Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, by Roslyn Steer

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

by Roslyn Steer

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Dave Aftandilian WS’s poem brilliantly places blackbirds in conversation with both nature’s moods and the reader’s inner weather. Roslyn Steer’s fascinating, challenging responses chart a similar path to constructing Mystery through darkly playful musings. What is it all about, anyway, this world filled with shimmering appearances, disappearances, and transformations? We circle endlessly from wonder to awe to fear, rarely pausing to feel where we are, and where the blackbird is.

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	1.	Among Twenty Snowy Mountains 04:12
	2.	I Was Of Three Minds, Like A Tree 01:26
	3.	In The Autumn Winds, It Was A Small Part 11:08
	4.	And A Blackbird Are One 05:08
	5.	Or Just After 01:51
	6.	The Mood Traced In The Shadow 06:27
	7.	The Women About You 06:07
	8.	But I Know, Too 02:55
	9.	Of One Of Many Circles 03:58
	10.	In A Green Light, Even The Bawds 02:35
	11.	Once, A Fear Pierced Him 02:28
	12.	River Is, Blackbird Must 04:44
	13.	Evening All Afternoon 08:27

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Roslyn Steer is a Cork-based musician known for her work both as a solo artist and in collaboration with groups such as Crevice (with Elaine Howley and Irene Buckley) and the Cork Improvised Music Club. This album is a response to the 1917 Wallace Stevens poem that lends it its title. In keeping with the Stevens' assertion that the poem should be taken as a collection of ‘sensations’ rather than ‘ideas’, each track presents an impressionistic realisation of the imagery and mood evoked in each stanza. Utilising a broad musical palette (including double bass, pump organ, keyboards, vocals, and woodwinds), the pieces range from concise and melodic to meandering and improvised, evoking murky dusks and mist-drenched dawns, with a pervading earthy feel.

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released February 2, 2024

Music by Roslyn Steer, based on the poem by Wallace Stevens.
Thank you to Natalia, Willie, Rooster, and Sweep
for the use of their home.
Thanks to the Lodge and all those who dwell in,
and pass through it.
Thanks Mum for the flageolet, and the metronome.
Thanks to the blackbirds, for reminding me.

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