Web-home of Albert Burger, Musician
~ 120+ pages to peruse ~
 anno domini 1969 | ~ from aardvark to x-rays ~ these are the writings and artful musings and amusings of albert | 2010 03 10 last site update
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[aardvark] [anarchy] [NEWatom] [as she spoke] [bark canoe] [blavatsky] [blood ties] [burgers] [catalhoyuk] [chronicles of the people] [coupled] [court] [cyc] [dutch] [eagle] [edda] [faust] [free] [friesland] [gate] [georgie] [green hat] [here be dragons] [inational] [infrasound] [jesus] [lesser slave lake] [liberated] [log house] [look it up] [lyrics] [moose] [muslim] [northern lights] [odin] [om] [oxbow] [plants] [polluted] [pow wow] ['pseudo history'] [quest] [republic] [rock art] [rodeo] [runesong] [scheluw] [shining mane] [skeletons] [solstice] [songwriter] [stone age] [stonehenge] [swastika] [theatre] [thiot] [tibet] [tiny art] [tractor] [uilenspiegel] [voyageur guitar] [woman] [x-rays]
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"to see is wet . . . :"
the man with the Green Hat [more] men with green hats |
erinThe Legend of Faust Faust (or Latin Faustus) is the central character in an old German tale about a doctor who makes a pact with the Devil. It has been the inspiration for many fictional works, most notably by Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann, Oscar Wilde and Mikhail Bulgakov. The legend tells of a scholar's quest for forbidden or advanced knowledge of material things, in which Doctor Faust summons the Devil (Mephistopheles). Together they make a pact in which Mephistopheles offers to serve Faust for a period of time, at the cost of his soul. Some scholars think that the story of Faust originated in northern Germany, and was eventually committed to print in the sixteenth century as Historia von D. Iohan Fausten. Others note the Latin title and suggest that the story may have come from an even earlier source. It was translated into English and Christopher Marlowe used it for his play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Marlowe's version served to inspire Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which may be considered the definitive Faust. download Goethe's tragedy free from Project Gutenberg |  |
 Late '60s, early '70s | Faust is also the name of the hamlet of 400 people that has been my home since 1966. In 1914 the railroad track came through, and an engineer ~ by the custom of the day and his trade ~ left the family name to the RR station here. listen to Faust by albert (first song i ever wrote in 1966) |
AKO CHI GUNNA TEKAYA TOH An Oral History Marie Courtoreille (nee Wichihiwesis, or Walker) lost her life in a fire at her home in Faust in 1982. She was 101. At over a century in age she had no trouble threading a needle, still had her own teeth, and needed no glasses. Marie Witchihiwesis was born on the shore of Lesser Slave Lake just west of the mouth of Old Man Creek on a day in May, 1881. Her father Henry Witchihiwesis and mother Nancy Giroux had her baptised in 1883 at the parish mission of St. Bernard at Lesser Slave Lake settlement. At 18 she married Alexander Courtoreille, stayed along the lakeshore, and in her own words, "lived on fish and meat." It is from her family that the earliest oral history of the community dates. Local tradition has it that the Native people used the location at Giroux Bay as a fishing camp where the year's supply of fish was strung on poles in the sun for drying. The place may well have been called (as tradition has it): Ako chi gunna ("that which is hung") Tekaya toh ("where it takes place"): The Place Where They Hang The Fish. an interview with 83-year-old [Pat Lalonde] at Faust, 1972 |
| read more [local history] by albert, and a 1927 [trip to Faust] by Earle Frood, _________________________________________________________ |
click image  dirk van elsakker 2006  | life in Faust today . . . | _________________ Faust, Alberta, Canada
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Stories of some of the People in the Lake area the story of a [tribal feud] ~ as told by Louison Gladue in 1927 a tough way to make a living: [fish and the Corporation] Jean Baptiste Giroux ~ [a life in the North] at Grouard [Rose Auger] ~ Medicine Woman [two-bit wheelbarrow]: part of my life-story here, i guess [Gene Walters]: child of the wilderness an interview with 83-year-old [Julian Gladue] at Trout Lake, 1975 |
