A Tenacious Slew
Released 2023-08-18 · via artist page on Bandcamp
Tracks
- After All These Years/So Ahab 8:29
- Indifferent This Fire in the Air/Hooves on Gravel 7:38
- Radio News/ARM 18:28
- Notice Now/Fluffy Pie and Warrior 5:21
- Peeps 0:18
About
We moved from Memphis to The Twin Cities in 1999.
I had known Philip Bither when he was in NYC and at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM in Brooklyn.
Turns out that Philip had also moved to The Twin Cities to be The Walker Art Center’s Senior Curator of Performing Arts. OK, so he got here first. Michelle Kinney had also moved here with her family and two kids and the exemplary producer, composer and guitarist Chris Cunningham.
Philip organized a kind of "Welcome to the Midwest" (or thereabouts) for Michelle and me. I had a set as did Michelle.
Anne's improvised video for the set was distinctive and moving and with a band like I had, it had to be good.
It was a great night. The place was packed.
If you'd like to see and hear me yak about it you can here:
https://youtu.be/KsBdCX9BtvA
Credits
George Cartwright - saxophones, composer, sounds
Anne Elias - poetry and live video performance (not included)
Adam Linz - bass
Alden Ikeda - drums
JT Bates - drums
Chris Parker – yellow fever keyboard and piano
Christina Baldwin - voice (prerecorded)
Cover Design George Cartwright
If you would like to view the show you can here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-1fERiuOOQ
Special thanks to Philip Bither and his fab crew at the Walker for inviting us
to do this gig.
Poems:
1) Indifferent this fire by Anne E. Elias
Indifferent this fire in the air,
a moth, a spider.
It is round, it is this that approximates
relationships, undulating hostility.
In the place where the pages are parted,
suspended the laundry is hung, the time
sorted through red brick to cinder.
Colors accumulate on the backs pressing
isolation, embossed with uncertain lines.
In the hiss of heated air, pollen and
Insects rise with the movement of a
dividing hand.
It’s all beyond life size.
2) After all these years, by Anne E. Elias
After all these years to take to drowning
in bed, sweet sewery dreams, television
theme songs.
The fingers lock up, in unwanted positions,
need to be willed, awaiting with terror,
little bits of cardboard, pieces of
something with color, pulled towards an
element, where and when it doesn’t happen,
ultimately doesn’t happen.
Surrogate travel, simulating movement
through space, across the board.
3) Radio news, by Anne E. Elias
Radio news coming thru the walls
Beach house light and bed spreads
trailing boats.
The wind in the sugarcane hovering
dark dragon flies, speckled bird fields,
In black and dirt, in black and dirt.
4) Notice now, by Anne E. Elias
Notice now
It becomes evident, wet close to the
sound of the gravel, ink on the skin,
black and suspect water on metal.
Iron on the tongue
It becomes evident, in siphoning the
sound for the need, it’s there in the
palm against the creases forming
Puddles,
Catching anything in air.
5) Peeps, by Anne E. Elias
Skin Blistering, little chick
Marshmallows, Covered in yellow sugar,
Little yellow marshmallow peeps.
Brings the mail up, the one flight
It yellows and falls to the floor
There's rattling and buzzing I don’t
Notice now
Troy Zaushny- video assistance
https://zaushny.com/
Produced by George Cartwright
Executive Producer –Chris Campbell
Recorded live at The Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota by Stefan Kren and
Mastered at his Benevox Studio, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Special thanks to Philip Blackburn at The American Composers Forum's Innova Record Label for his support.