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Released on the 99th anniversary of his death a few days before the Armistice, a CD of his war poems read by poet/artist/philosopher Penny Rimbaud, to music by jazz musicians Kate Shortt on cello and Liam Noble on piano. The CD is produced by Derek Birkett, who is best known as the long-term producer of the Icelandic singer Bjork, and released on his label One Little Indian.
The CD comes enclosed in a book illustrated by B&W photographs of locations in France associated with Wilfred Owen, all taken by myself last year whilst I was working on the latter stages of my Somme project.
Needless to say, I am thrilled to have been asked by Penny and Gee Vaucher (who did the design work) to be involved in this project, and thoroughly enjoyed the preliminary research and photographing the locations last year.
I have sat through four live performances of this over the last year or two, and it is a pretty uncompromising and original take on Owen's work. The two musicians weave their magic around Rimbaud's voice to terrific, often very jagged, effect, and after 90 minutes you feel pretty emotionally shattered. Easy listening this is not!
The CD comes enclosed in a book illustrated by B&W photographs of locations in France associated with Wilfred Owen, all taken by myself last year whilst I was working on the latter stages of my Somme project.
Needless to say, I am thrilled to have been asked by Penny and Gee Vaucher (who did the design work) to be involved in this project, and thoroughly enjoyed the preliminary research and photographing the locations last year.
I have sat through four live performances of this over the last year or two, and it is a pretty uncompromising and original take on Owen's work. The two musicians weave their magic around Rimbaud's voice to terrific, often very jagged, effect, and after 90 minutes you feel pretty emotionally shattered. Easy listening this is not!
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