Xwtpoieca

This word is a counter-alphabetic anagram of Wax Poetic, the name of the Nublu Sessions jazz (or whatever) group.  If you superimpose these letters over the backwards alphabet, so that the X is over X and W over W, etc, the letters appearing between them in the alphabet are:

vusrqnmlkjhgfdb

These are the green letters in the table below.  (xwtpoieca is red.)

z

y

x

w

v

u

t

s

r

q

p

o

n

m

l

k

j

i

h

g

f

e

d

c

b

a

This group then divides evenly into three subgroups,

vusrq
nmlkj
hgfdb

each containing five letters, for a total of fifteen.  This is not a bad result, so maybe I'll like the music of Wax Poetic, though fourteen would have been preferable, since everybody knows that multiples of seven are more satisfying than multiples of five, but you can't always get what you want.


(In fact, Ilhan Ersahin's Nublu collaborative society over in Alphabet City is certainly an exciting musical development.  Here in Brooklyn something similar might be occuring at Barbès, a scruffy French joint at Sixth and Ninth where the wonderful Las Rubias del Norte appear often, but maybe it's not really comparable.  I don't hang out there much and don't know the music scene.  There's a lot of stuff going on in NYC.)