SPOKEN WORD RECORDINGS FROM LIVING MUSIC 'Turtle Island' with Gary Snyder, 'Whales Alive' with Leonard Nimoy and 'The Man Who Planted Trees' with R. J. Lurtsema
PAUL WINTER'S WORLD OF LIVING MUSIC:
21 Years Celebrating the Creatures and Cultures of the Earth
TURTLE ISLAND
The Paul Winter Consort
with the voice of Gary Snyder
TURTLE ISLAND is the live recording of a poetry-with-music adventure, with readings by Pulitzer prize-winning poet Gary Snyder to improvisations by the Paul Winter Consort.
'Turtle Island' is an Indian name for North America. Most of the poems here come from Gary Snyder's book of the same title and are about our relationship to the environment and a sense of place. This is a recording of Gary's stunning performance of his poems interwoven with the Consort's improvisations.
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES
The Paul Winter Consort
with the voice of Robert J. Lurtsema
Jean Giono's beloved and empowering eco-fable THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, narrated by R. J. Lurtsema,
has inspired the Paul Winter Consort to create some of the most ravishingly
beautiful music of their illustrious career.
"This story can be enjoyed by children as well as adults, and gives
the listener a positive message about what can be accomplished by a single
dedicated person. The music is appropriately uplifting, complementing and
supporting the voice of the storyteller. Its like a play made for radio,
and Winter's music enhances the telling of the tale." (NEW AGE VOICE)
WHALES ALIVE
Paul Winter and Paul Halley
with the voice of Leonard Nimoy
and the voices of Humpback Whales
WHALES ALIVE is a celebration of whales in poetry, prose and music, with original compositions by sax and pipe organ, based on melodies by humpback whales themselves, and readings from the prose and poetry of D.H.Lawrence, Herman Melville, Gary Snyder and Roger Payne by Leonard Nimoy.
"A haunting record that you won't forget and you'll play over and over again." (EXPRESS NEWS)
"WHALES ALIVE actually creates an astounding integration of musical voices, which serves to emphasize the raw, primal and intensely musical quality of the whales as they sing. These pristine, unadulterated voices of nature, subtly shaded by human instruments, have an eerie, haunting, irresistible quality." (DALLAS TIMES HERALD)