Poets to their Beloved were formed when Saskia and Marcel first met in 2003 on a Brendan Perry workshop. Both had travelled to Ireland following their musical hearts on their quest for new musical influences. It was there on the magical green Island that they discovered a musical connection, a strong sparkle, which they would later bring back with them to the Netherlands and Germany.
This sparkle could not be tamed by distance and Marcel rapidly wrote an instrumental song for Saskia called “Love”. She returned the song to Marcel with full lyrics and vocals, thus making this song the catalyst for their union. They wrote more songs which travel along ancient times, lost loves, melancholic thoughts and old rituals.
In 2005 they had enough material to release a demo and they also played live together for the first time. Several concerts followed and in 2006 they decided it was time to search for a broader horizon so they uploaded a few songs on MySpace. This seemed to be a very good decision; the same year they were signed with Equilibrium Music and they’d recorded their first full-length album “Embrace the Fool”, which has been released in November 2007!
Poets to their Beloved song 'The Invisible Dancer'
now on Kalinkaland's Lightwaves II sampler!!
Bonjour ~ Have a listen to the new collaboration of poetry/music with TOHAN, Incantations at San Tomà. From the book Transcriptions of Time, the poem was written with memory of love for a place in Venice and with belief in new love acheived in a place of the same name in Toulouse, ten years later. This poem also connects ground-ocean-sky, senses of weightlessness acheived in them.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this folk-carol on myspace... Poem 230 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my blog for details): CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY
As gospellers have said, Beneath signalling skies, On land dusty to tread, A trough in a stable Was the strawy first-bed Of a divine baby - The forgiving Godhead.
A season for new hope - There then and here now; The yuletide of goodwill - There then and here now.
In respect of this chance, Beneath bright or dark skies, Faith's the star that we glance Attending Christ's churches And trying to enhance, With singing and ritual, Our God-loving stance.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
Finally we are ready to come out of our cocoon
and release our first full length recording called Moonlit Numina. It will be
released the 3rd of October 2009. But in the meantime you can listen
to the three songs appearing on The Moonlit Single.
