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Martha Cinader

Martha Cinader graduated with honors from The Spence School in New York City in 1980. Fascinated by Jazz and the underground music scene in New York City, she worked as a fashion model and spent a lot of time listening to live music. Her first published piece of writing was an interview with the jazz musician Monty Waters, that was published in The East Villager. She traveled with her partner around Europe for six years, on what could barely be called a circuit of expatriate jazz musicians. Leaving from Munich she returned to New York City with a three year old daughter in 1990.

She was a producer and on-air host for most of the nineties at WBAI Radio 99.5FM where she produced a weekly arts magazine, and also wrote and produced twelve episodes of Marvelina, a science fiction radio drama, and four episodes of Mission of Love, later produced as a two act play written in iambic pentameter at Club Vinyl. She also hosted a weekly arts magazine for which she produced numerous author interviews. Some of them are transcribed in her ebook American Authors Unplugged, available exclusively at cinader.com.

Cinader hosted a weekly performance series called Listen & Be Heard, and developed a repertoire of poetry with music, returning to Europe on a few small tours, and appearing at jazz and poetry festivals in New York and California. Most of that material was recorded on a CD entitled Living It! The title cut, was put out on vinyl, by Liquid Sound Lounge Records, and persists as an underground hit, and is included on several compilations around the world, including Universal Music France.

While hosting the performance series Cinader developed a series of biographical stories about fascinating people in history and was invited to perform them at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Upon her return, the stories were published by Tenth Avenue Editions in a slim volume entitled Dreamscape: Real Dreams Really Make a Difference. The second edition was released in March 2015.

Her second book published is When the Body Calls, a collection of poetry and fairy tales, and entries in the journal of Senator Sin, was published by Writers and Readers, Harlem River Press in 1999.

She also had a short poem/story published in an anthology called Dick for a Day (Villard Books) under the pen name Senator Sin, that Publisher’s Weekly called “hilarious.”

After growing weary of eviction notices in New York City, she moved to Vallejo, California, located in the bay area, in 1999. She continued Listen & Be Heard there, where she met her future husband. Together they started a newspaper called Listen & Be Heard Weekly that reached a run of 6000 copies of around 40 pages a week, and was distributed around the bay area. They also opened Listen & Be Heard Poetry Cafe, which became renowned in the area. They ran both businesses for five years, before closing down in 2008, and moving to Greenville, South Carolina in 2009.

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Poetry and Jazz During the Petaluma Poetry Walk

Poetry and Jazz During the Petaluma Poetry Walk

Source: Listen & Be Heard

The Petaluma Poetry Walk is an annual event in its 13th year. This year it will take place on September 21 from 10am-7pm. Each hour there is a different stop along the walk in downtown Petaluma, and a poetry reading. The Poet Laureate of California, Al Young, is scheduled to read at 3pm. At 4pm at the Phoenix Theatre, Martha and Tony Mims, of Listen & Be Heard fame, will be the featured act, accompanied by Paul Neal on upright ...

Record Reviews Martha Cinader's Po'azz Yo'azz Living it For once, we have a review of an album that hasn't been released yet. It can be obtained only from the artist Martha Cinader herself. Martha Cinader caught our attention with the phenomenal track "Living it", of which the Victor Simonelli remix is extraordinary. The reason this track caught our attention was because of the lyrics, yes, the lyrics ! The lyrics of "Living it" are one strong emotional outlet about life in its fullest effect. It breaths the spirit of a creative artistic energetic life which immediately catches ones attention. That made us look furhter at who the artist Martha Cinader was and brought us to her Po'azz Yo'azz album. This is not the ordinary album for sure ! It's clear that Martha Cinadar offers plenty of interesting views through her lyrics. In fact, she describes her music as a mixture between poetry and music and so it is. Listen to the track "White Linen" and you'll know. It's a sort of poem about becoming old in this society. "Eat" is completely differently styled, reflecting societies fast food way of living in both lyrics and tempo. There is "Yes No" on drum'n'bass music that in some way reflects the undeciding battles between loving people. Weird for sure as the music and lyrics go hand in hand with the emotions. Of course "Living it" is here too, but in a much more intimate disguise on drum'n'bass music. Here, the vocals get much more accent than on the Victor Simonelli remix. More poetry goes in "Rosebud" and "Belated Mother's day", where we hear Martha Cinader's soft voice telling the Rosebud poetry on piano background or the "Belated Mother's day" on violin. Finally, there is "Po'azz yo'azz" where Martha Cinader is sort of introducing what it is all about. A little strange she puts this track on the last position. She tells about the mixture of poetry and jazz, about digging one's soul to express emotions, and feelings. And that's exactly what she has been doing in this full album. It's perhaps a combination we're not so used to these days, but it's sure that Martha Cinader brings an original way of making music, poetry and emotions. She seems to be the kind of person that goes for her own ideas, style, feeling, interpretions, without giving in to commercially dictated styles. And that alone is great !�- Freestyle Grooves

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mella

Unknown label
2014

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Unnamed Flower

Unknown label
2013

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New York City Blues

Unknown label
2013

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Living It!

Unknown label
1998

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New York City Blues

New York City Blues

From: New York City Blues
By Martha Cinader

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