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the Second Storm

Somatic Tea Party's first really informal jam track as we celebrate June receiving a mandolin

The Gift of the Mandolin

Tobias joins us for a jam using a slide banjo made by Alison. Also featuring a drum made from a dog food bag.

A Wild Slide Appears! It's Super Effective!

another first rough take of a new rap. Backing by Backing Tracks Channel on Bandcamp.

whaleheart

A rough take of a song I wrote this morning about Vesna Vulović, the (accidental) record holder for the longest fall without a parachute 

Vesna Vulović

improvised poem recorded during a hailstorm

hail

This is a recording of me improvising a sonnet in real time in the wind while walking my dog. I was inspired by the automatic writing of Pessoa and by a quote from Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis which starts the poem:

“don’t look at my face, look at my sword”
    – C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

don’t look at my face, look at my sword
the shining edge that holds the sacred word
as nightly meteors come raining down
upon the silent echoes of the town

and everyone stays waiting in the dark
unsure of what or why their spirits did
or what was uttered, what injustice said
why the sacred tree was stripped of bark

and every answer given hollow rings
as on this crust of earth we make our way
nothing left in all the world to say
until we step into the dawn and sing

someday all of this world we see will end
until then, call me sister, lover, friend


"Don't look at my face, look at my sword"

super rough first read of a thing I just wrote about losing a friend to political differences after helping her through a really rough time

After the Fray

Finally learning to use a sequencer so here's a somewhat higher quality take of this one

Moths to a Mainframe - new version!

moths_backing

Some jazz pieces I was featured on with the University of Minnesota, Morris jazz bands.

Alison Pelizzari

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