The Blue Flower: Buy
Audio CD
Songs of The Blue Flower - 2nd Edition
The 2nd Edition CD -- produced by JIM BAUER, engineered by MARK RUBINSTEIN, mixed and mastered by ROBBIE BRONNIMANN at Robot Studios in Somerset, U.K., and completed in August 2011 -- includes all songs from The Blue Flower recorded by the original WEIMARBAND and is available through old-fashioned mail order only (not available online). To purchase, send a check payable to PONTOON RECORDS for $20 per CD (includes shipping) to:
Jim Bauer
c/o Pontoon Records
14 Ober Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Please include your email address so we can send you shipping confirmation.
Questions? Write to us through the "contact" page on this website
A NOTE FROM THE COMPOSER: I started writing music for "The Blue Flower" in 1999, on the precipice of the new century, and assembled The Weimarband to play the music of the show in "alt-cabaret" performances in New York City at places like Joe's Pub, The Pyramid Club, Galapagos Art Space and The Bottom Line. This collection of remarkable musicians and personalities coalesced into a truly special and inspired band, and we reconvened in the fall of 2010, almost ten years after our first performance, to make the first complete recordings of the songs from the show. These are all musicians and people I love and respect deeply, and am profoundly grateful to all for their passion for the music, for their friendship and loyalty over the years, and for coming from far and wide to make these recordings possible.
- Jim Bauer, August 2011
MUSICIANS
Jim Bauer: vocals, piano, guitar
Patrick Carmichael: drums
Jen Chapin: vocals
David Driver: vocals
Ann Kim: cello
Martin Kuuskmann: bassoon
Meghan McGeary: vocals
David Rozenblatt: percussion
Mark Rubinstein: accordion; also piano ("Paris Trio", "Fancy This", "Dark Party", "Master This")
John Widgren: pedal steel guitar
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Hannah Cheek: additional vocals ("Peaceful Your Eyes", "Paris Trio", "Franz's War", "No Place But Up")
Dee Dee Fancher: viola ("Things Don't Change", "Wild Horse Dancing", "Eyes and Bones", "No Place But Up")
Joe Krygier: timpani ("Peaceful Your Eyes", "Wild Horse Dancing", "Pro Patria Mori")
Mark White: bass
TRACKS
ACT 1
1. Things Don't Change (That Much)
2. Peaceful Your Eyes
3. Wild Horse Dancing
4. Paris Trio
5. Love
6. Puke
7. Fancy This
8. Eyes and Bones
9. Franz's War
10. Eiffel Tower
ACT 2
11. No Place But Up
12. Not A Flaw
13. Dark Party (Weimar Trio)
14. (Let it) Slide Through Your Hands
15. Master This
16. Pro Patria Mori
17. Heaven
18. Angels on the Levee
(full lyrics to all the songs can be found on the "Lyrics" page)
The 2nd Edition CD -- produced by JIM BAUER, engineered by MARK RUBINSTEIN, mixed and mastered by ROBBIE BRONNIMANN at Robot Studios in Somerset, U.K., and completed in August 2011 -- includes all songs from The Blue Flower recorded by the original WEIMARBAND and is available through old-fashioned mail order only (not available online). To purchase, send a check payable to PONTOON RECORDS for $20 per CD (includes shipping) to:
Jim Bauer
c/o Pontoon Records
14 Ober Street
Beverly, MA 01915
Please include your email address so we can send you shipping confirmation.
Questions? Write to us through the "contact" page on this website
A NOTE FROM THE COMPOSER: I started writing music for "The Blue Flower" in 1999, on the precipice of the new century, and assembled The Weimarband to play the music of the show in "alt-cabaret" performances in New York City at places like Joe's Pub, The Pyramid Club, Galapagos Art Space and The Bottom Line. This collection of remarkable musicians and personalities coalesced into a truly special and inspired band, and we reconvened in the fall of 2010, almost ten years after our first performance, to make the first complete recordings of the songs from the show. These are all musicians and people I love and respect deeply, and am profoundly grateful to all for their passion for the music, for their friendship and loyalty over the years, and for coming from far and wide to make these recordings possible.
- Jim Bauer, August 2011
MUSICIANS
Jim Bauer: vocals, piano, guitar
Patrick Carmichael: drums
Jen Chapin: vocals
David Driver: vocals
Ann Kim: cello
Martin Kuuskmann: bassoon
Meghan McGeary: vocals
David Rozenblatt: percussion
Mark Rubinstein: accordion; also piano ("Paris Trio", "Fancy This", "Dark Party", "Master This")
John Widgren: pedal steel guitar
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Hannah Cheek: additional vocals ("Peaceful Your Eyes", "Paris Trio", "Franz's War", "No Place But Up")
Dee Dee Fancher: viola ("Things Don't Change", "Wild Horse Dancing", "Eyes and Bones", "No Place But Up")
Joe Krygier: timpani ("Peaceful Your Eyes", "Wild Horse Dancing", "Pro Patria Mori")
Mark White: bass
TRACKS
ACT 1
1. Things Don't Change (That Much)
2. Peaceful Your Eyes
3. Wild Horse Dancing
4. Paris Trio
5. Love
6. Puke
7. Fancy This
8. Eyes and Bones
9. Franz's War
10. Eiffel Tower
ACT 2
11. No Place But Up
12. Not A Flaw
13. Dark Party (Weimar Trio)
14. (Let it) Slide Through Your Hands
15. Master This
16. Pro Patria Mori
17. Heaven
18. Angels on the Levee
(full lyrics to all the songs can be found on the "Lyrics" page)