{"id":990,"date":"2020-02-19T08:55:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=990"},"modified":"2020-02-19T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:55:50","slug":"listen-to-stars-spreading-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2020\/02\/19\/listen-to-stars-spreading-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN TO STARS SPREADING RUMOURS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whispers In The Wind<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lanzarote has so little light pollution and so much silent,\nopen countryside that we are afforded wonderful views of meteors and  falling stars all across the constellation and,\nalmost on a nightly basis, are able to follow Tom Paxton\u00b4s advice to \u00b4listen to\nstars spreading rumours.\u00b4  We seem able to\nhear in the whispers of the wind, the soft voices of stars telling tales for us\nto pass on to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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a work by David Spriggs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

David Spriggs, for instance, is an artist we have recently heard being well spoken of. He works primarily in phenomenological experience; he creates stunningly convincing illusions of airy, voluminous objects that we enter visually. This process relies upon the way we interpret vision, and exploits our Gestaltian susceptibility to illusion conflating disparate parts into an actualized whole. Holocene\u2019s layering of warped rectangular forms presents a hyperbolic modernist reduction of the whole of human existence into one infinitely extended, anthropic abstraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who might not instantly understand what the above text\nby J. Hampton is telling us might soon be able to view for themselves the works\nhe describes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Spriggs, an English born artist who has lived in Canada\nsince early childhood, has shown his work all over the world and this\ninternational artist is rumoured to be bringing to the UK later this year an\nexhibition of the work Hampton tells about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His web site details an impressive and intriguing body of\nwork, so it might be worth making a mental note of the name David Spriggs and\nkeeping an eye out for wherever he exhibits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We here at all across the arts will try to keep you informed\nof venues and dates as we receive them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, check out Holocene by David Spriggs\n@david_spriggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you hear that? I\u00b4m sure I heard somebody rapping a rap in the background there. If so, they should contact radio presenter Steve Bewick, who is looking for rap artists to include on his weekly Hot Biscuits programme on FCUM Radio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Hot-Biscuits-p907436\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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artist, poet and jazz presenter
Steve Bewick
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Mr.\nBewick has been massively enthused by a recent trip to Tel Aviv where he\nchecked out a local arts scene that revealed jazz music being fused with rap\nelements, and he is keen to trace this development in the UK too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From what we hear Steve has had a busy time in Israel, writing his own free verses inspired by the beat poet generation he so loves, and also being busy sketching and painting. \u00a0Having landed back in the UK, he will no doubt be feverishly preparing for his own forthcoming arts exhibition. As soon as we hear any whispers of dates and venues, we will share them with you, of course. Meanwhile, Steve has just joined the newly formed Bury Jazz Society whilst he continues to deliver established and emerging artists from that genre on his radio show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giles Peterson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Giles Peterson is an artist currently receiving air play on Steve\u00b4s show. Steve describes him as \u00b4the John Peel jazz today.\u00b4 You can catch Steve on Wednesday evenings and no doubt you will be able hear some of Peterson\u00b4s work too. However, Giles is not the only one enjoying some airplay at the current time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Colin Lever
the musical half of Lendanear<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the cathedral quiet out here under the stars of Lanzarote you can hear not only The Beatles and The Byrds and The Beach Boys humming if you Lendanear, but also you can in fact hear the duo of that name is on the radio with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My\nlife-long song-writing partner, Colin Lever, has been working to restore over\nforty songs that he and I thought we had lost in the fade-away diamond time\nmany blue moons ago. After some re-recording in the studio and some restoration\nto the tracks we recorded forty years ago we\u00b4re now on the radio for the first\ntime since the radio was known as the wireless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\ncountry dj called \u00b4the pink cowgirl\u00b4 has been playing our songs to her\nlisteners in America and Australia and Ireland. Meanwhile, out here, under the\nwide Lanzarote skies, I\u00b4m sure I can hear those songs playing from border\nradios way out of range. Just last week, coming out of CountryJoe Radio, across\nthe ocean from Wyoming I heard my partner\u00b4s passionate delivery of Southern\nComfort and his more plaintive rendition of Last Boat Home. Back in the day,\nwhenever we were played on the wireless it would be in a folk programme in the\ncompany of the likes of The Spinners, Mike Harding and The