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Vastearth Orchestra: A Garden Amidst Flames
Readings from the mystical sufi poetry of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi with musical backing.
Rio: A Poet's Reflection
HipHop with a strong poetic presence. This album is filled with deep passionate lyrics and spoken word intertwined. Along with a twenty page beautifully photographed album booklet.
Buddy Wakefield: A Stretch of Presence
This is Wakefield's first release, in 1999. Dynamic, engaging, enigmatic. Buddy Wakefield delivers a ten-track CD of poetry and music that is seductively honest, with enough energy you could use it to jump-start your car on a February morning in Alaska.
Omekongo wa Dibinga: A Young Black Man's Anthem
Pan-Afrikan Poetry in English, French, and Swahili. Winner of the Cambridge Poetry Award.
Recommended if you like
Blue,
Brother,
The Last Poets,
The Nine.
Nikolai Lesnikov: Adam's Apple
Walking the dark line between alchemy and phenomenology, this quadrilingual creature hops about with a tempestuous temperament akin to a poet's dream.
Avian Music: Aethletics
Contemporary classical music, growing out of a mainstream progressive musical tradition.
Recommended if you like
Bang!,
John Adams,
Philip Glass.
Mike Daily: ALARM
ALARM by Portland author/recording artist Mike Daily is a 212-page lyrical novel (and accompanying double CD) of confusion, alienation, and rediscovery in the post-9/11 era that reads like a love letter to a friend and a promise to the future.
Joe Con: Awake and Dreaming
Future Ancient Transcendental Rebelutionary Hip-Hop Organically Grown in a Psychedelic Bluegrass Melting Pot Straight Up No Filler
Recommended if you like
Immortal Technique,
Mos Def,
Mos Def Jux,
Zion I.
Athens Boys Choir: Bar Mitzvah Superhits of the 80's 90's and Today
Heart on the sleeve unapologetic lyrics and beats garuanteed to bring even your grandma\'s milkshake to the gay bar. Glitter meets brass knuckles in this spoken word/ hip/homo hop album by a Transsexual Jew living in the Deep South.
Recommended if you like
Alix Olson,
Ani DiFranco.