Dan Goldman of Luxury Pond | Live on Sound Authors

March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent: Welcome back to Sound Authors! That was a little track called Le Metro, a beautiful track. Tell me about that track as an introduction here Dan.

Dan Goldman: Hey Kent! Well that song is a bit of a reflection of the sound of the Montreal subway system. A lot of the pieces on that record called the Revolution are sort of from my childhood and yeah, that ones kind of an audio collage, its sound bytes of various sounds I found while I was recording the whole record.

Dr. Kent: I chatted with you briefly a few months ago and since then you sent me a disc of Luxury Pond, which is your new release and man there’s some great tunes on that one. We’re going to play one at the end called Caving In from that. What are you working on now?

Dan Goldman: I’m working on a whole bunch of new songs actually. I’m actually sitting in the house looking out at frozen Lake Erie and it’s pretty inspiring. The lake is frozen in this windswept formation in what you might imagine the arctic might look like. It’s pretty inspiring so I’m working on a collection of new songs. It’s hard to say which direction they’re going they are still in the fermenting stage.

Dr. Kent: The name of your group, Luxury Pond, almost has an echo of that frozen lake.

Dan Goldman: Yeah I know, I keep coming back to water. I’m a Pisces so water keeps popping up whether I like it or not.

Dr. Kent: Your music fascinates me as a classical composer because you combine electronics with harsh vocals at times, soft vocals at times. What’s your process of writing songs, recording them; do you have a four track? What’s your thing?

Dan Goldman: Well the last one we did was recorded on my laptop, I’m trying to think yeah all the tracks were pretty much recorded just in my bedroom and then I sort of set up the sample and really the last record Luxury Pond I wanted to do the opposite, I wanted to record the whole record in a day, live. But I wanted to take the glitziness of the last record and as opposed to a live seating. So we spent quite a bit of time arranging and planning the session, myself and Owen Powers, who did the string arrangements and then rehearsing the sessions. Then I asked a friend Ryan Driver whose very talented analog well he’s a musician of multi instruments but particularly he plays an analog which is capable of creating a lot of glitchy weird broken sounds so I decided I wanted to have a live session, which comprised of heavy arranging components but also a rhetoric component, superimposed those very composed few to very chance things.

Dr. Kent: Some of the words your using like glitchy, I like that term, but then when you talk about allotropic music; I know what that is but when did you start getting into that kind of experimental stuff?

Dan Goldman: It’s always been something that’s been attractive to me. Like even just from starting to put music out there was an element of improvisation. I was always attracted to the weirder Beetles songs for instance, like I’m the Walrus, one the first examples of interesting collage in the pop world. So its not a new thing, Strawberry Fields, Revolution No. 9, that kind of thing, that influenced me some so there’s a degree of that and I spent a bit of time studying improvisation as well.

Dr. Kent: What kind of improvisation.

Dan Goldman: Predominantly jazz improv.

Dr. Kent: Tell me about the construct of the album itself and your of course playing with great musicians. On Luxury Pond you had a string quartet with you, but what do you normally play and how do you go about constructing it?

Dan Goldman: Bits and pieces everywhere, I’m predominantly a guitar player and oftentimes when I come up with little ideas on the guitar I take some notes for over the course of several months of sort of lyrical notes. At a certain point spend some intensive time kind of trying to put the puzzle pieces together. So things kind of influence each other. I wouldn’t say I’m really the type to write a set of lyrics and then set music to it. I like the whole sort of fit together to kind of create a cohesive piece. Sometimes like on the newest record Luxury Pond there’s some lyrics that are not necessarily linear, not storytelling like, and some are influenced by dream imagery. But the fact that they’re not linear doesn’t really bother me so much as the fact that what I’m looking for is that the whole thing makes sense as a unit. Whatever it takes to make the whole thing feel right together.

Dr. Kent: That’s an interesting discussion too because I’m also a songwriter and I always start with the lyrics first. It’s a fascinating thing to talk to someone about their process and that because we’re all so very different in that. You can really hear in your records that it’s an organic whole; they’re not verse-chorus-bridge kind of tunes.

Dan Goldman: Yeah.

Dr. Kent: What are your influences in terms of songwriting? When did you start?

Dan Goldman: Like who do I listen to?

Dr. Kent: Yeah and when did you start listening?

