Here's some info on some friends of mine that you should check out:
Keston and Westdal's new album "Truth is Stranger" is now available as a high quality download from http://www.kestwest.com/. The album is made up of thirteen tracks fully mastered by Tom Garneau and encoded at 192kbps (as high or higher quality than what will be available on iTunes and other online music sources). The release also includes a recently produced bonus track called "El Amanecer" which was inspired by the instrumental bridge section in "Se Fue". Guest artists include Desdamona, Estair Godinez, and more. High resolution images of the cover design by Hiroaki Kato and complete liner notes are also included.
For a $10.00 (USD) donation via PayPal you will be emailed a link with a session id that will not expire for several days, giving you plenty of time to download all 103 luscious megabytes of music included in the zipped archive of this album, more than two years in the making. Proceeds will be used to manufacture promo CDs for radio and an upcoming international CD distribution. To hear some excerpts before you buy, click on the player in the upper right of www.kestwest.com and thanks for your support!
"Truth is Stranger" download page:
http://www.kestwest.com/tis_dl.html
Upcoming shows for Keston & Westdal:
Thursday, March 2nd 2006 Kitty Cat Klub, Minneapolis, US
Thursday, March 16th 2006 Kitty Cat Klub, Minneapolis, US
Official site:
http://www.kestwest.com
KestWest on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/kestwest
Desdamona's Myspace, Website, and CDbaby:
www.myspace.com/desdamona
www.desdamona.dunation.com
www.cdbaby.com/desdamona
My latest CD is available on itunes.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Friday, February 24, 2006
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
A tribute to Valentine's Day
dissidence resonating in my bones
been alone so long, I'm no longer cold
he's afraid to hold me because I'm so bold
my pride so wide, my walls are 3 fold
if he could fill me like music
we might be the perfect match
if we knew how to do it
our adoration might be latched
together - locked by heart
but neither of us know where to start
and I'm cool - cause if it never starts
it never has to end
persistence waning, unrequited valentine
fate misplaced by my early arrival
patience dying with the turn of time
second guessing - maybe in the next life
I-want-to-tell-him-but-can't-speak-the-words
Why-can't-he-just-read-my-mind?
been alone so long, I'm no longer cold
he's afraid to hold me because I'm so bold
my pride so wide, my walls are 3 fold
if he could fill me like music
we might be the perfect match
if we knew how to do it
our adoration might be latched
together - locked by heart
but neither of us know where to start
and I'm cool - cause if it never starts
it never has to end
persistence waning, unrequited valentine
fate misplaced by my early arrival
patience dying with the turn of time
second guessing - maybe in the next life
I-want-to-tell-him-but-can't-speak-the-words
Why-can't-he-just-read-my-mind?
Monday, February 20, 2006
You don't want to miss this!!!!
Tuesday, Feb 21st at Club Underground
355 Monroe St. N.
(downstairs from the Spring Street Bar)
612-627-9123
9:30pm / $3 / 21+
EMS & DJ Green - their release party is just around the corner but you should come and get a sneak peek!
Ill Chemistry (Carnage & Des)- you know the deal!
The New Congress - gonna make you move, gonna make you move, gonna make you shake that thang!
355 Monroe St. N.
(downstairs from the Spring Street Bar)
612-627-9123
9:30pm / $3 / 21+
EMS & DJ Green - their release party is just around the corner but you should come and get a sneak peek!
Ill Chemistry (Carnage & Des)- you know the deal!
The New Congress - gonna make you move, gonna make you move, gonna make you shake that thang!
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Metropolis
I'm performing in a show this Sunday, February 19th at
The Southern Theater in Minneapolis
You can get all the details, price, etc at www.myspace.com/desdamona
This performance will be a collaborate effort that features the film Metropolis. Metropolis is one of the most exciting and exceptional works of art that humankind has produced. This epic science fiction film is one of Germany's famous silent movies created by Fritz Lang and liberated in 1927, the period between the two world wars.
Electropolis will be adding the soundtrack of live music for the showing of the film. I, Desdamona, will be providing a spoken word element. Here's what I will be performing.
