Music: too many to list - from classical to rap/hip hop
Poets/Writers: Poe, Dickinson, Teasdale, Marcus Argentarius, Rod McKuen, Karel Kryl, Vitezslav Nezval, Kafka, Garcia Lorca, Octavio Paz, Ruben Dario, Lewis Carroll, the brothers Grimm, Ovid, Chaucer……… and the list goes on and on and on…….
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'To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes
to hear it is to see it with our ears.'
Octavio Paz
Chuck and I would like to touch your hearts and souls with our new cd.
‘INTIMATELY YOURS’, is a 50 minute, 20 track kaleidoscope of feelings and thoughts expressed as words and music. It is as much about Chuck Berglund’s music as it is about my poems. Chuck’s soundscapes can easily stand on their own as do my poems, but together, they have a synergy that elevates the listener to another plane of existence. I named the cd ‘Intimately Yours’ based on a comment I received on AcidPlanet, re: that I speak about intimate things.
Individual tracks are available through the Snowcap store above.
I am Czech-American, born in a refugee camp in Germany and immigrated to the US with my parents when I was about 20 months old. I read. I write. I started writing poems at the tender age of ten. Writing proved to be cathartic. I finally gathered enough courage to share with the world.
Dearest and Most Precious: A Love Journal is my first book. It is available from my publisher at www.authorhouse.com. The book is a ‘collage’ of journal entries and notes/poems to former lovers adjusted and arranged so as to seem to be for one person in the ‘present’. Two excerpts from my book are on the new 'Intimately Yours' CD and one is on the Ciba/Rhythm on 22nd cd.
My poems can be found on www.poemhunter.com, under poet name, Alice Vedral Rivera. I am presently working on putting together a book of poetry for publication in the near future. Click to read my poems on www.poemhunter.com
I record my poems/writings and post them on www.acidplanet.com under artist name AVR and under profiles AVR and Creative Partnerships (collaborations with the fine musicians on AP); genre – Spoken Word. Click to hear my poems as spoken word on www.acidplanet.com
In addition, some of my spoken word pieces with and without music are on www.garageband.com, artist AVR and as artist Alice V. Rivera and Chuck F. Berglund.
Ciba/Rhythm on 22nd, the band I write lyrics for as well as manage, has new band members and is taking up much of my time these days. More information on the band’s first CD (released May 4, 2007) as well as history and gig information can be found on the official band website. The band website will be updated with the new band info soon. Ciba/Rhythm on 22nd 1st CD available now.
I strive to be fully engaged in living life and loving passionately.
If my words resonate with something in others, if I touch others on any level – then I have achieved my goal.
Any collaborations uploaded are done so with the permission of whomever I have collaborated with. The copyright for collabs with Chuck Berglund is held by Alice Vedral Rivera, Chuck F. Berglund, Alci Moods Music ASCAP.
It's Great to have you as a friend, Hope you enjoyed watching our Movie trailer of Resurrection Mary. Release date is August 26th out every where on DVD
Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in stillness rocks. All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can't be touched. Paper, book, pencil, glass, rest in the shade of their names. Time throbbing in my temples repeats the same unchanging syllable of blood. The light turns the indifferent wall into a ghostly theater of reflections. I find myself in the middle of an eye, watching myself in its blank stare. The moment scatters. Motionless, I stay and go: I am a pause
Sadahnmo's debut album 'Synths of Yanihba' now available on CDBaby for just $10. Released by 3rd Thought Records, the album features his surreal and futuristic IDM/dreampop compositions alongwith a warped artbook inside with visuals representing each song's concepts.