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Trilogy: a music and poetry CD.


Trilogy: a music and poetry CD

David Pointer with music production by Michael Panasuk

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123 G, S. Kings Highway, Murfreesboro TN 37129

running time 20.23 at $10.00, incl. s and h

The Trilogy CD insert provides fair warning to listeners. Following is an excerpt:

"David Pointer is a poignant Nashville poet with a penchant for ... socio-psychoid experimentation.

His stories cut to the very depths of the everyday tragic human soul.

Each track ... provides a mindscape mind·scape
n.
A mental or psychological scene or area of the imagination.
 panoramic view of how the broken cogs These are all the Cogs found in Disney's Toontown Online. Names that are moved forward are leaders of the HQ of that specific Cog type. Bossbots
  • Flunky, Level 1-5
  • Pencil Pusher, Level 2-6
  • Yesman, Level 3-7
  • Micromanager, Level 4-8
  • Downsizer, Level 5-9
 on the cosmic wheel still rock and reel with the rest of the world."

Those broken cogs and that cosmic wheel rock and reel to amazing effect in Trilogy. Pointer's words are spoken, chanted, and sung, accompanied by Michael Panasuk's musical production. The result is an impressive blending of music and voice.

Track One, "The Blue Handed Man", is spoken and sung to blues guitar, harmonica harmonica.

1 The simplest of the musical instruments employing free reeds, known also as the mouth organ or French harp. It was probably invented in 1829 by Friedrich Buschmann of Berlin, who called his instrument the Mundäoline.
, and bongos. Street Corner Carson--The Blue Handed Man--is a war veteran, one of our forgotten heroes, forced to ride through life in the back of the bus:

... blue handed man lost his arm in the war he couldn't strum his guitar ... Pointer chronicles Carson's musical abilities in words, with background music that brings deeper meaning to the legend of a warrior who lost his identity in the aftermath of war.

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", is haunting and seductive in its picture of a man ignored and forgotten by the world:

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. ... Has reached the pint of no return. Despite the troubling subject matter, Pointer skillfully captures the essence of broken lives in this surprisingly sweet ballad. The musical production on this track was particularly effective.

Track Three, "It Wasn't My Night" gains its power from Pointer's whimsical and ironic delivery. The musical backing on this one is brilliantly conceived as Pointer interviews men in prison. Indian drums and trilling Tril·ling   , Lionel 1905-1975.

American literary critic whose works include Beyond Culture (1965) and Sincerity and Authenticity (1972).

Noun 1.
 pipes segue to a driving jazz back beat and finally to rock and roll guitar as Pointer speaks, chants, and sings his message.

David Pointer effectively champions the downtrodden down·trod·den  
adj.
Oppressed; tyrannized.


downtrodden
Adjective

oppressed and lacking the will to resist

Adj. 1.
 in this CD. Michael Panasuk's music adds power to Pointer's words in subtle ways. Neither words nor music can be adequately conveyed in a review. Trilogy should be listened to, and often, for listeners to fully appreciate its message.
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