Music by Richard Burgin  

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Praise for Richard Burgin’s music:
 

“Frankly these are the freshest most surprising songs of my generation.”  David Shapiro


 

 “I’ve listened carefully to Richard Burgin’s skillful, melancholy and contagious songs.  His songs are the real thing.”  Ned Rorem 


 

“Richard Burgin is a strikingly gifted song writer and composer. Certain of his songs are cries from the heart that lodge powerfully in the listener like the memory of our most heart rendering experiences.”  Joyce Carol Oates

 

Andrew Weinstein, noted arts critic and fiction writer, says:
"What makes Richard Burgin's music so powerful for me is its tension between a suave sophistication and a nervous urgency. By turns a lyricism buoys the work with swanky melodies that recall Stephen Sondheim. But then, an edginess intrudes with lyricis so emotionally raw they startle you with their revelations of loneliness and frustrated desire--psychological terrain well known to fans of Burgin's fiction. Packed with complexity, these lovely songs beg for presentation as serious musical theater. Don't Go There is a CD packaged with Burgin's latest collection of short fiction titled, The Identity Club: New and Selected Stories and Songs, an arresting collection that charms and haunts--unforgettable music that bares its heart and cuts to the bone. "
 

To order the CD "Cold Ocean" (including complete lyrics) please send $12 to:

 

Richard Burgin
7545 Cromwell Dr #2N
St. Louis, MO  63105

 

Checks should be made payable to Richard Burgin

 

 

 

1. Don't Go There (4:18)
2. In All of the World (2:27)
3. I Hope That Won't Happen To Me (3:19)
4. My Lost One (3:36)
5. Dream Sweeper (3:41)
6. Never Ignore the Rich (4:52)
7. Isn't It Something (2:31)
8. You're My Eye (2:31)
9. I'm Arriving (4:05)
10. How Can It Be? (3:23)
11. Who Are You? (3:45)
12. I'm Feeling Well (3:00)

"Richard Burgin's skillful, melancholy and contagious songs are the real thing."  - Ned Rorem

National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates says:
"Richard Burgin is a strikingly gifted songwriter and composer.  Certain of his songs, like Don't Go There, My Lost One, and I'm Arriving are cries from the heart that lodge powerfully in the listener, like the memory of our most heart-rending experiences." 

Renowned poet and critic David Shapiro says:
"Frankly, these are the freshest, most surprising love songs of my generation too enamored of rock to conceive of something like this.   Novelist and award-winning story writer Richard Burgin has produced a kind of jazz opera or concept album tracing the evolution of a spirit, where each lyric and note counts."

To order the CD "In All of the World" (including complete lyrics) please send $10 to:

Richard Burgin
7545 Cromwell Dr #2N
St. Louis, MO  63105

Checks should be made payable to Richard Burgin

 

 

1. Goodbye Old Park (instrumental) (4:20)
2. In the Sky (4:17)
3. We are not Eastern Men (4:57)
4. Good Old Me (3:00)
5. My Lost One (3:09)
6. Chord Torn Apart (4:40)
7. My Train Will Come (3:53)
8. Without Knowing Why (3:11)
9. Don't Say a Word (2:19)
10. Go (3:44)
11. Santa Barbara (3:43)
12. Goodbye Old Park (4:20)
13. I'm Floating (4:53)
14. Now in this Sunlight (5:02)
15. House of Sun (3:10)
 

To order the CD "House of Sun" (including complete lyrics)
please send $10 to:

Richard Burgin
7545 Cromwell Dr #2N
St. Louis, MO  63105

Checks should be made payable to Richard Burgin