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About Me



Architect, Artist & Author of Poetry Volumes I & IIObserving the Labyrinth from HeavenHollace M. Metzger "...transporting, intimate tales of travel,
urban life and longing." Time Out, London


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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/30/2007
Band Website: virb.com/hollacemmetzger
Band Members:

Paris Recordings release : ViRB : may 2008

Currently in the studio converting Observing the Labyrinth from Heaven into audio format. The full book content will be available on CD shortly. Plans are also in the works for a full album of poetry to music. Stay tuned!...

Mus(e)ic
collab projekt

others i've collaborated with or am *currently working with:
* Daniele Camarda -New Delhi,India vox/poetry/photo

Delphinius -St.Paul,USA poetry
Dennis Cahlo / Saints & Lovers -New York,USA photo/poetry
* DJ Jeff Gold -Montreal,Canada vox/poetry
Graphium -Fife,Scotland vox/poetry
Hegyesi Alexandru/Shanyio -Timisoara,Romania vox/poetry
Jason Haye / Project:5.am -London,UK vox/poetry
Malcolm Fisher / French Impressionists -UK & Milan,Italy poetry
Micka Luna -Barcelona,Spain music composition/lyrics/vox
* Thomas Bel / Thomas Bel -Toulouse,France vox/poetry
* Tiago Benzinho / Tiago Benzinho -Portugal vox/poetry
* Torus Biglane -Antwerp,Belgium vox/poetry
*Vitor Joaquim / Vitor Joaquim -Portugal vox/poetry
If you would like to use any of my poems in music, film,
poetry readings, or if you would like to collaborate in writing
your lyrics, contact me via www.HollaceMetzger.com .

Please respect the fact that my poetry, lyrics and recordings are copyrighted 2008 Hollace M. Metzger and/or their respective musicians. No part of any recording or poem may be used or sold in music production, writing or performance venues without consent of/reference to the author. Thank you.

Influences:

woRds

movEment

meMory

Things that go bump in the night, gypsies, lovers, troubadours, my Bohemian ancestors, the moon, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, Fernando Pessoa, Ayub Ogada, Simon and Garfunkel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Mattie May Thomas, Torquato Tasso, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Phillip Glass, Miguel Piñero, Leonard Cohen, Rumi, H.D.Thoreau, Anais Nin, Bob Dylan, Carson McCullers, Caravaggio, Thomas Mann, Pythagoras, John Lennon, W.H.Auden, Neil Young, Albert Einstein, William Shakespeare, Jeff Buckley, Pablo Picasso, Nick Drake, Salif Keita, Matisse, Keith Jarrett, Vitruvius, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Carlo Scarpa, Jackson Pollock, Joan Baez, Marcel Duchamp, Sylvia Plath, Wassily Kandinsky, Erik Satie, Kazimir Malevich, Peter Paul & Mary, Georges Braques, Aarvo Part, William S. Burroughs, Louis Kahn, Hildegard von Bingen, Inayat Khan, Charles Aznavour, Egon Schiele, Dr. Maya Angelou, Fabrizio de Andrè, Glenn Gould, Marguerite Duras, Roland Barthes, Van Morrison, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ayn Rand, Lisa Gerrard, John Hejduk, Keith Jarrett, Jeanette Winterson, Italo Calvino...& so far, southern Italian, Americana, African, Greek, Scottish & Irish working-class folk music.

