Music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.

To participate in the Haiku challenge:

- Make a song in response to the assigned haiku poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday, and you can find it at http://www.naviarrecords.com/blog)

- Upload your song on Soundcloud and message me privately with the track's URL (if you don't have Soundcloud or can't message me, visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku for more options)

- Include the assignment number in the title of your track, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku135)”

Please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix it by using a Creative Commons License.


Naviar Haiku Challenge: 50 - 100

Hello partner, your ride is here.
Just slide the empties off the seat and climb in.
Don’t sit on that spring, it’ll cut you.
No, the seatbelt’s broken, wipers, too.

Little man
On the lamb
Blues

Where’d you say you were going?
This car doesn’t go that way.
This is a ride to the Last Star.
Don’t hold on too tight, you’ll get yourself hurt.
Trust me, you are going to a better place.

Little man
Takes a stand
Blues

THE PILGRIM ACCEPTS THE BOWL
THE SHAMAN SAYS SWALLOW WHOLE

INDIGO
AFTERGLOW
ALL YOU KNOW
GONE…

You again. You sure?
OK, I’ll take you home.
Crack the window, it’ll help some.
And there’s a paper bag in the back somewhere.
Use it if you have to.

Superman
Wonderland
Blues

Superman 
Wonderland
Blues

Indigo
Afterglow
All you know
Gone...


Thanks to Fady, Janine Levinson, Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley and Wheelwright for their most helpful and useful consultation.

Superman Wonderland Blues

Transathon

First autumn morning
The mirror I stare into 
Shows my father's face

Poem by Murakami Kijo

The Mirror I Stare Into (Naviarhaiku 095 First autumn morning)

See http://bassling.blogspot.com/2015/12/naviar-haiku-0100-winter-evening.html for track discussion and video.

Hearthsong [Naviarhaiku100 - Winter evening]

DEADLINE: 9th December


Poem by Andrea Cecon 

Picture by Oskar Karlin 

It's getting darker [naviarhaiku100 - Winter evening]

The Inward Trek (a.k.a. Dark Winter) is my contribution to the 100th Naviar Haiku assignment. 


The Inward Trek

Castonguay

All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.

my sister Taught Me To Ride Without Stabalizer's

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge. I used GarageBand.  The poem that inspired it is by Marco Sebastiano Alessi.

Naviar Haiku

Sea Sparkle

Sea Sparkle (naviarhaiku 286)

Acoustic guitars (Martin J15)
Mini Moog synthesizer
Violin/Viola
Ukuleles
Harmonium (New Delhi, India)
Marimbas
Xylophone (rosewood)
Pizzicato upright basses (section)

Composed and performed by DD

Music for this haiku:

a new year begins–
before sunrise
a pine-decorated boat

Here’s the first haiku of the year, by the great and profilic Kobayashi Issa who during his life wrote over twenty thousand haiku.
@naviar-records

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
Photo by Shubhankar Sharma

After A New Year (naviarhaiku313)

Like a lot of us these days, I have some extra hours on my hands. While looking to amuse myself at this most unamusing time, I made this. I hope it cheers you, too, and provides a few minutes pleasure. That is all it is for.

This music is also my version of whistling past the graveyard. One of many versions.

Please stay healthy. And let us be strong, and pick each other up when one of us is down.

Lockdown Cocktail

inspired by the music of artists such as Beefheart, Eno, Philip Glass, Charles Ives and many others, but no influence or inspiration at all from the day's bought and paid for poppinjays. you are whut ya eatz. please visit my Bandcamp page.

...and enough of this "Ramen Reckordz" baalsheit.  Piss off, "Get Real Listeners" and "Submit Your Track." What a load.

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

The Mirror I Stare Into (Naviarhaiku 095 First autumn morning)

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