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Carnivora: A Sky On Fire
If you’re at all familiar with my ongoing project, Carnivora, then you know that it’s ambitious in the scope of media it intends to cover.
One such medium is that of the musical note: I’ve spent the better part of the last year working with an immensely talented musician named Felix McTeigue (aka FDR.) Over the course of many months we’ve assembled what I believe to be an album of music that we both can be proud of.
To celebrate the near completion of this phase of the project I’ve linked to a track from the album below.
Please feel free to listen, download, burn, or email it and otherwise treat it like you would any other track daring enough to show its face online stripped of any kind of DRM. Please help get the word out…
Expect to see the album on iTunes at some point in the next 6 months!
Enjoy
Carnivora: Andy had a Dream…
Almost a decade ago I traveled to Portugal and decided that I would paint and write while traveling throughout the country. I stayed for 6 months and it remains, in my mind, one of the most rewarding adventures I’ve ever experienced.
While abroad, I received a letter from my friend, Andrew Johnson, telling me of a dream he had had. It struck a visceral chord within and I was moved to pen an Eliot-esque poem embellishing the contents of his dream.
New York, present day…
As work on my multi-media installation, Carnivora, proceeds I am excited to know that one of my favorite musicians is hard at work crafting a unique album of music based on my writings and poems as they relate to the show’s premise. Of course, as is the case with so many things, there was work done before the work began, and as such Felix (the musician) repayed me a debt by creating a song based on a poem that I’ve never been able to let go of… it’s called The Dream (or I Dreamt as Andrew Johnson).
You can read the poem by clicking here, and you can listen to the resulting track below.
