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No Bee Without The Rose Me And My Brother Delays
WAGNER - SCENES FROM LOHENGRIN AND SIEGFRIED













Available on Naxos Recordings
 
IMPROVEMENT - BY ROBERT ASHLEY













Available On Nonesuch Recordings
 
IF, BWANA - I ANGELICA













Available on Pogus CDs
 
DELAYS - Click on Images for More Info & Sound Clips


This is the name I use for delayed feedback-assisted improvisations, which I've been doing since about "1980". Robert Fripp is known as the pioneer of this tool, and I became aware of it through Art Scholtz with whom I played stringband music back then. In those days it was tape delay, where you string 1/4" magnetic tape between two tape decks, recording the signal using the first deck and playing it back from the second deck to the first, mixing that with the live signal. The periodicity of the repeat and the length of the tape were the only constraints. Nowadays, with Lexicon's Jam Man and similar "echo boxes" both those constraints have been removed, and I've done delays approaching four hours with on-the-fly change of the delay length. The new constraint is the recording medium's time limit. I hope with the new mp3 craze that I'll be able to make the longer delays available to the public on something other than multiple CDs or cassettes, since there should be no break in sound; but for now I can offer the best of the old ones and the one new delay I've done that was under eighty minutes. You can order CDs of any of the delays for which there are excerpts on this site, or if you're sure you'll like them sound unheard there are many others.

Delays often are put in the category of "experimental music". I don't think that's correct for these delays. We know exactly what we're doing; we just don't know what's coming next, which is the hallmark of all improvisatory endeavors. But we know that we don't know that.
 
NO BEE WITHOUT THE ROSE


NO BEE WITHOUT THE ROSE
I met Constance Cook in 1975 in the second half of eleventh grade. We attended many of the same classes, including the two choirs, and co-led the Madrigal Group. Then she moved away from Long Island, then I did, then finally in 1997 we got back in touch. In 2001 Peter Johnson of Living Folk Records and Concerts suggested we form a performing duo, which we did. We settled on the name Little Blue Heron [link to IUMA Little Blue Heron URL] and gave our first concert as a wanm-up act for Poor Old Horse at a chuch in Watertown, Massachusetts. Our busy schedules make appearances difficult, but we've been heard at the NEFFA folk, Carter Family Memorial music, NOMAD folk, and Philadelphia Space-Rock festivals as well as a few coffee houses; at the Louis F. Angelo Elementary School in Brockton, Massachusetts we have given three family concerts with students joining us in an increasing number of songs, and also taught hundreds of them how to play bones. [link to photo of bones] The album "No Bee Without The Rose" is our first commercially available recording, recorded and produced by me. We hope to follow it with a sequel "No Rose Without The Bee", and then, who knows.
  1. Cherry Tree Carol
  2. Shiloh's Hill
  3. The Blacksmith
  4. Greasy Coat. . . 624KB: Streaming .mp3 format
  5. O My Brethren
  6. Ecosystem (A. Klein)
  7. Sheep Crook
  8. Talk About Sufferin'
  9. Ca' the Yowes
  10. Shady Grove
  11. John Barleycorn
  12. Liza Jane
  13. Cotton Mill Girls
  14. The Last Leviathan
  15. Chilly Winds
Total Time 65:01
 
MY AND MY BROTHER


HOW THIS HAPPENED
Little did we know, back in "1981"*, that the CD revolution was only 4 years away. We blithely plunged ahead with the LP project, had a thousand copies pressed, and sold maybe 400. Even when we were making the album, Moondi was already headed west to Ohio for college- otherwise he would have been featured in more cuts; in "1985" I went to Indiana for opera factory processing; Zeng's last concert was in "1986". I started giving M&MB platters (or Tahitian War Frisbees) away at opera gigs, and then Sue Ladd around 1992 asked if the album were available in CD form. I had vowed that I wouldn't make a CD of it until all the LPs were gone. Some vows aren't worth making. With the birth of Little Blue Heron in "2001", and my resultant return to the "acoustic" or "folk" music world, it suddenly became useful to have the LP put into CD form. With the advent of personal computers, home CD burning devices and high-resolution printers, it became possible for me to remaster the album myself; this is the result. I also included four bonus tracks that were never intended for the album, but since CDs have more room than LPs and these tracks were recorded concurrently with the album material, I figured, "why not?" I have also made a CD of recordings of Zeng made at Karlin's house previous to M&MB, and might make a "Best of Zeng Live" compilation when I have time.
-ADAM KLEIN, Jackson NJ, December 30, "2002"
  1. Rockingham Cindy. . . 707KB: Streaming .mp3 format
  2. Doney Gal
  3. Juniper Springs
  4. Walkin' in Jerusalem
  5. Year of Jubilo
  6. Cotton Mill Girls
  7. Monday Morning Blues
  8. Black Jack Davey
  9. Falls of Richmond
  10. Back Down to Virginia
  11. The Original Dulcimer Song
  12. The Old Grey Horse
  13. Sally Goodin
  14. Over the Waterfall
  15. White Pilgrim
  16. Haste to the Wedding
  17. Shady Grove
  18. Salty Hot Dog Blues
  19. Rocky Top
Total time: 59:22