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    Decroo, Kenneth Louis: Becoming Human
    Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2018, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Becoming Human, Autor: Decroo, Kenneth Louis, Verlag: AIA Publishing, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Thrillers // General, Rubrik: Belletristik // Kriminalromane, Seiten: 322, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 497 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    Decroo, Kenneth L.: Almost Human
    Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2018, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Almost Human, Autor: Decroo, Kenneth L., Verlag: AIA Publishing, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Thrillers // General, Rubrik: Belletristik // Kriminalromane, Seiten: 320, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 494 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    Decroo, Kenneth Louis: Becoming Human
    Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2018, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Becoming Human, Autor: Decroo, Kenneth Louis, Verlag: AIA Publishing, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Thrillers // General, Rubrik: Belletristik // Kriminalromane, Seiten: 322, Informationen: 2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam, Gewicht: 495 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    Animals and Other Stories, Hörbuch, Digital, 55min
    This radio series is a collection of short pieces reflecting on life, love, and death among the species. It contains monologues, montages, portraits, and dreams. Some are funny, some are strange, some enlightening, some sobering: "Hide and Seek": Animal trainer and behaviorist Ken Decroo tells the story of the first time he talked to a chimpanzee and the chimp talked back. An aural metaphor ends this piece. "Noah's Ark": A strange blend of Beethoven and speculation about the thoughts of cattle at the moment of death. (Caveat: contains some graphic description of the slaughtering process) "Snakes": A montage meditating on the worth, or worthlessness, of the legless reptile. Civilized and primitive man collide...In discussing the snake, the human is revealed. "Treeline": Vietnam veteran Jim McMullen tells of the time he shot a blackbird outside his hometown, and was compelled to destroy his weapons for good. "Michi Belle White and the Birds": A portrait of a California woman who takes in sick wild birds and fills her house with them. "Killer Whales": A brief sound essay on the derivation of this whale's name, its seductive behavior toward the producer's wife, and its penchant for making repulsive noises. "Subtext: Communicating with Horses": An animal psychologist searches for the source of one horse's ennui. The horse responds with a story of dislocation and lost youth. "Reflections of Fathers": a.k.a. "Bugs and Dads," this piece is about John May's insect museum, his love for his father, and the reflections of all fathers in all children. "Dog's Dreams": A meditation on the longtime relationship between man and dog. What are our dreams about each other...and our nightmares? "Cross my Path": Leo Grillo can't stand to see an animal suffer. So he's got about 300 stray dogs and cats, and if he can't find homes for them, he keeps them until they die of natur Language: English. Narrator: various. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/jaya/000007/rt_jaya_000007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mockingbird Bible
    Here's some early press reaction to Mockingbird Bible: 'Mockingbird Bible is a soulful, quiet and absolutely brilliant collection of songs from one of Canada's premier musical talents. Decroo has yet again proven himself to be one of the country's best songwriters.' - 24 Hours 'Put the gruff-but-sensitive singer-songwriter in just about any other Canadian city besides Vancouver and you're looking at a sold-out show and maybe even a little bit of hysteria over one of the finest tunesmiths out there. Run, don't walk, in other words, before they all piss off to Montreal or something!' - Georgia Straight His songs seem like a threadbare suit that feels good to wear, and he sings meaning every word. Folk-rock that's pushing the boundaries. - The Province 'He's earned the right after his previous records to step back some, maybe turn on a light and breath easy for a while, but he doesn't, instead wondering if it's rain falling or gasoline, at the same time striking a match to learn the truth.' - Vue Weekly Rodney Decroo's War Torn Man was a monolithically dark enterprise, lifted out of it's pervading sense of despair by a sizzling band caught live and on fire after weeks on the road. As thrilling as it was to hear the upbeat clash so heroically with the downbeat on that universally acclaimed piece of work, Rodney's new Mockingbird Bible offers no such protection. It's a kind of straight-ahead depression session, the like of which draws a certain kind of listener like a suicidal moth to an open flame. It's quiet, and meditative, with none of the rollicking will to dance on the lip of the abyss we heard from War Torn Man. And ever since that record set a high-water mark for the artist and opened doors all over Canada, US, and Europe for Rodney's acutely honest vision, his circle of friends and colleagues have watched Mockingbird Bible unfold like a slow-motion demolition. Like Berlin by Lou Reed, or The Marble Index by Nico, or pretty much anything by Townes Van Zandt, here is a record so exhaustively bleak that you fear for it's health, even while the sadness seizes and lifts you. True to Rodney's unfailingly poetic sensibilities- which provide such a ringing contrast to the shaggy creature that produces them, he spares us an explicit account of feelings. Reticence at war with honesty, that's the source of his mojo. And so abstract phrases jump out of the music, 'junkies on fire', 'shooting stars and battle scars', loneliness compared to the soul of a spider, and the oddly disturbing question, 'Is that rain coming down, or is that gasoline?' Lines that pile up and shake us, even if we're not sure what they mean, exactly. Rodney's life is in these random-feeling allusions, and you feel that a more explicit account of the blight they address would be too much to bear. As the record winds to a close, so does Rodney's voice. In The Captain's Tower Song, he is wheezing into his hand it seems, asking, against his own nature, and with a clarity that suddenly brings everything into focus, 'Oh my mother, oh my father, will we be reconciled...?' As ever, Rodney's collaborators are on point for this long, dark, acoustic album of the soul. Ida Nilsen (Great Aunt Ida, Buttless Chaps) and Sam Parton (Be Good Tanyas) hover like angels of mercy, while Jon Wood (Flophouse Jr., Herald Nix) dials in just enough embellishment. A single, authoritative bass note from the piano braces Sacred Ground, electric guitar acts like distant thunder on Gasoline, lap steel brings humidity to Memories of Snow, Memories of Dust, Meredith Bates' fiddle brings melancholy grace notes to Spinning Wheel, an entire vocabulary of anxiety is conjured up in the simple organ parps and distant kettle drum of Long White Road, the whole of St. Augustine becomes shrouded in it's own Carnival of Souls dream-time. And through it all Rodney opens his wounds for our listening pleasure. And it is a pleasure to be sure, while the implicit message it carries- we ignore these accounts of human desolation at our peril- rings louder and louder, through the suffocating quiet that surrounds us.
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