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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite.
    Featuring poetry by Marc Beaudin and music by former members of the bands Morphine and Orchestra Morphine, Dana Colley, Billy Conway and Laurie Sargent.
    Compact disc in full-color 4-panel digipack with 8-page full-color booklet of poems and photography by Marc Beaudin.

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7) Arundo donax

Descending from somewhere far above
pleading, demanding attention
demanding grace, filling our ears &
the clay bowls of our cracked souls
each cell of our floating animal bodies
hovering between worlds, between decisions –
A horn crying in the wilderness
“sheets of sound” for the lost & found
that wall-crashing horn, &
not one stone is left standing
upon another

To be devastated by love
Is the most powerful we can become

& then flowering trees splitting rock
clinging to earth & reaching for sky
we try to rise w/ ascending notes
to borrow wings that sing
above the waters of the marsh
where the reed grows: Arundo donax,
the Giant Cane
swaying in the autumn-brass light
holding the music tight through
the cold night of sorrow
knowing that a tomorrow will come
when we must choose
the feast
or the crumbs

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from From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco​-​Jazz Suite, released May 29, 2022

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Marc Beaudin Livingston, montana

Poetry & spoken word infused with jazz.
“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” – John Coltrane

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