Viggo Mortensen 3 Fools 4 April [CD/DVD] Album Review, Songs, Rating

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3 Fools 4 April [CD/DVD]
Release Date: 2008 03 11
Label: Perceval Press
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Whether or not poetry is your thing, this double-disc CD and DVD, 3 Fools 4 April, of Hank Mortensen, Scott Wannberg, and Viggo Mortensen reading at a benefit for the wonderful Beyond Baroque Foundation in Los Angeles is well worth taking in at least once. The crowd is certainly what you might expect: a host of real fans of poetry itself, both readers and writers in the audience, and the usual few who need to attend the "happening." The DVD and CD are very similar with some obviously necessary edits in the visual presentation. The three readers follow a wonderfully informal format with few of the usual long painful introductions that some feel necessary to make -- in other words, giving away the poem or explaining it away before it's read. None of that here, at most a sentence, and each man follows another, seamlessly, with just enough time between them to let the listener settle into what was just heard/seen. Still, 41 poems (audio) or even 35 (DVD) are a lot for the average person to take in, but each reader is so different that it feels almost like a songwriter's circle. Hank (Viggo's son) is precise, choice in his percussive sounds and sharp images and cadences; Wannberg is like lightning, allowing images and irony to pile on top of one another and almost blur, but the precise aspects in his language are full of enough humor and tension they keep the listener form being overwhelmed. Viggo is always unhurried, a writer of uncommon vitality, imagination, and a very keen insight into the poignant perversities of the human spirit, its heart and its dark sides. Yeah, he is in a different class, a step above, more careful, less precise, allowing language its own ride through him, no point needs to be made, more than it needs simply to arise and speak itself to whatever end, creating a musicality of images and adjectives and emotions that root themselves in the listener/viewer. This is a fine set, one worth hearing at least once; if poetry is something you value, however, there are innumerable trips through this set awaiting you, all of which will provide pleasure, and perhaps even occasional wonder. Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Introduction		1:02
2	Everything Is Really Water		4:10
3	War		1:18
4	Freedom Fighter		1:02
5	Back to Babylon		3:28
6	Hunters Anonymous		1:11
7	White Hot Heart		:46
8	Elk	Smith	1:51
9	Discourse on Peace	Ferlinghetti	:37
10	Open Heart University	Milligan	:59
11	God Love It When You Dance		1:37
12	Second Chance, Give or Take a Few		1:47
13	March		1:25
14	Smiling Samurai		2:23
15	5 Haiku		:59
16	America	Neruda	1:40
17	Outlaws in the Sun		1:44
18	Virtual Unreality	Cervenka	:34
19	Linger		3:45
20	Kingman Run		5:39
21	Mice	Bukowski	:52
22	Matter of Choice		:24
23	Strange Food Hoedown		1:04
24	Why I'm Not a Businessman		1:49
25	Public Relations		1:56
26	No Mercy		2:50
27	Kelsey		:36
28	Battle of Wits		:48
29	View	Nelson	1:31
30	Rivers of Pain		1:18
31	World Shaking Baker		1:50
32	Mardrid to New York		3:27
33	Nobody Has to Die		1:44
34	Down and Back		1:18
35	Perfect World	Cervenka	3:53
36	Penn. Ave. Fantasy #456		1:53
37	Utopian Chaos		:37
38	My Daughter, Young-A	Ch'i-Hwan	1:31
39	Stupid Is as Stupid Does		2:25
40	Rose		:43
41	Last Round: Truce/Pioneers/Chuang Tse	Tse	2:43
42	War
43	Second Chance, Give or Take a Few
44	Back to Babylon
45	Smiling Samurai
46	5 Haiku
47	Matter of Choice
48	Hunters Anonymous
49	White Hot Heart
50	Discourse on Peace	Ferlinghetti
51	Nobody Has to Die
52	Elk	Smith
53	Public Relations
54	No Mercy
55	Why I'm Not a Businessman
56	Linger
57	Kingman Run
58	Mice	Bukowski
59	First Light
60	Rivers of Pain
61	Freedom Fighter
62	Fossils
63	Penn. Ave. Fatasy #456
64	Virtual Unreality	Cervenka
65	Communion
66	Strange Food Hoedown
67	Utopian Chaos
68	Madrid to New York
69	Ode to the Bedpan
70	Kelsey
71	March
72	Empathy Hoedown
73	Battle of Wits
74	Hallowe'en
75	Outlaws in the Sun
76	Chuang Tse	Tse

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