A Voice Hears You From Mysterious Places w/ Barry Schwabsky

Power of Speech (after Paul Eluard)

A Voice Hears You From Mysterious Places w/ Barry Schwabsky

by Marianne Nowottny

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1.	Immigrant 02:52	buy track
2.	A Calm Death 01:24	buy track
3.	Biopic For Artie Gold or Syd Barrett) 01:36	buy track
4.	The Sleep of Pictures 01:31	buy track
5.	Miranda 03:46	buy track
6.	How to Ring Bells with a Hammer 00:53	buy track
7.	Inasmuch 02:24	buy track
8.	Sphere, Cone, Cylinder 02:27	buy track
9.	Deep Instructions 02:56	buy track
10.	And One Will Be Sent to You As Well 00:20	buy track
11.	Power of Speech (after Paul Eluard) 01:43 video	buy track
12.	False Positives 01:52	buy track
13.	Falling Asleep at the Movies 01:07	buy track

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A collaboration between singer/songwriter/composer Marianne Nowottny and noted poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky.

This CD presents a selection of tightly focused vignettes of textual and musical clarity. Marianne Nowottny has created a melodic armature of voice, lo-fi keyboards, damaged electronics and percussion that organically intertwines through and around Barry Schwabsky’s spare yet pointed versification.

There's a rampant nostalgia these days in New York for the city that was and no longer is. A city of cheap lofts and artistic experimentation has been swapped for big box stores, glass towers, and market-proven art. Seamless and tidy, I'm beginning to feel that New York is much like Paris: a place where once great things happened, but now we go there to pay homage to a mythic past where such wonders took place. Paris is a tomb. New York is quickly becoming one.
And yet there are pockets of resistance. You're holding one in your hands (or more likely streaming one through your infrathin aether). There's something old-fashioned -- I dare say impure -- about a musician and a poet creating a set of crystalline miniatures, both in scale and in inception, hearkening back to an earlier time when it was only natural for disciplines to be truly crossed. Think of Judson Church: on any given night you'd have poets dancing and musicians painting pictures, all on the same stage. But things began to change in the Seventies, when if you could name what you did, you had a good chance of getting grants for it. And once that happened, the arts remained forever separate.
Don't look back. The Twenty-first century is invisible. We were promised jetpacks but ended up with handlebar moustaches. The surface of things is the wrong place to find the Twenty-first century. Instead listen closely: you'll hear that the unseen, the impure, the horizontal, and the uncanniness of this music locates you firmly in the present. The uncomfortably strange meets the comfortingly familiar. Impossible to deny or improve, this disc at once exudes gravity & conviction, a power born of two mature artists collaborating at the very height of their powers, bucking both trends and time, in order to be completely contemporary. -- Kenneth Goldsmith

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released January 1, 2012

Artist: Marianne Nowottny & Barry Schwabsky
Title: A Voice Hears You from Mysterious Places
Time: 13 tracks, 25 minutes
Format: CD/digipak
Label: Abaton Book Company ABC#037

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Marianne Nowottny Cape Canaveral, Florida

Marianne Nowottny has released numerous CDs over the past sixteen years, most notably Afraid of Me in 1999, Manmade Girl in 2001 and What is She Doing in 2007. Her recordings have been reviewed in numerous publications, including the New York Times, WIRE, Billboard, Record Collector and Plan B. ... more

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