Claus Narr

Love

Quarantine a Go-Go

My second Naviar Haiku challenge (https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/). It's based on this haiku that was created with the aid of artificial intelligence:

moonbeams
like fishes –
swim over the river

I hope the allusions are self-evident and although at its core it's based on Chopin's Waltz No 9 in Ab (Op. 69 No. 1), I thought it had elements of early 20th-century impressionist music so I've invented the tag "electro-impressionism" to describe it :)

24 May 2021

MoonFishRiver (naviarhaiku385)

I felt a frisson, a presence, as she passed me; “never fall behind” she said
Blue eyes, yeah china blue; or green maybe 
The silhouette of a crown was it? Or of his fine hair on a perfect head
I lost them in the dream; never saw them again
 
Green on blue, he flashed by me; Kingfisher
She’s chimera, he’s quicksilver; Arcadia dancers 
She passes by like a mayfly; sweet Calista
You reach and fall, you try and call; they don’t answer
   
These were different, seven years on, but it felt the same
They stood and looked me in the eye, and I could only stare
Felt like honey kisses, like the remembered bliss of a dream
Felt like a lost love, then they were gone; if they were ever there

Green on blue, he flashed by me; Kingfisher
She’s chimera, he’s quicksilver; Arcadia dancers 
She passes by like a mayfly; sweet Calista
You reach and fall, you try and call; they don’t answer

Seven times seven years, waiting and waiting long 
I sensed them in the twilight, in the half conscious fall into dream time
This time I was ready, I had waited for them through the long years
I reached and touched her hair, ephemeral in the sun

Green on blue, he flashed by me; Kingfisher
She’s chimera, he’s quicksilver; Arcadia dancers 
She passes by like a mayfly; sweet Calista
You reach and fall, you try and call; they don’t answer

Kingfisher and Calista

This track is the result of collaboration with the wonderful vocalist Sar Araion, who brilliantly managed to convey the depth of the lyrics of the great Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky

Music and adaptive translation by Guitarbeard https://soundcloud.com/coda2009
Magic voice by Sar Araion  https://soundcloud.com/sararaion

Buy https://guitarbeard.bandcamp.com/track/100

If only, as before 
I were proud, 
I would leave you forever, 
I would split my Kingdom in two.
 All the things I can never part with, 
all that is not worth effort.
I would say; you carry away 
with you a hundred promises, 
a hundred holidays, a hundred words. 
You can take them with you.
And to me there is only cold dawn, 
One hundred belated trams 
and one hundred raindrops 
on the tram tracks, 
A hundred alleys,
a hundred streets 
and a hundred 
drops of rain, 
running after me.

Если б, как прежде, я был горделив,
Я бы оставил тебя навсегда.
Всё, с чем расстаться нельзя ни за что,
Всё, с чем возиться не стоит труда, —
Надвое царство моё разделив.

Я бы сказал:
             — Ты уносишь с собой
Сто обещаний, сто праздников, сто
Слов. Это можешь с собой унести.

Мне остаётся холодный рассвет,
Сто запоздалых трамваев и сто
Капель дождя на трамвайном пути,
Сто переулков, сто улиц и сто
Капель дождя, побежавших вослед.

100 (Guitarbeard / Sar Araion)

Come April  				c. 2020 by M. A. Manetz

V1
On these four gray walls I've painted her picture with my mind.
Holdin' her in my dreams the only comfort I can find.
One more lonely winter in this cold and lonely place.
The only thing that's kept me sane is the memory of her face.

Chorus
Come April, I'll make it better,
Come April, it'll be so fine.
Come April, I'll make it up to her,
Come April, she'll be mine.

V2
Six months in this prison, six months till I'm free,
Six months since her last letter, does she still care for me?
My brother came to see me, said she's movin' to L.A.,
I tell myself come April, I'll find a way to make her stay.

Chorus

Bridge
Am I a fool to think that she would ever wait for me?
I don't blame her for leavin', but yet I still believe...

Chorus

Come April

Electrons.... Perhaps these are the sounds that may be heard with the right equipment, when standing underneath multiple very high voltage power lines.

Electrons 3

Der Pinguin am Nordpol oder wo sind die Anderen geblieben?

Obserwator / Observer

Electronic pure

I love sounds and I enjoy meshing them together. I guess my stuff is not music in the sense of melody but just an organisation of different sounds or noises.

I am a disciple of the late great Conrad Schitzler. 

I'm not in it for the money. Just want to give people an opportunity to hear something outside of the norm. 

I also love just making sounds. 

Free music can be found at my bandcamp link. 

1.

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