Released 16 July 2002
14 Songs (total time 50:28)
Includes a 16-page booklet & the 8-minute video
How We Got Elsewhere

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»Richard Kirk's cover illustration for Songs of Elsewhere
»Lyrics from Songs of Elsewhere
»How to Get Elsewhere: Samuel Andreyev's notes about Songs of Elsewhere
»Steve Venright's liner notes from Songs of Elsewhere
»Bob Dobbs' analysis of Songs of Elsewhere
(text of interview with Samuel Andreyev and Linus Minimax)



»Audio excerpts from Songs of Elsewhere:
• Phantom Bays 2.4MB mp3
• Song of Crime 1.6MB mp3

Recorded at Wellesley Sound in Toronto


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Swollows
Samuel Andreyev

Released 10 October 2000

Marvelous! A champion musical adventure!
— Van Dyke Parks

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The first audio release by TVI and the first CD from composer/musician/vocalist Samuel Andreyev. Includes two albums of original music: the tastefully deranged orchestral songs of Swollows, and the languorous yet lively numbers of Twelve.

MP3:
• Closeup 3.2MB mp3


Swollows lyrics


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Released 9 August 2004

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The recorded dreams of Dion McGregor are among the most remarkable audio artifacts ever. By turns (sometimes simultaneously) hilarious, bizarre, poignant, macabre and charming, these singular somniloquies — recorded in the '60s by McGregor's songwriting partner and roommate Michael Barr — leave a vivid impression in the mind of the listener. The Further Somniloquies is the sequel to Dion McGregor Dreams Again (Tzadik 1999) and The Dream World of Dion McGregor (Decca 1964). For more information about Dion's life and recordings, visit the American Song-Poem Music Archives where you will find a brilliant biographical account by McGregor archivist Phil Milstein.

The new compilation includes selections from long-lost dream tapes excavated by Michael Barr. There's some astounding material that hasn't been heard in decades!

BACK COVER	LINER NOTES	TRACKLIST

Here are a couple of the shorter tracks from the new CD:
• Food Roulette 3.3MB mp3
• The Horseshoe Crabs 2.3MB

NEWS: A UK/Canadian-produced documentary featuring animated versions of certain Dion McGregor somniloquies is now in the planning stages!

HEAR EXCLUSIVE DEMO SAMPLES FROM MICHAEL BARR'S "ALL-DREAMING" MUSICAL
BASED ON HIS FRIENDSHIP AND SONGWRITING COLLABORATION WITH DION McGREGOR!

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A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario
Text & reading by Christopher Dewdney
Soundscapes by Steve Venright
with Gordon Nicholson
2.5 hours—double CD

Released 29 October 2004
(co-release with Coach House Books)
Double CD includes lavishly illustrated full colour 16-page booklet
with notes by Chris Dewdney and Steve Venright

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A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario is author Christopher Dewdney's fascinating poetic exploration of the landscape, creatures and atmospheric phenomena of Canada's southernmost region. Published in instalments over the past three decades, this work can now be heard in its entirety, spoken by the author and vividly orchestrated with the sounds of the terrain it celebrates.

Steve Venright's two-and-a-half-hour sonic interpretation is composed of over five hundred original recordings made at locations specific to the text. Dewdney's masterpiece is taken to a new experiential realm in one of the most ambitious soundscapes ever created—a hyperlucid, sometimes hallucinatory domain of time winds, spring trances and Cenozoic asylums. Primal, erotic, cerebral and exalted, A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario will envelop you in the visionary landscape of one of Canada's most adventurous poets.

Christopher Dewdney text & reading
Steve Venright field recordings, soundscapes & audio engineering
Gordon Nicholson soundscape collaboration/audio engineering on
Spring Trances in the Control Emerald Night

THE CENOZOIC ASYLUM
GRID ERECTILE
SPRING TRANCES IN THE CONTROL EMERALD NIGHT
CONCORDAT PROVISO ASCENDANT
TIME WIND

MP3s:
• Concordat Proviso Ascendant (track 3) 1.5MB mp3
• Cenozoic Asylum DEMO (excerpt 1) 4.8MB mp3

Selected images by Steve Venright
from the Natural History CD booklet:

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