A gatefold LP STRAY: A GRAPHIC TONE includes original interviews and artist materials on its foldout sleeves. Find two interview excerpts below:
“…sound is everything in poetry. It’s measure; the measure is everything. Even though I have gone on about silence. This is the mystery. I don’t have a set measure, but I feel that something about the way I place words on paper amounts to a kind of dictation I’m receiving from somewhere. Every mark on paper is an acoustic mark. Sound is also, obviously, sight. It’s that instant flash of recognition that echoes and re-echoes. A work of art if it works teaches us we haven’t seen what we suddenly see.”–Susan Howe
‘Graphite is soft carbon. Were it hard enough to withstand contact and remain totally self-contained, it would not be useful for writing. Graphite gives up some of itself upon contact with paper. Graphite suffers a loss that leaves a mark.’ So, the music I’m talking about, the writing I’m talking about, is talking about loss that leaves a mark. And not just talking about it; it is the mark that’s left.”–Nathaniel Mackey
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Can't go wrong with Gerald Cleaver, can't go wrong with Brandon Lopez, can go wrong with spoken word but not with Fred Moten speaking the words. Saw this trio last year, they killed it, they kill it here, and look at that goddamn cover. Zachary Gillan
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021