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6 years of naviar haiku

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about

A compilation to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the Naviar Haiku challenge, which every week invites artists to make music in response to an assigned haiku poem.

55 artists, 91 tracks, over 9 hours of music selected from the submissions Naviar received in 2019.

Participation in the Naviar Haiku challenge is free and open to all: to participate visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

For credits and info about the authors, visit www.naviarrecords.com/blog

Naviar Records is a music community and record label exploring new ways to stay creative. Join our weekly challenges, or if you wish to support us and get all the music we publish, check out our subscription programme naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/subscribe.

The compilation is free to download. Please follow and support the artists involved:

19donut soundcloud.com/user-594509542
Agnostura Elwar soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar
Ahornberg soundcloud.com/ahornberg
Andrulian soundcloud.com/andrulian
Audio Obscura soundcloud.com/audio-obscura-music
AWVH soundcloud.com/annwvonhuber
Bassling bassling.blogspot.com
Boson Spin soundcloud.com/boson_spin
C H I L D soundcloud.com/child00
Corine Bicadeideias soundcloud.com/corinebicadeideias
Cryxuss soundcloud.com/cryxuss
Daniel Diaz soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz
DesuExPerimental soundcloud.com/user-761630784
Ed Mundio soundcloud.com/edmundio1
EnigmaCurry soundcloud.com/enigmacurry
GHel Haiku soundcloud.com/ghel-haiku
GLSmyth soundcloud.com/glsmyth
halF unusual soundcloud.com/half-unusual
how the night came soundcloud.com/howthenightcame
ibehre soundcloud.com/ibehre
Ikjoyce soundcloud.com/ikjoyce
Joyneski soundcloud.com/user-859240368
JRBjork soundcloud.com/j-bjork
Kyosuke Osaku soundcloud.com/kyosuke-osaku
Merle Bardenoir soundcloud.com/merlebardenoir
mettle soundcloud.com/mettle-488846401
Mike J Dayton soundcloud.com/mikejdayton
My Own Cubic Stone soundcloud.com/my-own-cubic-stone
MusicheVirtuali-Marco Lucchi soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali
Night Note soundcloud.com/mmastalka
Oberlin soundcloud.com/moi-qui
OneAmbient4 soundcloud.com/oneambient4
Oxebe soundcloud.com/oxebe
Pedro Figueiredo soundcloud.com/everythingdies
Pure Land Haiku Music soundcloud.com/user-280453636
¶radio hummingbird soundcloud.com/radiohummingbird
rizzi soundcloud.com/rizzi
Robert Knote soundcloud.com/robertknote
Roofhare soundcloud.com/roofhare
Rumblin_Cynth_Rampo soundcloud.com/rumblin_cynth_rampo
Ryan Scott Mattingly soundcloud.com/ryanscottmattingly
s e v e n i s m soundcloud.com/sevenism
Scott Lawlor scottlawlor.bandcamp.com
SityPhoxx soundcloud.com/sityphoxx
Stull soundcloud.com/stull
subespai soundcloud.com/subespai
synkrotron soundcloud.com/synkrotron
This Northern Life soundcloud.com/thisnorthernlife
Tunnelwater soundcloud.com/tunnelwater
Tuonela soundcloud.com/tuonela-1
Unnecessary Enterprises soundcloud.com/johnjohn_era
Vassilis Poulantzas soundcloud.com/vassilis-poulantzas
windspace soundcloud.com/windspace
whalt thisney soundcloud.com/walthisney
Zero Meaning soundcloud.com/zeromeaning
Zuhé soundcloud.com/zuheodosha


poems:

haiku #261: mountain village / the endless solitude / of a lark's song
haiku #262: the reef’s silence . . . / sea fans brighten, darken / with the current
haiku #263: summer nightfall / the sky slowly regains / its colours
haiku #264: night wind / the bush comes alive / with dreamtime stories
Haiku #265: dark moon / the pull of a planet / beyond Pluto
Haiku #266: neon boulevard / the night slips by / a tinted windscreen
haiku #267: spring breeze / the orchestration / of wildflowers
haiku #268: transience . . . / petal by petal / we let go
haiku #269: Before the crossroads / not a stir across the land / a sunrise moment
haiku #270: snowing / through the blizzard / particles of me
haiku #271: The heart is a fool, / Never learns what it can't have / Beating hopelessly
haiku #272: The falling tide / tugs at my dream / Winter solstice
haiku #273: Twirl among the trees, / Soft in step, swift as the breeze. / Dance beneath the leaves.
haiku #274: from earth, sky, trees / not a single sign - / yet autumn....
haiku #275: Home is not a place. / It could be anywhere when / you are truly loved.
haiku #276: rain-soaked wind / the weather-worn notice / peels back more
Haiku #277: waking from summer sleep-- / moon gazing / on the levee
haiku #278: coolness— / a mountain stream splashes out / between houses
haiku #279: Ripples on water / reflecting the light of dawn / the breaking of day
haiku #280: night ends in hills / before clocks strike four- / cloud covered sun hides
haiku #281: The summer grasses / All that remains / Of brave soldiers dreams
haiku #282: the sky I see / seems full of / magnolia blossoms
haiku #283: The clear day in the rainy season/The madder red of the twilight appeared/And vanished instantly
haiku #284: the shepherdess calls / a distant clang of goat bells / mountain music
haiku #285: I'm on the shore of a river / on some rocky path, on a hillside / my way home
haiku #286: When I gazed down the ocean, / I could see with amazement / The countless lights that shone
haiku #287: a bright star / in a moonless sky— / gentle breeze
haiku #288: a clear waterfall / into the ripples / fall green pine needles
haiku #289: bioluminescence / I skip a pebble across / the universe
haiku #290: polarized sky / the mixed melodies / of twilight birds
haiku #291: my little dragonfly hunter / I wonder how far / he has gone today...
haiku #292: the temple bell fading, / the scent of flowers comes forth- / evening
haiku #293: Each time they roll in / the beach waves break up / the plovers
haiku #294: spring dawn / wind turbines harvest / silver fog
haiku #295: night train / the briefly lit lives / of others
haiku #296: evening haze: / when memories come, / how distant are the by gone days
haiku #297: awakened from sleep / surprised by the darkness– / late autumn
haiku #298: Watching a kite / up in the sky, / I think of nothing.
haiku #299: moonset / a sudden vastness / between stars
haiku #300: four, five, nine years / always the first to bloom... / cherry tree
haiku #301: waterlily leaves / bobbing on the lake . . . / lullaby
haiku #302: bursts from our guns / the town on the horizon / a brief vision of light
haiku #303: Whenever I speak / My lips are / chilled— Autumn wind.
haiku #304: reflection / in the water / a traveler
haiku #305: Walking the sky / a clear moon / all alone
haiku #306: The light snow. / The ice without any trace / On the lake.
haiku #307: Innumerable stars / Looks like floated algae / In my mind
haiku #308: White chrysanthemums: / in the fragrance, too, there are / light and shade
haiku #309: bitter winter wind / ends there -- / sound of the sea
haiku #310: One push of the door, a single step / And the corridor seems to stretch/ As far as the eye can see.
haiku #311: Life here was marvellous / But we are slaughtering the world / Watch the forests burn
haiku #312: frozen trough / I cup the warm breath / of my horse

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released January 19, 2020

picture by Igor Son

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