While the instrumental backing is a remix of Moondog's Bird's Lament nr 1, the 'lyrics' are spoken poems of William Carlos Williams. The first three paragraphs (The little…beyond words) are called 'Pastoral' 'Bird, bird without….i did my best, farewell' is called The Sparrow (which Williams wrote for his father), the last passages 'Against the sky', as the title is called out clearly. (Although 'The Sparrow' and 'Against the sky' are fragments, not the complete poem.) A comprehensive complete lyric c… read more
While the instrumental backing is a remix of Moondog's Bird's Lament nr 1, the 'lyrics' are spoken poems of William Carlos Willia… read more
While the instrumental backing is a remix of Moondog's Bird's Lament nr 1, the 'lyrics' are spoken poems of William Carlos Williams. The first three paragraphs (The … read more
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (TKDE) formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen (aka Bong-Ra) and Gideon Kiers (Telcosystems), both graduates of the Utrecht School of Arts, combined their audio and visual skills to reinterpret classic movies by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and F. Lang (Metropolis). They split up in 2014. Even though it wasn't officially announced, Jason Kohnen mentioned it on his new project's Facebook page. In 2004 UK trombonist Hilary Jeffery and Swiss cellist Nina Hitz joined TKDE to record the self-titled d… read more
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (TKDE) formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen (aka Bong-Ra) and Gideon Kiers (Telcosystems), both gradua… read more
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (TKDE) formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen (aka Bong-Ra) and Gideon Kiers (Telcosystems), both graduates of the Utrecht School of Arts, combined th… read more