Robin Batteau - Banned in Sparta
Now! Totally Simonized! I've been working on this project since the full Covid summer of 2021, a suite of songs based on Ancient Greek Lyric Poets. They were singer/songwriters, they played the lyre (hence "Lyric") and danced around the stage like Tom Paxton. All we have left of almost all of them is fragments and myth, so I've mosaic-ed songs to reflect their expressions and intentions-- who they were and are, to me. I've roped Tom and other singers I first heard in the 1960's, our own Golden Age of singer/songwriting, to voice them. Eric Andersen, Robin Lane, Kate Taylor, Carolyn Hester and more, like David's Brown teammate, 2-time Tony Best Actor James Naughton, and up-and-comer Matt Nakoa. It's my term paper for my last semester returning to Harvard to get my degree. Mark Dann and Neale Eckstein and Chuck Morse helped me whip this together for posting just before midnight 12/31/22. Happy New Year to all of you, and to the Ancient Greek Lyric Poets who have seen the page for thousands of years but were waiting for their microphone. Here you go! It's free for now!
This project is still a work in progress.
1/19/23: The WAV files were added and the MP3 files updated.
11/19/24: MP3 file containing new, "Full Band" arrangements added.
Play or download individual tracks:
| Track | Title | Artist | Play/Download | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Download Entire Album in MP3 Format (zipped - 98MB)
Download Entire Album in WAV Format (zipped - 517MB)
Read/Download the Liner Notes (PDF - 838KB)
Play/Download the "Full Band" arrangements - (MP3 - 103MB)