The Day Is Gone & Other Sonnets : Steven Brown reads John Keats, by Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon, Ensamble Kafka)

The Day Is Gone & Other Sonnets : Steven Brown reads John Keats

by Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon, Ensamble Kafka)

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1.	Ever Let The Fancy Roam 10:28	buy track
2.	Upon A Shore (Musical Interlude) 01:11	buy track
3.	After Dark Vapours 01:04	buy track
4.	Song Of Opposites 01:43	buy track
5.	Fill For Me 00:57	buy track
6.	Amid The Wreck 00:09	buy track
7.	Arms Of Melody (Musical Interlude) 02:36	buy track
8.	You Say You Love 02:23	buy track
9.	Writ In Water I 01:32	buy track
10.	Writ In Water II 02:36	buy track
11.	Writ In Water III 02:37	buy track
12.	See, Here It Is (Weltschmerz) 01:15	buy track
13.	What The Trush Said 01:11	buy track
14.	The Purple West (Musical Interlude) 03:38	buy track
15.	To Hope 02:13	buy track
16.	To Follow One's Nose (Musical Interlude) 02:12	buy track
17.	More Happy Happy 01:18	buy track
18.	Those Cruel Twins (Musical Interlude) 00:40	buy track
19.	Halo Of My Memory (Musical Interlude) 00:42	buy track
20.	What Can I Do? 01:09	buy track

about

This recording was made at our request. Steven Brown, the voice of Tuxedomoon reciting poems by John Keats. Between spoken word and song, this is a unique essay.

Lyrics by John Keats
Composed by Steven Brown

Produced and recorded by Drem Bruinsma, Mark Lerch and Steven Brown at DB studios, Brussels, autumn 1989
with the additional assistance of Nikolas Klau and Walter Curias

Notes
Track A1 contains excerpts from: Fancy, The Eve of St Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Hyperion, Lamia, Isabella, To Hope, In Drear Nighted December, The Day is Gone and On Death.
Track B2 consists of The Japanese, The Warm South, Why Did I laugh? and This Grave. This sequence was recorded at Keats' gravesite at the Protestant Cemetery in Roma, August 1988.

credits

released January 16, 2016

The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast,
Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone,
Bright eyes, accomplish'd shape, and lang'rous waist!

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,
Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,
Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,
Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise –

Vanish'd unseasonably at shut of eve,
When the dusk holiday – or holinight
Of fragrant-curtain'd love begins to weave

The woof of darkness thick, for hid delight,
But, as I've read love's missal through to-day,
He'll let me sleep, seeing I fast and pray.

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