Music Group

No more food comments on this from me; Are we having a mailing or not? Who's in it?

Regards, Val

Looks like our numbers were decimated. If there are but two or three, shall we disband?

I'm hopeful things may turn around later on.

Am i dreaming?

There is something wrong with this Group. No one is really interested in what should be a really obvious and inspirational theme. I don't know why people join a Group and then do nothing about it. I also believe that Groups should only exist for a month -- after a first wave of enthusiasm, things grind to a halt, and the Groups should be wound up: this is a prime example of this. It's Maria's Group, and she has responsibility for it  -- although I strongly encouraged her to start it, and must share some of that responsibility.

I suggest this mailing is canned, because it just ain't worth doing on a small scale.

Perhaps the Group members don't like group mailings -- that I can understand, but I can't understand why they are not more inspired by Music and Mail Art.

Frustratedly yours, Val

TO ANY AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WHO MAY BE READING THIS......what do you want from this group, if anything? What are you prepared to contribute to this Group, if anything?

I like your wording: "TO ANY AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WHO MAY BE READING THIS......what do you want from this group, if anything? What are you prepared to contribute to this Group, if anything?"

Hope that gives us some more time!

For what it's worth, I do see more than one vitally interested gang here in groups which are ongoing, fresh, really hip. Nothing wrong with that. But wouldn't you want something to continue that had been going well enough for long whiles? 

Let's not generalize away the idea some groups are livelier than this one.

An old Cliff Richard song, called 'Summer Holiday':

"We're all going on a summer holiday
no more working for a week or two.
Fun and laughter on our summer holiday,
no more worries for me or you,
for a week or two.

We're going where the sun shines brightly
we're going where the sea is blue.
we've all seen it on the movies,
now let's see if it's true.

Everybody has a summer holiday
doin' things they always wanted to
So we're going on a summer holiday,
to make our dreams come true
for me and you.
for me and you. "

I'm going away, not exactly on a summer holiday, but I'll be back in a week or two.

I hope that you enjoy your summer.

Regards, le tour de val

Painted envelope I amiled to Helen Daley in Australia.

Title "In the court of the Crimson King" refers to first LP of King Crimson. Have the CD now, extended one with alternate takes of certain songs. Favorite song: Epitaph

THE FIREBIRD, inspired by Stravinsky

HERE COMES THE SUN,

inspired by a Beatles' song

OCTOPUS'S GARDEN

Inspired by a Beatles' song

THE GREEN MANALISHI

Inspired by a song from Peter Green & Fleetwood Mac (the early Fleetwood Mac, not The Rumours crap)

Lyrics:

The green manalishi

Written by Peter Green


Now, when the day goes to sleep and the full moon looks
The night is so black that the darkness cooks
Don’t you come creepin’ around - makin’ me do things I don’t want to

Can’t believe that you need my love so bad
Come sneakin’ around tryin’ to drive me mad
Bustin’ in on my dreams - making me see things I don’t wanna see

Break:

’cause you’re da green manalishi with the two prong crown
All my tryin’ is up - all your bringin’ is down
Just taking my love then slippin’ away
Leavin’ me here just tryin’ to keep from following you

A tribute to Chet Baker

YOU REFUSE, EYES CLOSED

Another interpretation of WILD IS THE WIND as tribute to Nina Simone

I AM IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (jazz vocal standard)

I TALK TO THE WIND, inspired by a King Crimson song

SPINNING WHEEL, inspired by a Blood, Sweat and Tears’ song

TE DEUM, inspired by choral composition by Arvo PART

LOOKING AT MOTHER NATURE ON THE RUN IN THE 21st CENTURY

(Neil Young, After the Gold Rush album)

ATC from Anke van den Berg LES MUSIQUES ANCIENNES

Collage IF I HAD A HAMMER

Collage FOXY LADY

FOXY LADY by Jimi Hendrix

Foxy
Foxy

You know you're a cut little heartbreaker
Foxy
You know you're a sweet little lovemaker
Foxy

I wanna take you home
I won't do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh, foxy lady
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimi+hendrix/foxy+lady_20071513.html ]
I see you, heh, on down on the scene
Foxy
You make me wanna get up and scream
Foxy
Ah, baby listen now
I've made up my mind
I'm tired of wasting all my precious time
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Foxy lady
Here I come

I'm gonna take you home
I won't do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine

Here I come
I'm comin' to get ya
Foxy lady
You look so good
Yeah, foxy
Yeah, give us some
Foxy
Yeah, get it, babe
You make me feel like
Feel like sayin' foxy
Foxy
Foxy lady

Foxy Lady

Collage GOD SAVE THE QUEEN (and Hitler, spot the differences!)

