d'oiseaux recordings

Sneakalisten to RCDVSM

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:26:00 +0000

it's a work in progress, but hey. i'm feeling like giving a birds' eye view into the creative process so folks can hear something right before it changes into something completely different.

First Track off the upcoming venture...

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 04:48:00 +0000

Quintessentials

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:50:00 +0000

We Sound Like This:

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:21:00 +0000

It's going to be a posh, posh, springtime on April 14th when this man drops his next LP on Shogun Audio. On and on the serious side of things.. the BWLP digital LP offering, Talisman, will be set to drop June 24th. A long time coming after much adversity....MUCH adversity.

Routine.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:28:00 +0000

the final mix comes in December.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:03:00 +0000

new school year. new arsenal. new genius paradigm posting. peep it to the right. oh and tonight i just worked out the chord structure to Harry Belafonte's Turn the World Around. which my volunteer 3rd grade chorus group did a great job of singing this morning after only having sung it twice. 3rd graders rule.

bwlp summer EP is working

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:08:00 +0000

..some of this: ohmega alpha birth place pop spot killed it impersonal ops hasty changes they should not appetite converted delusional ryhme got much deep, deep design gets lineage 3rd beautiful rhyme vets originality omen under sun beneath moonlit wave form, grown kin increments own prefabricated installed sound system speakers revolve hospital halls charge admission verbiage triage folks listen to the bank credit extension makings ends meets lines pay the pension dj...bring another dimension stories of creation doiseaux begin flickered street lamps Richmond California pre crack incubates latent traits would take a decade lady her time takes

2012 to 2013 Taking It Back To Jump Rope

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:59:00 +0000

if you know anything about bwlp you might know that a BIG passion of mine is jump rope. as a matter of fact, it was one of the first disciplines pertaining to hip hop culture that i got 'roped' into. my second year of teaching entailed instructing and choreographing a fusion routine (synchronized music, dance and jump rope skills) with my 3rd grade class in Berkeley, CA. that was also the year David Walker invited me to be a guest and help out with the Double Dutch Classic that goes down every 1st weekend in December at the Apollo theater in Harlem. (to this day, y'all). Lauren Walker, current NDDL President, is definitely carrying on the legacy, and has been for the past several years. and just a quick fyi, David Walker passed two years ago, but he was the founder (along with his detective partner with NYPD, officer Ulysses) of the National Double Dutch League, and initiated the official rules of the sport that is now jump rope worldwide. to the right i have a few new cold crushes to add to my list: and acquaintance organization, Jumping for Joy, based in Santa Clara, CA, now known as the Sol Jumpers. and USA Jump Rope. It appears that as an organization, they have got their house in order and made a come-back- real strong. peep the Panther video. get ready to hear about my exploits in producing real hip-hop tracks designed for jump rope, inspired by the Duck Rock campaign of Malcom McLaren. but from a very West Oakland perspective. we have a culture and an extremely tight science emphasis in elementary education that will prove to turn things out! i feel very lucky to be a world citizen with a global attitude and the angelic spiritual support to tap and bring so many valuable resources to communities like West Oakland. it's looking like it's time to get busy. focus for the new academic year beginning in september 2012 to 2013 looks to include: more music production, a recordings project tied to the writing curriculum, double dutch fitness campaign through 3D Double Dutch Jumprope Arts, academic rigor, and science connections. much apologies for the extreme pause in information as of late, but life is flat out getting restructured around here. now up in the sweet little town of Albany, CA.

Working: Portal 369 ,Lyrics.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:55:00 +0000

parallel thoughts still arrive.
mid-thesis, there are still songs working.
this time it's EMETIC LANDSCAPE stuff...
in between heavy sessions of constructing academic narratives,
comes a new melody on a guitar picked up with purpose
like delivering a crowning mother's child

comes the refrain:

homecomin’ seamless
supported, got lost

boredom lord knows
avoided at all cost

nicely, homecomin’
boredom lord knows

supported, got lost
avoided at all cost

peeled apart rain
capture all kinds; coats

inner brain fanclub
cranium post-it notes

sound proof rooms steady
steady, silent hopes

bounce real time
tinges, turn twangs

eventually reappear
under other names: portal

369 some
things’ll never change

emetic landscape
familiarity breeds clout

dreams aren’t allowed
positivity dried in drought.......

