Jazzing with Bigfoot, by STREAKING IN TONGUES

Jazzing with Bigfoot

by STREAKING IN TONGUES

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1.	The Eighth Day, a Bigfoot Creation Story 03:48	buy track
2.	Whitman and the Skunk 01:26	buy track
3.	White-tailed deer and Lady Bigfoot on the banks of Whitefish River, Lake Superior Region, Michigan, 1903. Photograph by George Shiras 02:45	buy track
4.	Pablo Auditions Bigfoot to Replace the Minotaur 02:40	buy track
5.	Frost and Bigfoot Duet in the Great Dismal Swamp 02:58	buy track
6.	Koi 01:55	buy track
7.	Bigfoot Gets Mistaken for John the Baptist at the Church of Corpus Christi 02:48	buy track
8.	Spring Choirs 02:01	buy track
9.	Bigfoot Crossing 02:33	buy track
10.	Bigfoot Visits My Father's Grave 03:15	buy track
11.	Bigfoot and Bird Celebrate Mardi Gras 02:56	buy track
12.	Bigfoot New Year's Resolutions 02:09	buy track
13.	There is This 02:14	buy track
14.	Bigfoot Blessing 03:16	buy track
15.	Doe After a Blizzard 02:45	buy track

about

“Marty Achatz’s wildly original (and originally wild) Jazzing with Bigfoot reminds us that making mythology is one of our highest forms of play, one of our deepest delights. Blending ancient traditions of the epic and lyric, and the improvisational spirits of modern Jazz and the Beats, these enchanting poem-songs track their hairy hero’s adventures through culture from Christianity to Cubism, poetry to rural parenthood, and across habitats from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to traditional Japan to the night sky’s constellations. What we see when we catch up is, wondrously, ourselves.”
-Jonathan Johnson, author of May Is an Island and The Desk on the Sea

“Jazzing with Bigfoot is funny, audacious, sad, wildly inventive, and smart. It reimagines the concept album, fusing poetry and jazz into a genre-bending exploration of a beloved, elusive creature. Marty Achatz has created a project wholly his own in the intersection of humor and elegy – a delightfully inventive place where we might imagine Mark Twain’s Eve’s Diary meeting an Ira Glass narrative with guest appearances from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and Charlie Parker. In this beautifully quirky project, music is not just prelude or fade out: It is woven throughout, and it is companion to poetry. Put your headphones on, slip in, and float here.”
-Cindy Hunter Morgan, author of Harborless and Far Company

“Even before Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, and Joe Pass, Jazzing with Bigfoot was always meant to be. A U.P. gumbo of verbal freeform, mixing George Shiras with Pythagoras, Monet’s fuzzy creatures with Robert Frost, Marty Achatz’s poems, backed by the quirky, off-kilter jazz excursions of the father-son duo STREAKING IN TONGUES, leads you into the woods, where it’s dark, thrilling, and funny as your favorite Saturday morning cartoon. Every phrase holds a Cracker Jack box surprise, every line leads you deeper into a literary thicket that reeks of matted fur, the blood of John the Baptist, and Mother’s meatloaf, while Marty Achatz conducts his dauntless search for the spirit of the venerable Bigfoot.”
-John Smolens, author of A Cold, Hard Prayer

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released January 2, 2024

Produced by STREAKING IN TONGUES
Recorded and Mixed by STREAKING IN TONGUES
All Tracks © Marty Achatz and STREAKING IN TONGUES

Mastered by Fred Thomas

Poems by Marty Achatz
Music by STREAKING IN TONGUES with
Tenor and Soprano Saxophone by Patrick Booth

All Tracks Performed by Marty Achatz, Ronnie Ferguson,
Elliott Ferguson, and Patrick Booth

Artwork by Jess Niemi

In Memory of Helen and her Bigfoot Heart

saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com

www.streakingintongues.com
www.facebook.com/streakingintongues streakingintongues.bandcamp.com

Eternal Playground and Harvard Square Press, 2024

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STREAKING IN TONGUES Michigan

STREAKING IN TONGUES is an experimental father/son music project based in Marquette, Michigan. The multi-instrumentalists, Ronnie Ferguson and his son Elliott, are known for their critically acclaimed albums, film scores, multimedia concerts, and creative music videos. Their latest release, Einstein's Napkin, is an instrumental album featuring saxophonist Patrick Booth. ... more

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