Community Development: 1968: the Faust [Land Use Cooperative] (LUC ~ get it?) 1984: the [Faust Regional Community Development Corporation] 1992: a presentation to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by [Indian Band Members of Faust Society] 2009: a look back on the dirty [politics] of a provincial bureaucracy in a tiny hamlet ~ the unvarnished truth by albert Faust Community [Lands] |  2009 09 17 click |
my 'career' as a writer started with the [Faust News] (1967)
 | The Children's Crusade The Revolution Game Two 1970 books tell the story of the short, unhappy life of the Company of in which a young man from Amsterdam receives an education from the people in a unique small northern Alberta community |
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Backyard Wild Plants ~ the useful and the beautiful [read it]
Earth provides sustenance to all its life, and the vegetable kingdom alone is a storehouse of food, medicine, tools, clothing, craft and housing materials. For uncounted ages humanity lived in intimate relation with the natural world. Over millennia of experimentation, (each in their differing environment) people acquired a vast 'tried and true' knowledge of plants in their own 'backyard', which has been preserved in folklore, in ancient 'herbals' and by modern science as well as in every day use. |
 | Common Mint ~ Mentha arvensis The dried leaves and flowering tops were used . . . in aromatic stimulant beverages, and to relieve nausea, gas, and pain in the stomach and bowels. All of the great Canadian tribes used the various mints for these and related ills. . . . read about [agrimony] [alder] [alfalfa] [arnica] [avens] [baneberry] [bearberry] [bedstraw] [birch] [bunchberry] [canada-thistle] [cow-parsnip] [fiddlehead] [fireweed] [foxtail-barley] [hemp-nettle] [honeysuckle] [horsetail] [jewelweed] [kinnikinik] [labrador tea] [lamb's-quarters] [marsh-marigold] [mint] [nettle] [paintbrush] [pearly-everlasting] [pine] [pineapple-weed] [rat-root] [red-willow] [sarsaparilla] [saskatoon] [shepherd's-purse] [spruce] [strawberry] [sweet-clover] [strawberry-blite] [tamarack] [touch-me-not] [vetch] [water-hemlock] [yarrow] Native American Ethnobotany searchable database ~ at the University of Michigan |
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[Street Smart = Country Dumb]
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Pow Wow Warrior
Turtle Boy (Derrick Laboucan)
 | Turtle Boy is an aboriginal artist whose life is in his music. As a Pipe Carrier he follows a traditional path in life and in music. But the tradition has taken a new direction with John Chapdelaine's production that brings the past into the present. Pow Wow music is performed by from 6 to 14 drummers, but this recording was made by only himself as singer and drummer. Turtle Boy's latest, Pow Wow Warrior, is a history-making project. |
check it out at Big Lake Recording
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 click to download Inational by albertother free music downloads Thilo Martinho, German winner of songprize competition Page Jackson ~ check this zen cowboy music free Morgan Davis ~ Field Strip Your Cigarettes download from juno winner Trucker ~ free rock'n roll downloads Billy and the Fid ~ download a free rock tune, why don't you ['bragging rights'] ~ free roffe rijmers mp3 ~ my cousins the rappers in Nederland by Elephant |  woman of color |
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 | the voyageur guitar a history book that you can play music on conceived by jowi taylor in 1995, and completed by george rizsanyi by 2006, a new book by taylor documents its conception, making, and travels, as well as some of the more than 50 000 portraits taken of people with the guitar from Douglas & McIntyre publishers |  |
On Building a Birch-bark Canoe
 |  | ~ watching an aged artisan ~ [story, photos, and diagrams]  Abanaki art of Aaron York ~ 'the finest of the fine' information on this artist/craftsman can be found at rutabaga |
 Ojibwa artist and story teller Nokomis grew up in the bush almost 70 years ago ~ check her detailed canoe building tale |
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read an aging 'back-to-the-land'-er's account of [building a log house] ~ photo feature: [anatomy of a saddle notch]
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Building a Log House
(please not 'log cabin')
