"When God Was Famous"
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2. Kommt (Gottfried Benn)
3. The Wheel (W.B. Yeats)
4. An Upbraiding (Thomas Hardy)
5. Men With Coats Thrashing (Malcolm Lowry)
6. Response (Bob Kaufman)
7. What Is To Be Given (Delmore Schwartz)
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2. Kommt (Gottfried Benn)
3. The Wheel (W.B. Yeats)
4. An Upbraiding (Thomas Hardy)
5. Men With Coats Thrashing (Malcolm Lowry)
6. Response (Bob Kaufman)
7. What Is To Be Given (Delmore Schwartz)
8. Ravenna (Hermann Hesse)
9. Hotels (Guillaume Apollinaire)
10. Mandorla (Paul Celan)
11. Plis (Paul Eluard)
12. In The Green Morning, Now, Once More (Delmore Schwartz)
13. Little Birds Sit On Your Shoulders (Kenneth Patchen)
A Tribute To Poetry - Yeats, Hermann Hesse, Malcolm Lowry, Boris Vian, Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Thomas Hardy, Kenneth Patchen, Gottfried Benn, Delmore Schwartz, Bob Kaufman, Paul Celan..... set to music by Minimal Compact vocalist Samy Birnbach and ambient maestro Benjamin Lew.
The deep, multitracked voice of the former, resonating above the delicate tapestries of the latter, sometimes conjures the image of a congregation of deviant monks in a moonlit, alien monastery, chanting the most unorthodox texts in English, French and German...
SAMY BIRNBACH & BENJAMIN LEW
When God Was Famous
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