Lift You Up by Dean Richard
The Dean Richard video for his song Lift You Up.
(From Dean Richard's CD, “Blood and Beer and Poetry”.) He gave me his CD after hearing me sing in the Milwaukee based "The South End Blues Band" wondering if we might have an interest in singing one of his originals. I listened and was stopped in my tracks when I heard cut 4. I love everything about this song...the lyrics, the instrumentation, the melody, the dynamics, the production, and arrangement. I was thrilled when he asked if I would participate in the video. Enjoy it, and pass it on!
(From Dean Richard's CD, “Blood and Beer and Poetry”.) He gave me his CD after hearing me sing in the Milwaukee based "The South End Blues Band" wondering if we might have an interest in singing one of his originals. I listened and was stopped in my tracks when I heard cut 4. I love everything about this song...the lyrics, the instrumentation, the melody, the dynamics, the production, and arrangement. I was thrilled when he asked if I would participate in the video. Enjoy it, and pass it on!
Something Very Different
YEAR OF THE DRAGON - CD
Summer of 2011 I had my usual few weeks tour in Maine. Steve Maclean (with whom I worked with on a jingle 17 years before) invited me to spend a a day on a project, but he didn't yet know what that would be until a couple weeks before - it ended up being Chris Cutler's CD project (which at that time was simply a series of cool, amazing drum pieces, and his poetry ready to be sung).
Sqeezed in between gigs, we had a day and a half to put down most of the recordings. My following visit to Maine - Jan 2012 - we finished another tune and tweaked one during one day.
Steve stretched my mind during these sessions inviting me to create and respond to what Chris and he had put down. It certainly isn't for everyone, but I DO want to suggest this: Listen - knowing that it's not like anything you normally listen to - and instead of multi-tasking (like I am doing now as I type this!), simply listen ...with it up loud. As I suggest to kids who are trying new foods - take TWO bites, because the first one might not taste good, but the second time it might just be a bit more palatable, and then you might even like it the next time. LOL.
Steve Maclean. based in Maine, Professor at Berklee School of Music in Boston.
Chris Cutler Wiki-pedia describes Chris' genres as: Avant-rock, cyber jazz, experimental, free improvisation
CUTLER, CHRIS and STEVE MACLEAN: The Year of the Dragon
A collection of 5 songs and 4 instrumental pieces that explore equally - and simultaneously - spontaneous performance values, close compositional detail and extensive processing. Made out on the rocky coast of Maine with just a TV eye keeping tabs on a world skidding to hell in a handcart, all the basic work was done by MacLean and Cutler with Julie Thompson (voice) added later - alongside additional parts played by Frank Gross (bassoon), Michael Bierylo (laptop, samples, circuits) and Titus Abbot (bass clarinet and saxophone). These are complex, focused pieces, some highly rhythm-rooted - mostly at rapid bpm rates - generally wide open with a close receptivity to timbral nuance and non-linearity.
Available on Itunes Search: Year of the Dragon Chris Culter
Also the ReR Online Catalogue, an artist led service that gathers and distributes music on the basis of excellence, innovation, scarcity and independence.
www.rermegacorp.com
Summer of 2011 I had my usual few weeks tour in Maine. Steve Maclean (with whom I worked with on a jingle 17 years before) invited me to spend a a day on a project, but he didn't yet know what that would be until a couple weeks before - it ended up being Chris Cutler's CD project (which at that time was simply a series of cool, amazing drum pieces, and his poetry ready to be sung).
Sqeezed in between gigs, we had a day and a half to put down most of the recordings. My following visit to Maine - Jan 2012 - we finished another tune and tweaked one during one day.
Steve stretched my mind during these sessions inviting me to create and respond to what Chris and he had put down. It certainly isn't for everyone, but I DO want to suggest this: Listen - knowing that it's not like anything you normally listen to - and instead of multi-tasking (like I am doing now as I type this!), simply listen ...with it up loud. As I suggest to kids who are trying new foods - take TWO bites, because the first one might not taste good, but the second time it might just be a bit more palatable, and then you might even like it the next time. LOL.
