Mikado Koko - Songs To Our Other Selves [CD]

Format: CD 
Catalogue No.: CAL003CD
Barcode: 5016958101183
Release Date: 09 Sep 2022
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

 Japanese outsider avant-gardist, poet and producer, Mikado Koko, presents a new album ‘Songs To Our Other Selves’. The album is an exploration and continuation of Penny Rimbaud’s
classic fifty-track album ‘Acts of Love’, released in 1984.
 Penny Rimbaud composed, arranged and produced ‘Acts of Love’ with assistance from keyboardist Paul Ellis. The album consists of fifty short poems set to contemporary classical music,
performed by Eve Libertine and Paul Ellis, and is accompanied by a book of fifty collages by artist Gee Vaucher. Koko’s production takes Rimbaud’s classic work to new sonic territory whilst
maintaining the integrity and concepts behind ‘Acts of Love’.
 For ‘Songs To Our Other Selves’, Koko has selected twenty tracks to extend Rimbaud’s short haiku-like bursts of energy into a fierce juggle of cutups and electronica, each track becoming a
piece in its own right, yet somehow maintaining the poetic intensity of Rimbaud’s originals. Koko’s adaptations maintain the dramatic intensity of Rimbaud’s work, in particular allowing Libertine’s dynamically expressive vocal performances to demand attention whilst introducing glitchy, mind-bending electronic elements, warping Rimbaud’s recordings into otherworldly, surreal sounds.

Tracklisting
Track 01
Track 02
Track 03
Track 04
Track 05
Track 06
Track 07
Track 08
Track 09
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Track 19
Track 20