STEPHEN EMMER feat. lou reed, kazu makino, ken nordine, sylvia kristel, allen ginsberg, richard burton, alessandro baricco,yoko ono, samuel beckett, kurt schwitters,mike garson, shyrock, ben herman, popduo bauer, sacha de boer& tony visconti.
Label
Supertracks Records
Influences
gainsbourg, piccioni, air, beach boys, shuggie otis, shawn lee, ennio morricone, divine comedy, lo borges, bjork, mono, edu lobo, todd rundgren, sly stone, cousteau, matmo, takemitsu, milhaud, the associates, orpheus, blonde redhead, francois de roubaix, george martin, flaming lips, association, dears, arcade fire, michel legrand, cornelius, sakamoto, kraftwerk, stereolab, david bowie, robert wyatt, ravel, debussy, satie, heitor villa lobos, tom jobim, milton nascimento, sparks, pharrell, bacharach, nick drake, super furry animals, bruch, exotica, interpol, john barry, joy division, high lamas, paul steel, wrecking crew, nino rota, miles davis, arthur lee's love, matisse, raul dufy, pulp, john barry, richard carpenter, edda dell'orso, wanda del sei, lani hall, icicle works, elis regina, edward albee, graham greene, francis coppola, rotary connection, perry blake, clare fischer, sebastian tellier, jan akkerman, nelson riddle, massive attack, beatles, richard burton, claus ogerman, ramses shaffy, steve jobs, wes anderson, sofia coppola, tim & jeff buckley, free design, exuma, arthur greenslade, scott walker, scriabin, jimi hendrix, gil evans, santana, rufus wainwright, robert heppener, orson welles, bertrand burgalat, andre popp, dick raaijmakers, robert delauney, alfred hitchcock, john cassavettes, ricky gervais, anton corbijn, anne pigalle, camille, tony visconti, brian eno, phoenix, radiohead, morrissey, lou reed, vu, scorsese, david lynch, alain whicker, peter thomas, hemingway, popduo bauer, harpers bizarre, left banke, aphrodite's child, tv on the radio and anyone else with a fuzzy logic..
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Sounds Like
" This piece called 'Passengers' from Dutch avant-garde composer Stephen Emmer's grand album Recitement is like The Darjeeling Limited with Lou Reed's signature croon as a narration"
- Pitchfork.tv USA
Record Label
Supertracks, a division of Challenge Records Intnl
Stephen Emmer is a composer/musician from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
From experimental rock, free jazz and modern classical music to filmsoundtracks, television themes and cultural projects, he has been involved in many projects too numerous to mention in his musical life. Involved in bands such as Minny Pops, Hopper, the Associates, Lotus Eaters and Act, he made one earlier solo mini-album called Vogue Estate feat. the late Billy MacKenzie and was the first inhouse composer for the main public broadcaster NOS in the Netherlands. Here he worked with renowned orchestra's such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Windsensemble and the Metropole Orchestra. Next to having been a radiopresenter of experimental musicprograms for other Dutch broadcasters VPRO, NPS and Concertzender and as a editor-in-chief- of the cult magazine Vinyl, he also created music for the Van Gogh Museum, the Mediamuseum and Prix de Rome.
The combination of pop music and spoken word is a unique phenomenon in music history.
The album contains 17 different compositions in 7 different languages and styles, performed, arranged and composed by Stephen Emmer.
On Recitement everything comes together: past and present, death and life, writers and singers, poems and music. Is it Spoken Word Pop? Is it a contemporary audiobook? Rap 2.0 or is it 'just' a music album? Recitement is the Music of Words.
The international press:
'Emmer's miscellaneous musical career is reflected in the startlingly diverse music on Recitement. This breadth of capability allows him to achieve the most difficult trick of spoken word music: symmetry of form and content, with neither feeling subordinate to the other. Song lyrics are not poetry and poems are not songs, but that doesn't mean poetry and music can't agreeably coexist-- even, in the right hands, enhance each other-- as Emmer so convincingly asserts on Recitement.'
- Pitchfork.com
“Surprisingly addictive”
- Word Magazine UK
“Ever wondered how bowie’s low would have sounded if the art of noise had produced it and recruited richard burton to do the vocals?”
-UNCUT Magazine UK
“Most wanted”
Record Collector UK
“Both the intelligent words and elegant music make a refreshing change from the scrappy guitars, vacant pop and clumpsy lyrics cluttering up the charts”
-Yorkshire Evening Post UK
“Spoken word combined with original music composition never sounded so good”
-Cleardaynebraska.com
"From little-known Dutch composer Stephen Emmer comes the smartest, most well-read album of the year...literally."
