Run like hell from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred tender vision of your beautiful heart. Introducing the first CD from LOGOchrysalis Productions. Click Here to Order. When I think of these words by the great Sufi mystic-poet, Hafiz, I am reminded that he also said Beauty itself wields a sharp knife. It ever pierces through unreality to one's core. Everything in this world is helplessly reeling, he declared, stay close to those sounds that make you glad you are alive. I hope the voices and beautifully incisive visioning of the poets gathered here at least makes you glad you listened. They speak truth and beauty, and I think you'll find the love that underlies that shines through, too. |
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BRANT LYON & FRIENDS /
Beauty Keeps Laying its Sharp Knife Against Me POEMusic, a highly eclectic collection of contemporary poets/spoken word artists integrating a wide range of musical genres from hard-driving R&B / funk to ambient / soundscape. Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me brings poetry / spoken word and music together into a new realm. Call it POEMusic. Eight evocative, provocative, poets perform a wide variety of styles intricately woven with an equally broad range of music genres ranging from hard-driving R&B to blues and jazz, world music, ambient / soundscapes, and more. The listener is beckoned, seduced, or catapulted deeply, delightedly, sometimes unsettlingly and shockingly, into the sound and sense of the poet's world. But always with the incisiveness of a knife called Beauty that cuts to one's core! It may be a lovelorn Fellini-esque romp through the midway of Coney Island, a haunting meditation on love and eternity amid the temples of war-torn Cambodia, meditations on meditation itself in an Indian ashram, an in-your-face rant turning plea for peace between Israel and Palestine, the story of the world's first reported alien abductees, or a smoky interpretation of what jazz great Charlie Parker's genius might have to do with frying chicken!Brant Lyon's musical arrangements are bitchin'!! Wild and soulful. Rob Ross, celebrated blues guitarist / songwriter(The Robert Ross Band) Brant Lyon has put together an odd match of poems / poets and music in one of the strangest / eclectic music and poetry CDs I have ever encountered. Steve Dalachinsky, legendary New York downtown poet Brant Lyon & Friends' Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me cooks up a serious cauldron of cosmic soup for the ear. It's a one pot meal for the soul! Carol Lipnik, singer/songwriter (Carol Lipnik & Spookarama) |
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Original musical compositions, arrangements, and performance by Brant Lyon Recorded, mixed, and mastered by J. Armen at J. Armen Studios, New York, NY www.jarmen.net Track 9, recorded by Rob Voisey at Vox Novus Studios, New York, NY www.VoxNovus.com Graphic design by J. Armen Executive Producer: Brant Lyon from LOGOchrysalis Productions |