There is no "band" except in my head. I hear the music and it's got to get out. The songs here are not demo tracks. They are simply attempts to get songs out of my head to where others can hear them. Nothing more.
As a writer, what I would really like is for an artist to hear something in one of my songs and to develop that. I'd like a singer to take my song, the words and basic melody/chords, and create his or her own interpretation. For me, that's like magic.
An excellent example is the 2003 recording of The Silken Wind by a wonderful young American artist, Alysson Light on her second album, Looking Glass Conversations . (Another version of The Silken Wind , is available on the new War & Love CD by Poem de Terre .)
Oh yes, I do have a band, Poem de Terre which also exists mostly in my head until we actually perform live or record a CD. We've been playing together now for more than thirteen years.
You can find MySpace pages with recordings by Poem de Terre at:
www.myspace.com/longtimepassing , or at:
www.myspace.com/june1966 .
Unlike this page, which is deliberately set up at a "rough draught" level, the Poem de Terre pages should, I hope, give a good indication of the talented musicians with whom I work and of my own abilities as a writer, performer, director, and producer. If nothing else, they'll demonstrate the difference between these rough draughts and our finished work.
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Poem de Terre's CD releases, including the new release War & Love , are now available at CD Baby . To listen or, if you like, to buy, click the album covers below.
Review of War & Love by Richard Marcus, Blogcritics/Desicritics. (click)
Review of Assume Nothing by Betsy MacDonald, CanEHdian.com (click)
Discography (Poem de Terre)
2006: War & Love , compact disc, 18 songs [16 original]
2002: Live at Newlands Pavilion, Part One: Folk , compact disc, 12 songs (recorded in Summer of 2001) [10 original]
2002: Live at Newlands Pavilion, Part Two: Rock , compact disc, 13 songs (recorded in Summer of 2001) [all original]
1999: Assume Nothing , compact disc, 20 songs [all original]
1995: Pyramid, 4 track recording on cassette, 9 songs [all original]
1994: Windfall, 4-track recording on cassette, 8 songs [all original]
Discography (Other Artists)
2006: Cilla & Hank Secord: Rough Cuts & Square Songs , compact disc, 7 songs [all original]
2003: Alysson Light: Looking Glass Conversations , compact disc, 13 songs [one song written by Bob MacKenzie and Cilla Leigh: The Silken Wind]
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