Pedro Roberto aka The Doc Throberts (music) and Ben Myers aka The Tropic Of Capricorn (words).
Influences
THE GULAG LOVE: The Futurists, Wolf Eyes, Tom Waits, BBC World Service, Gavin Bryars, Harold Pinter, the internet, The Mars Volta, William Burroughs, Klezmer music, Stanley Kubrick, Warp Records, Phillip Glass, Refused, Dada, War Of The Worlds, Hector Berlioz, System Of A Down, Brion Gysin, Jeff Noon, Whitehouse, Mogwai, Bill Hicks, Philip Glass, Werner Herzog, Chris Morriss, Black Flag, Claude Debussy.
Sounds Like
Symphonically structured electro rumbles. Encrypted lyrical codes. Digitally-enhanced spoken word. Punk attitude. The beautiful sound of Armageddon.
The Gulag
~ meaning Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration.
~ a network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union, especially for political dissidents.
~ a place or situation of great suffering and hardship
A four-part symphony for the modern age, THE GULAG is a collaboration. All words are by writer BEN MYERS and all music by composer/producer DOC THROBERTS, plus guest vocalists and spoken word artists. THE GULAG take their name from ‘Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei’ – literally ‘Main Camp Administration’ - during the time of former communist Soviet Union. The term 'Gulag' was given to the many prison camps throughout recent Soviet history (1917–1991).
Here it is appropriated to reflect more modern concepts of incarceration, injustice and grotesque mis-uses of State power – whether the chilling display of US power illustrated in Cuba’s Guantanemo Bay or the many other secret Serbias of the modern world.
Hi, thanks for accepting my request : )
I've uploaded the cover of "Princess Mononoke", so please have a listen when you have spare moment or two...Thanks!
Hayato
Hey there. A quick one to let you know that PBHP 4 is out. Coming to London, New York, Dublin, Belfast and other places soon and already available to order from our blog:
Hello - I'm reading some character monologues easter Saturday (not this one next one) at 'La Langoustine est Morte', @ poetry caff in Covent Garden. Info below. Sx
Saturday 7 April 2007
'La Langoustine est Morte'
7.30pm
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9BX
Adm. £4/£5
For more info:
www.myspace.com/langoustine
Email: lalangoustine@gmail.com
SophieWoolley – writer and performer who specialises in razored monologues www.sophiewoolley.com
AlexWalker – surrealist/Dadaist actor/poet/performance artist
AdrianOwusu/Son Blues -primal 21st century London Delta blues
AimeHansen - Experimental performance poet from Estonia
JosieCollins – abstract and experimental prose stylist
Hosts: SaschaAkhtar and AnthonyJoseph
What a great idea to put a x'ray(ted) pic of the singer in action! What's the brand of the microphone he uses though? I think he should try to sing a bit further away from it.
TUBE TUBE TUBE TUBE TUBE, spread the chant. Let's challenge the boundaries because people are being spoon fed drivel again and it's not healthy. Keep the ball rolling.