-Myrtlebeach Online USA
“Fans of Lou Reed will be pleased he has undertaken a project with a degree of musical integrity again..”
-Gigwise.com
“Recitement is both diverse and imaginative enough to pull even the most recalcitrant listener..”
-getreadytorock.com
“Emmer here achieves the same supersoft penetrating power of Air, yet mostly acoustic..”
-Kulturnews Germany
“A piece of musical art!”
-Lea Magazine Germany
“The man knows his craft”
-Raveline Germany
“This enormous project amounts to a stylistic masswedding...free from all rules”
-WOM Magazine Germany
'the whole album delivers a cerebral workout that is rare in art today..''
-music-news.com
'this is music which will soundtrack your dreams..'
- uk fusion
Performances by a.o.: Lou Reed, Richard Burton, Sylvia Kristel, Kurt Schwitters, Jorge Luis Borges, Sacha de Boer, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Ken Nordine, Shyrock aka Michael Parkinson & Allen Ginsberg.
Lyrics and words by a.o.: Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Paul Theroux, Yoko Ono, Alessandro Baricco, Jorge Luis Borges,Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Remco Campert, Hugo Claus and Thomas Hardy.
The extremely elegant eighth issue of Your Heart Out is a special edition called The Historical Romance. It was inspired by seeing a film about the jazz singer Jackie Paris, which prompted all sorts of thoughts about fate and fortune.
The Historical Romance is a bit of an odyssey that takes in Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Billy Vera & Judy Clay, Red Krayola & Clinic, Johnny Thunders & Patti Palladin, Freda Payne & Pennies From Heaven, plus much, much more ...
Please tell the world that it can be downloaded for free from our library over at:
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our new album, "best excuses", has been uploaded on www.yearlongday.com. thank you for patiently waiting to hear it, and stay tuned for the official cd release!
This special edition is called ... The Archaeology of an Abandoned Soul Single. It takes you on an expedition that will take in the young mod’s forgotten story of the 6Ts Rhythm & Soul Society, The Users and The Visitors, Munich disco and Tamla tapes, the return of the Wild Swans and Laurel Aitken’s protest, Robert Lloyd’s verse and The Aller Vaerste! And much, much more.
Live the life of Reilly And tryin' to make believe All you have to offer Is hidden up your sleeve Insults dripping with measured dare Eyes are nothing but a glassy stare Rip Rip Rip me to pieces Confetti flying through the air I don't have the guts To even the score and I don't want to be Your victim number 3 (don't pressure me//)
Running the risk Of walking the line You don't have the guts To admit this carnal crime I caught you sitting on a dirty floor With your knickers and her pinafore Rip Rip Rip me to pieces Confetti flying through the air I don't have the guts To even this score and I don't want be Your victim number 3 (don't pressure me//)
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Don't want to be victim #3 Don't pressure me Don't want to be victim #3
Rip Rip Rip me to pieces I don't want to be Your victim number 3
Jump on the bandwagon And ride your coattails home Censor correspondence And request you're left alone You break The 10 commandments Hammer falling striking stone Rip Rip Rip me to pieces Confetti flying through the air I don't have the guts To even this score but I don't want to be Your victim number 3 (don't pressure me//)
CIAO Mr EMMER, WELCOME TO “PALESTISRAEL CITY” AND KEEF THE RIDE… PEACE FOR KIDS BY BOOGIE BALAGAN
LAMENTATION WALLOO
When i was a boy I was dreaming of a land A Promised land for everyone When i was a kid I was diggin n’ diggin Across the border line I was sawing the seeds of time Sun flowers, avatiah...feeling fine
My homeboy Ali was my buddy But he was playing by the other side...
So we were climing up those mountains Flyin’ high as eagles do... N’ meanwhile heads were banging On the lamentation walloo
When i was a toy I was praying with the gun I didn’t know how to read between the lines When i was a toy I was bleeding n’bleedin It was a sign of spine I was layin’ on my home grown sorrow A kind of bleeding graps of wine My homeboy Ali was my best enemy But he was burried by the other side... (Azriel : ps 9 the Walloo Book)
Don’t know if you read french, but I’m happy to present you the book about Bowie I will publish in the end of april, here in France (there’s an extract of my text translated in english in my blog).
On my page you can listen to a personal cover of Rebel Rebel.
Thanks for the add request - it's a pleasure to have you in our Myspace universe! Your project sounds fascinating, I'll look forward to hearing it! Thom @ The Great Flood
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