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Sunday, June 7th, 2009 12:36 AM PDT
Please scroll down and check out these CDs and books! Thank you. I'm honored and delighted to sing & speak to you. Lisa B Sunday, June 7th, 2009 12:12 AM PDT
![]() OUT AUGUST 4! THE POETRY OF GROOVE 2009 Piece of Pie Records Lisa leaps into a new flight path: an entire set of her playful, poetic rap and sultry choruses over jazzy hip-hop grooves (with a taste of electronica and world flavors).
Samples of a couple of versions of the title track: Jazzy chill mix Click to listen House mix Click to listen Sunday, June 7th, 2009 12:09 AM PDT
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 10:30 PM PDT
![]() WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT? 2006 Piece of Pie Records Personnel Frank Martin and Ben Flint - keyboards Chris Amberger, Troy Lampkins, and John Shifflett - electric and acoustic basses Paul van Wageningen and Alan Hall - drums Danny Caron - guitar John Santos - percussion Lisa B - Producer James (Jim) Gardiner and Scott R. Looney - Engineers Pajama Studios - recording, Oakland, California George Horn - mastering, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley TRACK LIST (click on retailer links for brief samples of all): 1. What's New, Pussycat? - Click to listen 2. Slay Me (My Young Cat) 3. Cha Cha de la Gata - Click to listen 4. Our House - Click to listen 5. Night and Day / The Cat Goddess 6. Crazy Cat 7. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to 8. The Home Inside 9. Warrior Cat 10. When Malika Sleeps Buy via 1. Itunes 2. Amazon including individual MP3 tracks, CLICK HERE 3. CDBaby or 4. PayPal using "Add to Cart" (no signups needed) Saturday, June 6th, 2009 10:24 PM PDT
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![]() CENTER OF THE RHYME 2003 Piece of Pie Records Personnel Frank Martin - keyboard Jim (James) Gardiner – keyboard and miscellaneous instruments Mimi Fox - acoustic and electric guitar Dave Yamasaki - acoustic and electric guitar Bill Douglass and Chris Amberger - bass Paul van Wageningen - drums Michael Spiro - miscellaneous percussion Tod Dickow - tenor sax Daria - background vocals Jim (James) Gardiner - producer, engineer Pajama Studios - recording, Oakland, California George Horn - mastering, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley TRACK LIST (click on retailer links for brief samples of all) 1. Joe Williams Died Walking/Every Day I Have the Blues - Click to listen 2. Be Electric 3. Keeps Me Up All Night 4. What You Won't Do for Love 5. Captured by Time - The New War - Click to listen 6. A Place We Knew - Click to listen 7. Center of the Rhyme - Click to listen 8. Slow 9. Let Me Know It's You 10. The Bluejay Glide Buy via 1. Itunes 2. Amazon including individual MP3 tracks, CLICK HERE 3. CDBaby or 4. PayPal using "Add to Cart" (no signups needed) Saturday, June 6th, 2009 8:02 PM PDT
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![]() FREE ME FOR THE JOY 1999 Piece of Pie Records Personnel Bob Mocarsky – keyboard Jim (James) Gardiner – keyboard and miscellaneous instruments Dave Yamasaki – guitar Curtis Ohlson and Frank Thibeaux – bass Marcos R. Biddle – drums John Santos – percussion Sandy Cressman, Nikita Germaine, Sandy Griffith, Alice Peacock - background vocals Rock Hendricks – tenor sax Jim (James) Gardiner, Touch-Tone Productions – producer, engineer Dale Everingham, Vincent Wojno, Jim Gardiner – mix engineers Pajama Studios - recording, Oakland, California Paul Stubblebine – mastering, Hyde Street Studio D, San Francisco TRACK LIST (click on retailer links for brief samples of all) 1. I Remember Paradise - Click to listen 2. Summertime Song 3. You're Not A Girl Anymore - Click to listen 4. God of Your Heart 5. Whoever Loves Is Afraid 6. Free Me for the Joy - Click to listen 7. Turning It Around 8. Virtual Kiss 9. Trane's Ride 10. God No. 2 Buy via 1. Itunes 2. Amazon including individual MP3 tracks, CLICK HERE 3. CDBaby or 4. PayPal using "Add to Cart" (no signups needed) Saturday, June 6th, 2009 5:05 PM PDT
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![]() THE TRANSPARENT BODY 1989 (poetry, Wesleyan University Press) hardback (email if you prefer paperback), 64 pp. Frances Mayes: “…Whatever she knows or sings comes, in Whitman’s term, from the body electric. Daniel Halpern: “Here’s a poetry set out in physical terms—often ruthlessly so. Tied to the things of this world as they are, Ms. Bernstein's poems would have pleased William Carlos Williams— there are plenty of things whose volume contains ideas. There’s hardly a missed opportunity to approach the objects of her world with open hands, to employ details of sensuality to invoke what surrounds her. Here’s a book that wants to touch you.” Booklist: “…it is her gift that she manages, through the extreme clarity of her images, always to engage us…A good selection for women’s literature collections.” The Woman Between Us 1. She waits, taut as a net, for me to fall from him, a torn sail. As if spread on the water, blanking out, I glimpse my long brown hair sweeping his shoulder and dizzy with sunlight I'm washed back to his shore. He doesn't see her shape appearing, a paper lantern outlined by twine, the curve of her breasts precise as ink, the down of her belly brushstrokes of a name. He reaches for me but her milky buttocks slope between us, her body a flicker of lace flattening as our hips meet and unfurling as we slip apart. I cling to his hard, curved chest, my fingers caught in his red-gold hair, bite his neck and the flesh above his ribs. All his weight can't erase her sheen from my skin. Open-mouthed, silent as she is silent, inhaling with her, exhaling with him, I cry out -- a white gown unraveling around me, her heat. We are alone with her absence. He sees me transparent, the length of my body lit up with loving him and trying to keep her in sight. He watches me looking and doesn't look away. Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 7:43 PM PDT
ANOREXIA 1985 (fictional poetry, Five Fingers Poetry) saddle-stitched chapbook, 27 pp. Frances Jaffer: “Brilliantly imagined, painful, intense, often strangely beautiful… evoke[s] the constant hunger, the infuriated will, the unforgiving rage of the adolescent… An intense and absorbing book.” Stan Rice: “…Its themes of domination, withdrawal, gorging, and the various forms of craving that constitute life make this sequence poem a metaphor for subjects beyond its title. One day is fine; the next we find ourselves in a state without longing…” Kevin Killian: “The eros behind these poems is terrified by a desire for for death so strong it would overwhelm the entire being....the most hypersexual book you'll read for many years to come...But I shouldn't lost sight of the narrative here, since it's its most fascinating component. There's a mother and a father and their daughter, who move through different pictures of a crisis... Bernstein's heroine finally breaks the shackles of the taboos that surround her to reinvent herself in a new form.” My Birthday Thirteen candles flame in my eyes. Streamers sway on the walls. Someone inhales, the lights blow out, my family claps and shouts. The cake swells under the knife. I see my face in the wide silver, sliding in. My family starts to eat. “Dieting,” I say, laying a napkin across my empty plate. I run to the piano as the dark brown bits of icing stick to their lips. My hands stretch across the chords, minor third, diminished, hammering Happy Birthday until it’s all eaten, pink roses, chocolate crumbs, except the first sliver, too thin to spell my whole name, just the o. |
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