérrez, guitar, percussion), live (““El Bueno Y El Malo,” “Tres Hermanos,” “Thunderbird,” “Pueblo Man”), Washington, D.C., published 1/31/23
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Ecuador
Nicola Cruz (DJ), live (3:34-8:24: sound drops), Mexico (Tulum), 2016
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
sounds of all over
Nicola Cruz (1987-, musician/producer/DJ), live, New York (The Lot Radio), 6/9/21
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Ecuador and all over
Nicola Cruz (DJ), live, Argentina (Iguazú Falls), published 12/12/19
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
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We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship,
although it meant the end of travel.—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), from “The Imaginary Iceberg”
sounds of Ecuador and all over
Nicola Cruz, live (The Lot Radio), New York, 2018
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lagniappe
reading table
along the mountain road
somehow it tugs at my heart—
a wild violet—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Makoto Ueda)
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