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A close-up of a vinyl record player

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Unfasten the Silk of Your Silence

By Souad Labbize

Algerian poet Souad Labbize pens a sequence of love poems to the voice of a female singer.

Translated from French by Susanna Lang

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A row of violins

Photo by Umutcan Günüç on Unsplash

Strands

By Verena Rossbacher

He laid the hairs out in front of him on the kitchen table, stretched out straight and flat next to each other like the strings of an instrument.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

A row of building windows facing another row of windows in front of it

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Parentheses

By Felipe Franco Munhoz

The vinyl record turns three thousand four hundred and fifty-six degrees. I counted.

Translated from Portuguese by Alison Entrekin

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Inside “Outside Music”

By Eric M. B. Becker

A playlist for Hernán Bravo Varela’s eulogy for his father and the music that he loved

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Cover for The Shampoo's album In Naples.

Elena Rigby

The microphones of Radio Antenna Capri are rapt witnesses to a minor page of modern history—even if the chapter of history in question is the saga of the Neapolitan gasconade, not the annals of the pop beat.

Translated from Italian by Antony Shugaar

Song for My Father

By Filinto Elísio

The music played / on Apollo 11, it turned out, was “Georgia / On My Mind,” sung by Ray Charles.

Translated from Portuguese by Jethro Soutar

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Ascending Scales

Mi-yeong and I tried to grab the piano legs, but it was too late.

Translated from Korean by Jamie Chang

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