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Songs outside the box

 
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byAnchor Méjans
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Included in this zip file are experimental pellas. The first is an original lyric “Jazz Anno Domini” - a playful idea which asks an impossible question.
The second is a totally experimental idea. I used a random word generator and with the result attempt to sing the words (a whacked out notion). Also, Veni Creator Spiritus Chant (attributed to Charlemange) - recorded with the help of Radiotimes and the Bergamo Cathedral!

Lyrics for Jazz Anno Domini:

That Miller’s Tale
Could it be sung
By Peggy Lee or Jean Sablon?
And if it were by Bass and Drum…
Would it be something
We could hum?

If Mingus lived
In Chaucer’s day
What kind of music
Would he play?
Would Chanticleer and Reynard be
Jazz clubs down in
Canturbury?

Oh could we all but rendezvous
And troubadours strike stances new
Hot Club Quintet and Duke Ellington
But nothing’s new under the sun

If Blue Note were
The royal hue
Would cool guys kick
The other shoe
Off to the left were heralds wait
With contrapuntal sixteenth’s and eighth’s

That Miller’s Tale
Could it be sung
By Peggy Lee or Jean Sablon?
And if it were by Bass and Drum…
Would it be something
We could hum?
 

Contents of ZIP Archive: zip

  • /jazzannodomini.mp3 (3.44MB)
  • /random word generator pella.mp3 (2.99MB)
  • /shakespeare hamlet and ophelia mad song.mp3 (1.18MB)
  • /Veni Creatur Spiritus (Bergamo Cathedral) 1ax.mp3 (2.54MB)

"Songs outside the box"
by Anchor Méjans

2008 - Licensed under
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