Songs for Saturday: Lookingglass Folk at Conflikt

[mdlbear]

I haven't posted about Conflikt 5 yet, and not much about Lookingglass Folk and the concert we've been working on for the last eight months or so. (To be entirely fair, that's because we started working on it as Tempered Glass, but that's a totally different story that's already been mostly told and doesn't need to be brought up again).

This is because we've taken our music in an entirely new direction, and wanted it to be a surprise. I think we pulled it off.

We were inspired by Talis Kimberley's song Kitchen Heroes, about the likely coming of troubled times. Between assaults on the environment, the economy, human rights, ... things could get bad. Our world needs all the help it can get.

We probably won't do a full concert on this theme, codenamed "Trinitite Lens", again for a while, and it'll probably be a week before I can get the recordings processed. But here's the setlist:

• "Where the Heart Is" by Naomi Rivkis (lyrics) and Callie Hills (music)
• "Kitchen Heroes" by Talis Kimberley
• "As Solemn As Life Or As Death" by Catherine Faber
• "Don’t Laugh At Me" by Steve Seskin and Allen Shamblin.
• "Underground Rail" by Catherine Faber
• "The Last Buffalo" by Dave Carter.
• "Gentle Arms of Eden" by Dave Carter.
• "Boom Gone to Bust" by James Keelaghan
• "Banks of Marble" by Les Rice and Pete Seeger
• "The Dreamer" by (unknown)
• excerpt from "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss
• "Sweet Survivor" by Peter Yarrow et. al.
• "Secret of the Crossroads Devil" by Christopher Bingham

We did well (so people tell us), and nailed "Kitchen Heroes" and a couple of the others. Talis, who was in the audience, said "bloody well done". So... a good debut for Lookingglass Folk. We're still coming down from it.

(Suggestions wanted on whether I should just put up all the audio and hope to stay under the radar, or pull out the ones that aren't by filkers we don't have advance permission from (which would be more than half the set.)

Comments

[technoshaman]

TK was on the second row, listening in rapt attention.. she laughed when her name came up, and then cried... because here are her ideas, 4800 miles away and taking root. Bloody well done indeed; it was a joy to be there.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Well done on the concert; I would love to have a recording.

You certainly have my permission to include songs I had a part in; if you make (not for charity) money on it we can discuss what my (modest) royalties should be.

If you have a reasonably convenient way of reaching the filkers you don't have permission from, that would be a nice touch, in my opinion.

Aside from that, this is not a problem I have very much, so I'm not sure how to advise you, except that I'm pretty sure that something done small-scale and for friends is in my opinion unlikely to draw ire. Something posted on the internet where it might be slashdotted might be a different story, though.

[mdlbear]

Thanks. I'll probably have to take the careful route, unfortunately; At this point I think I'll try to get permission for Boom Gone to Bust and the Dave Carter songs; Banks of Marble will probably be easy too.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Ask Dave Clement about Boom Gone to Bust; I think I'd originally found it off one of his CDs.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

We're not planning to sell anything from this set except maybe for Interfilk in the form of a few-copy, limited edition CD donated to a few of the auctions. We might ask you at some point about doing one or two of your songs on a studio CD, and in that case we'd of course make arrangements with you about what to do in the way of royalties, but the recordings from this concert will either be up for free or auctioned for Interfilk or both, if they're available at all. Not for us... given the subject, it wouldn't feel right.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Since "Kitchen Heroes" sound like the high point of the con for you, I certainly hope you at least put that up.

[mdlbear]

No doubt about that; also the Cat Faber songs, The Dreamer and the Rivkis/Hills. The others may require either research, permission, or plausible deniability.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

If Talis will permit it, we'd love to.

[mdlbear]

I trust you'll ask on Tuesday :)

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Probably not, since she will be both very busy and completely mobbed. I'll ask by email.