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Edward Givens

@edwardgivens.bsky.social

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Not the astronaut. Composer. Imaginative, mystical and life affirming music for your daily soundtrack. edwardgivens.bandcamp.com I've also been known to edit videos. Other interests include modern art and wordplay. Hear, here!

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

may this laborious stair
and this stark tower
become a roofless ruin
that the owl may build in the cracked masonry
and cry her desolation
to the desolate sky

The Tower (2020)
🏷️ #musicsky #composer #musicvideo #tarot
🔗 edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/track/the-tower

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Yb...

The Tower from The Fool and The World by Edward Givens #tarot

YouTube video by Edward Givens

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 12h

great singing as always! and that a one day creation?

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 20h

That particular poem by Yeats is called Descendants...

You know I haven't read all that much by him. I like Percy Shelley, Poe, Robert Frost. I try to post Hazel Hall - she's really great if little known. ✍️

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 20h

Yeats

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 23h

My. They've been out on some good pasture

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1d

Joseph Cornell, American artist and film maker, and one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.

Untitled (Tamara Toumanova), ca. 1940
(collage with tempera on paperboard)

#JosephCornell #Surrealism #Collage

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

switching to Logic? or updating your ProTools? I'm Windows side so it's another world to me

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 3d

there are four directions
north south east west
🧭
and a fifth direction
inside of you
🌀
#music #healing

Power Spot

YouTube video by Jon Hassell - Topic

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 3d

cool to hear the piece by a double bassist. Dragonetti was the only one I could think of off the cuff

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew Witty, UnitedHealth Group
2024 total compensation: $26,339,215
Karen Lynch, CVS Health
2024 total compensation: $23,431,466
David Cordani, Cigna Group
2024 total compensation: $23,251,096
Sarah London, Centene Corporation
2024 total compensation: $20,602,148

etc etc etc

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 3d

It would be interesting to come from a family of musicians. All mine are nurses.
Love Mr. Bell. Great sound

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 3d

It's as if one person is playing. The ebb and flow of each and every phrase...
haven't made it to the crash yet

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 3d

Something beautiful

"The Hebrides" by Mendelsohn
is just wonderful!

Nice to start my day with great music (and my coffee)

#music

David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 3d

David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 4d

This Monday at 11:00 ET on CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa, and always on-demand at CKCUFM.com : music by Felix Mendelssohn, John Corigliano, Giovanni Bottesini, Johann Strauss Jr., Andrew Ager, and Mauricio Kagel.
cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602...

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!
- Marie Corelli
#absinthe #musicsky #bandcamp
edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/track/absinthe

Absinthe, by Edward Givens

from the album Steampunk Symphony

edwardgivens.bandcamp.com

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

The Tower from The Fool and The World by Edward Givens #tarot

YouTube video by Edward Givens

www.youtube.com

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

👏

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

Only the ones from Cali. Lived there my whole life. PDX = Airport

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

It's Portland. "PDX" is the airport.

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

Another Swede. He negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt concentration camp. The Zionists murdered him.

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_B...

Folke Bernadotte - Wikipedia

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

a suave track for #caturday
by Gentle Giant
#prog #vinyl

Gentle Giant - Black Cat (Vinyl)

YouTube video by VinyLuke

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not really a Christian but I do enjoy quoting the bible at people who pretend to be.
One of my favorites👇
Luke 18:25

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 5d

Then, broth the ramen: “over-pour.”

Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social · 5d

That word.

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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 5d

Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet for his wife Lucille.

#vintagephoto #louisarmstrong #egypt #sphinx

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 5d

“an oversized ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ with a plethora of exotic instruments, musical gadgets, orchestral automatons, and field recordings from a past life.”
🥁🎩🥽🎶
#musicsky #bandcamp #friday #composer #steampunk

Steampunk Symphony, by Edward Givens

6 track album

edwardgivens.bandcamp.com

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 5d

they did it to Puerto Rico already. We're next
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sPR...

Puerto Rico Is Dying: Here's Why

YouTube video by Cogito