Dan Goldman: Not until pretty late in my musical formation. I started in my mid 20s, I’m in my 30s now and I’ve been influenced by a friend who is a poet and she sort of exposed me to modern poetry but these days my favorite artists are Smog, Wilko; Wilko is a good example of a band that uses lyrics that aren’t necessarily linear. For some reason I studied classical guitar so I guess that’s where the form ideas come in the sense their not verse-chorus traditional song forms. It’s more kind of a through composed concept a lot of times.

Dr. Kent: I’d love to chat with you some more, we’ll have to have you on when the new record is out. Is Luxury Pond available now?

Dan Goldman: It will be available. Since last I spoke with you there’s been some progress. A company called Sonic Onion will be handling it in Canada but they won’t have it for at least another month or two. For now the easiest way to get it is to go to myspace.com\luxurypond and you can just order one and I’ll be happy to send a copy.

Dr. Kent: Awesome and it’s a great record I listen to it over and over in my car, I love it. It’s hard to say, its syrupy or something like that, it’s got a great vibe to it.

Dan Goldman: I hope its maple syrupy!

Dr. Kent: Exactly, definitely northern syrupy, not your diet syrup. Let’s listen to a track, tell me about the track Caving In.

Dan Goldman: It doesn’t have any of the alimentary components we talked about; its just strings and voices and it’s probably the most linear in terms of the narrative. It was the first song that Owen and I arranged and that way it kind of set the tone for the rest of the record. Owen’s concept with the arranging was to; he was influenced by the 24 Preludes of Chopin in that Chopin took like one motif and developed it through the whole piece in a way where it doesn’t return. So that’s what Owen was going for in the arrangement and he succeeded quite well and I’m happy with it. Its one of the older songs of mine and something I keep coming back to, yeah, I hope you like it.

Dr. Kent: Cool and enjoy your frozen landscape and we’ll talk to you soon.

Dan Goldman: Thanks Kent.

Dr. Kent: Dan Goldman is the artist and we can check out his MySpace account at myspace.com\luxurypond. Here’s the track Caving In from his album, Luxury Pond. Take it easy we’ll talk to you soon.

Dan Goldman: Thanks Kent.

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Dr. Kent: That’s a gorgeous tune from Dan Goldman called Caving In. The album is Luxury Pond and his myspace is myspace.com\luxury pond. Have a wonderful Friday and a safe weekend and we’ll see you back here next week.

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Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink | Live on Sound Authors

February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent: That was a great track by a group called Snowblink. We’re going to play another gorgeous track at the end but right now we’re going to talk to Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink. Welcome to the show.

Daniela G: Thank you.

Dr. Kent: Now I speak German so I will tend to pronounce it gezundheit.

Daniela G: I guess I would say gezunheit but I don’t speak German so!

Dr. Kent: Tell me about this record. I chatted of course with your fellow musician last week and another time and Dan Goldman and such a beautiful sound.

Daniela G: Oh well thank you, I appreciate that.

Dr. Kent: Tell me about the record and what you’re working on now.

Daniela G: Well we’re actually this record we finished a few months ago and we’re still working on putting it out officially but it was quite a process. We holed up in the studio in California for about a week and then went to a cabin in the eastern sierras and kept working on it and finished it up that way over the course of about five weeks.

Dr. Kent: The album is called Long Live. What’s that inspired by?

Daniela G: You know sometimes when I’m kind of in the process of finishing up a record I have my antennas out and I just wrote it down somewhere and I thought I liked the sound of long live and the meaning of it and we usually say long live (fill in the blank) so I liked the punctuated phrase like that.

Dr. Kent: Talk about the music a little bit. What I find so intriguing about it is that its got the same syrupy quality that I also saw in his music. Very much its got such a gorgeous flow to it. Do you sit home alone thinking of strings and electronics and things? Do you sit down and play the guitar and sing? How do you go about creating this stuff?

Daniela G: I usually work with guitar and mostly when I’m working on songs I’m mostly thinking about the words, the melody and the singing, its very vocally based for me and most of the other electronic and violin arrangements were worked on with the other musicians so with Jan Vincent or Caley Monahan Ward, they’re producer on the record. But when I’m just working on things alone I’m mostly using the voice and kind of playing with words.

Dr. Kent: Tell me about your history in music.

