Kansas City Gothic by Alex Tretbar recordings my focus shifts to certain

my focus shifts to certain questions like

the ‘night music’ of the moorland

notably Chopin and George Sand: music seems to propose some of the forms he chooses and how he modulates them

an intervention

Kansas City Gothic by Alex Tretbar recordings my focus shifts to certainKansas City Gothic by Alex Tretbar is a hallucinatory, incantatory fugue of incarceration, addiction, and survival, written in jagged, recursive fragments that chart a psychic and political topography of the American Midwest. Structured around alternating 'movements' and 'codas', the collection draws from jazz, liturgy, and urban decay to form a syntax of rupture and return. Tretbar's lines are elliptical, layered with allusion, attuned to the rhythms