Dissonance.  Vive le dissonance!  Tonight the Raving Poets Band serves it to you in heaping quantities.  Sit back, put on your favorite headphones and listen to Mark Kozub carve up the night.

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In a recent interview, Freeman Patterson noted that …

“Any artist in any medium will say that our unconscious self is always two to five years out in front of our conscious self. And we’re photographing or we’re dancing or we’re playing music in a way and doing things with it that we don’t realize – consciously.” 

Enter Daniel Poitras. 

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This week we’re featuring a piece which sort of masterfully illustrates what the Raving Poets are about.  Kathy Fisher explores the various definitions of the word “stroke”.  In a virtuoso performance, bassist Mark Kozub lays down an accompaniment that will make your jaw drop.  Listen to how this develops musically.  Listen to how Fishy spoons back into the riff and how the performance reaches a synergy that neither alone could have accomplished. In a lot of ways this is exactly what the Raving Poets aim to achieve by combining the spoken word and music.

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We’re overdue for our Patti Sinclair fix.  Tonight she gives us 100 Full Moons in Autumn.

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Be sure to check out Red Nettle Press.  They’ve got a big shin-dig coming up May 29, a new chap book.  Check it out!

Once in a blue moon the trajectory of Peter McPhee takes him to Edmonton for a performance at the Kasbar.  We’d like it to happen more often, but trajectories are not something to be trifled with. 

This week Peter performs his piece Cinesia 2.0 accompanied by the amazing Raving Poets band.

This week it is Adam Snider.  Adam is best known as Nietzsche’s proverbial snowmobile driver.

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Be sure to check out Adam’s blog.  Please leave him a message and let him know that “Live at the Kasbar” sent you!

Smells. The smell of Grandma’s kitchen. A warm baguette fresh out of the oven in a small Provencal town. The scent of your lover’s skin. Wendy Joy stops by this week to deliver “A few of the things I love” in that inimitable Wendy Joy way.

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Hockey. Hockey and more hockey. That’s what spring in Canada is about. Forget basketball, Canada is all about Hockey. So it is only fitting that we go with Laurie MacFayden this week. 

“Go five hole on me baby …” she says.

Laurie has a groovy little blog going.  Check it out here.

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Phil Jagger. Two words that spark fear and trepidation into the heart of the spoken word community. Come listen to the master. He gives the Raving Poets Band free rein to add whatever musical accompaniment they can to his stuff. And Phil, as always, rises up to the occasion.

This recording is particularly interesting. Phil asked for a predominant organ sound. So that’s Trofimuk that you hear grinding the organ. Now let’s add to that. Let’s add Mark Kozub re-entering the earth’s atmosphere at an insanely oblique angle. And let’s mash that together with some demanding beats and scratches off of the beat box and then humanize that with a sprinkle of synthesized drums from the world of Gord McRae. Few others would be brave enough to front such a concoction. Phil fronts it and makes it his own and puts together a standout performance.  This performance is not to be missed!

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Check out Mike Gravel’s Podcast at www.streetrag.com/podcast

Also check out Corey Hamilton’s Bad Hard Luck video poems up at http://www.youtube.com/user/badhardluck

Episode 14 of Live at the Kasbar featured a work by Rosemary Wilson called MRI.  It was inspired by her personal observations as she went to undergo an MRI.  It was haunting and chilling.   The piece and the performance are incredibly moving.  It was one of those moments at the Kasbar where you just want to hold your breath – because you’ve been changed in some small way.

Nicole Pakan was there on that day and heard Rosemary’s piece.  “The Myth Of” is in response to Rosemary’s piece.  On that night we were all glad that Nicole had put this together because she masterfully articulated what we all felt in our hearts and minds. 

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