Writing Through Two Sets of Music by Rich Halley, Tim Du Roche and Friends at Alberta Street Pub, Portland June 19, 2015

Creative Music Guild Presents

John Gross, Reed Wallsmith, Andre St. James, & Tim DuRoche

Alberta Street Pub, Portland, OR

June 19, 2015

fluctuations heartbreak

everything shrinks

to recede into the bell

crying out for the still

wailing (for) nothing

alternating currents

stripe seduction

two-tone tenderness

falls in line

synchronized inhale

together we

let it out

parallel yet distinct

bubbling up

play a form

“the slow game baby”

bold announcement

of intent

single bell chime

solitary thought crime

breathy spirals

brush pirouette

repetitive escape valve

forgive this swing

grated circularity

pull to and fro

the sorrow

the overseer

lover jilted

disrespected

turn away

threaded

muscularity

intoxicating

support

step unanticipated

conversing with the air

blowing through cilia

measured whisper

barely registers

like thumb

like cloth

drawn across

taut skin 

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Creative Music Guild Presents

Rich Halley, Michael Vlatkovich, Clyde Reed, & Carson Halley

“CREATING STRUCTURE” Album Release

Alberta Street Pub, Portland, OR

June 19, 2015

“with that, we’re gonna start”

 a conversation

round a dinner table

overlapping throughlines

both harmonic and dissonant

steady and stilted

time is malleable

yet fully framed

turns out that frame

is liquid

runs through and over

returns to the sand

lead, follow, rush

                                                evaporate

intensely concentrated

high energy constructs

dance with life

                                    refuse to lie still

            hum w energy

                                                molecular in its ubiquity

don’t quit

                        ramp it up – STOP

                                                                        crawl up and meander

                                                                                                drift and slide

                                                            keep it hot

Michael Vlatkovich, Carson Halley, Clyde Reed, and Rich Halley by Robert Pyle

“dead of winter”

retroactive liar thrum

nearness of an idea

unspoken unaccepted

wipe a running tear

radiant and clear

both there and here

                                    unkown and serious

                                    about the mark                        that lingers

                                    the pain           that festers

                                    leaving             heavy scars      in its wake

see it (again)

we will dispute

once again

finish me

entrance me

*********

retroactive retraction

find our way into it

little bursts of air

overcome by proximity

add time

subtract grudge

move forward

a millimeter

break steel

she came

life about

finish

the cold

accept that

circumstances

have changed

symbolic gesture

tough time w that

just play

away forward

orderly shattering

systematic

dissolution

sanitary decay

we just breeze

that way

“the semblance of stealth”

a thousand march uphill

and finally ascend

like heaven Poppa

just as I always pictured it

lion smashes head on rocks

where’s the wisdom in that?

father time express

better catch it quick

round and round

assurance

resignation

“duo poly”

you don’t even know what that means

it means two of many

and you will now see what that means

two sway

                        meanness to display

                                                                        pulse    exhale              spit

                                                                                                do it all again

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