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Title: strange music for a strange night, and a strange poete (suite et fin)
Post by: Jean Pierre on March 20, 2025, 11:45:15 AM

thank you for your comments many found this improv a bit short

...so I completed it with some of my favorite instruments: Weissenborn slide guitar, Irish low whistle, ... and then for lack of a song, I put one of my favorite poems by Arthur Rimbaud: ma Boheme

here are the lyrics

I was leaving, my fists in my empty pockets;

Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ;
J'allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal ;

Oh, what splendid loves I dreamed of!

My only panties had a large hole.
- A dreamy little thumb, I spun rhymes
Rhymes. My inn was in La Grande-Ourse.
- My stars in the sky had a soft frou-frou

And I listened to them, sitting by the roadside,
Those fine September evenings when I felt dewdrops
Of dew on my brow, like a wine of vigor;

Where, rhyming in the midst of fantastic shadows,
Like lyres, I pulled the elastics
Of my wounded shoes, one foot close to my heart!

Arthur Rimbaud, a French Romantic poet, lived two lives, the first before he was 20! Though brief, his poetic work is characterized by a prodigious thematic and stylistic density, making him one of the major figures of French literature.
Around the age of 20, he suddenly gave up literature, having published only one work on his own account - Une saison en enfer - and a few scattered poems in confidential reviews, which further contributed to his myth.
then, driven by his marginal, anti-bourgeois and libertarian ideas, chose an adventurous life, whose wanderings took him as far as Abyssinia, where he became a merchant (hardware, bazaar, clothing, coffee, etc.) and explorer.

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Title: Re: strange music for a strange night, and a strange poete (suite et fin)
Post by: StephenM on March 21, 2025, 01:27:37 PM

I ain't gonna lie... this be strange indeed... I mean how cool can this get? there is dobro? and flute? a deep wood flute... with strange bass tones and the call of the wild... I expect Canada Geese will be migrating across the Atlantic toward the Savoy with this... is it possible? Can geese make it that far?

cool stuff JP... got over quick though

Je ne vais pas mentir... c'est vraiment étrange... enfin, c'est vraiment cool ! Il y a du dobro ? Et de la flûte ? Une flûte en bois profonde... avec des basses étranges et l'appel de la nature... Je m'attends à ce que les bernaches du Canada migrent à travers l'Atlantique vers la Savoie avec ça... est-ce possible ? Les oies peuvent-elles aller aussi loin ?

Super truc, JP... mais je me suis vite remis

Title: Re: strange music for a strange night, and a strange poete (suite et fin)
Post by: Jean Pierre on March 21, 2025, 01:41:23 PM

merci Stephen, j'adore tes commentaires ;)

it's not a dobro but my Weissenborn guitar, a strange guitar with a body that continues under the neck! it plays like a dobro flat on the thighs with a tone bar, mine is English Anderwood brand
I love it ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR-lL-L5dmM

Title: Re: strange music for a strange night, and a strange poete (suite et fin)
Post by: Johnbee on March 21, 2025, 07:18:31 PM

A nice bit of Avant Gard music to an excellent peom. Nicely done, JP

:) John B

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