One Little Independent subsidiary Caliban Sounds will soon release a collaboration between composer/pianist Peter Vukmirovic Stevens and punk poet and Crass co-founder Penny Rimbaud, merging the new styles for avant-garde, piano-driven spoken word.
The record, titled S LENCE, releases on Nov. 25 with a teaser track/video "Of Summer's Passing" available now (below).
Rimbaud explains:
In 2019, Peter selected some of my many poems which he wanted to set to music. He then asked me to arrange to have a recording made of me reading them minus any accompaniment. This I did at Old Street Studios with Harvey Birrell engineering and Eve Libertine chiding me on. I had no idea how Peter intended to compose the music as normally such things are either done together or based on a musical idea. In short, I had nothing to react to or work around except the beating of my heart – SILENCE.
Track listing:
S lence
Paper Devils
Not They
Of Summer’s Passing
In Silence
S lence II
Within Dark Streams
Shadows
Pity in the Poetry
I Am the Enemy
