Vanquishing Grecian Warlords – Postcards from Gravelly Beach #39

Vanquishing Grecian Warlords – Postcard #39

Embarking on a White Poppies for Remembrance Day series, Dave reads the role of King Agamemnon from the Oresteia by Aeschylus written in the 6th century BC. The King returns to Argos by chariot with a captured royal concubine in tow and tales of plunder and pillage after defeating Troy and is met by his conniving wife.

Here is Vanquishing Grecian Warlords – Postcard #39 (12MB, .mp3, 13:06)

Music by Joe Williamson, “Arco Hotel” music for double bass. Recorded New Year’s Day 199?, Amsterdam, NL

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Improvising Over Hedges – Postcards from Gravelly Beach #38

Improvising Over Hedges – Postcards from Gravelly Beach #38

Busting out a bit of original (un)sung freeverse with a new mic plus guitar-toting amigo Bread, a shaker egg and a stack of freeverse fortified with improvisational bits about the mortar holding the middle of bricks, leaping over hedges, waiting for airplanes and diesels downshifting and being …
so tired but sometimes
so inspired
bewildered and in love with something
we’ve never met
and history yet unseen

Listen to Improvising Over Hedges – Postcard #38 (.mp3, 4:31, 4.5MB)

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(loosely) based on original work Bridges at Mountain Highway