Extracts from The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 1892-1950
Recital from LibriVox.org read by Linda Leu

“Son,” said my mother,
   When I was knee-high,
“You’ve need of clothes to cover you,
   And not a rag have I”.
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   To make a boy breeches,
Nor shears to cut a cloth with
   Nor thread to take stitches.”
 
“There’s nothing in the house
   But a loaf-end of rye,
And a harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody will buy,”  
   And she began to cry.
 
…

Men say the winter
   Was bad that year;
Fuel was scarce,
   And food was dear.
 
A wind with a wolf’s head
   Howled about our door,
And we burned up the chairs
   And sat on the floor.
 
All that was left us
   Was a chair we couldn’t break,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Nobody would take,
   For song or pity’s sake.
 
…

Looking nineteen,
   And not a day older,
And the harp with a woman’s head
   Leaned against her shoulder.
 
Her thin fingers, moving
   In the thin, tall strings,
Were weav-weav-weaving
   Wonderful things.
 
Many bright threads,
   From where I couldn’t see,
Were running through the harp-strings
  Rapidly,
 
…

There sat my mother
   With the harp against her shoulder
Looking nineteen
   And not a day older,
 
A smile about her lips,
   And a light about her head,
And her hands in the harp-strings
   Frozen dead.
 
And piled up beside her
   And toppling to the skies,
Were the clothes of a king’s son,
   Just my size.

The Ballad Of The Harp-Weaver

Christmas: A birthday celebration where we tend to forget whose birthday it is.

Não há lugar, não há qualquer estalagem.
Já não há espaço no coração.
Não há milhões que prestem homenagem.
Não há louvores da multidão.
Dá-me tua luz, oh vem guiar os passos meus.
Dá-me tua luz, filho de Deus.
Como os pastores que os anjos convidaram
Deus dá convites a todos nós.
Abençoados os que não esperaram
e atenderam à Sua voz.
Dá-me tua luz, oh vem guiar os passos meus.
Dá-me tua luz, filho de Deus.

Natal 2023

Merry Christmas 🎄❄️☃️⭐

It's my favourite time of year so I thought I would try and create a festive sounding piece of music! 

A Winter's Tale

Frida's Wings – The Valse 
April 2024
Duration: 3:10
Painting: Frida Kahlo Painting Self Portrait.
Remix of Vals Alejandra by Enrique Mora
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”
For strings, piano, accordion and percussion.

Frida's Wings - Valse

Tuzla, Bosnia, 18.09.2022
Extract from the album A Hundred Days in the Balkans: https://zuunzug.bandcamp.com/album/a-hundred-days-in-the-balkans

A Hundred Days in the Balkans

Call To Prayer Through Raindrops

This is my newest track ONE LOVE featuring RAX.  It seems like currently the World is full of Chaos, Division, Hatred and WAR. The only thing that can unite Us is Universal Love! 

*Vocals & Lyrics by RadBabyJoe and Rax.


                                                 
                                                          ONE LOVE


                           RadBabyJoe:  One Love a Universal Theme (x2)

                           RAX:
                                        I said you better come with Fire!
                                       That Universal Love's required.
                                        It's what I feed into my Desires.
                                  You make me feel like I'm going higher.

                           RadBabyJoe:  
                                                    You're my Desire.
                                                    Better come with FIRE.
                                                    Cuz I'm in Love with You. (x2)

                            RAX: 
                                         Higher, Higher, Higher
                                         Got me Feelin it.

                          RadBabyJoe:  
                                                    I'm the ONE. (x2)
                                                   One Love a Universal Theme.
                                                   One World... One DREAM! 





ONE LOVE

Faded Legacies

Written, performed and recorded by Nate Jessee at Trash Island Studios

Lyrics
Pressure's building my time is wasting
I can't understand that
Life is for living

So I close my eyes and float away

To a place I take my mind
Every day it's all the same
Living the daily life
No wonder we lost our mind

When it gets too real
The tide pulls you away
If the sun never set
Let it go and be

In another place, I lay
My mind to rest each day
Don't care what you have to say
There's meaning beyond your range.

When it gets too real
The tide pulls you away
If the sun never sets
Let it go and be

Let It Go

Empty Space

Jazz Nocturnes No.1

Melodic piece for piano, strings, brass and woodwinds

Falling free

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