Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Roslyn Steer is a Cork-based musician known for her work both as a solo artist and in collaboration with groups such as Crevice (with Elaine Howley and Irene Buckley) and the Cork Improvised Music Club. This album is a response to the 1917 Wallace Stevens poem that lends it its title. In keeping with the Stevens' assertion that the poem should be taken as a collection of ‘sensations’ rather than ‘ideas’, each track presents an impressionistic realisation of the imagery and mood evoked in each stanza.