Label: Farpoint Recordings

Alessandro Bosettiファンは是非!!小気味良いサウンドポエトリー・アルバム!!現在まで5冊の詩集&8冊の著作を出版、現在も詩人として活動している米作家Paul Kaneと、既に活動歴は40年以上となる大ベテランの女性演奏家Katie O'Looneyが共作したサウンドポエトリー作。朗読を軸とした全4パートのサウンドプロジェクトであり、耳に心地よい語りと作曲と即興を織り交ぜた抽象音響の連なりが美しく、どこと無くAlessandro Bosettiの諸作へと繋がる淡々と且つしっとりと進行する様が素晴らしい。センスの良い折り畳み式の特殊ブックレットには詩と解説を掲載。





Comes in a unique foldout cover with poetry and notes by Paul Kane and Katie O'Looney. Cover design by Doreen Kennedy.

"As with any successful collaboration that straddles boundaries, there is symbiosis between Kane's verse and O'Looney's music, each being enhanced by the presence of the other...Kane has a gentle mellifluous voice that is easy on the ear, making extended exposure to it pleasurable. O'Looney employs a variety of struck and scraped percussion, plucked strings, and keyboards to generate abstract musical interjections that add emphasis and heighten atmosphere...leaves one hoping for a follow-up by the pair..."

(John Eyles, All About Jazz)


'Seven Catastrophes in Four Movements' features readings of the poems by American poet Paul Kane and music by Kerry based artist Katie O' Looney. The folding booklet contains poetry and notes by American poet Paul Kane. He has published five volumes of poems including Work Life (2007) and A Slant Of Light (2008) as well as eight other books of various kinds. The music by Katie O'Looney plays with the poems in various ways: it responds to, shapes and at times, leads the text as a parallel creation, partly composed and partly improvised. She is an accomplished musician and has released music in many forms over the past thirty years. Katie is also a highly regarded painter.