Captain Profundo

The second song is up! Spotify
(full album coming in February…)

Captain Profundo is based on the poem “The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade” by Wallace Stevens. It’s full of strange instructions and invocations, “wear a feather by your eye”, “sing a song of serpernt-kin”, “ask us not to sing”.

After puzzling over this for a long time, I’m pretty sure the poem came about with Stevens reading the newspaper with a story about the rise of Mussolini in the 30’s and on the same page, there was an advertisement for orangeade. I have no evidence, but I’m sticking to it.

I love where Ryan’s interpretation landed with the art. It’s playful in its style but at it’s core there’s something more going on. Mussolini on a horse. The orange like a sun. The soldier finally getting that drink of orangeade.


Press

Indie Pulse Music review of Captain Profundo

“splendid harmony vocals”

“The lyrics and music meshes in a cohesive fashion; one compliments the other…his interpretation is respectful, yet never reverential”

“You find yourself willing, from the first, to follow Rundle wherever he wants to take you.”

Gas House Radio review of Captain Profundo

“Adapting poetry into the folk song idiom isn’t a particularly revolutionary move on its surface, but flying that flag in the music world of 2019 is a relatively audacious stroke.”

“The creative energy Rundle clearly expends setting Stevens’ words in a musical setting makes these songs his own – it is as if Stevens is a deceased collaborator rather than the focal point of the song.”