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--------WORLDS APART FROM THAT--------
THE LAPSAP BLUES BAND announce that their new eclectic "Cabala Free" CD "WORLDS APART FROM THAT" has just been completed. All the songs have been written by these two popular authors, Ed Teja and John Michael Pocock (alias HARPER JOHN) who have now reformed themselves. There is even an ugly rumour that the ethereal "Heroines" could be described as a "POPular song". If you didn't witness us together or "worlds apart" on radio or TV or watch performances in Hong Kong, Bermuda, Philippines, Venezuela, St. Martin, New Mexico, Texas, Ontario - Canada, London - England or where ever http://www.EdTeja.com will clue you in to what's afoot............................ . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1. Pearl - A haunting melody accompanies this song for an ordinary American who had lost his father, brother and best friend at Pearl Harbor. They were serving on the Tennessee, West Virginia and Arizona, that fateful day. The survivor, now in his old age, still "sees" them but now makes commonplace excuses for their non-return. Yet at the end he can muster up his anger by asking the still poignant question the best way he now can. It still bothers me, does it bother you? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .2. Heroines - A powerful epitaph for an unsung heroine who shall forever remain nameless. She was just one of the many forgotten souls who struggled all her short life merely for the basic dignity of South East Asian women. The worldly songwriter was truly humbled . . . . . . ... . . . . .. . . . .3. Tiny Feet - Memories of an old lady that would sit barefoot on the cobble steps leading down to Hong Kong's Central District from Midlevels. Those tiny feet, who was she; did she walk into Hong Kong from China all those years ago at the time of social upheaval? Were her feet bound as a child? The songwriter reflects upon what might have been her story and contrasts it with the modern stylish Hong Kong girl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Distant Deserts - The haunting chorus gives you the feeling that you are there in that desert or the one of your own machinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. One of these days - Raw sugar-cane blues . . . and how the field-worker feels about the bossman who owns everything. Of course, the theme could apply to you and your boss!. . . . . . . . . . .......... .. .6. Chancy - Taking a chance - actually doing what you really want to accomplish in life. This song with its universal theme has been performed around the world by various artists - sometimes with local variations. The storyline is based on the true lives of three mid-life co-workers who finally took that chance - each with their own dream. Two survived, the other died just after completing his great adventure. ". . . but that's OK, mate", I can hear him say. ( Siren Bang - Gang of Four Hong Kong cabala ?).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .7. Black Bottom - Written in the mining town of Silver City, New Mexico and recorded here the same day. A cheeky blues song actually inspired by the coalminers of South Wales. Black bottom - the valley below the minehead where the shale and coal dust would settle. Chick - the lifesaving canary that would forewarn of bad air below the pit face, and the white linen that would shroud their cage from sunlight before they surfaced again - believe it . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .8. Aggi Giggi Goo Goo Gaga - A catchy line-dance written for the children in Pampanga, Philippines, just after the world-famous eruption of Mount Pinatubo. The mountain is afire, rivers of mud, people running, houses buried, ash like snow falling from the sky - yet still the locals wear their characteristic smile! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9. Lady Writer - Have you ever been inspired by a lady with a silky pen?. . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10. Dirty Old Man - This man lives locked in a world of his own - but she still loves him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11. Painless Tattoo - Inspired from a newspaper ad, but this powerful coded epic actually speaks of mans inhumanity to man throughout the ages. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12. The Road Calls Me - Once a traveling man - you can never get it out of your blood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .13. Small Places - Written in the mining town of Silver City, New Mexico and recorded here the same day. A tribute to Silver City and its like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 14. Impossible Dream - Older man falls in reciprocated love with younger lady - they just laugh at each other in disbelieving joy . . . . . . . . . all rounded out with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. WAFT - Ethereal Acrostic Cabala, the Madonna-free kind? . . . . ....................... . . . . . . . . *********** MABUS*********. . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . .. . .The new Harper John album: Harper John, Author of The Nostradamus Bible Code & The Nostradamus Cabala Code (the world's first book to comment upon the World Trade Center, Twin Tower terrorist attack of 9/11) . . . . . . . . ......... . . . . . ..1. SADO-MASOCHIST: So Gabriel got it wrong. The wicked EVA of the Cabala was not AVE after all, but Adam was? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . .2. HEROINES: To the "Ave Maria" archetypes - the Third World unsung ones.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. IF YA: EVE, if you're going down don't take me with you. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. WALKING WITH FOOLS: Life's a sage, but talking with fools ain't easy. Ah, but you play the role so well! . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. THE NIGHT I KISSED ANNA: . . . an anarchist me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . ..6. COLD COMFORT: The faceless little and their unknown end (based on the Matthew Arnold poem, West London.). . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7. JAIME: Nostradamus - Mabus, the third anti-Christ, the last hope or Pope? . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8. MY FATHER WAS A THINKING MAN: Never give a boy a uniform; never give a man a gun! .......................................................................... . . . .. .http://harperjohn0.tripod.com gets you to the very latest Harper John CD - BEATING THE BLUES....................including the classic, Cockfighting in the Philippines.. . . . . . . . . . . . .
HARPER JOHN DUG UP THE PAST IN HIS PAST :
At - Ulilang Bundok , Sitio Dayap, Barangay Tanagan, Calatagan, Batangas, Philippines.
A series of systematic archaeological excavation was conducted at the site during 1995 and 1996. Ulilang Bundok is approximately 32 meters above sea level and has a total land area of 1,136 square meters that are possible or available for systematic archaeological excavation. Only 224 square meters (or 20%) has been excavated since the first phase of the project.
This is a secondary earthenware vessel burial site. A total of 66 secondary human burials were found, and relics included decorated earthenware sherds, plain earthenware sherds, obsidian flakes or chips, glass beads and the shells of edible marine and brackish creatures. Some of the pottery burial vessels were decorated with polished stone adzes (trapezoidal in cross-section.)
Ulilang Bundok is significant to Philippine archaeology and especially to Calatagan, Batangas, for it is much earlier than the other sites which have been reported. The site is dated to the Pre-porcelain period.
The locals had told us that a white lady haunts the site.
A LITTLE MORE DIGGING:
Wrote his first blues song "When I was a young man" (on the current "BEATING THE BLUES" offering as it happens) when he was - but didn't even know it was blues 'cos he was too young to know anything of value. Played London with the BLACKSHEEP in the glory, pre-STONES, three-chord/four-on-a-good-nite real indie era. Travelled the world for the next century searching (though he didn't know it) for a hero. Came upon the dead Filipino, Jose Rizal, in a spiritual encounter (check him out on the web) which changed his life and his. In the past nine years he has authored six published books including an Asian bestseller, and has played his "bitter-bitta" thinking blues/news here and there . . . mainly there. Armed with a beaten, but not down, vintage classical left-handed (of sorts) guitar and a clutch of oddball harps, Harper John can't help but letting the World know what it's all about.
Out of Southfields, London, UK, before doing Bermuda, the Americas and Asia. Somewhere along he lost his way but with the aid of Nostradamus has come back to music and poetic quatrains of sorts with his punchy Hammer-Smash "Bitter-Bitta" style. He is currently in Hong Kong, beating the dragon.
CHECK THESE INSITES:
singersongwriterdirectory.com/genre/alternative/alternative27.html
vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/12/91980.php
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