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"I can't get over how good this stuff sounds and how important regional poetry can be. Wish there were more like you."
Bob McCarthy, CHUO-FM89 Radio Ontario, Canada
Poetry and Music Extraordinaire by Hedwig Gorski and D'Jalma Garnier
with original band members Booka Michel and Horatio Rodriguez
Photo by Alan Pogue in front of Lucy in Disguise, Austin, Texas (download high-res of photo here)
Booka Michel drums/percussion Horatio Rodriguez bass
Hedwig Gorski spoken vocals/poet D'Jalma Garnier guitar/composer
About Hedwig Gorski "Gorski is widely acknowledged as one of our innovative and most compelling poets." New Texas Magazine "Gorski is alien, gypsy; she makes the mundane, the obvious seem--no, become--otherwordly. The East of Eden Band is a rock n' roll fettle." Ric Williams, Austin Chronicle "Gorski's poetry is close to music, with effective sound play. She creates images that soothe, tease, cut to the bone." John Herndon, Austin-American Statesman. "A first-rate multi-media language artist and literary talent of wide ranging skills and accomplishments." Loris Essary, Noumenon Foundation "She is an avant-garde artist who successfully blends her love of performance and sound with the dreamy images of spiritual and philosophical musings spiralling from her curioser and curioser mind's eye." Ric Williams, Litera Listen to AUDIO EXCERPTS on Southern Artistry
Listen to AUDIO of POEM: "From Box to Living Room to Box" recorded live on KUT-FM radio
Download individual tunes (also available in MP3 on iTunes and amazon.com)
Photos of Hedwig Gorski with D'Jalma Garnier Duet
Links to Poets Audio Anthology in progress produced by Hedwig Gorski
| Discography Send in the Clown East of Eden CD 2008 Carnivalesque Raw Duets/band CD 2006 Polish Gypsy with Ghosts East of Eden vinyl 33 1/3 1990 East of Eden Band East of Eden cassette tape 1985 Snatches of the Visible Unreal duets cassette tape 1983 BUY AUDIO PRODUCTS HERE on Amazon.com Reviews "Very popular on the underground circuit. She is remakably good at telling stories of people, either descriptions of them ("Teenager in Nova Scotia"; "Peek Now You Acid Tripper"), or, seemingly, as personal experiences related as a commentary on what moticates people ("A Drunken Savoir"). These folks are professional and interesting." Bix Larda, Sound Choice Read and see copies of the full reviews excerpted here on the linked REVIEWS PAGE Dear fans of Hedwig Gorski and East of Eden Band. Peredmirka is selling Send in the Clown CDs two-for-one until Easter on Amazon.com
View the video of live presentation on YouTube D'Jalma Garnier's Deconstruction In Thirds (© Garnier) "Rising Melodic Chords" poem by performed by Hedwig Gorski. Presentation at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Dec 2008Note: the poem title changed to "Brooding Black Face" for the CD radio recording by East of Eden Band
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Read about Hedwig Gorski's odyssey as she invented the art of performance poetry from "metaphysically raw conceptual art drama from performance art on the skids" in her art/memoir archive book:
INTOXICATION: HEATHCLIFF ON POWELL STREET by Slough Press
About the band, members, and early breakfast w hedwig gorski
