Recitement is an exciting mix of music and spoken word.
The combination of pop music and spoken word is a phenomenon in the music history. Recitement contains 17 different compositions in 7 different languages and styles, arranged and composed by composer, arranger and musician Stephen Emmer. Recitement can be characterized as both retro avant garde and accessible.
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? Or is it music album? Recitement is all of the preceding.
The album is mixed and mastered in NYC by Tony Visconti and features several musical performers such as Blonde Redhead singer Kazu Makino, jazzmusician Benjamin Herman, legendary pianist Mike Garson (Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins), classical singer Maja Roodveldt, old school rapper Shyrock, Joost Kroon of New Cool Collective and popduo Bauer.
Vocal performers are Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Kristel (Emanuelle), Kurt Schwitters, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Michael Lonsdale, Sacha de Boer, Ken Nordine and Richard Burton.
Literary sourcetexts are from Charles Baudelaire, Yoko Ono, Samuel Beckett, Alessandro Baricco, Christopher Fry, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Paul Theroux, Victoria Ocampo, Remco Campert, Hugo Claus and Thomas Hardy.
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Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving the mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.
If a train is large and comfortable you don't even need a destination, but I had chosen Asia.
Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from cardplayers, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
It was my intention to board every train that chugged into view from Victoria Station in London to Tokyo Central;
to take the branch line to Simla, the spur through the Khyber Pass, and the chord line that links Indian railways with those in Ceylon;
the Mandalay Express, the Malaysian Golden Arrow, the locals in Vietnam, and the trains had bewitching names, the Orient Express, the North Star, the Trans-Siberian.
I sought trains; I found passengers.
credits
from Recitement [Album],
track released March 3, 2015
Written by S. Emmer & P. Theroux
Arrangement: S. Emmer & T. Visconti
Voice: Lou Reed
Vocals: Berend Dubbe, Sonja van Hamel
Guitars, bass, piano, keyboards: Stephen Emmer
Drums: Joost Kroon
Strings: Pete Whitfield, Alex Stemp and Simon Turner
"In these historical and difficult times in the year 2020 this is music meant to
sooth the pain of social distancing for the isolated listener, made by a composer in self quarantaine."
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