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BOSTON, February 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A-Bazouki Volume 1 on Un-Gyve Records features twelve original tracks by A-Bazouki, multi-instrumentalist (violin, mandolin, ukulele, piano) J. Nemrow and L. A. Nemrow (harmonica, vocals).
A-BAZOUKI VOLUME 1 (UN-GYVE RECORDS). Twelve original tracks by A-Bazouki, multi-instrumentalist (violin, mandolin, ukulele, piano) J. Nemrow and L. A. Nemrow (harmonica, vocals)—"nothing promised that is not performed." (PRNewsFoto/UN-GYVE LIMITED)
A-Bazouki was named by Christopher Ricks (Keats and Embarrassment, Beckett's Dying Words, Dylan's Visions of Sin) before he became Sir Christopher Ricks, in response to a running joke about the dictionary of the same name. In the last line of his sleeve notes to A-Bazouki Volume 1 he promises of A-Bazouki "nothing promised that is not performed." (Just for the record we never promised you a bazouki.) Multi-instrumentalist (violin, mandolin, ukulele, piano) and cartoonist (Jule's 'Toons) co-founder J. Nemrow could play the bazouki, though, if we had one. Co-founder L. A. Nemrow couldn't but would give it a shot for pay and does play the harmonica and sing (not at the same time) and is in the midst of writing The Probe (a novel) and a Bostonian & other poems; a contributor to Ricks' (with Leonard Michaels) The State of the Language, later edition, the essay "Dirty Words" was called a "tour de force" by The Economist. The two are also screenwriters/filmmakers collaboratively, and run The Un-Gyve Limited Group, the family business and day job, continuing a long history of industry, creativity, philanthropy, and larceny on all sides, Scardino and Nemrow, including their uncles bassist and guitarist Joe and Dom DiBona (Frank Sinatra) and saxophonist Frank Messina (Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, Claude Thornhill, Frank Sinatra); and harmonica player Larry Adler.
A-Bazouki Volume 1
Recorded 2010
Release date: 3.3.11
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01. Lucky
02. Bowlin' Green Blues
03. 213 Blues
04. Crossroads (For Robert Johnson)
05. Back Alley Blues
06. Buttoned-Down Blues
07. The Key (To My Door) - For Sonny Boy
08. The Beldam (No Mercy)
09. Wrecking Ball Waltz (For Vincent "Sonny" Scardino; Blind Willie McTell and Curley Weaver)
10. Basement Blues
11. Boston or Bust
12. Saint Louis Blues (For Blind Willie)
A-BAZOUKI VOLUME 1 is available from Amazon, CD BABY, iTunes, Un-Gyve, and record shops.
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SOURCE Un-Gyve Limited
The Roger Lonsdale archive, at Balliol College, Oxford, includes his reflections, in 2005, on his poetry, with lists of his ninety poems—alphabetically by first lines, and chronologically—as well as his notebooks as a poet; and, at that time, he noted, in reference to these sixteen poems from Un-Gyve Press in a numbered, limited edition of seventy-five: “At present the following seem worth preserving for one reason or another.”