Our version of Jacques Brel’s “Voir Un Ami Pleure,” with vocals by Lyle Kissack, is here. Enjoy!

Boister in its new expanded form will be paying homage to Thelonious Monk, Morris Martick, and other luminaries from Baltimore and beyond.  We expect our new 10″ of excerpts from our Intolerance score to be available as well. All proceeds to benefit Henry Wong and An Die Musik’s educational and musical efforts.

Our humble jellyfish, as well as our take on Griffith, have crossed the big pond. New Musical Express is featuring some of our videos and youtube clips, including Jake Buhler’s video for “Some Moths Drink the Tears of Elephants,” AW’s “Dreamtime,” and several of our clips from Griffith’s Intolerance.

Plans are in the works to head south in the spring and north in the fall of 2012.  Let us know if you know of an interesting venue en route to Chattanooga or Upstate New York.

When (not if, but when, assuming you care about film and movie-making even the littlest bit) you go see Scorsese’s masterpiece, “Hugo,” produced by Buster Keaton fan Johnny Depp, keep an eye out for Keaton, in our upcoming silent film project, “The General,” and a clip from Griffith’s “Intolerance,” from the Babylon sequence (check out our bouncin accompaniment to it here).

Featuring Posie Lewis, Chas Marsh, and Jim Hannah.

Couple of clips from Sister City appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition today- Wednesday, November 16th- including Demons Come and Amble.  Our interview with Steve Inskeep, “Anne Watts and Boister: Music from Madness,” aired in 2006 and can be heard here.

Live recordings from our run with the acrobat troupe DNA at the Maryland Institute this past October will soon be available here. Songs include Pauv’ Piti Mam’zelle Zizi, Little Blue Shoes, Windshears, John Handley, Nature Boy, La Vie En Rose, Chaim, Busted Egg, Reason, and more.

Posie, Chas, Jim, and I played a few sets in honor of Baltimore activist, artist, builder, provocateur, and Renaissance man, Dennis Livingston, on November 13th at the Cork Factory in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore. It was an enormous honor to pay tribute to a human being of such stature and to be in the company of the core of Baltimore arts activism. I bow all the way down to Dennis’ beautiful soul mate, wife, and life partner Carol Higgs, and to the spirit of this great man.

Multi-reedman John Dierker “has become a major improvisational stylist…interweaving concepts augmented by howling lines, injections of blues-drenched choruses and Albert Ayler-like display of energy.” (All About Jazz) A Baltimore, Maryland native, Dierker has worked in a wide variety of musical settings, collaborating with Peter Zummo, Jason Willett, Jad Fair, and The Basement Boys. John is a longtime member of Lafayette Gilchrist and The New Volcanoes. Currently he is working with Quartet Offensive, Microkingdom, and 3081, a group that includes Michael Formanek, Dave Ballou and Will Redman. (Photo: Stewart Mostofsky)

On Friday night, Dierker graced our ranks and helped Boister deliver up DW Griffith’s “Intolerance” to a standing ovation at the University of Maryland’s Hoff Theater.

And for the record, here he is with Boister’s Lyle Kissack in the 1990′s Baltimore dream team, The Pleasant Livers.