 ARUNDO
ARUNDO presents poems by SUMMER BRENNER & G. P. SKRATZ set for tabla, guitar or sitar by ANDY DINSMOOR. From time to time, they are joined in performance by HAL HUGHES on fiddle &/or ED HOLMES on Playskool Orchestral Augmentor 2000, slapstick, slide whistle, snorkle tube & so on. Scroll down below to find us rocking out on Summer's "Because The Spirit Moved," Skratz's "Moon Catalog," Summer's "The Professional Stranger," Skratz's "Art & Culture," & finally, Skratz's "History Lesson" (featuring Ed Holmes & Hal Hughes). BECAUSE THE SPIRIT MOVED Because the spirit moved Because the spirit moved her She let herself go Because the spirit moved her Spirit comes to many in many ways She lay down finally And she remembered Because moved Words & music © 2003 by Summer Brenner & Andy Dinsmoor Hear this piece performed (from the CD, Because The Spirit Moved):
CONTACT THE ARTISTS to BUY THE CD or HIRE US to perform! MOON CATALOG & these are the things & these are the things & these are the things & these are the things & these are the things & these are the things & these are the things & these are the things & these are the things & these are the things Words & music © 2003 by G. P. Skratz & Andy Dinsmoor Hear this piece performed (from the CD, Because The Spirit Moved):
CONTACT THE ARTISTS to BUY THE CD or HIRE US to perform! THE PROFESSIONAL STRANGER Is anybody in the world home I've heard there are people in New York That's the only thing I call hard core Is anybody in the world home Are the sheep home Chez Bob Words & music © 2003 by Summer Brenner & Andy Dinsmoor Hear this piece performed (from the CD, Because The Spirit Moved):
CONTACT THE ARTISTS to BUY THE CD or HIRE US to perform!
ART & CULTURE The sun is a blood-red smear on the volcanic ash of the sky; the forest, a burnt-out pipe organ of hollow logs standing around in the haze. A mountain explodes in the distance, another red smear of far-off horror like the invention of television. In this grim land, Culture is a 90 foot armadillo crawling across the battered terrain, listless as a tank inspecting a nuclear bomb crater. Art is a pterodactyl, red-eyed & snarling, swooping from stump to stump in a hungry halo over Culture, this way & that, eager for some opening, an attack. Art sails up, hovers in the thick air, then dives to nick Culture's tail. By the time Culture turns its massive head to eye its irritant & show its bone-crushing teeth, Art's gone, a statue on a pole, beyond Culture's reach. Again & again, they do this dance, tiresome as watching a clock. & now, Art goes for the head, for the eyes. & Culture knows what's coming, not from thought or feeling, but armor's instinct, a stony telepathy of danger. & it starts to roll itself into a hard ball of shell, but it's too late. & Art gouges the face of Culture just below the eye. & Culture howls, & Art starts to fly away, & Culture bites off one of Art's claws, & Art shrieks & careens, & Culture keeps biting & biting at nothing at all, & Art circles behind & bites out a bit of Culture's tail, & Culture kicks Art against a rock, & Art tries to fly, & Culture is closing in, but Art is too dazed. & Culture draws blood on the wing, & Art again on the face, & they're drinking each other's blood. & it's getting darker & darker, & the night is totally black. & they both collapse, Art over Culture, quiet as snow on a rock--all the long, healing night. Words & music © 1999 by G. P. Skratz & Andy Dinsmoor Hear this piece performed (from the CD, Triumph of the Damned):
CONTACT THE ARTISTS to BUY THE CD or HIRE US to perform!
HISTORY LESSON / An Afternoon with Allen Ginsberg Peter serves tea, & Peter & the Swaj "one of those "mind Words & music © 2004 by Andy Dinsmoor, Ed Holmes, Hal Hughes & G. P. Skratz Hear this piece performed (from the CD, Hal ("Eddie") Dinsratz):
CONTACT THE ARTISTS to BUY THE CD or HIRE US to perform!
|
|
