David Sylvian's Samadhisound will be releasing Uncommon Deities on the
24th September 2012. Last year's Punkt Festival played host to Uncommon
Deities, an unusual confluence of talents and media. Walking into the
gallery’s large space, visitors were greeted by a series of paintings by
Atsushi Fukui that culminated in the striking, hermaphroditic figure in
“The Botanist.” An audio installation by David Sylvian filled the
space, and the opening night celebration brought poets and musicians
into the mix: the acclaimed Norwegian poets Paal-Helge Haugen and Nils
Christian Moe Repstad read alongside Evan Parker and Arve Henriksen, and
their works were read in English by Sylvian, whose recorded voice was
accompanied by John Tilbury, Philip Jeck, and Sidsel Endresen.
The CD release of Uncommon Deities isn’t a document of the installation,
but a reinvention: the poems and Sylvian’s readings are placed in new
settings by Jan Bang and Erik Honoré.
The cofounders of the Punkt festival and close collaborators on the
original installation, Bang and Honoré draw on new performances by the
deeply sympathetic trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the startling, elemental
singer Sidsel Endresen. These improvisations join live material
captured at last year’s Punkt events, in a production that’s spacious
and atmospheric, somber and escapist, light-hearted and steeped in
history - a recording as rich as the ancestry of the work that inspired
it.
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(Thanx JA!)
Sunday 2 September 2012
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