![]() ![]() Also, I was subscribed to a monthly book + activity kit through those flimsy Scholastic magazines. But when I was young and my family had old, boxy PCs (one Macintosh, one Windows), I played most of the MSB computer games thinking about it now brings back memories of that horribly difficult Saturn mini-game in The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System,collecting and identifying rock samples in The Magic School Bus Explores Inside the Earth, and at least the existence of ones about dinosaurs, the ocean, and the rainforest. It’s been quite some time since I watched any of the 52 episodes, though I think I remember binging them on YouTube to procrastinate during an undergrad exam week. We highly recommend this.As someone who was alive for the entirety of the 1990s, PBS’s The Magic School Bus (1994-1997) was a fundamental part of my childhood education. Ian is from Liverpool, and that Liverpoolian magic is certainly in evidence in this thoughtful songwriting. ![]() “What more can the heart do but send out a sign.” “The Last Long Dance of Bonnie and Clyde” with its lines like “he was locked in a mirrored box with a sketchbook of full of frozen clocks and a backpack full of broken rocks by his side” chronicles the lead up to a jump, an escape, and a heart dying without making a sound, with notable banjo accompaniment. This song recounts a horrific and sensationalized murder of an 8 year old boy in Brooklyn NY by a complete stranger. Missing the turn that he had rehearsed, he kept on for four blocks or five.” This song takes a twist, as all good songwriting does, and grips your heartstrings. “Leiby Kletzky” “went walking on a blue Brooklyn warm afternoon … his first walk home from school. “Kostya Got A Gun” is a song about a lad with a Russian name who has a gun, and the sorrowful arrangement plays bouyantly while Green sings in a hushed tone.Ī mournful song is up next: “Don’t turn out the light, don’t let me fade out of your sight, Rosaline.” Sorrowful and connects with your weeping heart. ![]() And this is the metaphor for our abstract relationship with love that Green calls into focus here. The trajectory of the song feels like the bus just before sunrise opening out onto full glory as the sun finally comes up. “Love Comfort Me” is an ode to love itself, the pensive way we experience love and and the call for love to comfort us. Title track “Song to the Dust” sets the tone: somber, reflective, pensive, this is almost prayerful: “sing a song that you hope will be enough.” It points its finger to the vast infinity of mortality. This album, Songs to the Dust, is the most focused on the dark side of humanity of the trilogy. Songs from the Wheel then considered the fractious and various happenings of different folks, as Green explored various characters and their dispositions and happenstances. In Songs of the Sea the focus was on the common universal experiences of connection and loss from the perspective on a personal level. This album is the last of his trilogy that began with Songs of the Sea which was released in 2021, followed by Songs from the Wheel in 2022. Songs to the Dust was recorded and produced at Metro13 studios, Edinburgh by Marty Hailey and mastered at King Willy Sounds by grammy-award winning engineer William Bowden. Folk singer songwriter virtuoso Ian David Green is releasing a new album Songs to the Dust on October 6. ![]()
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