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Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet

Poetry has been defined as “words that want to break into song.” Musicians who make music seek to “say something”. Parlando will put spoken words (often, but not always, poetry) and music (different kinds, limited only by the abilities of the performing participants) together. The resulting performances will be short, 2 to 10 minutes in length. The podcast will present them un-adorned. How much variety can we find in this combination? Listen to a few episodes and see. Hear the sound and sense convey other people's stories here at Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet At least at first, the two readers will be a pair of Minnesota poets and musicians: Frank Hudson and Dave Moore who have performed as The LYL Band since the late 70s. Influences include: Patti Smith, Jack Kerouac (and many other “beat poets”), Frank Zappa, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart), William Blake, Alan Moore, The Fugs (Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg), Leo Kottke, Ken Nordine (Word Jazz), Bob Dylan, Steve Reich, and most of the Velvet Underground (Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico).
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Now displaying: January, 2019
Jan 31, 2019

A tribute to Minnesota musician Willie Murphy and the scene he helped foster on West Bank side of the Mississippi in Minneapolis. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

Jan 28, 2019

Early 20th century poet Charlotte Mew wrote this strikingly modern sounding meditation on men out of balance with nature featuring majestic trees and a dead rat. For more about this and other combinations of various words and original music visit frankhudson.org

Jan 24, 2019

Fantasy is after all, just metaphor applied to a different layer of art. Another song using a changeling to stand for alienation. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

Jan 22, 2019

Charlotte Mew cast a chilling fairy story with acute psychological insight. It's like Peter Pan meets Tam Lin! For more about his and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

Jan 18, 2019

A fantastic and apocalyptic tale from the early 20th century with a psychedelic pop accompaniment. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

Jan 15, 2019

This Imagist poem about a rooster has a mysterious origin story concerning its author Hilda Conkling. For more about that and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

Jan 11, 2019

My performance of the final poem in Wallace Stevens' "Harmonium" collection is dedicated to David Shove. For more about this and other combination of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

Jan 9, 2019

Federico García Lorca's poem plays with death and youth mixing beauty and dark humor. For more about his and other combinations of various words with original music visit frankhudson.org

Jan 5, 2019

D. H. Lawrence's epigrammatic poem on nature's view of self-pity performed to original music with drums. For more about this and other combinations of various words with music go to frankhudson.org

Jan 1, 2019

Rilke looked at a damaged Greek status of the god of poetry and saw something of himself, his art, and us in it. For more about this and other combinations of various words with original music, visit frankhudson.org

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