Notes from the Edge of the Known World

Krist Novoselic and Robert Michael Pyle

Novoselic plays guitar to Pyle's words.

 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.

 

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

Print: "Woodland Virtuoso" by Thea L. Pyle 1992

 

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.

Comments

[Joanne Firth]

Very cool and most soothing. Nature is so inspiring. Excellent job to you both!
Joanne Firth

[Chris J.]

Krist it's so nice, actually wonderful to hear something musical from you again. This worlds music community, beyond the Grange, surely does miss your input. You give comfort to an old heart in a lonely place just knowing something he care about is still kickin' around notes and chords - even if it is only to goats and chickens.

Rock on my friend, I hope you'll someday again share to more than just the internet waves and livestock. There's a lot of people who appreciate that input for all the right reasons. You think you'll ever play something for us again?

Great words Bob, thank you...

[Darlene]

Very, very nice.

[dominic]

very cool guitar work. loved this piece to bits. krist, how about some instrumental stuff? you boys sure got some talent!