[it's working, there's plenty more..]
but like i said, there's thesis writing to do.

check the genius paradigm link in Cold Crushes for an update.

- b w l p

The Point.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:07:00 +0000

...in full gratitude.
my only true realignment.

the ongoing work of art in progress; this life.

...Will Leave All Other Podcasts In It's Wake.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:22:00 +0000

bwlp team on it:

dirty brandon bengz
b.p. d'oiseaux
b.phlecksi parmella
phoeb iuss phoe
portal 369

Rewriting The Art of Podcast:
Birds Who Like Pomegranate Mixed Media Music Magazine
Quarterly, 2012

Before Going Forward...Looking Back: SWALMB

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:57:00 +0000

Some Where A Little More Beautiful.
Electronic Version Sketch for the Acoustic.
SWALMB by parmella

Mindful Elan of Holiness and Respect.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:54:00 +0000

"..but why the Air Jordan Retro 11 'Concord'?!"

i know, i know. i'll get to that in a minute...

...my waking thoughts on Christmas' eve was a shower of mental snapshots:
"Don't write 'xmas' Mr. D, 'cause that's crossing out the 'Christ' in Christmas!"
-a few of my 5th graders.

okie doke.

"..this economy got things bad! What the hell happened to Richmond, bruh?"
(I had just relayed that I saw my buddy's apartment he lived in during high school,[he's since lived in New York the past 20 years] in the newspaper, a shot of it burned-out, aligned with a story about squatters and foreclosures)
"Damn, man, I tell people all the time out here I'm from Richmond, and they always say 'What, Richmond Virginia?'

"...and I'm like, naw' Richmond CALIFORNIA! It ain't no joke. You better ASK somebody!"

yes. at least to me, these hard times look slightly 'harder' in the Rich.

my daily spiritual routine involves 7 elements of mindfulness interconnected to:
vision. wisdom. purity. strength. peace. love. and victory.
there are many other fine ideas to attach to ones' ongoing awareness about in the world, i suppose...

but reflecting, as my closest loved ones are well beyond a 50 mile radius from me today, it is easiest to go about the business of each activity with elan, holiness and respect.

some would argue the Nike AJ Retro 11' Concord embodies that.
to others it's just another iconic bastion of what's wrong with consumption; what, with the lines, rushes to collect, cop, admire, stunt...what have you.

to me, this shoe, as enigma, is yet another focal point or flash point of regional urban experience; highlighting the disparate variance of human conditions.

remember Cazals?
remember Krylon?
remember the 'tennis bracelet'?
remember the 'perfect' one?
remember (that thing, person or ingredient of your own experience that would take you to that next level of 'fresh'?)

And...
does the planet REALLY have a chance at the precipice of globally spread democracy in the age of protest?

against what?
materialism's ideal is at odds with provision's definition of what's 'basic'
and it's simply boggling to see how urges to be heard go hand in hand with ongoing urges to reinvent the 'necessities' concept.

bwlp here, sending you best wishes during amazingly turbulent times;
despite the desperate...

it's an honor to be alive now

...grateful for friendship and loves through music
...thankful for awareness and capacity to consider opposing views
...loving that the urge to assist someone in need, need not go further than your neighbor

...loving the mindful elan of holiness and respect that comes from wholly tending to the art of living.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

What's newest?
an additional pseudonym for some upcoming drum and bass projects:
PHOEB
IUSS
FOE

it's looking more like springtime release joints...

p.s. honorable mentions to Shogun Audio.

