Rui Eduardo Paes - O Fagote de Shatner e outros contos

Yes, the Shatner in the title refers to the chrome actor from Star Trek, although in the perspective of Where's Captain Kirk?, a song by the punk band Spizz Energi.

William Shatner is mentioned in the book, but he isn’t actually in it. In fact, even the author doesn’t know where he is. The only part of Shatner that matters to the storyline is that, in an episode of that classic sci-fi TV show, he was the bassoonist in a chamber music group. Yep: from the outset, the musical references in this new flow of sentences by Rui Eduardo Paes (affectionately known as REP) – because this is a book about music – are in rock and roll and classical music, although it also touches on jazz, improvisation, and what is said to be experimental music. It also goes through queer hip-hop and nintendocore, for example, but in the end, no art form is an island, and everything is, in some way, interconnected. Even when what we find are real or chemically induced dissociations that make up reality. The stories in these pages are about sex, madness, and death. Does music communicate nothing, according to Gilles Deleuze? A lie: it communicates desire, that great engine of our daily lives, the schizophrenia that defines us as human, and the troubled relationship we have with the Grim Reaper. To read at a sprinting pace, because it was written at a sprinting pace.