Daniela G: I didn’t train my voice until I was about 19 or so and I studied classical voice at the university so that was my only formal vocal training. I had about four years of that and I’ve studied music at university and I’ve studied experimental composition and I liked all the alternative music classes so that’s what I was drawn to.

Dr. Kent: When you say experimental composition, I actually have my PhD in new music and classical music composition. Is that what you mean, new music?

Daniela G: Yeah, I sang in a lot of recitals that would be in that category and the teachers I studied with were Anthony Baxter and Alvin Roussier. I don’t know if you know them.

Dr. Kent: I like both of their work actually.

Daniela G: Oh great, yeah.

Dr. Kent: And how does that sort of the alietory element of a lot of that music, how does that apply? Obviously it comes through your music and actually through Dan’s music also. What does it mean to you to not have Britney Spears coming out on the other end of the tape machine?

Daniela G: You mean you don’t hear Britney Spears in this music? Maybe I’m doing something wrong, I don’t know. No I don’t know I mean it is tough to quantify how those experiences and those studies come through but I guess its just the experience of working with those teachers and learning about their work and the work of the contemporaries; I guess it just forced me or encouraged me to keep a questioning mind or to not just find a form that works and write on that but to constantly pick apart my own approach. Its like I’ll come up with rules then I break them down myself.

Dr. Kent: Cool, so tell me a little bit about the two tracks I’m playing on the show. We listened to the Tired Bees, which is a fantastic title for a song and the next track we’ll listen to will be Rut and Nuzzle. Tell me about the tracks on the album.

Daniela G: The Tired Bees, the title I suppose is for a little while everyone was scared all the bees were dying off and they couldn’t figure out what was happening and what was causing it. I remember being upset about that so that’s where the title comes from but the song itself is just a tiny moment, like a microcosm sort of moment. The first line is one little breeze, just goes through and tries to find the tiny moments.

Dr. Kent: There’s a great thing on your website under your biography. It’s a clip of a little girl singing Kokomo. Is that you?

Daniela G: Yeah, that’s me.

Dr. Kent: So you have a great history as a rock and roll star here.

Daniela G: Yeah right! I was a little more shy then actually, a lot more shy but its true. I grew up in Los Angeles so I think somehow performances its all around in LA I guess and I grew up performing a little.

Dr. Kent: I sort of interrupted you there talking about the tracks on the album.

Daniela G: Oh sure. So Rut and Nuzzle, that song I suppose is about, it points to this idea, well if you think of the song talks about antlers, right? So if you think of antlers animals grow them and for awhile they can use them for combat and they’re really strong and anchored then after awhile they just fall out and their entirely useless to the animal. So this idea of the changing nature of things and how an object can have more than one use at different times. Just the changing nature of almost everything.

Dr. Kent: Awesome. How about the whole album; what does it mean to you? As a fellow musician, it’s a great thing to put the CD in the hands of a family member, but beyond that, the sort of lesser joys of releasing it to the public. What does this album mean to you? What does it say about you?

Daniela G: Well, I suppose I was living in San Francisco when I was writing those songs and very much in nature a lot. That city is really surrounded by nature so I think I was just observing, using memory and absorbing my surroundings and trying to assimilate all those things together. The record is kind of just a capturing of an era like my time over there and the experiences I had while I was out there.

Dr. Kent: Cool, well the group is called Snowblink and the album is called Long Live and we can find out more about the whole project at snowblink.org. I imagine you also have a MySpace?

Daniela G: Yeah, myspace\snowblink.

Dr. Kent: Wonderful, so we’re going to listen to the track Rut and Nuzzle. Its been a pleasure chatting with you and I look forward to hearing from you and Dan how things are going.

Daniela G: Thanks a lot its been fun.

Dr. Kent: Listen to Rut and Nuzzle from Snowblink; their new album just being released called Long Live. Listen to this.

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Dr. Kent: That was a beautiful track from Snowblink called Rut and Nuzzle. Their new album is just being released; its called Long Live. We listened also to the track of the Tired Bees. We were talking to musician to Daniela Gezundheit of snowblink. Today on the show we chatted with the well acclaimed author of Yes We Can, a biography of Barack Obama with Garen Thomas. At the beginning of the show we talked to Jim Duzak, with Attorney at Love, and the third guest on the show was Nina Burleigh, the author of Unholy Business. See you next week on Friday again. This was an irregular schedule show this week to be on Wednesday and we’ll have three more authors and one more musician to chat with. Be safe and we’ll talk to you next week.