Michael Ellis Makes Sense. Happy Holidays!

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:15:00 +0000

This is a KQED must hear...

"Healing
Michael Ellis says sometimes only a mystery explains the unexplainable.

By Michael Ellis

About two years ago I began to suffer the greatest series of cluster headaches I have ever had. These are related to, but not exactly like, migraines and are also called suicide headaches. They can be extremely debilitating and people have been known to kill themselves from them. Fortunately I do not suffer to that extent -- but they are bad.

While I was leading trips in the Mojave, I went to see an eccentric artist friend of mine who lives on the edge of Death Valley. I mentioned my headaches to her. She said, "I am a hands-on healer and I can help you."

"Well I don't have time right now I have to go meet my other group."

"It only takes a moment."

Ok, I had nothing to lose. She uncrossed my legs, had me sit erect, closed my eyes and as I sat still on a worn out folding chair in the hot desert heat. She put her hands on my head, said some things I could not understand, brushed rapidly downward several times and that was it. Fifteen seconds, max.

Now I am a scientist-type, a skeptic. If it cannot be measured and data gathered under controlled circumstances then I don't usually believe it. The fact is, however, I have not had a headache in nearly two years. Now they are called cluster headaches for a reason so it could have just been a coincidence. Last April when I returned to the desert I stopped by for another hands-on healing from LeAnne, just in case it wasn't.

Right now we are immersed in this holiday season, and spirit abounds. At age 60 I am finally beginning to understand, or at least feel, that there are many things in our world that cannot be quantified or explained but do exist. What hubris we humans have to think that if our feeble minds cannot grasp it, then it must not exist or be real. There are things that are simply mysteries right now.

My friend LeAnne touched me and I was healed. How, I do not know. Maybe someday we will be able to measure the energy fields that emanate from some people that can actually rearrange neuronal pathways at a close distance but for now I must accept that LeAnne is simply a hands-on healer with a gift to give.

This is Michael Ellis, with a Christmas Perspective."

Catch the audio here.

Laura Nyro Is In. For Good Reason.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:20:00 +0000

Find out why, here.

Civil War History. Te-Nihisi Breaks A Few Things Down.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:38:00 +0000

This from Ta-Henisi Coates, senior editor over at the Atlantic Monthly...

"In our present time, to express the view of the enslaved--to say that the Civil War was a significant battle in the long war against bondage and for government by the people--is to compromise the comfortable narrative. It is to remind us that some of our own forefathers once explicitly rejected the republic to which they'd pledged themselves, and dreamed up another country, with slavery not merely as a bug, but as its very premise. It is to point out that at this late hour, the totems of the empire of slavery--chief among them, its flag--still enjoy an honored place in the homes, and public spaces, of self-professed patriots and vulgar lovers of "freedom." It is to understand what it means to live in a country that will never apologize for slavery, but will not stop apologizing for the Civil War.

In August, I returned to Gettysburg. My visits to battlefields are always unsettling. Repeatedly, I have dragged my family along, and upon arrival I generally wish that I hadn't. Nowhere, as a black person, do I feel myself more of a problem than at these places, premised, to varying degrees, on talking around me. But of all the Civil War battlefields I've visited, Gettysburg now seems the most honest and forward-looking. The film in the visitor center begins with slavery, putting it at the center of the conflict. And in recent years, the National Park Service has made an effort to recognize an understated historical element of the town--its community of free blacks."

Read more here.

BWLP Live Acoustic For Japan. Early 2011.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:41:00 +0000

Teaching The Steve Jobs Way.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:34:00 +0000

What We Might Learn As Teachers from Steve Jobs
*as adapted by bwlp from the online article: WHATS HUGE, The techtainment Blog, accessed at http://whatshuge.com/2011/10/7-rules-of-steve-jobs/ on 10/20/11 at 5:05AM

1. Bring what you love into the classroom. Jobs once said, "People with passion can change the world for the better." Asked about the advice he would offer would-be entrepreneurs, he said, "I'd get a job as a busboy or something until I figured out what I was really passionate about." That's how much it meant to him. Passion is everything.

