Canções Grown Backwards, o mais recente conjunto de canções de David Byrne (editado já este ano), reúne um acervo notável de poemas, servido por composições de grande maturidade expressiva. Dialog Box e (sobretudo) The other side of this life, as minhas favoritas, mostram arranjos orquestrais muito interessantes, mas são as palavras que não deixam respirar fundo; vale a pena ouvir este songwriter com um passado visível na densidade presente. Um outro olhar vindo da América. "(...)Sometimes it seems as if things, like writing a group or songs or getting groceries, are dealt with more or less on a day-to-day basis, as they come up, each reacted to only at the time as they demand to be, and that there is no plan or direction or overall consideration of where things are leading. But of course that's not true - there are little decisions made every minute, and the cumulative effect is to define what happens later to be a conscious plan, with an emotional center and compass. During all this time there was love, anger, sadness and frustration. There were two wars, one out of revenge and the second to consolidate oil interests. Along with many others, I did may best to stop the second, but it seemed inevitable and the misdirect legacy of a nation still reeling. During all this time I dreamt." David Byrne, Grown Backwards, Nonesuch Records, NY, 2004. --------