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Interview with Dan Goldman | Sound Authors Radio

January 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent: What a stunning song from Dan Goldman. That’s off of his upcoming album actually its available now called Luxury Pond. What a beautiful sound, string arrangements by a fellow named Owen Pallete. It’s seldom that you hear strings used so beautifully in a record. Welcome to the show Dan Goldman. Is Dan on the line? I’ll talk a little more about Dan Goldman here in the meantime. That song was off of his album Luxury Pond. Dan Goldman is from Toronto and has played regularly with the band Snowblink and Great Aunt Ida. He has been a member of about a dozen other bands and he’s a multi-media producer and all of that. This album is self-titled. Luxury Pond and he has a former album available from CDBaby and that is Through a Revolution so welcome to the show Dan Goldman. I’m not hearing Dan so I’m going to play another song from his album and we’re going to see if we can get him on the line. This song is actually from his last album and that album is called Through a Revolution and the song itself is called Le Metro. So I’ll play that song and we’ll talk to him in a minute.

[ Music ]

Dr. Kent: Welcome to the show Dan Goldman. That was a beautiful tune called La Metro and it’s off of his first album called Through a Revolution and he’s got a new album out that is self-titled and is available through his website called Luxury Pond. We heard earlier his song called Caving In; do I have Dan on the line? I guess we’ll wait one more minute.

Dan Goldman: Hello, hello?

Dr. Kent: Hey Dan, how are you doing?

Dan Goldman: Hey Kent, how’s it going? We finally connected there.

Dr. Kent: We finally got you. What a gorgeous song. We heard two songs now. You’ve got this album Luxury Pond that has the most incredible string arrangements. Talk a little bit about that string quartet playing that music with you.

Dan Goldman: I was really honored to work with that quartet, they’re called the St. Kits String Quartet and they are a local group from Toronto and I was also very fortunate to work with arranger Owen Pallette, who is I guess he’s at this point most notably known for his own project Final Fantasy, but he’s also arranged strings for Dance which is the Arcade Fire, and Grisly Bear amongst a slew of others so I was really lucky to work with Owen.

Dr. Kent: Is that record come out? I know you had a limited release, is that continuing? You have a letter press edition. I think we lost Dan again. Well, his songs are gorgeous, the sound of his voice is very soft, he’s doing it with the wonderful sound of strings created by Owen Pallette and he’s talking about he also does the arrangements for Arcade Fire. I’m not sure if we’re going to get Dan back on the line here but we’ll wait for a minute and see if we’ll find him. He talks about his music is under the moniker Luxury Pond and so this latest album is self-titled with that group. We can go to his website online and that is dangoldman.ca. Welcome back to the show, we’re having a little trouble on the phone. Talk about this Luxury Pond, self titled, its available now, the Letter Press Edition. Talk about that.

Dan Goldman: Well the best place to get it right now is off my MySpace page, which is myspace.com\luxurypond and you can purchase it from me there. It’s available in a limited as you mentioned limited edition letter press leaf. I just ran a bunch of those copies for a fan but I still have a bunch to sell so it’s kind of a pre-release edition. The full release will happen sometime in late winter or early springtime.

Dr. Kent: Are you doing a self-release or are you doing it with a label? What’s your plan?

Dan Goldman: At this point I’m assembling my own team, yeah.

Dr. Kent: It’s really stunning and I’m sure its going to get some amazing air play. It’s lush and gorgeous.

Dan Goldman: Thanks Kent.

Dr. Kent: Now you write on your CD-baby page that you’re influenced by both Tom Waites and Eric Satee in your music and I find that highly amusing. Talk about that.

Dan Goldman: Sure okay well I mean it’s not to me that far of a stretch. Tom Waites has an incredible stream of conscious approach to lyricism and in particular on this record I was experimenting with this kind of approach. Kind of the more abstract angle, in fact he by the same token is kind of an impressionist in his compositions and also sort of just very fluid in the sense that ideas just one idea leads to the next and there’s not necessarily a kind of like hook or catch like you know like refrain. Things just sort of happen and evolve on their own in much the same way that a dream would in that kind of mentality.

Dr. Kent: Is this your day job or is this something that you hope will be your day job?

Dan Goldman: Well I hope that the performance becomes more of a full time job. At this point my time is divided between this, playing with other people, teaching guitar once a week, doing various multi-media productions, a little bit of general work here and there. So yeah, that’s kind of it.

