Three years in the making, Open Box is one of the most exciting and successful collaborations of poetry and music ever made. With meticulous attention to detail, Jon Raskin has set the genre-busting poetry of Carla Harryman to music ranging from rock and metal to jazz and free improv. As radical as the writing, the music is brilliantly arranged, and interacts with the texts in a variety of dynamic ways. Each track is a world of its own, and moves forward with a focus and direction unprecedented in music/poetry collaborations. Featuring Raskin’s all star west coast quartet, and the poet herself reading from some of her most cutting edge works, this is music-poetry at its very best. A masterpiece! (tzadik.com)
1. Fish Speech
2. Open Box Part 1
3. Open Box Part 2
4. LA Reactive Meme
5. Song for Asa
6. A Sun and Five Decompositions
7. JS Active Meme
Carla Harryman: Reader
Jon Raskin: Reader, Sax, Vocals
Liz Allbee: Trumpet, Electronics
Eli Crews: Pro Tools, Studio
Aurora Josephson: Reader, Vocals
Ava Mendoza: Electric Guitar
Gino Robair: Drums, Electronics, Percussion, Piano
Roham Sheikhani: Reader
John Shiurba: Electric Guitar
info |
http://www.jonraskin.com/
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/harryman/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Harryman
http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7639
