The first mix we’ve done which features spoken poetry. The music was inspired by the work of jamesreindeer and his first official spoken word album ‘Shallow Pools’.
Conceived and written during a two week period in the spring of 2012, ‘Shallow Pools’ is a collection of one hundred short poems by jamesreindeer, created using an old mechanical typewriter and subsequently recorded during the early hours of one night at Decorative Stamp Headquarters.
At one moment we are by the soothing still of a lake-side, and the next thrown into the cocophonous turmoil of the city streets. The ‘Shallow Pools’ are both soothing and reflective as well as jagged and driven in equal measure. Be sure to investigate immediately.
All the tracks were chosen in response to each reading. It features music from A Band Of Buriers, The Beguilers, Quickbeam, Meg Baird, David A jaycock, I Am Oak, Bard and more. It was a great experience putting it together. The title is an extract from of one of the poems:
…a distant place now,
a fading photograph in a fond book of memories…
Track Listing
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
A Band Of Buriers – Up the Mountain
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
The Beguilers – A Dream
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
Quickbeam – Seven Hundred Birds
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
Benjin – Host Visa
Meg Baird, Sharron Kraus & Helean Espvall – Bruton Town
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
David A jaycock – A new love song
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
I Am Oak – On Trees And Birds And Fire
Bard – What I Need
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
Adrian Crowley – Long Distance Swimmer
Jo Mango – The Moth And The Moon
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
Steffen Basho-Junghans – Rolling Thunder Variation II
Larkin Grimm – Durge
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
Rachael Dadd – Tsubomi
Jamesreindeer – Extract from Shallow Pools
A Winged Victory for the Sullen – All Farewells are Sudden
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