This is spoken word album that features me reading [mostly] other peoples' poems. (I wrote one.) All of the authors or sources are credited in each track listing.  I am sometimes accompanied by Harold Taddy on the guitar/moog noise pedals/drums, etc. I play the rain stick on one track. 



little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight [written by galway kinnell]

suicide's note [written by langston hughes]

for hans corossa [written by rainer maria rilke]

gambling addict haiku [written by chenou liu]

consistent with being boiled [written by me]

color [written by harold taddy]

being but men [written by dylan thomas]

as the sparrow [written by charles bukowski]

you who never arrived [written by rainer maria rilke]

i am, o anxious one [written by rainer maria rilke]

The Velvet Noose once existed as a theatrical Drone performance art group. During this time, we played heavy, intense soundscapes, accompanied by spoken word delivered with intent-

Our current iteration is an avant-garde physical theater troupe. We are based out of Rochester, NY.

The Velvet Noose

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