Dr. Kent: Well I find your music fascinating; we’d love to have you on again sometime without all these telephone problems. Your influences include Bill Fredell who is a huge hero of mine and Alan Lomax collections. It’s somewhere between Tom Waites and early, early folk music with kind of that ethereal feeling. And then you’ve got this lush string arrangement that really makes it all so I hope this album does really well for you, I’m sure it will. It’s gorgeous.

Dan Goldman: Thanks Kent.

Dr. Kent: We’ve been speaking with Dan Goldman and we can check out his music at dangoldman.ca or myspace.com\luxurypond. Tell me what’s Luxury Pond?

Dan Goldman: Luxury Pond was just an image from a dream, which then became a lyric in one of the songs off the record, which then became most recently my moniker so yeah, that’s the evolution of that. It’s kind of this image of a pond that is a really nice place to be in.

Dr. Kent: Do people call you Mr. Pond?

Dan Goldman: Actually one of my friends called me Lux the other day so yeah but preferentially speaking people should go to my MySpace page because I have an uploaded things on my webpage but I haven’t learned how to update it yet and I’m in the midst of revamping my formal website but the myspace.com\luxurypond is where to go to hear more tracks off this record and also to buy the record.

Dr. Kent: Awesome, well lets have you on again and here’s some more tracks from your record and we’ll go to myspace.com\luxurypond. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Dan Goldman: Thanks Kent and happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

Dr. Kent: Thanks for tuning in this week to Sound Authors, this is Dr. Kent and I’m signing out. Be safe this week. I’m thankful for many things and I’m sure we all are. One of the things I’m very thankful for is a brand new president so we’ll see you next week. Be safe.

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Interview with Micah Wolfe | Sound Authors Radio

January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent: Welcome back to Sound Authors. Now my next guest on the show is Micah Wolfe and that was one of the songs from his upcoming audio book called Anti-Bushism. He just released his book itself, also called Anti-Bushism. Tell us a little bit about that poem Micah Wolfe, called Capital.

Micah Wolfe: Well that one was a reflection I wrote after I had been in DC and I was actually there in October of 2001 and George Bush had just announced that we would attack Afghanistan so I was just thinking about that and with 9/11 being so fresh on my mind it just kind of spilled out thinking back on that trip to DC and what it all meant being there. just some of the images I saw remember like I said that circle of cops, I just saw like FBI and police, they were just in a circle and I said if walking by I could only imagine what they were thinking and discussing. It was a pretty tense time for the country.

Dr. Kent: So now you are a teacher in Seattle and this book is called Anti-Bushism. How did you get into that? What are you doing now in terms of the election and all of that? What are your thoughts?

Micah Wolfe: Well for me I definitely hope that Barack Obama wins. I think that he’s got a lot better ideas than john McCain and like your previous caller was saying, or your previous interview, it seems like McCain is willing to sling a lot of mud and just say a lot of stuff that’s not true. The most surprising one that I saw was I don’t know if you seen the ad about Barack Obama wanting to have sex education in kindergarten but I think that’s pretty ridiculous.

Dr. Kent: When I look at that ad, what I find disgusting, I always look at the picture they choose and they pick a picture of him looking especially scary to kids. You know?

Micah Wolfe: Yeah.

Dr. Kent: It is such, I like still what Barack came out and said, its silly season. That was one of the most incredible quotes he’s ever said and I really think this is going to be an election that can change everything. so this Anti-Bushism, the book, it’s a bold title and a bold statement, but honestly at this point, there’s not many people, including John McCain that would argue with you, that George Bush was a pretty terrible president. But how terrible was he? Why did you write this book and why is Bush in your title?

Micah Wolfe: Well just a lot of my poems came from things that he said that really upset me and policies that he passed from the patriot Act that really infringed upon our citizen rights to privacy and the first response to Hurricane Katrina and the disaster after that. I just remember watching, he flew over in a helicopter and I just wish that we had a president that would’ve been on the ground in a boat trying to help people get out of there.

Things like that and also just leading us into this war in Iraq, I think everybody remembers him saying there’s weapons of mass destruction and then having to take that back you know. Our soldiers are on the ground already fighting so I think there’s a litany of things that he did that were harmful to our country and our reputation worldwide and also our economy.

