Giant Normal Dwarf

Today I listened to The Nits' Giant Normal Dwarf!


my 3rd favourite album, created by the trio of
Henk Hofstede
Rob Kloet
Robert Jan Stips

...and I want to find a way to describe it - somehow (which is in fact no Spaziergang)

well...Giant Normal Dwarf

Giant
Normal
Dwarf

the infinite féerique of
twisted places
twisted europe
space and time travel,
the myriads of mysterious little things going on

in the music, under the music, immersing into the music, in the lyrics

how things are just created by an act of really divine creation

and Henk said, let there be a telephone lake and there was a telephone lake
and Henk saw it was good
and Henk said, let there be
snakes, valves, skates
and it just all is there, just there.
and then Henk said, let's make booklets
so that 14 year old Fandorines might lose themselves in endless dreams in
colours, dots, gouache
and then Henk said, let's make a new kind of Physix, one that broadens conscience, knowledge, eyes

and then Stips said,
let there be sounds, noises,
the echoed tapping of little mice paws on a glass shield
the rustle of hair stroked, the crash of glass broken

and Rob said, let there be rhythm, and let it be a rhythm of life
following, and watching, disconnecting rhythm and metrum
and Rob said, let's stroke the drumpads, cuddle the cymbals, love the toms
for each tone needs a rhythm of its own
and each word needs a partner in pulse

and Nits said, let it be gorgeous, and endlessly sad,
and hopelessly silly,
and let this ship of loving fools, of faery taels be just the greatest story ever told,

and Nits said, leave space for imagination
and Nits said, for each man will make this album as good as his own imagination must already be
and Nits said, you have to dream it on, feel the bone, fly to Finland to meet your friend, skate through this static bauhoused imaginary Holland

discover discover discover
turn all the small pebbles to reveal vast spaces
beasties, princesses, fish

till we all fall through
the infinite shoeblack
(which, of course, just exists)

find the shoes
(of course)

and Nits said, let's make something the dumbfucks just won't understand
because we're intellectuals
and we know how to seduce you