SONGS BY JOHN WEBSTER WITH BRINDABAND NEW RELEASE: 'TURBULENT TIMES' 'A SOUNDTRACK FOR THE ECONOMY IN 2012' ACCORDING TO 'THE OBSERVER' LOOKING AT THE ONGOING FINANCIAL CRISIS THROUGH THE PRISM OF PAST STRUGGLES, FROM WATERLOO TO THE COLLAPSE OF LEHMANS BROTHERS'. CHECK OUT ON YOUTUBE here. NOW RELEASED AS ONLINE SINGLE WITH B-SIDE 'ASIAN HIGHWAY' (JOHN REFLECTS ON HIS OVERLAND JOURNEY TO INDIA IN THE 1970s). CLICK TO DOWNLOAD More here onJOHN WEBSTER WITH BRINDABAND
GENIUS, BEAUTY AND INSPIRATION: THE ROMANTICS TRANSLATED INTO SONG
   Track Byron’s last journey to Greece, discover the story behind Keats’s poetic genius, and follow Shelley’s visionary trail at Lyrics and Commentaries - Courageous Heart: seven Byronic songs. A 7-track EP charting the last years of Byron’s life and his struggle against Ottoman rule in Greece. Track 1: ‘Lord B. in motion’ (We meet the poet in transit from Ravenna to Pisa); Half a Scot by birth’ (Byron’s farewell to his Scottish youth); ‘Marathon’ (dreams of Greek freedom ); ‘Setting Sail from Genoa’ (Byron journeys from Italy to Greece), ‘Lord Byron’s freedom song’ (an oblique reference to the poet’s death in Missolonghi); ‘Epitaph’, (the poet’s thoughts on his legacy), and ‘So, we’ll go no more a-roving’ (concluding with Byron’s bittersweet lyrics about partings and endings).
Plus: Read John's essay 'Byron and Islam' here. Byron's firm and principled attitude to Islam examined - an example for our era? - John Keats’s sublime single: Two great Keats lyrics (To Autumn and When I have fears, titled On the Shore) turned into the poet's very first single!
Find out more about Keats's life: mp3 biography here - · Percy Bysshe Shelley: Rock Star: 12 track album drawing on Shelley lyrics. (Song listing: Paradise of exiles * Rise like lions * Wild Spirit * Spirit of Delight * Heart of hearts * The Pine Forest by the sea * Many a green isle * The Triumph of Life * Immortal Deity * The Funeral * Adonais * The World’s Great Age) Click here to listen on Spotify;
See also: John's essay ''Through a Shelleyan lens' arguing that Shelley would have seen John Lennon as an 'unacknowledged legislator' who 'touched the world with living flame'. All songs are available as downloads (click on covers above), or for CDs incorporating narration by Benjamin Zephaniah click here. You can preview some of the songs on YouTube: To Autumn (Keats) Wild Spirit (Shelley) Marathon (Byron), and find background information on the songs at Lyrics and Commentaries.
- Two songs (Adonais and On the Shore) for Michael Jackson fans: Shelley and Keats sing the King of Pop to his rest. At themed downloads
And lastly, by taking 'Jenny kissed me' from 'My Romantics EP' and tracks from the above releases the 14 track compilation album 'The First Fab Four' can be created. Track listing: 1. Jenny kissed me 2. Lord B. in motion 3. Marathon 4. Rise like lions 5.Wild Spirit 6. To Autumn 7. On the shore 8. The Pine Forest near the sea 9. Many a green isle 10. The funeral 11.Adonais 12.Epitaph 13. The World's Great Age 14. So we'll go no more a-roving Lets face it, our three poets with their friend Leigh Hunt (journalist and minor poet) had an effect on their times similar to the cultural impact the Beatles have had on ours. This album sees them all represented, For more information email pathfinderaudio@gmail.com
More songs: For the planet under strain check out 'World at the Crossroads' from 'Songs for our Time'. And ward off recession/financial crisis blues with 'John Webster's blues-bustin' single' - A-side 'Where there's life' and B-side 'Morning light'. 'When your inner light shines on you/You can make it through'....
Click here to listen on Spotify Listen to "Songs for our Time" on Spotify here
AND THE DIGITAL SINGLE 'TIBET WILL BE FREE' BY JAMES CAMERON AND THE GLASTONBURY STREET CHOIR. KEEPING THOUGHTS OF TIBET ALIVE
download here And for CD gifts check out John's Romantics CDs at the Sales page, plus details of other downloads. Pathfinder Audio is an independent label/sound publishing company run by John Webster.
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