Steve Maclean. based in Maine, Professor at Berklee School of Music in Boston.
Chris Cutler Wiki-pedia describes Chris' genres as: Avant-rock, cyber jazz, experimental, free improvisation
CUTLER, CHRIS and STEVE MACLEAN: The Year of the Dragon
A collection of 5 songs and 4 instrumental pieces that explore equally - and simultaneously - spontaneous performance values, close compositional detail and extensive processing. Made out on the rocky coast of Maine with just a TV eye keeping tabs on a world skidding to hell in a handcart, all the basic work was done by MacLean and Cutler with Julie Thompson (voice) added later - alongside additional parts played by Frank Gross (bassoon), Michael Bierylo (laptop, samples, circuits) and Titus Abbot (bass clarinet and saxophone). These are complex, focused pieces, some highly rhythm-rooted - mostly at rapid bpm rates - generally wide open with a close receptivity to timbral nuance and non-linearity.
Available on Itunes Search: Year of the Dragon Chris Culter
Also the ReR Online Catalogue, an artist led service that gathers and distributes music on the basis of excellence, innovation, scarcity and independence.
www.rermegacorp.com
LYRICS By Chris Cutler
THE NEW APOTHECARY (300302)
mortars pound the
compound in a
chemistry of
terror;
powders
grind together,
from a vial, a
drop of oil resolves
in smoke;
a globe of glass
immersed in fire; a
pharmacology
of war;
- I search
the illness I’m a
cure for
mortars pound the
compound in a
chemistry of
terror;
powders
grind together,
from a vial, a
drop of oil resolves
in smoke;
a globe of glass
immersed in fire; a
pharmacology
of war;
- I search
the illness I’m a
cure for
LIQUID CRYSTAL
a laminate
arrayed in banks
extends
a sign
around a
route
whose end
instructs
a rank of
grains
to shine and
show it's
sum
as
Quod Erat
… um..
Demonstrandum
so a
pulse
moved by
pulse
that sees not
hears not
may not
feel
seems to
disclose
the thing it
indicates
as if
it knows it
knows
not
show means
not to know
but to be
read as if..
the knower
only
knows
the rest
is
trust
or
guess
a laminate
arrayed in banks
extends
a sign
around a
route
whose end
instructs
a rank of
grains
to shine and
show it's
sum
as
Quod Erat
… um..
Demonstrandum
so a
pulse
moved by
pulse
that sees not
hears not
may not
feel
seems to
disclose
the thing it
indicates
as if
it knows it
knows
not
show means
not to know
but to be
read as if..
the knower
only
knows
the rest
is
trust
or
guess
Publishers Website to Order
OR find in WISCONSIN: (The bookstores below are provided by the publisher, please call the stores before driving to purhase as this list may need updating. Thx!)
DePere
Butterfly Books
Fort Atkinson
The Velveteen Rabbit Bookshop
Oconomowoc
Books & Company
Sturgeon Bay
Dancing Bear
Two Rivers
The Read Apple
Waukesha
Martha Merrell’s Bookstore
Wausau
Janke Book Store
Wauwatosa
Little Read Book
Milwaukee
Woodland Pattern Book Center
Or Find in MAINE:
Auburn
Percy's Burrow
Bar Harbor
Sherman's Books & Stationery, Inc.
Bath
Bath Book Shop
Blue Hill Books
Boothbay Harbor
Sherman's Books & Stationery, Inc.
Camden
Sherman's Books & Stationery, Inc.
Damariscotta
Maine Coast Book Shop & Cafe
Falmouth
Books Etc.
Farmington
Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers
Freeport
Sherman's Books & Stationery, Inc.
Portland
Longfellow Books
Ogunquit
Books Ink