MUSIC REVIEW BY Poet/Essayist/Translator, Jane Hirshfield
The pieces in RITUALS are full of beauty and mystery. Just as the liner note says, a perfect balance between clarity and ambiguity—the expected and the unexpected, the dissonant creating a greater arc of meaning. I love the cover art, the rigor and range of Margaret Aho's words, that my translation of Mahadeviyakka joins Kafka, Symeon, Whitman, Vallejo... I love this visit to Kyle Aho's world. I live in one similarly ranging, and Aho's music reflects that range wonderfully.
