We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Beseech Speech

by Jeff Gburek

/
1.
Beseech Speech 01:57
lyrics
buy track
beseech speech contour gravure form fit wit wither the weather weather the withering weave percuss the caliber of feather light weighs in on the scale of diamond skull bell dings with pineal clapper let lumen agitate agriculture bop along with poppy-headed lolling corny as corny ass corn-flowers hooded chamomile chameleons chamomeleons each wedded a foxglove roadkill some herds crossing forever roads need to become words all aflame in the watery collision the watery collusion that inverts the butcheryof grammars analytic to flare in the beak of the bee-eater blue vetch, tricky lupins a goose-gulped dragonfly flagship zen sitting stones, dumb as posts squirrel pretending not to be there perfectly angelic beyond all poems within all poems unsung waiting in the blistering seed to do with nothing whatsoever launching any idea
2.
Mandolin Impromptu 02:44
buy track
3.
Mandolin Ricerca 02:49
buy track
4.
Splintered Voice/One Hand (with Marco Lucchi) 05:08
lyrics
buy track
Splintered Voice One Hand Piano (Piano by Marco Lucchi) Text by Jeff Gburek (re-working of The Way of All Cacti, from my album The Perfect Storm) My world never moved on from there What should I dare become? Ready drifter, astro-naught, multi-hyphenate creative? Beginning on the margin again Beginner, constantly "un-" Constantly blown by solar winds My follicles untether Rods skip cones, my focus pan-galactic smithereens What flakes of sound can write this SNOW? which now loses as "S"and then an "O" What next? I've never advanced a single step Equilibrium, homeostasis Tight fit, clinging fabric of pulsar Entropy, everything so near, no city, no center. Just a fan blowing a breeze for no face. Just a poem spoken for, broken from a gathering of the nations of words Who-hoa. Heart-beat caldera Glowing blind, thumped in hunch-back gloom Must mist sybilline whispers The poem really starts to come to life when it being read for the first time as if it were being written in the mind of the reader who does a double-take, trying to figure where it all comes from, where it's going where the poem is coming from inside itself, siphoned outward ,into the poem you see while the other way around vice versaback into itself pushing forwardinto meaning in the search for true credibility in expressing what is or is not really going on Vociferous shift muttering mutteringmatter mistmust gathering clatterous leavesover tongue long gone skull buried silence the silence the poet does not lose nor gain control over anything language content or form leaping within the locus of uncontrollable forces showing cosmos body... My world never moved from there...
5.
The Invisible is Outrageous 06:55
lyrics
buy track
the invisible is outrageous & the open is out there between the leaves dawning chlorophyll to crumble in the thunderstruck violin verge upon verge of the key-stroke puzzle ashen in every word down there beside the Titanic an eggshell of metal wobbles the experimental submersible far away on the Greek coast (whatever that means) 470 migrant people drowned on the radio just now at 11, 600 kHz as passage from the book of old out of the ether, out of the blue "Noah erects an altar unto the Lord" at 9:11 am, Thursday, Arena Park, Poznan we leave behind a body of works my friend says, he tells me. & as certain of that too am I, fleetingly la primavera d'estate l'inizia dell'autunno, la profeta dell inverno -- ancora la fiera sole sta gonfiando, fa festeggiando, il finale orange

about

This short album presents new horizons of research & reconciliation to quantum losses and quantum gains. First, I am again finding myself looking for another language or mode of speech and searching for a mixture of sonorus spoken word that is informed by the act of writing but not bound to the text as finality. Path to pure poetry or pure junk. You alone will tell the tale. Second branch of research here concerns the evolving chromolodic mandolin. It is a standard mandolin with an odd tuning in that only the low string is in unison and although I start out with standard G as pitch, I change the tension of the strings to maximize the resonance of the instrument. The resultant mode is vaguely Japanese or a bit of Indonesian pelog. It is not easy to play each string separately because they are too close together but some unique quality comes from the proximity, something tentative and pensive and yet with some kind of elegance in the scale. Included on this album is a piece made in response to Marco Lucchi's "One Hand Piano" open call. I reworked the voice of my previously published "They Way of All Cacti"
(on this bandcamp account on the album called "The Perfect Storm"

The texts for the poems recited on this album are viewable in the "about this track" or "lyrics" section on each individual track.
Length of these texts do not permit them to be put here, unfortunately.
But one will fit...

the invisible is outrageous
& the open is out there
between the leaves dawning
chlorophyll to crumble

in the thunderstruck violin
verge upon verge
of the key-stroke puzzle

ashen in every word

down there beside the Titanic
an eggshell of metal wobbles
the experimental submersible

far away on the Greek coast
(whatever that means)
470 migrant people drowned

on the radio just now at 11, 600 kHz
as passage from the book of old
out of the ether, out of the blue
"Noah erects an altar unto the Lord"
at 9:11 am, Thursday,
Arena Park, Poznan

we leave behind
a body of works
my friend says, he tells me.
& as certain of that too
am I, fleetingly

la primavera d'estate
l'inizia dell'autunno, la profeta dell inverno
-- ancora la fiera sole sta gonfiando,
fa festeggiando, il finale orange

credits

released June 24, 2023

license

tags

about

AKASHIC RECORDS image

AKASHIC RECORDS Poland

Guitarist, composer, sound designer, field recordist, shortwave radio poet, blending electro-acoustic, electronica, spectral comp., cracked circuits, sounding organic objects with an ear towards earth voices. Studied Javanese and Balinese gamelan and theories of Partch and Xenakis. Working with dance/theater/butoh co. Djalma Primordial Science. More than 400 concerts throughout Europe since 2005. ... more

contact / help

Contact AKASHIC RECORDS

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Beseech Speech, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now