TABLET: improvisations with god

TABLET: 

improvisations with god

recent works on limestone, brick, dimension lumber and paper, set to piano improvisation of June 14, 2013 by American artist Alan Dyson

for more work go to:
alandyson.us

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dysonmusic
http://www.reverbnation.com/alandyson
https://alandyson.see.me/

Shreveport House Concert Series Presents

moonlight revisited

lyrics by 

david love lewis

music and performance by

alan dyson

the

Shreveport House Concert Series

presents

Alan Dyson

and

Lip Service Trio

Live in Concert

Fairfield Studios

June 16th
7:00 p.m.

1510 Fairfield Avenue 

please make your reservations at the following link

http://shreveporthouseconcerts.org/

Madonna and Child

Madonna and Child

circa 1998

all rights reserved

King Cake Baby Pasta

King Cake Baby Pasta

a collaboration with

Scott Griffin

circa 1998

all rights reserved

happy mardi gras

Louisiana Jive

http://debbiebuchananengle.blogspot.com/2012/02/louisiana-jive-by-dead-media-arts.html

moonlight revisited

moonlight revisited

lyrics by david love lewis

music and performance by alan dyson

2011 all rights reserved

Cafe Du Monde

cafe du monde

original song written and performed

by

alan dyson

new orleans / shreveport louisiana

2011

within me and without me

within me and without me

alan 'n amram

 

I get to meet legendary beat poet musician, composer, and cultural evolutionary David Amram!

The high point of 2011 for me.

Thanks to:

Stan Carpenter for the photos.

Centenary College for hosting a week long visit...and

Matt Crowson, Shreveport's Cultural Ambassador for making this happen!

al & dave's american songbook

turns out we've been collaborating on this work for nearly a decade.

it all started when david gave me a short collection of his poems, two of those became songs that landed on my 2003 compilation called SKYSCRAPER.

david then gave me a stack of his poetry, and over time some 

eighteen songs have come forth. 

the photo above is where i work on creating the songs.

currently working on recording this body of work

the link below takes you to a you tube video of
"i used to dream"
please enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO7xKLy4dFg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

al & dave's songbook....live performance

original poetry by david love lewis

original music and song by alan dyson

performed live

reflected light

reflected light

downtown shreveport

lost on texas III

green door

texas avenue

shreveport

hot nuts

"hot nuts"

southern maid donuts

hearne ave.

shreveport

alexandra's oval room

jazz player by baron de'callatay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHOIHzNKrY

alexandra's oval room
new orleans, louisiana
jan. 2011
piano improvisations
casa d'arte
shreveport, louisiana
april 2000

cypress sanctuary III

cypress sanctuary

metaphor

metaphor

gospel de louisiane

in louisiana, legislation was devised to allow concealed firearms in churches.
anyone with a proper permit could have carried prior to this legislation,
thus accenting a politic of fear and division,
slowly evaporating faith in
peace and love.

"broken glass"

'glass house' - debbie buchanan engle (work in progress)

'broken glass' - poetry by david love lewis, music and performance by alan dyson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOI7-YC0Krc&feature=mfu_in_order&playnext=1&videos=4jgrRwetI10

'broken glass"

i'm so glad your soul
belongs to jesus, lately your good manners
and much else have eluded me;
we promised no more nukes,
no more point-blank sights, but you
need to zero in, to wield the cerem0nial knife:
a feral child thrashing away with occam's razor.

that's why i had to get out
and see the world or at lest the plush
mamas on the other side of the street.
naked and forked, i forked my way
to the other side of lonely avenue;
sure all the time you saw me from
your lighted window and disapproved.

and when they left me bruised and bleeding,
as hungry for death as death in life can be,
you scolded and screamed and called me lost
and wrote me off.

by god's mercy i didn't die; step by step
on the muddy road back i called distance
from you a good thing' a thick clot hearsay
poisoned what was left of your milk's kindness.

we had one more run in us, and made it;
pilgrims dazzled with our brilliant runs---
fast eddie and calamaity jane dance in
quick time and promised each other more.
and if the songs stop now, i will be blamed,
pilloried in a sheet of fire for some real slight
or some imagined neglect: i have called too much
or not enough.

there's only one thing left i'd like to know---
can you still trip the lightning and catch
its glow in your clear smooth jar and hold
it up like a child, as surprised as anyone
with its brassy glow?

these others catch their fireflies and are satisfied;
and i would be too if i didn't know,
hadn't always known
better.

david love lewis

paper bridge circa 1979