VARIOUS ARTISTS: Crossing the Blvd

Various Artists

Crossing the Blvd

© 2003 Earsay/Sloan/Lehrer/Johnson (9780393105889)

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Text/audio pieces by Sloan/Lehrer and new music compositions by Scott Johnson, cross the boundaries between music and speech, journalism and expressionism. Featuring musicians in the companion book by W.W. Norton, including Gogol Bordello.

tracks

1 Crossing Queens Blvd
2 Un Pom Ramarat (A Tree is Blooming)
3 Universal Phenomenon
4 They Lied
5 Gypsy Dance: Zhiganochka
6 Names
7 Continental Divide
8 800 Jobs
9 Vai De Mine
10 Dragu Tata (Dear Dad)
11 Improvisation
12 Cargo Flight to Somewhere
13 Five Village Scenes
14 With Us or Against Us
15 Through the Roof n' Underground
16 Tije Pa Mouri! (Tije is not Dead)
17 Mi Cabaña
18 Your Host
19 Globalization

notes

Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America is a multi-media project that portrays the largely invisible lives and stories of new immigrants and refugees in the borough of Queens New York - the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States. From 1999 through 2002, interdisciplinary artists Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan traveled the world by trekking the streets of their home borough in search of story, culture, and soul. The result is a 400 page, full color book (W. W. Norton), public radio documentaries, an exhibition, a performance -work, and this Audio CD. Original music compositions by Scott Johnson (of John Somebody fame), and text/audio compositions by Sloan/Lehrer cross the boundaries between music and speech, journalism and expressionism, tradition and the avant-garde. Produced by Judith Sloan the CD also includes music by Crossing the BLVD participants include the gypsy-punk-cabaret band Gogol Bordello, Nigerian gospel singer Kingsley Ogunde, Romanian-American musicians Christine and Dinu Ghezzo, and others. Beautifully performed and recorded, this CD is a rich and original musical soundscape that reflects the immigrant experience at the crossroads of a paradoxical and ever-changing America. www.crossingtheblvd.org

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  • Immigration stories and music are inspiring and beautiful!
    author: Sonia Portugal

    The personal and intimate experience of each immigrant in this cd combined with sound effects and amazing music is just touching, inspiring, and beautiful. So unique! I loved listening all these funny, dramatic, risky, naif, sad, and interesting stories of immigration.

  • incredible conbination
    author: Faju Powerson

    Hon can we meet Kingsley Ogunde the Nigerian singer we love is voice

  • an incredibly complex and innovative use of artistic discliplines combined with
    author: jesse lee denning

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