This is a collaboration with Anthony Julius Williams who wrote and sang the lyric & lovely vocal melody. We did a very simple version in 2011 for his one-man show, "Blood is Mere Decoration: A Ritual for Liberation" - a shamanistic exploration of alternatives to America's addiction to incarceration. I always wanted to turn it into a banging tune, so glad I had the chance!

I dedicate this song to Richard Glossip, who has been sentenced to die in Oklahoma, USA for a murder of which he is almost certainly innocent. Just minutes away from his scheduled execution on September 30, 2015, his life was miraculously spared for 37 more days when it was discovered the prison had the wrong mix of chemicals for the lethal 3-drug cocktail!

Please visit http://www.sisterhelen.org/richard/ and do what you can to support truth & justice in the American legal system!

Ritual 4 ReEntry Event details:
Can you feel the excitement building for our event? It's happening for sure! On October 3rd, the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco will come alive with events designed to shed light on the Prison Industrial Complex. People will be eager to hear YOUR voice too!

ARRIVE AT 6:30 PM on OCTOBER 3RD @ PACIFIC FELT FACTORY LOCATED AT 2830 20TH STREET 2 BRYANT in SAN FRANCISCO: We need to connect before the event begins, so please make plans to get here early!

The River Of LIGHT

This collection represents two projects. The four cover songs are demos made by my performing acoustic music project, the Mighty Rutabagas.

Harper and Timothy are songs I wrote. Timothy is for a dear friend who died unexpectedly. Harper honors Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird in anticipation of the release of her new book. It’s about her clarity and artistry in naming the impact of racial and economic injustices on the fabric of society, particularly how it shapes children. 

In addition to juxtaposing the unconscionable racist killings in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, New York City, in 2014 (too soon replaced as the latest heinous act by the tragedy at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina) with the jury’s conviction of an innocent black man in 1930s Maycomb, Alabama, I modeled a few lines from the song after a few of the many brilliant lines from the book. 

The line Ms. Maudie says to Scout, affirming Atticus' telling Jem it's a sin to kill a mockingbird, is "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." I used this language to pay homage to Harper Lee’s searing insight in the song’s line: “You sang your heart out for us, Harper.”

I also modeled the line at the end of the first verse: “But Scout hears the mockingbird so clear and it don’t sound like fear” after the book’s theme of fear, which appears profoundly in Tom Robinson’s running from the scene not as a fear of being caught but a realized fear of being accused, and in Scout’s overcoming fear of Boo Radley’s house, among other things, as she grows up. In this case, if the mockingbird represents innocence or righteousness, it has nothing to fear.

Hi! My name is Joey Wisgirda. I also go by Big Joe Daddy. I live in the SF Bay Area, and make electronic music. I play trumpet and a special wind controller ( Morrison Digital Trumpet http://www.digitaltrumpet.com.au/ ), live and in the studio,controlling Ableton, Reason, Kyma, Alchemy, and a host of other hardware and software instruments, especially physical modeling ones. It lets me, among other things, produce very realistic acoustic instrument sounds.I started out as an orchestral trumpet player, them switched to jazz, funk, and Salsa, then studied composition with John Tchicai ( Coltrane, Archie Shepp, etc. ) .... energy music! I've performed with bunches of folks ( Alton Ellis, John Tchicai, Karl Denson, Hamsa Lila, Mutaytor, Joe Craven, DJ Dragonfly, and many others .... ), and shared the stage with many more ( John Scofield, Bassnectar, Galactic, Ozomatli, Tipper, Kraddy, Beats Antique, Charlie Hunter, and many others as well ... ) Let me know if you like what I do!

I'm also part of a Central CA electronic music composer's group called the Chillage People : Spokenbird, Lazer Tooth, Dubzilla, Scrivvy, Oddjob, Henry Chatfield, Chester, Dissent, KOlectric, Urple Eeple, and Mia Lolita, Isotope, and Isturite !!

For booking all other inquiries : josephwisgirda@gmail.com

Looking to collaborate &amp; make things happen. I don't worry about stylistic boundaries...

I am a musician, artist, and baker. 
I sing and play bass, (slide) guitar, synth & piano.

I also enjoy making videos: 
http://vimeo.com/user4613629/videos

Sketches from England's bleakly industrial biomechanical heartland.

Come with me now to the subconscious borderlands of sleep and wakefulness.  Explore the sensory phantasmata of hypnagogic dreamlets.  Feel static-like frisson sensations tingling down your spine.  Join me on the journey into the heart of etherCore.

Looking for missing tracks?  Check out my Bandcamp http://pytchblend.bandcamp.com/

All tracks are copyright; to include on your set, show, or production please get in touch.

Sometimes broadcast on RTÉ lyric FM's Nova show (Ireland), Berlin​ Community​ Radio, Beatnikradio (also in Berlin) and Radiophrenia (UK).

The River Of LIGHT

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