2. Put a dent in the universe; inspire children to change the world. Jobs believed in the power of vision. He once asked then-Pepsi President, John Sculley, "Do you want to spend your life selling sugar water or do you want to change the world?" Don't lose sight of the big vision.

3. Make connections in curriculum to a diversity of subjects and realia. Jobs once said creativity is connecting things. He meant that people with a broad set of life experiences can often see things that others miss. He took calligraphy classes that didn't have any practical use in his life -- until he built the Macintosh. Jobs traveled to India and Asia. He studied design and hospitality. Don't live in a bubble. Connect ideas from different fields.

4. Say no to 1,000 things; focus on a few key skills for academic success. Jobs was as proud of what Apple chose not to do as he was of what Apple did. When he returned in Apple in 1997, he took a company with 350 products and reduced them to 10 products in a two-year period. Why? So he could put the "A-Team" on each project. Put the "A-Team Attitude" on each semester goal. What are you saying "no" to?

5. Create insanely different experiences; how many things do children see when they walk in the door suggest their lives are enriched upon entry? Jobs also sought innovation in the customer-service experience. When he first came up with the concept for the Apple Stores, he said they would be different because instead of just moving boxes, the stores would enrich lives. Everything about the experience you have when you walk into an Apple store is intended to enrich your life and to create an emotional connection between you and the Apple brand. What are you doing to enrich the lives of your students?

6. Master the message; humans are conditioned to listen to storytelling- don’t fight the feeling!! Tell good stories that lead students to tasks and expectations. It’s better than appearing to beg them to listen. (I was ‘almost’ there...) You can have the greatest idea in the world, but if you can't communicate your ideas, it doesn't matter. Jobs was the world's greatest corporate storyteller. Instead of simply delivering a presentation like most people do, he informed, he educated, he inspired and he entertained, all in one presentation.

7. Sell dreams, not daily agendas. Jobs captured our imagination because he really understood his customer. He knew that tablets would not capture our imaginations if they were too complicated. The result? One button on the front of an iPad. It's so simple, a 2-year-old can use it. Your students don't care about your daily agenda. They care about themselves, their hopes, their ambitions. Jobs taught us that if you help your students reach their dreams, you'll win them over.

So the overall message is: dream bigger for your students and consequently yourself.
See genius in your craziness, believe in yourself, believe in your vision: crafting young people to be the best people they can be first to apply and develop their academic skills second, and be constantly prepared to defend those ideas.

Latin Music Summer.

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:46:00 +0000

I'm investigating another avenue of my heritage circa a Cubano grandfather...
It's up to the next generation of educators to research and unearth cultural gems to instill in today's youth that adversity has always birthed beautiful artistic expression.

We hear so much about the 50's, and yes, there was Mambo...
the likes of this:

Moms Mabley and Such...

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Mon, 23 May 2011 00:56:00 +0000

This month I'm cookin' something up on the dj tip.
All I can tell you it's vintage, classic, and fonky fonky fonky.
So get hip to some Jackie 'Moms' Mabley...(born Loretta Mary Aiken)
Doing her, Don't Sit On My Bed.
Spoken Word was richie rich in the 50's and 60's....
here's testament to a basic routine sketch..
from a ground breaking African American female comedienne

Nice Spring Break Sendoff...

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:02:00 +0000

As an aside from the AED music units...wow. The kids really DID have a good time.
Now for Spring Break. Preparing the last 19 days before CST's in the 'town.'

All this before WALKING to an exclusive showing of the making of Mario Chiodo's, Remember Them: Champions, sculpture creations.
Wow.
West Oakland Rocks!!!

No Really...
my kids just finished their own acoustic creation, We Come In Peace.
I won't leak any more, just expect to hear more about it here in the future- 8 4th grade guitarists, one old fowgie.....rockin' out.