 | Woodsman, woodsman spare that tree Touch not a single bough. For in my youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The boreal forests stretch across the northern hemisphere toward the Arctic shores. The dense cover of evergreens casts an unbroken shadow on the ground beneath for measureless distances. Undergrowth is scanty, and the somber mood is but rarely relieved by the brighter hues of flowers and grasses. But the forest is far from continuous. Flat areas are often too poorly drained to support tree growth and become bogs or muskegs in which mosses and grasses are abundant. Exposed slopes may grow bald as winter winds whip only low-growing, heathy shrubs and herbaceous plants, like those in high mountain ranges, or in the continuous tundra to the north. In the forest proper, no species of coniferous tree has the same demand and gradually segregate in almost pure stands of one or another. Nations grew among the tall, straight softwoods which were convenient for building and had many other uses. The environment nurtured a stable economy with a large range of plant (and animal) raw material, and the forest soil could be converted into grasslands or arable soils which maintained their fertility or even increased it. Much of the former virgin boreal forest has been very much modified ~ felled and burned, and species of deciduous trees as birch, poplar, willow and alder cover large areas where formerly they occurred in small, infrequent clumps or as isolated individuals. In a certain sense therefor it can be spoken of as a mixed forest' (though science will note that if left alone it will become once again truly boreal, while the true mixed forest remains so by dictates of climate and soil). |
 no money but lots of early 70s time | green in 1973: [cartoon feature] ___________________________ now a Fairmont Hotel (right), the largest log structure in the world was built in four months by 3 500 workers in 1930 [excerpts and photos] from Building the Chateau Montebello by Allan and Doris Muir buy the book at Log Home Guide Information Center |
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 listen to Wind at my Back by albert | I've got clean air in my face and the wind at my back; it's smooth sailing apace, the stars in their track; moving at the speed of light, leaving in the dead of night; searching for the world of nowhere. Clear trails appear; the omens are good;
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'Gate to Nowhere' by Alona___________________________________________
 Kirsten Zuk's Odin ____________________ Below, a vellum manuscript, codex runicus from AD 1300, is one of the oldest and best preserved texts of such a late date written entirely in runes. It is also the source for the melody Dromte mig en drom i nat, which is known to every Dane. from the humanities faculty of Kobenhavns Universitet | listen to Ymir and Odin by albert | ODIN / WODEN
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 | Eddukvaedi (Great-grandmother Quoted) [THIOT: Runesong of the ErilaR Masters] BOOK THREE Runesong: Poetry, Myth, and Tradition For well on to three decades, the study of the historical, cultural, and mythological background of the Teutonic peoples has occupied me, yet this obviously is not scholarly work. Nevertheless I have provided a new literal translation of the main Icelandic sources: EDDUKVAEDI, Icelandic edition, Olafur Briem (1968) SNORRA EDDA, Icelandic edition, Arni Bjornsson (1974) [About Ragnarok] [In the Beginning] [Futhark] [Name Scroll] [Nine in the Tree] [Runes of Magic and Mystery] [Weird] [Wise Woman Speaks] [Words of Woden] [Works Cited] The Journal of Germanic Mythology and Folklore ~ scholarly and non-academic studies listen to magick ritual (mp3 download) by Freya Aswynn: [north] |
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listen to a fragment of The Prophecy of the Seeress by Sequentia
Sequentia ~ one of the world's most respected and innovative ensembles for medieval music was founded in 1977 and can look back on more than three decades of international concert tours, and a comprehensive discography spanning the entire Middle Ages This disc, recorded in Iceland 1999, was originally a theater production that premiered in Luxembourg 1995, imagines the context, instrumentation and vocalization of the performances as the last vestiges of the ancient oral tradition |  |