As we soak waters of the songs of Tom Jobim, we can always organic sounding harmony able to return to the human spirit, strength immanent in the natural landscape, as reminding Henry Thoreau: “It is useless to dream of a rusticity away from us. It does not exist. What inspires such a dream is the pond’s in our brains and in our bowels, the primitive vigor of nature existing in us. “

We consider this “primitive force of nature” as the embodiment of a feeling that will spread across lyrical jobiniana: either to find poetic elements in his songs that can be considered as updating a tropical ‘amoenus locus’ as well as the search an “active harmony of the landscape”.

Experience sensitive jobiniana should be understood as a delicious learning, a  rediscovery of the emotional essence of things mediated by a happiness. An apprenticeship may want to talk with another form of experience of modernity in Western literature.

That is why I love so much Tom Jobim’s songs…sensitivity, harmony, love, something that transcends my soul…♥