Worth A Review...Something to Think About

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:28:00 +0000

By Steven Moss

Nuclear meltdown in Japan; revolts in Africa and the Middle East, with our military active on three fronts; multi-billion dollar budget deficits cratering local, state and federal governments; millions out of work. Are we nearing the apocalypse, or a new age foretold by the Mayan calendar's December 2012 end?

More likely the world is just reaping what it's sowed. The Japanese catastrophe has hewed close to a Godzilla movie: nature unleashes the radioactive monster created by human folly. Populations held under the thumb of cartoon dictators finally had enough. America, tethered to the Middle East by petroleum pipelines, is trying to settle the angry young men in Libya and elsewhere down, ushering them away from the oil fields by distributing their favorite toys: guns and bombs. Look at that pretty explosion. Our economy? Countrywide, Madoff, and the banks took care of that.

Aside from military action, politicians' response to these alarming events has been oddly surgical, focusing on whether just the government's fingers and toes should be amputated, or might it be better to simply shoot the government in the head so we can hurry back to our private compounds. That vision-thing is absent, unless the vision is of a hobbled government waiving its crutches and yelling "cut that out" as monopolies and mega-corporations pick the pockets of the poor, while the rest of us play Angry Birds on our hand computers.

Through the rubble of government deficits, shafts of light show potential pathways to a future we might actually want to live in. California's energy policies are stumbling towards a more reliable and sustainable era. The federal stimulus package signaled that collective action can be taken in the midst of crises. And citizen-leaders are reclaiming under-performing schools and ill-tended green spaces, through literal grassroots efforts supported by a mix of public and private dollars.

Whether our travails have a spiritual dimension -- and really, what doesn't -- or are purely human made, our response should be the same: praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Whereby "praise" might mean stop poking at your iPhone, and wake up to what's going on; and "ammunition" comes in the form of adopting public policies that create the kind of world we want for our children.

With a Perspective, I'm Steven Moss.

Muddy's Mojo

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:32:00 +0000

What do you think a Blues musician named 'Muddy Waters' looks like?
What do you think his music might sound like?
What do you think 'mojo' is?

I loved the answers for this last question:
"Swagger!"
"Witchcraft or Voodoo!"
"Spirit!"
"A Gorilla!" (...yeah, too much Power Puff...)

Well today we'll see a live version of Muddy Waters doing Got My Mojo Working from the American Folk Blues Festival British Tours 1963-1966....
AFTER some conversation about this quote and picture.

This week we'll analyze the lyrics.

My kids...so RICH!

CRIMMINNY!!!! I HAD NO IDEA we happened to be doing this on his birthday. Freaky.

Disasters; Natural and Otherwise

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:50:00 +0000

The only thing that felt right today was to go to Commonweal and play for Japan; right there at Pacific's edge.

As my life continues, universe withstanding, the continuum for many in human form has 'concluded.' So as my journey pushes past pauses, it is only correct and proper to acknowledge a respect for those:

now gone,
those who remain oppressed,
those tightly gripped in the clasps of war.

I've behaved in ways not very bright, less considerate, nor compassionate, drama prone.... so many imperfect things-
a chaotic mess when it happens all at once.

But I am still free (or locked-in) with a destiny to fulfill, as do we all.
All of us together.

I'm learning; a work in progress for sure.
Somewhere herein is a message that doesn't have to come back stamped:
Return to Sender.

I've already got it.
For all those I have caused disappointment and grief- I apologize and repent.

Written and Oral English Language Conventions, 4th Grade

noreply@blogger.com (bwlp) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:04:00 +0000

1.2
Today's well see if my kids can state with confidence...
"I can combine short, related sentences with appositives..."

Sure, it's just part of the standard, (participle phrases are up next followed by adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases) but we're marching on!

See the attached worksheet for today