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From what i can tell from the press release this 7" series has been a long time coming. Originally announced way back in 1999, Twisted Nerve and Finders Keepers have finally begun to release their long awaited series of spoken word performances on a sporadic selection of seven inches. This 7" includes a number of poems and stories from Malcolm Mooney, Billy Childish and Carol Batton. Can't say I'm a big poetry fan and i often struggle to decipher the meaning of the words spewing out of poetry folks mouths so I'll keep this simple. Billy Childish certainly gets about doesn't he? Here we get two pieces recorded in 2005. Stream of consciousness, word obsessed patron of the Manchester wordsmith scene Carol Batton contributes three pieces from here vast archive of musings but the best has got to be ex-Can front man Malcolm Mooney who contributes three pieces and reads in a fantastically warm and articulate style. Obviously this ones a bit of a curiosity but it's definitely worth a look and is stylish designed and packaged, as you'd expect from the Finder Keepers stable.
· A sonic oeuf a decade in the hatching. Initially announced
in the music press in 1999, Twisted Nerve and Finders
Keepers Records finally release their spoken word library
on a sporadic series of 45rpm vinyl discs manufactured in
strictly limited numbers of 500 copies each.
· Influenced in design by a varied cross section of vintage
vinyl discs of high art, political propaganda, storybook
records, folkways field recordings and exploito-trash,
‘Twisted Words’ Archival Transcriptions comprise exclusive
oral contributions from a list of globally respected and
inspirational poets and wordsmiths.
· ‘Volume One’ contains eight recordings from three
speakers from the North West and South East of England
and the East coast of America. This debut release features
archive poetry from Malcolm Mooney written in New York
City in 1975, five years after he quit his post as the original
vocalist for the German Krautrock pioneers Can.
· The EP also includes two custom recorded pieces by Billy
Childish (of Thee Headcoats / Mighty Caesars fame) taped
at his home in Medway in the county of Kent in 2005,
alongside a selection of poems from Carol Batton, an
omnipresent inspiration to Manchester city centre’s willing
recipients of an estimated fifty thousand sheets of poetry
throughout the past two and a half decades (Carol's prose
also appeared on Andy Votel’s ‘Folk Is Not A Four Letter
Word’ compilation series in 2004 and 2007).
Billy Childish - At Midnight I
Will Say I Love You
Malcolm Mooney - Only
Because You Said I Could
Carol Batton - Wasps
Malcolm Mooney - Been
Hurt? Say What
Carol Batton - Trees Come
Back To Life In Winter
Billy Childish - I Am Here To
Build Jerusalem
Malcolm Mooney – One Hour
And Some Change
Carol Batton - A Fox Ate My
Flowers
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