As part of this month's atypical series recounting long past live performances from my youth, this is an original song from a lo-fi tape of the LYL Band performing at the University of Minnesota's Wiley Hall in 1981. "China Mouth" is a Surrealistic discontented Summer song, somewhat of a contrast to the LYL Band's usual early Eighties repertoire that focused on satire and comment on current events and social issues.
The Parlando Project combines various words (usually others' literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them or read more about the 1981 concert that this song was performed at by going to our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org
From a lo-fi tape of the LYL Band's 1981 concert at the University of Minnesota, the LYL Band's live performance of Dave Moore's song adaptation of Kevin FitzPatrick's poem about who faces the guns for minimum wage.
The Parlando Project combines various words (usually literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about or encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org
A topical song the LYL Band sang in 1980 about privilege and the attempted assassination of President Reagan. This is part of an atypical series I'm running this summer about some performances I've been a part of over the years.
What the Parlando Project normally does is combine various other people's words (usually literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of those combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounter with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org
My first live performance, a public spoken word reading from Leonard Cohen's novel Beautiful Losers I did back in The Sixties. I had just turned 19 years old.
No music this time, but usually the Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. You can hear any of the more than 800 of such combinations we've done at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org
This Emily Dickinson poem about our fixation on losses seems to me informed by early 19th c. popular ballads, so I sang it as one.
The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in differing styles. We've done over 800 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our experience of working with the poems at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org