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Poetry & music are the geneology of the soul. |
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| Location: | Paris, France; Kauai, HI; Evanston (Chicago), Illinois |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | May 30, 2008 (82 days back) |
About Me |
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| Richard Fammerée has appeared on National Public Radio, PBS and ARTÉ
(France and
Germany) and is featured in international venues, journals and
publications.
Who's Who in the World introduces him as a poet, composer, performing
artist,
executive director and editor of UniVerse, a United Nations of Poetry
[www.universeofpoetry.org] and a member of the advisory board of The
Poetry
Center of Chicago. Richard Fammerée produces and hosts Poetry & Its Music International on WNUR [www.wnur.org], 89.3 FM (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL). * * * * * In the tradition of troubadours, Fammerée
has
played the varnish off numerous guitars in numerous countries. Venues have
included Amnesty International, Chicago Symphony Hall, Shakespeare & Co.
(Paris)
and The World Festival of Sacred Music initiated by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama.
His first album Fammerée & Eurydice marries passion and spirituality
echoing his
book of poems, Lessons of Water & Thirst, recently included in the
Poetry
Library of Royal Festival Hall, London. * * * * * Fammerée has also
composed for
various artists including poets Li-Young Lee and Elise Paschen, and singer-songwriters Ann West and Toni Childs. David Tickle has
produced three
projects. * * * * *
Richard Fammerée is currently preparing for the production of a fresh
series of
records featuring his poetry and songs. * * * * * * * * * * RECORDINGS:
FAMMEREE
& EURYDICE [to sample 2 minutes of each song: www.cdbaby.com/fammeree4]
[to
download this album and individual songs from Apple iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist
?id=74588139]
[www.myspace.com/richardfammeree] Pansophic and visceral in the same
breath,
Fammerée & Eurydice offers salvation to the intellectually insatiable
who love
to dance. “A sensual banquet of poetry & music, passion &
spirituality. Viva
l’evolution!” (George Whitman, Shakespeare & Co., Paris)
“Fammerée & Eurydice is
a record of an odyssey and an idyll of quixotic, atavic love. Poet and
musician
Richard Fammerée left home at eighteen with fewer dollars. Beginning
before the
Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, he crossed Europe on foot, often
inscribing
poems onto the face of his guitar, intuitively following ancient
crusade routes
and footpaths
of pilgrims, culminating upon Mt. Sinai. Listen for evidence of faerie
rings,
trysting stones, Goddess temples, Gethsemane, marble theatres and
medieval
palisades in the west of Ireland, south of France, the mountains of
Crete and
Morocco, the plains of Turkey, deserts of Jordan and Egypt, and verdant
islands
of the Pacific. Fammerée is
passionate as a renaissance philosopher, daring as the troubadours,
profound as
his faith in life. He elicits the complex purity of myth and
metamorphosis. To
experience the exotic--and often erotic--adventures of love and love
lost, self
and self found, to rekindle fantasies and faith, delight in this CD,
this
seminal recording, this transcendence.” (A. de Stael) * * * * KEEPER
OF THE
BLINDLY GLOWING: A SPONTANEOUS RECORD OF THE SPIRITUAL & TEMPORAL
ADVENTURES OF
AN AZURE POET [to sample 2 minutes of each song:
www.cdbaby.com/fammeree5] [to
download this album and individual songs from Apple iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?
playListId=260434725
] "I wrote and performed this album during recent journeys to the south
of
France enroute to Collioure, Paris and Longueville (the medieval
village of my
ancestors), the Middle East (Jerash, Petra, the Sinai, Qumran and
Jerusalem) and
the Pacific islands of Kauai and Maui. Listen for birds in the rafters
of the
red barn I converted into a recording studio. Special thanks to Melissa
Dittmann
for her inspired vocals. I played every instrument while also
engineering (when
there was electricity. . .). Production values are a bit rough, but so
is the
road and the life of a troubadour." * * * * * FAMMEREE & CERULEAN:
COLLABORATIONS WITH THE GODDESS [to sample 2 minutes of each song:
www.cdbaby.com/fammeree6] [to download this album and individual songs from
Apple iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?
playListId=262296211
] In the tradition of troubadours, Richard Fammerée, contemporary poet
and
singer-songwriter, wandered the world of sacred sites for two decades.
He
collaborated with many extraordinary woman poets, singers, musicians
and
dancers, including Ann West [www.myspace.com/AnnWest: “Confidante”
album], Toni
Childs [www.myspace.com/thetonichilds: One Life], Rachel Webster [track
10: A
Record of Being], Elise Paschen [track 8: Behind the Door], Alana Grier
[www.myspace.com/alanagrier], Melissa Dittmann [Keeper of the Blindly
Glowing,
track 2: Notre Dame], Sheila O’Donnell (Princess She) [track 1: Anam
Cara],
Tatiana Blanco [tracks 5 & 6: Teatime & Hush of Heaven], Carrie
Ingrisano [track
9: Shiny New Boy] and a French actress who wishes to remain anonymous.
