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TURTLE ISLAND
Gary Snyder / Paul Winter
(LMUS 0022)
TURTLE ISLAND is the live recording of a poetry-with-music adventure, with readings by Pulitzer prize-winning poet Gary Snyder to improvisations by the Paul Winter Consort.
'Turtle Island' is an Indian name for North America. Most of the poems here come from Gary Snyder's book of the same title and are about our relationship to the environment and a sense of place. This is a recording of Gary's stunning performance of his poems interwoven with the Consort's improvisations.
Gary Snyder writes in the liner notes to the TURTLE ISLAND album:
"...In the light of 1992 [the Quincentennial], this is a celebration of the beginning of the next 500 years for the Hemisphere. I'm part of the first generation willing to leave behind European, African or Asian identities, and enter fully into being as inhabitants of Turtle Island.
"These poems make a cycle of celebration and argument for the Earth and for humans as a righteous part of the whole. Gratitude is the key. 'Magpie' sings of great space and time, and the peace of that, of abiding wildness. Being civilized, and yet abiding in wildness, is the way we'll live 'Tomorrow'. Listen again to 'Magpie's Song'. And take hope - because, finally, both in the long and the short view, we walk in beauty; and that beauty is 'For All'."
1. Prayer for the Great Family 2. Magpie's Song 3. True Night 4. Tomorrow's Song 5. Songs to Gaia I - Arktos II - The Spirits Wait and Sing beneath the Land III - 34:IV:40075, 3:30pm 6. Toward Climax 7. Mother Earth: Her Whales 8. As for Poets 9. The Blue Sky 10. Without 11. For the Children 12. For All |
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(Lindisfarne-in-Manhattan Performance) Paul Winter - soprano sax, alto sax, harmonium David Darling - cello, voice Nancy Rumbel - oboe, English horn Sophie Sollberg - bass flute Bill Cahn - percussion (Berkeley Performance) Paul Winter - alto sax, contrabass, sarrusophone Richard Bock - cello Nancy Rumbel - oboe, English horn, tampura Jim Scott - 12-string guitar, harmonium John Guth - 6-string guitar Jim Saparito - percussion |