Wurzels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nother night, though, the good folk in Wyoming heard us in a programme that also\nplayed Ozzy Osbourne and Toto. Occasionally I drive out among the stars when\nthe night is ours and as I negotiate the shadows and sands of Fire Mountain I\nthink I catch a glimpse of The Last Priest In The World seeking redemption or\nhear the faint echo  of Jack Easy, the\nconcertina man, playing stately dance music. I have always this was just my\nimagination playing tricks on me but now we have had confirmation that our\nsongs being played on the radio; all of them, including the four songs for\nSarah and one more for the road, can be heard. And then, my there\u00b4s a Monster\ncoming over the hill, as I pick up this island\u00b4s FM radio station and AJ the DJ\nis playing Rara Avis and a gentle whisper is calling me away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check\nout https:\/\/lendanearmusic.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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jenny Roche<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps even our friend Jenny Roche is listening to these songs too, as she continues her work as a freelance journalist and comedy writer in the Borough of Rochdale, with her own pieces in this month\u00b4s edition of Writing News Magazine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\nadvises us to listen to The Drabblecast, which is a weekly audio fiction\npod-cast that carries elements of fantasy and horror fiction. Emerging from a\nsuccessful crowd-funding campaign, it pays subsequently selected and published\ncontributors for features of between 500 and 4,000 words. www.drabblecast.org<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aspiring\nand freelance writers should also check out this March edition of WM for\nJenny\u00b4s news about Words Of Unity being sought for a new publication by Global\nActs Of Unity. She also informed us that The Science Fiction And Fantasy\nWriters Of America have bestowed an award on Lois McMaster Bujold, author of\nThe Vorkosigan Saga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny\nRoche looks further afield on the Global Fiction Market, and that pun of\nafield, might lead you to think of furry animals. If so, that would be\nopportune, as Jenny reports that Zooscape are looking for stories that they say\n\u00b4must feature an anthropormorphic animal figure.\u00b4 they will pay for published\nstories of up to 10,000 words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\nspeaks too of a \u00b4frontier opportunity for new poets\u00b4 at a publishing house\nseeking to provide new and exciting challenges to writers who have not\npreviously had published a full length piece of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing\nMagazine features in each month\u00b4s publication news from Jenny and other regular\nfreelance contributors about writing opportunities. The publication is\navailable on subscription or on order from newsagents and outlets like WH\nSmith\u00b4s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An\nEnglish writer, a resident for nearly twenty years now on Lanzarote, and a\nmember of the erstwhile Lanzarote Creative Writing Group (LCWG) has just\npublished his first book on Amazon and has been receiving positive reviews. We\nwill bring you an interview sometime in the near future with he who does not\nyet want to be known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LCWG\ndisbanded when its facilitator, Sue Almond, re-retired back to the UK and\nanother former member is also about to move off the island. That does mean,\nthough that there is an opportunity for somebody to start a new group, recruit\nmembers, and create new text and publications. Is there anybody out there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaking of writing the night stars are also conspiring to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the death of one of Lanzarote\u00b4s most loved poet. Victor Fernandez Gopar, wrote so many poems about the beautiful and important salt pans here on the island that he became known as \u00b4EL Salinero\u00b4 and it was with that sobriquet that he has previously been immortalised when the name was given to the main theatre in our Capital city of Arrecife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\nvenue has already staged a production called ‘Verses of Salt’ celebrating his\nlife with leading folk lore group Los Sabandinos paying their own tribute by\nputting his verses into songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now\nthe rumours in the night sky are telling us that soon a smaller, more intimate,\ncommemoration will be held in tribute to V\u00edctor Fern\u00e1ndez Gopar that aims to\nserve as recognition of the work and memory of the poet born in Las Bre\u00f1as in\n1844. A statue in his honour will be unveiled very soon in the small town of his\nbirth, and we have no doubt this will be a typical Lanzarote occasion of\ndignity and formality and partying. The commemoration might well go on long\ninto the night in a village which dreams under a blanket of stars and it might\njust be that amongst the rumours of the night, if we listen closely, we could\nimagine the ghost of Gopar reading one of his poems. The singing groups have\nbeen booked and the paella is being prepared as we speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\nas we have now mentioned singing groups we should add that sometimes the stars\nnot only spread rumours, but seem to join with us in singing them in harmony as\nthey do so. That is how we heard that Lanzarote\u00b4s Voices Choir are looking to\ndeliver a summer concert to complement their much loved Christmas concerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u00b4ll\nkeep you informed of developments and all you have to do is Lendanear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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