Live music from Unsound Festival, Poland
Nick presents Todd Barton鈥檚 Music and Poetry for The Kesh and sound artist Lea Bertucci recorded live in a synagogue in Krakow as part of the Unsound Festival 2018.
Nick Luscombe presents live music recorded in a synagogue in Krakow as part of the Unsound Festival 2018. Todd Barton鈥檚 Music and Poetry for The Kesh was originally released in 1985 as a cassette tape to accompany Ursula Le Guin鈥檚 anthropological fantasy novel Always Coming Home. The novel describes the life and society of an imagined community of people called The Kesh, set in a post-apocalyptic world at an unspecified time. Todd鈥檚 soundtrack enigmatically combines poetry and song in the Kesh language with new age analogue synths and borrowed folk traditions. Todd performs with an ensemble of Polish musicians created especially for this performance by Unsound Festival.
Also on the bill was the American sound artist and saxophonist Lea Bertucci. Lea considers the physical space she鈥檚 in as a collaborator and talks to Nick before the gig about the sonic properties of the synagogue.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell for Reduced Listening.
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Brasilia
- 呕ony W Pracy.
- Desmonta.
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Todd Barton
Multum in Parvo
- Multum in Parvo.
- Blue Tapes.
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Todd Barton & The Kesh Ensemble
A Music of the Eighth House
- Recorded in Synagoga Tempel, Krakow.
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Todd Barton & The Kesh Ensemble
The Willows
- Recorded in Synagoga Tempel, Krakow.
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This Heat
Horizontal Hold
- This Heat.
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Franco Franco & Kinlaw
Cuore Molle Palle Moscie
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Todd Barton & The Kesh Ensemble
A Teaching Poem
- Recorded in Synagoga Tempel, Krakow.
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Todd Barton & The Kesh Ensemble
A River Song
- Recorded in Synagoga Tempel, Krakow.
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Todd Barton & The Kesh Ensemble
Dragonfly Song
- Recorded in Synagoga Tempel, Krakow.
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Lea Bertucci
Projection / Reflection
- Recorded live by Polskie Radio 2 at Synagoga Temple, Krakow, Unsound Festival 20.
Broadcast
- Thu 29 Nov 2018 23:05大象传媒 Radio 3
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