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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).
- 5 tracks of new material in various mixes
- 5 tracks of remixed/remastered spoken-word groove tunes from her past 3 CDs
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
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009 10:24 PM PDT
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 8:44 PM PDT
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
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2. Amazon including individual MP3 tracks, CLICK HERE
3. CDBaby
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009 8:02 PM PDT
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 6:48 PM PDT
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
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2. Amazon including individual MP3 tracks, CLICK HERE
3. CDBaby
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009 5:05 PM PDT
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 2:10 PM PDT
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.
