Nowever

Curium (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2006)
• Original Release Date: June 6, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dynamophone
• ASIN: B000F7MG0K
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #706,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. wild(at our first) beasts

2. in spite of everything

3. a great

4. love is a place

5. who are you,little i

6. yes is a pleasant country:

7. now air is air and thing is thing:no bliss

8. when god decided to invent

9. mr youse needn't be so spry

10. i will wade out

11. may my heart always be open to little

12. all ignorance toboggans into know

13. i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

14. "o purple finch/please tell me why

15. now is a ship

16. o by the by

17. plant Magic dust

18. anyone lived in a pretty howtown

19. i shall imagine life

20. it may not always be so; i say

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Evan Sornstein's great appreciation for the unfettered humanity of E.E. Cummings is celebrated on this suite of twenty-two poems, read by twenty-two different people evenly spaced around the world. Set against an evocative, electronic backdrop of detailed soundscape, Nowever explores life and meaning, searching for Cummings' "truths" through his own works, interpreted by the voices of glad and young, aged and ageless – busy monsters all – from Taipei to Glasgow, Sardinia to California.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb album!, January 31, 2010

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TOM8PIE (IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nowever (Audio CD)

I play synthesizers myself, and can perceive excellent quality keyboard work very well; this is excellent synthesizer and vocal music! I've long been an ardent fan of E.E. Cummings. Cummings is no less than a super sage; he understood life holistically... probably way more so than most of the religious giants and sages of the past and present. The album is beautiful; it incorporates a multitude of voices from various people... from innocent children to older, sagacious-sounding adults; this all-inclusiveness is what Cummings would have cherished! This album is a true joy to listen to. It blends Cummings' genius with bubbling, joyous sounds that help to widen the experience beyond mere words (as mere symbols). This is one of my favorite albums. It is truly unique and it is truly done with flowing musical talent and a keen ear of immovable, life-wondrous joy! My only complaint is that in one song-poem, the poetry-lyrics inadvertently leave out the word "than". It should be read-sung as "may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living, whatever they sing is better than to know"...not as "whatever they sing is better to know." It's Sunday, as i am typing this, and i suppose that one little flaw is not anything very significant in the overall scheme of things! As Cummings wrote: "and even if it's sunday may i be wrong, for whenever men are right they are not young."
Do yourself a favor... and get this album!
P.S.- To hear a sample of my own synthesizer music, if you'd like, go to YouTube and do a search on "Kite Tricks, Bees, and Synthesizers"; the music is all composed and played by me... and i'm doing all the kite tricks.