Remember, I said there was a bias in the top ten most listened to stats for the Parlando Project toward older pieces from the first three years of this Project. That’s due to a long tail effect: a quick bunch of listens when first published, followed by an accumulation in smaller daily numbers over the … Continue reading The least listened to audio piece in the decade-long history of the Parlando Project
Before I reveal this Project’s most listened to musical piece, some short notes about a couple of things that didn’t appear at the top of the stats which informed this all-time (so far) Top-Ten. No LYL Band songs. This Project grew out of music that I’ve been making with keyboard player and vocalist Dave Moore … Continue reading The most listened to song from the first decade of the Parlando Project
Returning now to our countdown of the ten most listened to Parlando Project musical pieces, already in progress. Today we pick up at the fourth most-listened-to song. Number 4 is Jean Toomer’s “Her Lips are Copper Wire.” I’m in the middle of doing a series on founding Surrealist Paul Éluard, known for his Modernist love … Continue reading The Top Ten most listened to songs from the first decade of the Parlando Project, part 2
I can’t let the anniversary month of August go by without doing a summary of what have been the most popular of the more than 900 musical pieces and more than 1,000 posts since the Parlando Project publicly launched in 2016, I’m going to do this Top Ten in a 6-3-1 format to keep these … Continue reading The Top Ten most listened to songs from the first decade of the Parlando Project, part 1
Here’s another new translation of a poem by pioneering French Surrealist Paul Éluard that I made in order to perform it with music. This one, “A La Minute,” which I’ve rendered as “At This Minute,” also lacks the extravagant imagery that one might expect in a poem associated with Surrealism. I hear its language as … Continue reading At This Minute
Last time I had a chance to record a new piece using guitar, I rattled the bones of a Jazzmaster amid synth keyboards played with the same guitar. Monday I had another chance. My studio space was quiet, I could have made it loud – or I could open a sensitive microphone. Organic, wooden music? … Continue reading The Naked Truth
If you’re a long-time reader or listener here, you probably already know that one of the principles of this Project is “Other People’s Stories.” That usually means that the words used here are literary poetry that has reached public domain status. Every so often I do use my own words – but even then, it … Continue reading She Visits Her Mother Who Doesn’t Know Her
I’ve written briefly, here and there, about the time leading up to my late wife’s death, so let me write today about the days immediately afterward. Because this is a blog, and readers’ attentions are limited by that format’s expectations, it’s going to be brief again. Most people have had experience with death before coming … Continue reading Song to the Siren
This week is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Parlando Project. While I had completed some of the early musical pieces and even did a couple of test blog posts before summer 2016, I chose August 6th as the official start date because it’s the anniversary of my late wife’s, Renée Robbins, death. … Continue reading Love Addict Blues
There Will Come Soft Rains
