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Dustman's Obligato  (Anderson and Wiedenfeld)

Cool in the Nightshade

Cool In The Nightshade

LEGEND after “The Shadow of Cain”

This seemingly large- scale work was first drafted between March-April of 1978. It takes as its “subject matter” the poem The Shadow of Cain by Edith Sitwell. 

“The Shadow of Cain” is about the fission of the world into warring particles, destroying and self-destructive. It is about the gradual migration of mankind after the Second Fall of Man that took the form of separation of brother and brother, of Cain and Abel, of nation and nation, of the rich and the poor – the spiritual migration of these into the desert of the Cold, towards the final disaster, the first symbol of which fell on Hiroshima.” (Preface to Collected Poems by Edith Sitwell)

The piece is predominantly in minor keys but for the final section in the major. Perhaps this could be heard as a ray of hope, that our greater humanity will reign supreme in troubled times such as these. But for progress to happen of any kind, that would see kindness play its part, the process underway must play itself out for Love as we are meant to realize it to be given the chance to prove Life wrong. 

The pianist is Jeanell Carrigan.
The piano is a Fazioli.
Recording Engineer: David Kim Boyle

Recorded at the Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music August/September 2017

Legend after The Shadow of Cain (piano)

Boson Spin - Ambient Bite 305

Boson Spin - Shadultro [part 1]

Walking Ears and Jeff Wiedenfeld
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Ears And Weeds

Being a sketch where things spin wonderfully oblique of north.

(Henry Koek and Jeff Wiedenfeld)

Stop a Second (Koek and Wiedenfeld)

Duane Anderson ladies and gentlemen,  Duane Anderson

Working Man's Rice Bowl (take 2)  [Anderson and Wiedenfeld]

Everybody knows...

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Duane Anderson ladies and gentlemen; Duane Anderson.

Go To The Back Street  (Anderson and Wiedenfeld)

Vinnie Davidson and Jeff Wiedenfeld

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Добрият плувец

Всеки ден по изгрев слънце
излизаше на плажа.
Влизаше в морето,
големите му стъпала
несигурно опипваха студения пясък.
Внимателно през водата, равна и утринна,
после се гмурваше
целият изведнъж.
Загребваше с големи шепи, с решимост и сила
към предела, където вълните се пенят.
Океанът го избутваше назад, всеки ден,
но той беше добър плувец.
На петия ден
надхитри океана, надви над мощните като стена вълни
и се оказа отвъд, в открито море.
Обвит в хоризонт, обвит в океан.
И в следващия миг – повлечен
от теченията, от дълбокото и далечното,
сам и безсилен,
добър плувец, отишъл твърде далеч.
Панически ръцете, краката, всичко човешко
го тласка да се върне на сигурно.
И по-страшното – да се връща ли?

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The Good Swimmer

Every day at sunrise
He was going out to the beach.
He was stepping into the sea,
His big feet
Groping the cold sand uncertainly.
Carefully through the water, flat in the morning,
Тhen he dived
All at once.
He was taking big strokes with his palms, determind and strong,
To the limit where the waves foam.
The ocean was pushing him back, every day –
But he was a good swimmer.
On the fifth day
He outwitted the ocean, won over the waves holding him back as a firm wall
And found himself in an open sea.
Shrouded in horizon, shrouded in ocean.
And in the next moment – dragged
By the currents, by the deep and the far,
Alone and powerless –
A good swimmer who went too far.
His panicked arms, legs, anything human
Are pushing him back to safety.
But the worst – should he go back?

The Good Swimmer (Miteva & Wiedenfeld)

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March (Miteva & Wiedenfeld)

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He graciously assented.

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Alone by 'Edgar Allan Poe' read by Robert Scott

Collaboration initiated by Jeff Wiedenfeld

Collab Henry koek / Jeff Wiedenfeld /  Simplicity

Curly Compositions from a German Composer.

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