http://www.elsiedeeproject.com/Default.aspx The Elsie Dee Project is please to present the fourth (4th) installment of original Canadian World Beat Music. The Elsie Dee Project is dedicated not only to the diffusion of poetry, but also to the exploration of the musical formulas which one could call the 'lowest common denominator'. Copyright 2007 Pierre Voyer and Boyd Williams SOCAN http://www.elsiedeeproject.com/images/Arthur_Michault.jpg http://www.elsiedeeproject.com/Default.aspx en Song 31 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Dwight E. Edwards. Dwight E. Edwards was born in Duncan?s Cove, Nova Scotia (1954). His mother was a Danish harpist struggling to get by. Playing the high society venues her instrument called for was not easy, even if she extended her artistic territory to New-Brunswick, Newfoundland and Maine. His father was an out of work fisherman: he had been badly traumatized by a blue whale who he claimed had words with on a stormy night off the shores of Sable Island. But he had to be drunk that night too, since he was all the time when home. Song 32 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Jean Genet. Genet was always fond of ceremonies and rituals and being outlawed was not a burden for him, it was an ideal greatly sought after Song 33 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Dylan Thomas. This Welsh poet?s poetic power is almost incomparable. His style is unique, blending traditional rhythms and intensely personal imagery in riddle-like knots of wisdom and rage, love and despair, faith and the humbling waves of the ever beating heart of the sea. Song 34 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by José Martí. When you hear, high and loud, the call of wilderness in the midst of highly civilized poetry, discreetly seeping through the most innocent form of well tamed academic poise, you can be sure you have entered the realm of Romanticism. Though he spent most of his life in exile, he took an active part in the Cuban revolution of the late nineteenth century. Song 35 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Friedrich Nietzsche. When he was 25, he was best friend with the 50 years old Richard Wagner. They were both writers as well as composers. The music and the philosophy of the twentieth century would not have been the same without them. But even in the best friendship, there is no room for two giants. Song 36 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Jack T. Hammer. His first attempts at poetry were rap revival of old English masters. He almost made the Guinness book of records with his non-stop rendition of Percy Bysshe Shelley?s The Revolt of Islam. Song 37 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Arthur Michault. Gabriel Pariseau was born at L'Île Ronde in 1949. His precocious neo-romantic poetry is still very much impregnated with post-modern irony. Something like the tragical fragrance of blue flowers . Song 38 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Renaldo Chastefleur. Born in Paris in 1944, Renaldo Chastefleur, the son of a Chilean musician and a famous Frensh contralto who toured the world non-stop, he spent most of his childhood on the road, but never got to see his father?s native Tarapacá, the Parinacota volcano?s reflection in the clear water of lake Chungará. Song 39 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Arthur Rimbaud. Of all the so called "damned poets" of the late nineteenth century, Arthur Rimbaud is without a doubt the best known. And this has less to do with the literary superiority of his work than with life story. Song 40 - Music by the Elsie Dee Project. Lyrics by Nicolás Guillén. This famous Cuban poet has witnessed his people?s sufferings as well as its achievements. But you don?t have to be Cuban and you don?t have to know all the historical details of the events he took part in to appreciate the bitter caress of his poetry.