Sounds Like:

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD hmmP @
Stereo afterhours , Montreal – c/o dj Jeff Gold
VRT Radio Klara , Brussels – w/ Torus Biglane
Paris Radio 1, live
Madeira DIG Festival , Portugal – c/o Vitor Joaquim
Studio Brussel Radio , Brussels – w/ Torus Biglane
Club Deluxe , San Francisco – c/o Jonathan Siegel
LostTribe events , Canada – c/o dj Jeff Gold
Stereobar Montreal – c/o dj Jeff Gold
TWiN Poetry
Alt Hotels , Canada – c/o dj Jeff Gold

YOU MAY HAVE SEEN hmmP @
Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe, New York
Bistrot des Artistes, Paris
Heaven Cafe, Brooklyn
L’Ogre a Plumes, Paris
Crawdaddy, Dublin
Compendium, Athens
The Rio Cafe, Glasgow
The Lizard Lounge, Paris
The Highlander Pub, Paris
Barristorante Campiello, Venice

music: Dennis Cahlo - photo/prose:Hollace M Metzger

some poems:

Return Ticket
Not a Poem for You
*The Man With Too Many Scars
*Re-Incarnation
Underneath Parisian Streets
Normandie
Dilution
*Granddaughter of a Freemason
The Music of Venice
Tiny Dancer
Chauffage
Central Station 00:38
Il Redentore
My World Exists
*Thoughts While Traveling
*Virgin Sapphire
Comatose
Being Pale Next to You
*Middle-C Lass
Eternal Story
Observing the Labyrinth from Heaven
Prose-ish in Paris
*A Muse, Me
*Paper Ships
My Religion
*The (Bearable) Lightness of Being
*seeking musical accompaniment

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~ 11 jul 08 ~

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Signed Book Copies, Bookings, Interviews & Record Labels

SIGNED BOOK COPIESIf you are interested in aquiring a signed copy of Observing the Labyrinth from Heaven, it is possible but a bit complex: 1. Please direct an email to me via www.hollacemetzger.com ...
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:36:00 PST

ode to the Tenori-On + news

exciting news!Just a sneak peak to inform everyone that hmmP & MiDEA paint are collaborating with a certain undisclosed German musician who composed the very first album using the Tenori-On music sequ...
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:12:00 PST

two poems, two languages, two roles...

two souls,Composed.le CompositeurHollace ThomasMetzger Bel .. virb.com/hollacemmetzger...
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:41:00 PST

~ POETRY VOLUMES I & II - Book OUT NOW ~

I have been awake for 3 days...If you've read it, chances are it's in the new Volume.Period.If I've met you along my journey, chances are you're referenced in it.(especially if you've helped me or mad...
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:28:00 PST

Uma colaboração entre Tiago Benzinho e Hollace M Metzger

Let's take a walk...It is the cinema that shares our paradise,our lives,translates our dreams, our fears, our narrated thoughtsinto many languagesandtransforms the role of the spectatorinto that of th...
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:27:00 PST

poetry + film = (r)Evolution

.. ..weare__________ _ __ _ . _ .. _ ... . evolving..... .an idea evolves for a Documentary | 01.jan.200801.march.2008 | the cameras start rolling in New Yorkthe film crew arrives in Paris | 07.march....
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:10:00 PST

une collaboration entre Thomas Bel & Hollace M Metzger

First, I became aware of his music.I felt it - more than i had felt much of anythingin my numbness from months of traveling and exhaustive thought.Then, i became aware of the essence of his spirit thr...
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:23:00 PST

End the year with Twin Poetry & 31-Love!

FYI: TWIN POETRY has Chosen Yours Truly as poet for a day with the track 31-Love, but the date chosen is 31 December! hah, get it?Very cool, indeed!TWiN¼Poetry~ Thanks Much to TWiN POETRY ~for the cit...
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:10:00 PST

new mix of "Dilution" by Shanyio

In collaboration with Romania's Shanyio the poem "Dilution" is now set to music!SHANYIO[[ return to HMM Poetry page and listen to the Collab music player ]]SHANYIO's mission statement:"The SHANYIO pro...
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:59:00 PST

update: VITOR JOAQUIM & my Electron!c Mus!c Debut-Portugal!

UPDATE 15.dec.2007:So, yeah! Vitor opened the show with "Central Station 00:38" - an excerpt of his composition, entitled "Flow," can be heard on the hollace m metzger Poetry page.Here are some photos...
Posted by hollace m metzger Poetry on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:49:00 PST