Dr. Kent: Now this book itself is a collection of poetry that you’ve written. Its all of it is very passionate. All of it is very political. Now what’s your plan for what’s coming up next?

Micah Wolfe: What’s coming up next? I think I’ve been looking through my poems and I think my next one is going to be about kind of the green movement and trying to get people to take care of the earth a little better and appreciate nature for what it is instead of what we can use it for and just trying to that’s something I’m also passionate about, just trying to create a more sustainable earth so that its around in the future for our children and grandchildren.

Dr. Kent: Now are you hopeful politically? Do you think Barack Obama will win and if he does do you think he really can change things?

Micah Wolfe: I think I am hopeful he will do a lot of good and hopefully more quickly than john McCain would. I feel that Barack Obama is more apt to do that. And I think that Obama, he has my hope with him so I think things will change. How much we have to wait and see.

Dr. Kent: I sure hope so. Well there’s one more poem we’d like to listen to from your upcoming audio book. I’m sure you’re excited, it’s a 40-poem book called Anti-Bushism and that’s going to hit the streets I guess in the next several weeks and it’s an audio book format so hopefully it’ll come out on I-Tunes and places like that. What are your thoughts about reading a poem out loud versus reading a poem on the page? Of course Galway Kinnell just before you, man what a voice when he reads poetry. What’s the difference between reading out loud and looking at the page in front of you?

Micah Wolfe: I think when you hear the author’s voice it just brings out the passion and emotion that the author is trying to convey. You don’t have to guess, you really just feel it so I think that’s the power of going to hear live poetry and listening to audio books of poets. You don’t have to guess.

Dr. Kent: Well it’s been a pleasure speaking with Micah Wolfe. His book is called Anti-Bushism. I’m going to play one more poem from that called Mirror and we can all check out Micah’s website online at micahwolfepoetry.com. It’s been a pleasure chatting with you.

Micah Wolfe: Thanks for having me.

Dr. Kent: Of course I wish you all the best with your work and I hope Obama can take the White House, we’ll see.

Micah Wolfe: Me too, thanks.

Dr. Kent: This is a poem out of Micah’s book called Anti-Bushism and here it is. It’s called Mirror.

Micah Wolfe: Mirror. How can you proclaim an acceptable amount of violence and turn around and tell us your not tyrants? You won’t leave without your contract for oil, gallons of blood spilled for exhaust comes out to spoil? So how can you tell me this is fighting terrorism, when you’ve blended our terror with patriotism? And you claim to profense your day of fighting terror, of bad news Mr. Bush, I hate to be the cartoon who sponsors the terrorism of its own people. That what you say and what you do are far from equal. China is a country you could never reprimand. Then you’re in Sudan trading oil for cash in hand, but what flows toward the death of innocence. Be afraid to look in the mirror because it won’t make any sense. I’m tired of death for capital gain. Take up arms Mr. Bush, take up your fight, experience pain for oil will run out. Seek an alternative and so change can end a war, simply let life live.

Dr. Kent: That was the poem Mirror from the Anti-Bushism audio book coming out soon by Micah Wolfe. His book has already been released and that’s a sample of his audio book. Well it’s been a pleasure speaking with all three guests on the show today; my first guest was Tawan Perry, the author of College Sense, what high school and college advisors don’t tell you about college. My second guest was Galway Kinnell, it was an honor speaking with a Pulitzer Prize winner and his latest book is called Strong as your Hold and it has a CD of poems read by the author. Of course we had the honor of hearing a couple poems from him as well. And also new selected poems published by Mariner books. And then my last guest was Micah Wolfe and his book, Anti-Bushism. We’ll see you next week; be safe.

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Dan Goldman | Singing & Strings

December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Dan Goldman: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Great tunes from Dan Goldman, and incredible string arrangements. It was a pleasure having him on the show. More about Dan from his website:

Luxury Pond is the songwriting project of Toronto-based musician Dan Goldman. In addition to writing and performing his own material, Dan plays regularly with Snowblink and Great Aunt Ida. He’s been a member in the Mia Sheard band, Justin Haynes’ John School, Tusks, Maps of the Night Sky, Breaking Sounds, and Kitchenmusik. He’s also created music for modern dance choreographers Jenn Goodwinn, Sara Doucet, Louis Laberge-Cote and Kathleen Rea as well as multi media producer/architect Filiz Klassen.

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