Fammerée

Richard Fammerée has appeared on National Public Radio, PBS and ARTÉ (France and Germany) and is featured in international venues, journals and publications. Who's Who in the World introduces him as a poet, composer, performing artist, executive director and editor of UniVerse, a United Nations of Poetry [www.universeofpoetry.org] and a member of the advisory board of The Poetry Center of Chicago. Richard Fammerée produces and hosts Poetry & Its Music International on WNUR [www.wnur.org], 89.3 FM (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL). * * * * * In the tradition of troubadours, Fammerée has played the varnish off numerous guitars in numerous countries. Venues have included Amnesty International, Chicago Symphony Hall, Shakespeare & Co. (Paris) and The World Festival of Sacred Music initiated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His first album Fammerée & Eurydice marries passion and spirituality echoing his book of poems, Lessons of Water & Thirst, recently included in the Poetry Library of Royal Festival Hall, London. * * * * * Fammerée has also composed for various artists including poets Li-Young Lee and Elise Paschen, and singer-songwriters Ann West and Toni Childs. David Tickle has produced three projects. * * * * * Richard Fammerée is currently preparing for the production of a fresh series of records featuring his poetry and songs. * * * * * * * * * * RECORDINGS: FAMMEREE & EURYDICE [to sample 2 minutes of each song: www.cdbaby.com/fammeree4] [to download this album and individual songs from Apple iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist ?id=74588139] [www.myspace.com/richardfammeree] Pansophic and visceral in the same breath, Fammerée & Eurydice offers salvation to the intellectually insatiable who love to dance. “A sensual banquet of poetry & music, passion & spirituality. Viva l’evolution!” (George Whitman, Shakespeare & Co., Paris) “Fammerée & Eurydice is a record of an odyssey and an idyll of quixotic, atavic love. Poet and musician Richard Fammerée left home at eighteen with fewer dollars. Beginning before the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, he crossed Europe on foot, often inscribing poems onto the face of his guitar, intuitively following ancient crusade routes and footpaths of pilgrims, culminating upon Mt. Sinai. Listen for evidence of faerie rings, trysting stones, Goddess temples, Gethsemane, marble theatres and medieval palisades in the west of Ireland, south of France, the mountains of Crete and Morocco, the plains of Turkey, deserts of Jordan and Egypt, and verdant islands of the Pacific. Fammerée is passionate as a renaissance philosopher, daring as the troubadours, profound as his faith in life. He elicits the complex purity of myth and metamorphosis. To experience the exotic--and often erotic--adventures of love and love lost, self and self found, to rekindle fantasies and faith, delight in this CD, this seminal recording, this transcendence.” (A. de Stael) * * * * KEEPER OF THE BLINDLY GLOWING: A SPONTANEOUS RECORD OF THE SPIRITUAL & TEMPORAL ADVENTURES OF AN AZURE POET [to sample 2 minutes of each song: www.cdbaby.com/fammeree5] [to download this album and individual songs from Apple iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? playListId=260434725 ] "I wrote and performed this album during recent journeys to the south of France enroute to Collioure, Paris and Longueville (the medieval village of my ancestors), the Middle East (Jerash, Petra, the Sinai, Qumran and Jerusalem) and the Pacific islands of Kauai and Maui. Listen for birds in the rafters of the red barn I converted into a recording studio. Special thanks to Melissa Dittmann for her inspired vocals. I played every instrument while also engineering (when there was electricity. . .). Production values are a bit rough, but so is the road and the life of a troubadour." * * * * * FAMMEREE & CERULEAN: COLLABORATIONS WITH THE GODDESS [to sample 2 minutes of each song: www.cdbaby.com/fammeree6] [to download this album and individual songs from Apple iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? playListId=262296211 ] In the tradition of troubadours, Richard Fammerée, contemporary poet and singer-songwriter, wandered the world of sacred sites for two decades. He collaborated with many extraordinary woman poets, singers, musicians and dancers, including Ann West [www.myspace.com/AnnWest: “Confidante” album], Toni Childs [www.myspace.com/thetonichilds: One Life], Rachel Webster [track 10: A Record of Being], Elise Paschen [track 8: Behind the Door], Alana Grier [www.myspace.com/alanagrier], Melissa Dittmann [Keeper of the Blindly Glowing, track 2: Notre Dame], Sheila O’Donnell (Princess She) [track 1: Anam Cara], Tatiana Blanco [tracks 5 & 6: Teatime & Hush of Heaven], Carrie Ingrisano [track 9: Shiny New Boy] and a French actress who wishes to remain anonymous. This record is to honor each of them and the voice of every woman. * * * * * REVERSE [www.reverse1.com] [The Apple iTunes LINK: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist ?id=74588139] Richard Fammerée is a featured artist on this superlative, recorded anthology of poetry and poetry & music with Li-Young Lee, Mark Strand, Lou Reid, Elise Paschen, Alexi Murdoch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Cin Salach, KClarke and Simone Muench. * * * * * * * * * * PUBLICATIONS: LESSONS OF WATER & THIRST [www.cdbaby.com/fammeree2] “A recipe for earthly delights,” (Bob Holman, director of The United States of Poetry), this vulnerable, metaphysical chronicle of an errant poet was recently included in The Poetry Library at The Royal Festival Hall, London. Manfred Gordon (Cambridge University) describes Lessons of Water & Thirst as “sensual and psychological, lush in the tradition of French Symbolism.” Contact the poet directly for an autographed and numbered copy: [email protected]. * * * * * * * * * * UNIVERSE OF POETRY [www.universeofpoetry.org] UniVerse, a United Nations of Poetry, is an interactive forum and celebration of international poe try encouraging universal dialogue, compassion and peace. Each nation, with or without territory, will be represented by at least one laureled poet. Poets writing in endangered languages and oral-traditionalists will also be represented. Curricula is being developed to enable schools, colleges and universities to utilize UniVerse as a free resource. Please visit www.universeofpoetry.org. To help, please contact: [email protected] * * * * * * * * * *
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