Strickling/Schreier - Laura Strickling and Joy Schrerier: Confessions

Song serves as one of the most important building blocks of western civilization. �The Bard� in the Ancient Greek world sang Homer�s epic poems for small groups of people, probably accompanied by a simple stringed instrument like a lyre. All of our best research indicates that the Sumerian Gilgamesh Epic, give or take 1,000 years earlier than Homer�s Iliad, was also likely sung, not recited. Like the contemporary songs on this album, these ancient texts shared material that was intensely personal and timelessly universal � detailing the inner world of the protagonist, revealing hopes, insecurities, fear, and longing.