Harpocrates Seated on a Lotus with Lawrence Kumpf

Harpocrates Seated On a Lotus refers to the subtitle of Walter Marchetti’s 1974 LP La Caccia [hunting in English] a composition consisting entirely of Marchetti sounding bird-calls used for the titular sport. Our copy of La Caccia comes from the collection of Graham Lambkin, another artist featured on this mix (under his own name and as part of the Shadow Ring), and is a record that we play before and after concerts in our space in Brooklyn. The mix starts in upstate New York with an excerpt from Lambkin’s Softly, Softly, Copy, Copy featuring the violinist Samara Lubelski and ends in New York City with a rarely heard poem from violinist Billy Bang backed by his Survival Ensemble.