God save the Queen
the fascist regime,
they made you a moron
a potential H-bomb.

God save the Queen
she ain't no human being.
There is no future
in England's dreaming

Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need.
There's no future
there's no future
there's no future for you

God save the Queen
we mean it man
we love our queen
God saves

God save the Queen
'cos tourists are money
and our figurehead
is not what she seems

Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
all crimes are paid.

When there's no future
how can there be sin
we're the flowers
in the dustbin
we're the poison
in your human machine
we're the future
you're future

God save the Queen
we mean it man
we love our queen
God saves


God save the Queen
we mean it man
there is no future
in England's dreaming

No future
no future for you
no future for me

THE SEX PISTOLS

Collage HELP! (a tribute to The Beatles)

NUAGES, tribute collage to Django Reinhardt

SENHORA DA NOITE, LADY OF THE NIGHT (and 7 other paintings) inspired by the FADO music of MISIA

Collage in support of the Russian feminist punk group PUSSY RIOT, they sang a religious protest song against Putin in the orthodox cathedral and 3 members are already 5 months in jail for HOOLIGANISM, trial started in Moscow and they risk 7 years altogether!!

Photos: Pussy Riot Collective in action, the 3 in jail, they are also in a cage during the trial; Putin is the new Stalin in a suit, people!

FREE PUSSY RIOT, campaign poster from Amnesty International USA, glad to hear that pop stars lile Madonna and Peaches have a conscience! Strange, only women! but not all .... Example

 the Spice Girls were to busy to close the London Olympics I guess...

It was in a Lousiana swamp I understood the music of Lightnin’ Slim

Large painted envelope

Projection by THE ILLUMINATOR on the Russian consulate of New York the same evening after 3 members of Pussy Riot were jailed to 2 years in Putin’s new gulag

Collage THE SOUND TEST or Ha ha ha, this sounds false, the pussy riot girls making fun of the scientific test invented by comrade Putin to distinguish the real from the false communism during the Moscow trials, they started in 1936 and continued till 2012 and beyond

It’s the mood that I am in, tribute to song by Billie Holyday

My dream of life is here to stay, another tribute to a song by Billie Holyday

SAD SONG, Lou Reed and many others

STARDUST, a tribute to Louis Armstrong, received from Cuan Miles, South Africa

IMPROVISATIONS TOGETHER WITH STEVE LACY, series of 8 envelopes, base made with eyes closed while listening to the free jazz of soprano saxophone player Steve Lacy; this is envelope 6

THE SAD GARDENIA, another tribute to Billie Holyday

From Christine F, Belgium

I WANNA HOLD YOUR ... EYE, tribute to The Beatles

Collaborative collages on a set of 10 playing cards from Terry Flowers (USA) and Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)

Painting size A3: LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, a tribute to NINA SIMONE

You ain t seen nothing yet, tribute to Canadian rock band BTO

Music is the bottom line

Collaged card from Meg Taney

Music for G, by Erica Durante

Is anyone still active here?  I was just thinking to start a Mail Art Music group, but here you are already.

So does anyone want to have an exchange / call?  Example; Mail Art about your favourite Love song; to arrive by the 14th of February 2017.

Dean, It's Christmas and I haven't sent you anything in a long time.  I like the idea of a love song music exchange! 

Serendipity that I logged into IUOMA as you were posting.  I joined the group immediately!

Actually I wish I would have thought of a few ideas before launching into this exchange.  I hope the ideas surface now.  Because, You can't buy me Love.

outgiong to Dean...