Cinc at National Library of Serbia

Belgrade, December 17th 2004.

This was one of our better gigs, according to all the parameters except for the photo quality. That was our fault, because we were making a slide-show of Bate's illustrations along with songs, which is good, but we forgot to play at least one song with lights on, wich is not so good. Nevermind: Darja, Mariah, both Natasha's and Marc did their best. Slide-show have been operated by Malisha.

But here are some recordings, written by five poets from different lands and times. Sorry for noise. Let's say that these five songs are workers' songs, if we look for a common ground between them. Not revolutionary songs, or songs that celebrate the working class, but songs about us, the workers, as living beings.

• Ballade des povres housseurs, by Francois Villon. A song about hard-working chimney sweepers. (more about Villon)
• The Social Order, by Ezra Pound. About a government official, and an old lady that have probably never worked. (more about Pound)
• What the Chairman Told Tom, by Basil Bunting. A song about thinking of poetry as a possible work. (more about Bunting)
• Routines, by Tom Wayman. A Villonic dialogue between mind and body of a worker. (more about Wayman)
• Ode on Geodesy, by Gianni Buggini. A glorious song about geodesy as a work, and about tools of geodesy. (a complete text)