Farfisa meets the String Machine in a harmonic slugfest
Poetry meets minimalist repetitive electronics-based music
A project involving synthesizers, drum machines and spoken word based on a series of poems called "Naming Things"
Story behind the song
Say You Say Moon comes from the Naming Things poetry cycle. Naming Things is about the process of language, learning language, re-experiencing language
Lyrics
Say you, say moon
can you say moon?
Say sun, say sky
say cloud, say tree,
those cherry trees
now picked clean
by birds, say bird
say that bird, say
blackbird and blacktop,
blackberry and
flowers, say flower
say mushroom, moss,
weeds, wheat, oui,
can you say we,
me, you, us
kicking up dust,
frogsong and ducks
wondering toward dusk,
can you say
enough?
