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"Harrier Angel -- rock remedy for the re generation" is a bona fide rock musical, starting with a kickass overture designed to punch the lights on and sweep the cobwebs out of the corners of tranced out zombidom. Once you feel this, you're going to think about this, because you've been not thinking about a lot of stuff for far too long. We have staged the show for a full theatrical presentation in the past (there are a lot of pictures on the web site at http://www.nine3.com/ ). But it's pretty expensive to go that route, so we decided to wait until the time is right for another full staging because as a rock concert it plays like the devils and the angels that inspired it. we can play it very effectively as a rock concert, all 16 songs given with a narration. Without us having to schlepp every prop in creation, we attain a lightness of being that lets us concentrate on lean and mean in an anthem to hurt and hope, sacrifice and release, and the truth of love that it can never die. Our first concert, the Harrier Angel CD Release Concert was the CD Release Concert, on June 20, 2005, in Davis Square, Somerville, Mass. Take a look and a listen at http://www.nine3.com/Concert HARRIER ANGEL is about survival at this late date in the career of western civilization, when free people can only watch and hope and pray there will come a voice, and that voice will carve out a new way --, a way that proves it is possible to keep independence and creativity alive at the edge of chaos threatening to roll in, and to fight to prevail and thrive another day. "Harrier Angel" reminds people that most of the dogmas of the world can be used, and are being used, as tools for the manipulation of people and events in the lawless swirling of contending natural forces warring for power. The idea of a warrior angel riding in a thunderhead, directing the storm may be sublime, but again it may also be just so much pomposity. Which is it? In the midst of the roiling is found a tongue like "Rocky Horror" -- licking hungrily to take up all the sweetness of a temporal, human existence, yet somehow also sticking out in derision, planted firmly in cheek, crying in frustration, and singing like an angel in Dante's chorus of the blessed souls forming an eagle in the sky -- and defying categorization unless through the understanding of some ancient cliche that in western civiliazation we have chosen to call "Organicism" -- that is, of a construction where form always follows function. "Harrier Angel" is a mother, a vindicator, a gadfly visionary, and a fearless advocate for self-realization of the individual as the path to true consciousness of the living id, the unseparated part, exonerated in the end, and -- like the phoenix -- incinerated in the end, in the transitional flame of rebirth, in the light of knowledge. "Harrier Angel" is a rock remedy, for the post Vietnam-era "me" generation, for the "X" generation (which may turn out to have been the "de" generation), and also of the "re" generation in gestation as we speak. It is a remedy to "he re" generation, "TO HIM and TO HERE" -- to our sacred existence, the soul's great opportunity, through the "rhythm of the blood" that measures human existence here in this sweet carnal state to which we are most fortunately and sacredly given. Before the moment of his death, when he regained consciousness briefly and was asked what he had seen, the great genius and mysic Leo Tolstoy said, "BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD." I dedicate this work to showing what he meant by that. See IT. BE IT -- a true Captain of the Old So[u]l. When you have heard "Harrier Angel," you will know -- for light, life, and love, Cristobal von Dessin, that's me -- Cass von Braun Check out the artist's website: http://www.nine3.com/HA-index.html Track List: 1. Overture 2. Take Me For A Drive 3. Do I Love You 4. Angeline 5. Sherlock Jones 6. It Had To Be You 7. Wisteria 8. One Thin Dime 9. Gulfport 10. To Here 11. Give In To It 12. Boney Boney 13. Bad Dream On Easy Street 14. Naomi 15. Red River Valley 16. Harrier Angel Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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