Video poem featuring Tariq Allen, a New York trumpet player that embarks himself on an adventure to Greece, what once was the center of the world, the cradle of western civilization.
Ensayo #5 stems is name from the Greek legend of Icarus, who against his fathers advice flew to close to the sun and fell down from the sky to see his death.
Like Icarus modern society seems to be headed the same direction. This experimental video presents poems by Hans Neumann that reflect on the state of that world we live in.
Old world meets new world, jazz melodies turn in to dissonant rhythms that later fuse and encounter the harmony of the greek typical instrument from the island of Syros, the bouzouki.