Notes From The Edge of the Known World

At any given moment, everything we can imagine is happening somewhere in Nature, and something amazing is going on everywhere at once.  Our guitar-poem explores that perpetual cycle, that everlasting, ever-loving ferment of creature and leaf, time and flow, life and death, rot and rebirth.  We like to fool ourselves that earth's  whole show is about us, when we are the least part of it.  But we are--never forget-- part of it.
 
Krist Novoselic makes music and grows potatoes, goats, and chickens on an old rainforest farm.  Now Master of Grays River Grange, he was co-founder and bassist of Nirvana.  Bob Pyle, Grange Lecturer, writes poetry, essay, and fiction on another pioneer farmstead in the next watershed over.  His books include Wintergreen, Sky Time in Gray's River, The Butterflies of Cascadia, and Mariposa Road.  Krist and Bob both take daily inspiration from the rivers and hills they live among in the Lower Columbia region of southwest Washington.

Notes from the Edge of the Known World was recorded and mixed by Jack Endino on the Murky Slough mobile.

Notes From The Edge of the Known World by Robert Michael Pyle & Krist Novoselic is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• nature
• salamander
• porcupine
• newt
• slug
• moss coat
• Krist Novoselic
• Nirvana
• Robert Michael Pyle
• lepidoptera
• acoustic guitar

[primaryspiral]

Krist please check out Carlos Paredes on youtube. It's a Portuguese guitar player from the 70's, I'm sure you are going to like him. Oh, and Hi by the way, gigantic fan of yours!

[chucksbrain]

This guitar is great man .. I really like the style.

[zoidsvstherichies]

Krist, have you ever been vegan before?

[odiumimbues]

I am an earth dragon. i am a taurus. A cow. and I eat meat.

To hell with father nature.. long live mother nature.!

[michaelbryan2]

Dude we have the same spiders here in the uk

[jordidwdw]

hey , krist i am from a place just down the road from where Eugene Kelly from the vaselines is originally and my dad's friend went into Eugene's house and on the fire place was a royalty check from nirvana for covering their songs a few of my dad's friends no him personally have you ever been to glasgow before :)

[jordidwdw]

krist that music at the start is beautiful how is it ? rb please :)

[NirvanaAvanca]

krist Novoselic is the man

[Kravis63]

I really, really like this. I love in the description "We like to fool ourselves that earth's whole show is about us, when we are the least part of it. But we are--never forget--part of it"

Quite simply, an excellent thought gained from the wisdom of letting the ego go and realizing you are just a small part of it all. Nice work, I'd love to see more guitar poems.

[greatfelixo]

your voice is much like frank zappas