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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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Dec 4, 2024

For our 800th official release I've chosen this, with words and music by the Parlando Projects alternative voice, Dave Moore. Dave sings this and plays keys, just as he did in the earliest days of this project, and its predecessor the LYL Band. 

"The Fade" is an unusual rock song, even if you file it under "Indie" or "Alt Rock," because it talks about something a genre associated with younger people doesn't: aging, its infirmities, particularly memory loss. I think of Dave's lyric here as being in the tradition of the Velvet Underground: like the songs on their famous 1st LP, Dave's song describes something not often sung about while making no judgement or framing it in any sentimentality. 

The Parlando Project takes various words (usually literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done this for over 8 years, and you can hear all the released pieces and read what I wrote about our experience with the words at our blog and archives, which is located at frankhudson.org

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