EASTBEAT - for peace, truth & non-violence
London
United Kingdom
mikepars
The Mike Parsons Occasional Quartet
Lorna Bateson & Mike Parsons
Dream Visit
Would today be any different if we met that night
when the lifeboat took the sea against the storm
did you dream, while my love faced the elements alone.
Would I still be waiting patient if we'd built some hope?
Would I still be waiting patient if we'd built some hope?
But we didn't and now the chance has gone.
Were you scheming, were you planning, as I braved the lonely night?
Were you crying, did you struggle as I rolled?
Would today be any different?
Would today be any different?
Would today be any different?
Would today be any different if we'd met that night,
when the lifeboat took the sea against the storm?
Did you dream while that love faced the elements alone?
Would I still be waiting patient if we'd built some hope?
So sleep on, you have eternity, and I a broken heart,
every nerve and sinew stretched in your direction.
Sleep on, there'll be another, to share the heavy load.
Sleep on, I'll have to visit in your dream.
WHEN IT RAINS:
Words- featuring Madrid based violinist Manuel Porta and Anthony Clements. Music finallyidentified as written by Pachelbel. Written for my AuntyCath after her husband Smed died. Developed in rehearsal with Lorna and David Blair-Reid
- When it Rains
- For Judit Kumathini.
- Daniel Viglietti Poem
- When I was working at the Chile Committee for Human Rights I commissioned a card for political prisoners from Constanza Aguira. This was the text.
- High Tide In Plaistow
- Dedicated this to my friend Ed Pointon who died. One of my first compositions 1996.
- Blues/Sunlight
- Wanted Paul Moss to write a blues, but in the end had to write it myself. Sunlight is our big hit, tune stolen from Dave Large's European. Great chords
- For Florian
- I studied with Florian at Essex on the IDA course.
- Hoy Mi Deber by Sylvio Rodrigues
- My singing debut in any language was to perform this song at the opening of an exhibition by Latin American artists at the Casa de Cultura to commemorate the burial of Che Guevara in Cuba. Ted Davis played violin. On this recording the violin is played by Manuel Porta.
- Usted Companero
- Translation of a poem by Guatamalan poet Otto Rene Castillo. Read by Lorna Bateson.
- Dancing Into Dreamland
- For Mabel. After a Quilombo performance at the Brixton Latin-American Festival.
- Raglan Road
- MPOQ audition piece. Writen by Patrick Kavenagh.
- Sinatra Songs
- It dawned on me that Frank Sinatra had cornered the market in heartbreak. Written at John Morris's place in Hythe. I sent a copy to Sinatra but he never replied.
- The Times You Come by Jackson Browne
- Tell Me The Price Of Love
- for Ingrid
- Song
- First song I ever wrote. Loosely based on "To dream the impossible dream". A real life saver!
About the Recording
Music recorded by Mike Wood in Forest Gate. Poetry by Nabeel Sadiq at Newham College. CD produced by Kelly Pritchard at Manhattan Studios, Truro.
Light of my life
Nzambe
You are my everything, You are my only friend, You are my one desire.
Nzambe
You are my peace of mind, you are my life, my home, you are my pride and joy
Nzambe
You are my tower of strength, only say the word, I'm at your command.
My life is in your hands, You're the way ahead on a stormy night.
Nzambe
*
Wewe kila kitu, wewe rafiki yangu, wew ndiye nataka
Wewe ni amani yangu, wewe mwangaza wangu, wewe ni nyumba yangu.
Wewe tumaini yangu, wewe ni njia yangu, wewe ndiye nataka,
Wewe ngazi nguru yangu, sema nemo tu, nakusikia
Naweka maisha yangu, mukononi mwako
wewe ninjia yangu, banabo majambu, usuko
Meera
Swahili translation by Lisa Mwihaki & Patrick Mwangangi
London
United Kingdom
mikepars
