DICK HIGGINS : Poems And Metapoems

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Format: LP [RecitalThirtyThree]
Shipping Weight: 0.47lbs
Label: Recital

2,994円

' Recital present a reissue of Dick Higgins's Poems And Metapoems, originally released on cassette by New Wilderness Audiographics in 1982. Label head Sean McCann on the reissue: "Since the beginning of Recital, I have been trying to publish the work of Dick Higgins. He is a chief figure in my artistic world, a hero of mine. And now, with the assistance of Charlie Morrow, it has finally happened. The first vinyl album ever published of Higgins! Many know Dick Higgins as the father of intermedia, a key player in the birth of fluxus, and the owner/operator of the fabulous Something Else Press. His own poetry is what stirred me. Namely, his book Foew & Ombwhnw (1969), which contains one of my favorite of his works, 'Moments in the Lives of Great Women,' along with other lovely poems (some included on this LP). This recording is of Dick himself reading his own poetry. Poems And Metapoems begins with a voice/tape manipulation piece from 1962, while the rest of the collection employs only language manipulation. Alike a cantor, each word is delivered perfectly with strong warmth. His ability to relay pattern-based poems into sonics is impressive. This album was recorded in 1982, and contains the reading of poems written between 1958-1980. Originally published as a cassette tape by New Wilderness Audiographics, which is nearly impossible to find now. The audio has been remastered and cleaned up for this edition. Dick lived large and was a busybody. All the faucets were running within him, handles broken off. Always pulling to mesh painfulness with playfulness, heart-warmth with heartbreak, comedy with tragedy etc. It is this plurality that Higgins encourages us to spark and flourish." Includes a 16-page pamphlet of notes and poetry by Higgins and an essay on both Higgins and New Wilderness Audiographics by Charlie Morrow; Edition of 470.'

Tracklist
A1 Requiem For Wagner The Crimal Mayor, 2 Excerpts
A2 Long Tail From Jessie
A3 Love Song For Straights
A4 Meta-
A5 Lyrical Text #12
A6 Lyrical Text #13
A7 The Pendulum
A8 Poem 1963
A9 Portrait Of A Woman
A10 ψευδ?νυμο
A11 Scenario
A12 Six Considerations Of The Angel
A13 Snowflake: Dark Room, Dark Rose
A14 Snowflake For A Friend Who Went Completely Straight
A15 Snowflake: Man's Heart's Mirror's
A16 Snowflake: Which Shines Brighter?
A17 The Snowflakes Of Giordano Bruno
A18 Song For Marilyn
A19 Structures (For Cary And Linda)
A20 Two Things About The Woods
A21 A Winter Carol
A22 Winter Seascape
A23 (Seven Of The) Twelve Telephone Translations
B1 As: Another Seven
B2 Boris Blastoff Finally Dreams About Life
B3 Boris Blastoff's You-Play-It Crapshooting Song
B4 Caryatid: I Am
B5 Hello, Serbes-Marines
B6 The Dawn Police
B7 For Several
B8 Four Women
B9 Gentle Talk
B10 How The Abbot Trilled With His Lady Easy Yet
B11 A Hymn At Night
B12 Trois Caryatides Au Loop-Garoux

Credits
Design [Graphic Design] ? Mary Nell Hawk
Management [Production Manager] ? Andrew Hindes
Producer ? Charlie Morrow, Sean McCann
Recorded By ? John Guth

Notes
Recorded February 1981 in the New Wilderness Studio.