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Fammeree

Music & poetry parent the soul.

About Me

Poet, composer, singer-songwriter, international performing and recording artist Richard Fammerée is founder and director of Pont des Arts Ensemble [www.myspace.com/pontdesartsenemble] and UniVerse of Poetry [www.universeofpoetry.org]. A widely published poet, he is a pioneer of the global renaissance of poetry & music, scoring poems into alternative/contemporary art songs. His album Fammerée & Eurydice, “pansophic and visceral in the same breath,” marries passion and spirituality echoing his book of poems Lessons of Water & Thirst, included in the Poetry Library of Royal Festival Hall, London. Manfred Gordon (Cambridge University) describes this volume as “sensual and psychological, lush in the tradition of French Symbolism.” Collaborations include recordings with poets Li-Young Lee, Rachel Webster and Francesco Levato; Emmy award-winning singer Toni Childs; Grammy winner Frank Myers; and singer-songwriters Anne West, Carrie Ingrisano and Alana Grier. Three projects have been produced by David Tickle. * * * * * In the tradition of troubadours, Fammerée has played the varnish off numerous guitars in numerous countries. He is frequently featured in American and European publications and venues. Highlights include: Amnesty International, The Art Institute of Chicago, ARTÉ Television, National Public Radio, PBS, The Poetry Center of Chicago, Shakespeare & Co. (Paris) and The World Festival of Sacred Music initiated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. An artist-in-residence at Flatfile Galleries, Richard Fammerée appears in Who’s Who in the World 2000 and is featured on ReVerse with Mark Strand, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Li-Young Lee, Elise Paschen and Lou Reed. He produced and hosted Poetry & Its Music International for the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. * * * * * Recordings of the poetry and music of Richard Fammerée are available on Snocap, Apple iTunes and more than thirty other digital online outlets.

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Member Since: 4/29/2006
Band Website: cdbaby.com/fammeree2
Band Members: ..Poète, compositeur, chanteur auteur-compositeur-interprète, performante et internationale enregistrement artiste Richard Fammerée est le fondateur et directeur du Pont des Arts Ensemble [www.myspace.com/pontdesartsensemble] et UniVerse of Poetry [www.universeofpoetry.org]. Un poète largement publié, il est un pionnier de la renaissance globale de la poésie et la musique avec ses chansons art contemporain et “alternative.” Son album Fammerée et Eurydice, "pansophic et viscérale dans le même souffle," épouse la passion et la spiritualité faisant écho à son livre de poèmes Lessons of Water and Thirst, inclus dans la bibliothèque de poésie Royal Festival Hall, Londres. Manfred Gordon (université de Cambridge), ce volume décrit comme "sensuelle et psychologique, luxuriante dans la tradition du symbolisme français." Collaborations avec des enregistrements poètes Li-Young Lee, Rachel Webster and Francesco Levato; Emmy award-winning chanteuse Toni Childs; Grammy winner Frank Myers; et chanteuses-auteurs-compositeurs Anne West, Carrie Ingrisano et Alana Grier. Trois projets ont été produit par David Tickle. * * * * * Dans la tradition des troubadours, Fammerée a joué le vernis de nombreuses guitares dans de nombreux pays. Il est souvent en vedette américaine et européenne de publications et de venues. En voici les points saillants: Amnesty International, The Art Institute of Chicago, Arté télévision, National Public Radio, PBS, The Poetry Center of Chicago, Shakespeare & Co. (Paris) et le Festival mondial de musique sacrée initié par Sa Sainteté le Dalaï Lama. Un artiste en résidence à Flatfile Galeries, Richard Fammerée apparaît dans le Who's Who dans le monde 2000 et figure au ReVerse avec Mark Strand, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Li-Young Lee, Elise Paschen et Lou Reed. Il produit et animé “La poésie et sa musique internationale” à l'Université de Chicago et de Northwestern University. * * * * * Les archives de la poésie et la musique de Richard Fammerée sont disponibles sur Snocap, Apple iTunes et plus d'une trentaine d'autres points de vente numérique en ligne.
Influences: ..There is a room in a wall, and the wall is mud, and the mud, crenelated and pink. There is a bed and cold-water sink and two pillows.One window is pomegranate, the other pregnant. They whisper over our bed from the starry book of the dead a story of two inseparable children.In this Genesis all that is delicious is delicious, and the serpent pleads, Feed me, free me from a lonely perfection of leaves. Apples tremble redder and redder to rot if they touch the earth before they are tasted.The left eye of the moon prepares your belly; the seiche of your rose invites stingers and noses and eyes closed.I am a wafer at your lips. You are the tree of life kicking blanket and sheet to the foot of the bed.You are the book of life Hebrews undress and spread upon velvet, caress with a silver finger and silk and knots of silk.You are a chalice raised high as my arms can hold you, jeweled in front and smooth in back.You are never unclean. Before you bathe you are not unclean. When you bleed, you are not unclean. Inside you I am transubstantiated into blood and the breath of blood.What church can refute this miracle?Wood smoke and wick smoke twist into a nest. Flesh separates like young bread, Accipite et bibite ex eo omnes. Hic est enim Calix Sanguinis Mei. Your lips are the seperation of light, and I am the vigil between.We rattle in our sandcastle, two tongues, two lungs, two lungs, two rattles in one hand. If I were king and this were my quadrant of desert, I would elevate each toe and cut down the abomination of every god smothering the cave where the fire girl raves, her vowels swallowing me deeper into her wall, Accipite et manducate ex eo omnes. Hoc est enim Corpus Meum.The hulls of our shoes, the ones we bargained for in the souk the day we arrived, will remain. Our dust will fill the belly of an hourglass.["Left Eye of the Moon" by Richard Fammerée]"; I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts!

Sounds Like: I could not sleep while you slept. Any little animal might have sheltered in your body; and I kept leaves from your eyes and things from your hair until your lips revived, bending back my fingers to the lessons of water and thirst.Fires that night digested the wet, and when their long viridian became your arms and a delirium became our legs, threads relinquished us, and we were not puppeted by earth, and we were not puppeted by heaven.We became larger than form and texture and scent-- something like clouds-- and fear was driven from the manger of our bellies, and anger's thin lips could not diminish us.We ate everything that was red, and everything red was delicious. My sap was greening your milky body, then your legs slapped. They slapped into fins and you arced and my chin and ear separated, and silver and more silver and silver again, I quivered behind you.[Ephemerae by Richard Fammerée]/
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