Sandro Perri Impossible Spaces Constellation perri.jpg
[Constellation; 2011]  Rating: 3.5/5 3.5 / 5 (0)  Styles:
singer-songwriter, folk-jazz, MPB Others: Nat Baldwin, Dirty
Projectors, Johnny Mandel  In a short essay titled “On the
Middle Ages,” a young and burgeoning Walter Benjamin locates a
crucial “negative moment” that came to define, and delimit, our
contemporary culture; it is the moment when art became “mannered
imagination,” as Romantic philosopher Fredrich Schlegel puts it:
an insistent, rational absolutism. Of course, in the spirit of
irrationality (as well as that of its compatriot, atemporality),
the young Benjamin never pins down this “moment” particularly,
and only allots the monumental topic about three pages of space,
presumably to be returned to. The “negative moment” — and, I
suppose, its equally impossible “positive” corollary — loom as
necessary, yet always unimaginable, spaces in which one may
possibly formulate liberty.  There is a generative sense of the
perpetual “to be continued” a