Take a Deep Breath - Igor Goldkind's Blog

The Pandemic Cure is Here!  :

TAKE A DEEP BREATH

An Album of Original Contemporary Poetry and Music

– Making Sense When Nothing Else Does –

Original poetry by Igor Goldkind
Music by Frederic Iriarte and Igor Boyko

Launched September 5th at The 2020 International Beat Poetry Festival (Normally in Boston, now virtually everywhere!)

The Festival  streamed 3 original music videos from the album for the first time.

Take a Deep Breath is available for download  exclusively on Bandcamp

9 Tracks, 40 Minutes, $18.00   $15 EU

Original Words, Music, Video and Antidotes for Living With Uncertainty

Internationally renown fine artist and producer Frederic Iriarte and American Poet Igor Goldkind have collaborated on 9 original tracks of musical interpretations based on Igor Goldkind’s forthcoming collection of poetry Take a Deep Breath.  The album of 9 tracks is being launched as a complete work at this year’s International Beat Poetry Festival and will be released for download at midnight  this coming Saturday, September 5th.

The multimedia work was written and produced during the pandemic in Stockholm, San Diego and Moscow.  It is intended as an artistic attempt to help us live with uncertainty and survive catastrophe living.

“TAKE A DEEP BREATH is most important piece of Spoken Word Art to come along at just the right time: right when we all needed it the most!”  –  Henry Rollins

Take a Deep Breath and step out of your comfort zone.
Just don’t look down.

2020 has been a year of both social, economic and psychological upheaval.   Humans have been required to adapt to drastically changing circumstances without forewarning and without certainty as to the outcomes.

We are being challenged as a species to adapt.  Adaptation is our genus but it is also painful  and exhausting.  Take a Deep Breath is an instruction:  pause for a moment of reflection.   Take a break from panic and get a clear view of where we are as individuals, as a people and as a species.

Covid-19 has literally attacked our humanity however in doing so has done us the service of reminding us of our shared humanity, our common mutual vulnerability.  These are hard lessons to learn and uncomfortable changes to be made for us to survive.   Take a Deep Breath is a pause in the gloom  and a chance to regain our strength and resilience to  all carry on.

Take a Deep Breath is a step backwards in time when poetry and music were used  and appreciated as tools for contemplation, meditation and reflection on the most crucial factor in our lives.  Now that we are being confronted and overwhelmed with multiple catastrophes,  is the time to return to using  poetry for what it is designed for:

Reflection, Meditation, Contemplation
Self-Healing and Recovery

We will survive.
 

Sample Medley: