Tis whiter than an Indian Pipe

The Indian Pipe or Ghost Flower serves as the initial image in this strange late Emily Dickinson poem, In this musical performance using acoustic guitar, tanpura, and tabla drums I try to carry forward the elusive feeling of this work. The Parlando Project combines various words (mostly literary poetry) with music in differing styles. We've done over 850 of these combinations, and you can hear all of them and read accounts of our encounters about doing this at our blog and archivers located at frankhudson.org