Desert
"I miss you"
a desert of words
where snakes drag their dry scales
across the shattered & crushed
bones of the earth
even green things bristle.
Bamboo flute, electric guitar, resonator guitar, and -- gasp! -- spoken word. I wrote the brief poem, "Desert," perhaps ten years ago, but its imagery has always stuck with me. While I was in art school, I did a brief video for it, but didn't like either the music or the images I created to go along with it.
I had started working on this melange of flute & spaghetti Western style guitar, and decided to see if the words and music went together well. What do you think?
Native American flute, acoustic and electric guitars, and percussion create a hypnotic, Middle Eastern-inflected dance.
From the forthcoming CD, "The Hermit." This track appeared, briefly, on my MP3.com site, but this is a different mix.
