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IN
GENERAL
- The
site is designed and created with all original works by
Mount Bermo Timbo (T.
E. Davies), as a solo arts project. This overreaching ancient does
it all himself, without so much as a modest nurse to mop his aged
brow. Timbo is a grass roots artist and shambles out of the
undergrowth without grant assistance or establishment patronage.
(Amateur doesn’t mean “crap”, ideally it means “served up for love
not money” like a good meal to a penniless beggar.. Sometimes
voluntary service is a life sentence). The site is funded
entirely by the artist’s minimum UK state Pension Credit. Gear for
the project is usually haggled for on auction sites, or donated by
friends or family.
- I've been writing poetry since the age of
eleven, have been a serious musician for over forty years, and have
been immersed in art photography for thirty years or so. The
Mount Bermo Timbo site
is the culmination of a lifetime's work. This is the way I
choose to present what I do to the world for free, before I die. I
still feel like a beginner, and am still learning how to do all
this, so please forgive me for the experiments that fail, and for
the stuff you don't like!
- The
site is strictly non-commercial, and all work may be legally
distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons non-commercial
licence (quoted elsewhere).
- Hope you have fun with at
least some of the works on the site! Cariad Timbo
WEB SITE
& GALLERY RELAUNCH WINTER 2010-11
- The gallery and
web site are normally maintained and expanded in the winter months.
I've worked on my field recording project on songs, poems and
instrumentals up Bermo mountain from Spring to Autumn. I'm
now going to be doing more music in the winter, in a mobile
recording studio which I am setting up for music on the
road.
- (Note again that the site is
primarily designated for use in Mozilla Firefox. The pages are
validated but not comprehensively tested for other
browsers.)
Site
News Headlines
PROPHET TROUSERED
GALLERY
- Latest News:
- Networkshop:
This is a new home page intended in future
for weblogs and networking. It's intended to be accessed mainly
from outside the site, though it does contain hints for downloading
and printing under the easy terms of the free licence. You can look
at it from the link, if
curious.
- There are a large number of prints available for
new mini galleries this winter 2010-11, Many are new compositions
created in 2010-11. I will be creating new galleries in the final
months of winter 2011. In Spring I will return to
recording the new album for the record label.
PROPHET TROUSERED
RECORDS
O Give Me a Romahome
- Latest News: I now
have a mobile Romahome recording studio so that I
can record on the road while gigging, jamming with
friends or doing photographic field trips. This means
that I can continue to work at music during the winter
months as well as at my photographic
art work. (I've tended to do photography and
web design during the winter, and music during the
summer over the past decade). There's a lot
of work and saving to do to
get the vehicle up to the
scratch, on a low income, but I've got a couple of
tracks for the new album created on the road without problems. It's
been a lot of fun hacking around locally over the last few months,
camping in odd beautiful out of the way spots in North West and Mid
Wales (while making music and exploring the landscape). I'm
going to be paying carbon offset for the petrol I use, as soon as
finances have stabilized after a few big bills. We are
off road at the moment, as I
sort out a new exhaust and a missing cylinder.
- The new album
A Bandage
on My Need is progressing slowly. Quite a lot of work and
practice, as I am trying to get better instrumentally and vocally
for this one!
PROPHET TROUSERED
PRESS
(A rolled up
summary)
- Latest News: Prophet Trousered
Poetry is a collected
poetry. I mainly write songs now, so the book of poems is pretty
much complete. I may occasionally add a song or two to it, if
I think it reads well on the printed page. I shall be adding a
recent song called Mount Bermo
Timbo's Lament this winter, and possibly one or two
others.
- I’ve been
writing verse for over half a century. I started writing songs
about forty years ago. At first I thought that songs were songs and
poems were poems. Poems took years to finish, drafting and revising
endlessly. Songs were like off duty poems, when you let your hair
down writing fast and freely. These days I can’t really tell the
difference. A song is just another poem with music, and a poem is a
song without music. They both take about the same time to draft. Am
I losing it or finding it?
- I don’t write much autobiographical stuff. Usually I
write in character or adopt a persona. Foundry
Labour Work Song on Sad
Old Ram of the Mountains is the only song I can
think of, which is a factual diary of the actual events I
experienced, as a student doing labouring work. (Forty years later
I can still smell and taste the fear of the lethal molten metal,
red, spiteful and unpredictable. A mould really did explode when I
poured hot metal into it. My cap and hair were set on fire, a spark
of molten metal went up my nose, and it set fire to my filthy
handkerchief in my sooty trousers). It was originally conceived as
an A Capella work song, but I record it as a heavy metal art of
noise job on the album, grinding out a history of dangerous
industrial pollution. Of the
poems. Ode to Nottingham
Town After an Absence is factually
accurate reportage without too much poetic licence. In this poem, I
can recognise the narrator as me, as opposed to some persona whose
skin I have crawled into.
Timbo’s
Overarching Vision in the Arts
(my visionary
bifocals)
- I realise I haven’t yet told you what I think I’m
playing at with the site. (This assumes that I actually know!).
Well, I’m not giving you my alibi in any case; I’ll let my work
argue its own merits without inevitable conviction. Thanks be
to your worships, one and all!
(Facts You’ve Never Wanted to Know about Mount Bermo
Timbo Web Site)
Notes on Downloads:
- [The downloads are not really
intended for dial-up users. (Sufficiently small files would be too
poor in quality!). The links to the large individual print pages
are faster than the links to the mini galleries. If the image
pages are slow to load on your computer, you can always
click onto a text page and move on. Or try rising up from that
computer and get a life! Drink that cup of tea you have always
wanted, and the picture will be there when you return,
hopefully not just in your dreams!]
-
When you click on
a song title on the lyrics page of an album, you are directed to a
download page. If you click on the song title link, you then get to
an Ogg Vorbis track for play back or download. I strongly
recommend saving the downloaded track on your hard disk.
The quality is a lot better than streaming.
- If your version of Mozilla Firefox offers you a
streaming video player, right click the player. Click Save Video
As and
save the download file named
with the title of the song to the folder of your choice. You can
play back with the Zinf player
which can be downloaded from the recording label home page, or from
the LINKS page.
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