Antonio's choice: The tapes. Pt 2: Cesar's compensation

Saturday, October 11, 2008

The tapes. Pt 2: Cesar's compensation

I drive to Tilburg every tuesday and friday. At Tilburg I stand in front of the class, or sit together with my students, as teacher in architecture and urban design. Everything goes back to that. Architecture, teaching, music.

On the second drive of the week I took this tape of Lee Ritenour form 1993. "Wes Bound". The only CD's I could get from the innaccesible collection of César.
But there was a good reason. Maybe I just made it that way. I always called this CD the compensation CD (el cd del desagravio).

César didn't have a part on it. He was just there when the "guaro" girls embarrassed me in front of my new girlfriend at Jóse's birthday party. Terrible terrible moment. They just warned her about my driving, talking about the car accident where we all got involved, on which I was driving. No need for that. They thought they were funny, but they were unpolite and scary. Poor Jenny...

Now that I think about it, in that story I crashed the car quite badly, a Corolla we used to call "half a million"; but in the aftermath of the crash, I asked Marly to take the the tapes that I had in the car back to her house. In the coming weeks the tapes were no longer important. The insurance, the stitches of Camila, the whole mobility issue, that was important. Still, some tapes didn't survive. Did they? I forgot them, or they landed in the hands of our infamous cleptomaniac friend. Do I still have them somewhere in a shelf back there at Sol's house in Caracas? Who knows.

I walked away of the party. later I got the CD and I lent it for months. I used to think: -"this is some kind of compensation".

What about the tracks? Nice, good, smooth. Mr. Ritenour playing music from Wes Montgomery. The perfect sound of Ritenour (Ritenur or Ritenauwer?). One of those jazz recordings with a top 40 hidden between the tracks; "Waiting in Vain" with Maxi priest.

That tape, that reminds me of those parties at Jóse's in Santa Monica, Caracas. That specific party, the guaro girls, the innaccesible collection, the missing tapes, the missing girl.