This
record is to honor each of them and the voice of every woman. * * * * *
REVERSE
[www.reverse1.com] [The Apple iTunes LINK:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist
?id=74588139]
Richard Fammerée is a featured
artist on this superlative, recorded anthology of poetry and poetry &
music with
Li-Young Lee, Mark Strand, Lou Reid, Elise Paschen, Alexi Murdoch,
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Cin Salach, KClarke
and Simone Muench. * * * * * * * * * * PUBLICATIONS: LESSONS OF WATER
& THIRST
[www.cdbaby.com/fammeree2] “A recipe for earthly delights,” (Bob
Holman,
director of The United States of Poetry), this vulnerable, metaphysical
chronicle of an errant poet was recently included in The Poetry Library
at The
Royal Festival Hall, London. Manfred Gordon (Cambridge University)
describes
Lessons of Water & Thirst as “sensual and psychological, lush in the
tradition
of French Symbolism.” Contact the poet directly for an autographed
and numbered
copy: fammeree@att.net. * * * * * * * * * * UNIVERSE OF POETRY
[www.universeofpoetry.org] UniVerse, a United Nations of Poetry, is an
interactive forum and celebration of international poe
try encouraging universal dialogue, compassion and peace. Each nation,
with or
without territory, will be represented by at least one laureled poet.
Poets
writing in endangered languages and oral-traditionalists will also be
represented. Curricula is being developed to enable schools,
colleges and universities to utilize UniVerse as a free resource.
Please visit www.universeofpoetry.org. To help, please contact:
director@universeofpoetry.org
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Music:Member Since: 5/7/2006Band Website: cdbaby.com/all/fammeree Band Members: Richard Fammerée (poet, singer-songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, US/France); Li-Young Lee (poet, US); Alana Grier (singer-songwriter, bass, US); Rachel Webster (poet, US); Christopher Greene (electronics, violin, keyboards, songwriter, US); Carrie Ingrisano (singer-songwriter, bass, US); Francesco Levato (poet, new media artist, US/Italy); Elise Paschen (poet, US); Gary Brown (guitars, guitar emulations, singer-songwriter, US); Simon Rigot (keyboards, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, Belgium); Melissa Dittmann (singer-songwriter, violin, US/India); Paul Sihon (guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, US); Kimba Arems (dij, crystal bowl, bells, US); Mehmet Zeki Maviyildiz (percussion, dancer, Turkey); Jeanette Aylward (ballerina, US) * * * * * Even a God * * * * * When all statues are relieved of measure and divinity and fall or do whatever stone finally does, that next morning, we shall have to live, even as orphans of white forms and brass forms, without reference, without bracing, bevel and cut, names without verdigris, without pedestals and pigeons, however first or last. True, I shall miss cold breasts and clean hooves. When the hero on the horse is gone, I shall have to face the sky with eyes that never close and a composure that challenges even a god. * * * * * c 2007 Fammerée * * * * * www.myspace.com/fammereepoet * * * * * www.myspace.com/fammereelive Influences:I am pregnant and I am not embarassed, and I refuse to defend myself before the disappointed. My babies have not been fathered by the patriarchy, but they are not bastards. I am not busy in commerce-- I am not a landlord or collector or provider, but they will never be abandoned. I am going to live in a forest where moss bathes my toes and makes slippers for trees and pillows of stones; I am going to deny concrete and its fumes; I am going to swim every swell of my heart; for it is good for my babies. I am going to learn not to worry. I am going to learn to listen to my fingers and dismember every gate which does not allow the seeds of wind and rain and light. I am so pregnant I cannot see my feet, but my path leads me. When a poem comes through me, I embrace its vortex and adore its apparitions and whisper every word of its appendages into song. And when voices will no longer echo from the bones of my back, sleep will make me a baby in a belly again. [Pregnant by Richard Fammerée]..This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5 Sounds Like:If we were one God, we would feed each other everything; and everything would eat us, and we would never die.My tongues would serpent in your temple where water becomes blood; and the pink imprint of our lips would be a talisman above the bed.We would not need to protect our skin from light; we would not need to protect our skin from skin; and nothing red would be unclean at the mouth of the Tigris.I know what the dark book teaches, but the garden is within us all.I am a green man, and I am my messiah now. I am not embarrassed, I am not afraid, I am not alone. I cannot lose anything, for nothing is mine. And I will never be hungry, for everything is mine. Where, then, is the throne of heaven?I know what the dark book teaches, but the garden is within us all.If we were one God, we would not appease fathers of don't. We would kiss the tips of each other, for lips are the spout of the fountain and eyes, the light of the fountain. Nipples are ready to blossom, and a rose is a mouth of the mother.I am a finger, and you are a finger. Our hand is a leaf, our leaf, a wing, and leaves and wings will cathedral us again. [Green Man by Richard Fammerée]This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5 Type of Label: None |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Lyrical/Experimental/Alternative) |
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