is an album project consisting of a series of spoken songs with a specially curated collection of poems chosen from an open call with the support of Quotidian - Word on the street. In the manner of "spoken song", the project uses a mixture of spoken and sung voice, and many in-between inflections and combinations to musicalise the poems in these 9 songs. The poems from the project engage with themes ranging from personal memory space to cycle of power structure, attempting to point towards "things that keep us up at night".
The songs from the album were also performed in an improvised set with Simon Waters (Double Bass) and Andrew McCoubrey (Drums).
Poems by:
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
Chris Murray
Darren Donohue
David Butler
Gabriel Rosenstock
Lind Grant-Oyeye
Liska Pleines
Maria McManus
Siobhan Campbell
This project was supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland & PRS Foundation, and The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop through The Oram Awards talent development bursary.
Broadcast History
BBC Radio 3 | Unclassified
RTÉ lyric fm | How The World Begins Again
Poetry Day Ireland Heritage Film Festival
Live Set Performance History
Sonorities Festival / April 2024
Lawrence Street Workshops / October 2023
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