Recitement [Album] by Stephen Emmer

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.

Tracklist

1.	Listen, the snow is falling (Part 1)	1:40

2.	Passengers	3:34

3.	The leaden echo	3:18

4.	Mondo sparito	4:28

5.	La beauté	3:11

6.	Absolutely grey	3:19

7.	Invergence of the twain	2:23

8.	Boy with a cart	3:01

9.	Everness	2:32

10.	Gaan	4:50

11.	Disconnected	3:17

12.	La pauvré prostitue	1:43

13.	O enterrado vivo	3:11

14.	Soms bidden om een kwieke dood	2:12

15.	Balcon de France	3:08

16.	Soweto sonata	5:20

17.	Listen, the snow is falling (Part 2)	3:56

Credits

released March 6, 2015

Special thanks to :

Alex Stemp, Allen Ginsberg, Benjamin Herman, Berend Dubbe, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Hein Offermans, Hugo Claus, Jac Biko, Joeri Saal, Joost Kroon, Jorge Luis Borges, Kazu Makino, Ken Nordine, Kurt Schwitters, Laurens Kagenaar, Lou Reed, Maja Roodveldt, Manuel Hugas, Maurits de Weert, Michael Lonsdale, Michael Parkinson aka Shyrock, Mike Garson, Pete Whitfield, Remco Campert, Richard Burton, Ruud Breuls, Sacha de Boer, Simon Turner, Sonja van Hamel, Sylvia Kristel, Sylvina Ocampo, Tony Visconti and Yoko Ono.

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