Cassandra von Braun

Collection Contents

#		Title	Length
1		Overture	3:16	Play
2		Take Me For A Drive	4:45	Play
3		Do I Love You	1:59	Play
4		Angeline	3:34	Play
5		Sherlock Jones	4:45	Play
6		It Had To Be You	4:23	Play
7		Wisteria	4:18	Play
8		One Thin Dime	3:32	Play
9		Gulfport	4:47	Play
10		To Here	2:25	Play
11		Give In To It	5:50	Play
12		Boney Boney	4:46	Play
13		Bad Dream On Easy Street	5:08	Play
14		Naomi	3:27	Play
15		Red River Valley	4:26	Play
16		Harrier Angel	3:33	Play

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Description

"Harrier Angel -- rock remedy for the re generation" is a bona fide rock musical, and the show can be staged for a full theatrical presentation if we want to. There are a lot of pictures on the web site at http://www.nine3.com/ of such a staging. At the moment we're playing it as a rock concert covering the story and thematic elements of socio/political satire. This makes a great show without us having to schlepp every prop in creation, which lightness of being in turn lets us concentrate on lean and mean, and punching the lights on and sweeping the cobwebs out of the corners of tranced out zombidom.

Our first concert, the Harrier Angel CD Release Concert is booked for June 20. Come to Davis Square, Somerville, Mass., and experience the women, infants, chilcren, craftsmen and artisans (w.i.c.c.a.n.s) of Griselda's Fat Farm of Studio Art as they help usher in the era of Harrier Angel, Rock Remedy for the Re Generation.

Directed by Sandy Martin, the disc features Didi Stewart in the title role, Amber Casares as Angeline, Brent Newcomb as Buffalo, and Michael Mazola as Harry Gunn, with instrumentalists Jim Peterson on guitars, Adam Feldman on keyboards, and Steve Bankuti on drums and percussion. Sandy plays electric bass and pedal steel and also penned the vocal harmonies, which are amazing and lend so much to the music Cass von Braun has written.

The songs are jammed with strong melodic hooks that will start playing back in your head after only one listening, as more and more of the lyrical turns start making sense in half the situations you find yourself walking through in this wild ride the 21st Century is starting out to be.

The show is about survival at a 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 creativity alive at the edge of chaos threatening to roll in, and TO PREVAIL.

"Harrier Angel" calls to mind how most of the dogmas of the world can be used like tools for the manipulation of people and events by 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 called "Organic" -- that is, where form must follow 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. 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