Never have I been lost in this city
but instead, the city lost inside of me
just beneath the skin is seeps
it drips, it creeps, it rests in sleep
the sharpness of we pillowed beings
projected onto slippery streets
the juxtaposition of marshmallow memories
against the rust of unyielding dreams
has traced itself under my fingernails
and become embedded in my psyche
this metropolis turns to dust
and spreads wide as the grandest state
inside my heart it pumps and thrusts
a continent it makes
the veins are plucked one by one
replaced by fragile shards
that seemingly reflect our image
and we get wrapped inside the shine
because it's so curiously vivid
These are your brothers staring into the crystal ball of misfortune
never truly seeing reality
the balance split into unequal parts
slashing cuts into the flowering skirt of our mother
she is trying to tell us something but we've convinced her that she has no voice
her children have become assimilated into the steel and smoke
the dead have a silent film stretched across their faces
heart murmurs and celestial mirages
swooning from the stench of the soot
Whose hands built this city?
Whose heart resides here?
whose mind controls it?
overlooked by the centuries
shift change
shift & change
change shifts and the ladies dance for the heartless
the divide becomes a wound too deep to recover
the mother of these poor children, bereaved
and still the kings do not recognize their brothers
the ones standing in the mine fields
these are your brothers
frantically swinging machetes
amputating their own limbs
disconnecting themselves from humanity
but you are made of iron
neither their happiness or their sorrow
can push the wind into your face
The Southern Theater in Minneapolis
You can get all the details, price, etc at www.myspace.com/desdamona
This performance will be a collaborate effort that features the film Metropolis. Metropolis is one of the most exciting and exceptional works of art that humankind has produced. This epic science fiction film is one of Germany's famous silent movies created by Fritz Lang and liberated in 1927, the period between the two world wars.
Electropolis will be adding the soundtrack of live music for the showing of the film. I, Desdamona, will be providing a spoken word element. Here's what I will be performing.
Never have I been lost in this city
but instead, the city lost inside of me
just beneath the skin is seeps
it drips, it creeps, it rests in sleep
the sharpness of we pillowed beings
projected onto slippery streets
the juxtaposition of marshmallow memories
against the rust of unyielding dreams
has traced itself under my fingernails
and become embedded in my psyche
this metropolis turns to dust
and spreads wide as the grandest state
inside my heart it pumps and thrusts
a continent it makes
the veins are plucked one by one
replaced by fragile shards
that seemingly reflect our image
and we get wrapped inside the shine
because it's so curiously vivid
These are your brothers staring into the crystal ball of misfortune
never truly seeing reality
the balance split into unequal parts
slashing cuts into the flowering skirt of our mother
she is trying to tell us something but we've convinced her that she has no voice
her children have become assimilated into the steel and smoke
the dead have a silent film stretched across their faces
heart murmurs and celestial mirages
swooning from the stench of the soot
Whose hands built this city?
Whose heart resides here?
whose mind controls it?
overlooked by the centuries
shift change
shift & change
change shifts and the ladies dance for the heartless
the divide becomes a wound too deep to recover
the mother of these poor children, bereaved
and still the kings do not recognize their brothers
the ones standing in the mine fields
these are your brothers
frantically swinging machetes
amputating their own limbs
disconnecting themselves from humanity
but you are made of iron
neither their happiness or their sorrow
can push the wind into your face
Monday, February 06, 2006
dummy
all my friends, they think I'm smart
but I've only fooled them good
with my sarcasm and my witty talk
they're all in the dark
for who I am, or what I've become
is just what I've learned to be
wonder if they'd love to like
the me I used to be
It's not that I'm faking
or being something I'm not
I've just learned to use
all these things I been taught
I used to think that I was dumb
and sometimes I still do
expecially when I'm around
someone as smart as you
you know how to punctuate
and use words that I can't pronounce
and I know that you're super smart
because you never put me down
So, I'm wonderin if you might
want to teach me a thing or two
and even though I'm not too bright
maybe there's something I can teach you too
but I've only fooled them good
with my sarcasm and my witty talk
they're all in the dark
for who I am, or what I've become
is just what I've learned to be
wonder if they'd love to like
the me I used to be
It's not that I'm faking
or being something I'm not
I've just learned to use
all these things I been taught
I used to think that I was dumb
and sometimes I still do
expecially when I'm around
someone as smart as you
you know how to punctuate
and use words that I can't pronounce
and I know that you're super smart
because you never put me down
So, I'm wonderin if you might
want to teach me a thing or two
and even though I'm not too bright
maybe there's something I can teach you too
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