Recordings of Other Poets
Cry of Freedom (CD)
This compelling collaboration began in 2006 when award-winning poet Linda Nemec Foster first viewed the work of photographer Jacko Vassilev. His portfolio, “The Dance of Zlatio Zlatev,” appeared in Harper’s Magazine and gave visual testimony to the impoverished and marginalized people of Eastern Europe. Vassilev’s haunting portraits inspired Foster to write a sequence of poems, Ten Songs from Bulgaria, that was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2008. When Laz read Foster’s chapbook in 2011, he was immediately drawn to the poems as lyrics for songs, and began composing music for them: Cry of Freedom is the result of this partnership of art, poetry, and music.
Full Track List
- Two Vladimirs at the Window
- Young Shepherd in Front of Old Church
- Creativity in Psychiatry Camp: Contrapuntal
- Brothers, Stoian and Christo
- Cry of Freedom
- The Dancing Bear
- To Protect Her Property
- Child with Dove
- The Dance of Zlatio Zlatev, Ex-Pilot
- A Man is a Man When a Man is on the Road
Ten Songs from Bulgaria (Chapbook)
This is the chapbook of the ten powerful poems that are set to music in the CD, “Cry of Freedom.” (For more information, please see above.)
Into the Light
A collection of tender love poems, reverential nature poems, poems of healing and deep spirituality, all set to music and turned into songs. With soaring melodies and down-to-earth dance rhythms, here are words and music filled with encouragement, passion and caring, a touch of spicy humor, and love for our common humanity and the world we share.
Full Track List
- Summer of Thick Toes
- My Feet
- You Give Me Beauty
- No One Wrote
- Grey Eye Blues
- Don’t Tread Softly
- Arlene
- Grand Haven
- Song of Healing
- Congregation
- Namaste