new interpretations of Bill Shute’s 2012 “Florida Nocturne Poems” with Canada’s free-improv/noise masters FOSSILS
FOSSILS & BILL SHUTE
FLORIDA NOCTURNE REVISITED (KSE #362, CDR album)
contains the pieces
SHADES OF NIGHT DESCENDING
MONDO DAYTONA
PEACH COBBLER IN THE POKER ROOM
JUPITER IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR
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FOSSILS ARE
Daniel Farr and David Payne
Texts and vocal, Bill Shute
Music recorded in Hamilton, ON
Poetry tracks recorded in Austin, TX by Marcus M. Rubio
issued March 2017
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Longtime readers will remember the four poetry chapbooks in the FLORIDA NOCTURNE POEMS sequence, composed during my Summer 2012 “writing vacation” in Central Florida. For a number of reasons, I will never forget that sojourn. First, it was very satisfying and covered a lot of territory–and much of my writing happened at dog-tracks. Second, I passed through Sanford, Florida, and it was soon after the tragic Trayvon Martin shooting there. Third, on the last day of that trip, in a Jacksonville (a city with more police presence than I’ve ever seen) motel across the street from a Bob Evans restaurant, I received a call telling me that my mother had passed away.
In 2014, FOSSILS and I created an album mixing their sound sculpture with my 2012 Florida poems, alternating music and poetry. That album was well-received and we were very happy with it. Now, we present a NEW interpretation of the Florida Nocturne Poems with FOSSILS sound sculpture woven into the poems themselves (or is it that the poem texts are woven into the FOSSILS sound fabric–probably both), not presented separately.
As I listen to these tracks, I feel that these poems perfectly capture what I was trying to do….and what I am still doing in my present works. The collage of image and incident is peppered with just the right amount of each element, and the shards are placed into suspension to create the perfect assemblage. If you are not familiar with my work, this would be a good place to start. The themes I dealt with in 2012, alas, are even more relevant today. And when you weave these readings into the rich and deeply-textured FOSSILS sound sculptures—-which are heavily percussive and also include found sounds and conversation—-you have a sensory experience rooted in the heat and humidity of Central Florida in the summer.
Whatever people may think of this product, I can assure you no one else is doing anything remotely like it. Fossils and I have tossed this message in a bottle on to the polluted ocean of 2016 society. Let it wash up on your shore, open the bottle, and give it a try….
CDR albums $8 postpaid in the USA
CDR albums $18 outside the USA (note: any 2 albums for $20 outside USA–after the first two, extra KSE albums are only $8 each postpaid overseas)
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(and leave a note with paypal telling us which albums you are ordering and also your mailing address….thanks!)
other CDR albums available (same price as above):
KSE 11th ANNIVERSARY ALBUM (KSE #370), CDR album featuring new and exclusive material recorded especially for this project from JEN HILL – MATTHEW REVERT & VANESSA ROSSETTO – BRIAN RURYK – JOHN BELL – MASSIMO MAGEE – MORE EAZE – FOSSILS – LISA CAMERON & ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE – STEVE FLATO
KSE #363 (CDR) ALFRED 23 HARTH’s BERLIN ENSEMBLES
KSE #355 (CDR), MORE EAZE, “wOrk”
KSE #357 (CDR), SMOKEY EMERY / VENISON WHIRLED, “turning into”
KSE #359 (CDR), TOM CREAN & MATT ROBIDOUX, “blank space”
KSE #353 (CDR), FOSSILS, “Camelot Towers”
KSE #336 (CDR), ALFRED 23 HARTH, “Kepler 452b Edition”
KSE #351 (CDR), MASSIMO MAGEE, “Music In 3 Spaces”
KSE #350 (CDR) ANTHONY GUERRA / BILL SHUTE, “Subtraction” KSE reissue of album originally released in 2011 on Black Petal Records, Australia
KSE #335 (CDR album), REVEREND RAYMOND BRANCH, “Rainbow Gospel Hour…On The Air!”—a wonderful hour-long AM-radio broadcast, mastered from cassette, capturing the warmth and joy of Rev. Branch in both music (lots of it) and spoken message
KSE #334 (CDR album), BRIAN RURYK, “Actual Size…degress again” (sic)
KSE #333 (CDR album), ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE, “Tunnels” solo 12-string acoustic mantra guitar
KSE #331, “KSE 10th ANNIVERSARY ALBUM” featuring newly recorded, exclusive tracks from members of the KSE family: ALFRED 23 HARTH, SARAH HENNIES, RAMBUTAN, VANESSA ROSSETTO, ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE, DEREK ROGERS, BRENT FARISS, MATT KREFTING, GRAHAM LAMBKIN, and MASSIMO MAGEE
KSE #328, LISA CAMERON & NATHAN BOWLES, “Liquid Sunshine” percussion duo
KSE #326, MORE EAZE (aka Marcus M. Rubio), “Abandoning Finitude”….cover art by Bob Bruno
KSE #318, ALFRED 23 HARTH & JOHN BELL, “Camellia”
KSE #310, MORE EAZE (Marcus M. Rubio), “Accidental Prizes”
KSE #293, MORE EAZE (Marcus M. Rubio), “Stylistic Deautomatization” (reissued)
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POETRY CHAPBOOKS AVAILABLE PRESENTLY FROM KSE, all in hand-made editions under 50 copies:
KSE #368 (poetry chapbook), BILL SHUTE, “Find A Place To Die”
KSE #367 (poetry chapbook), BILL SHUTE, “Left-Handed Cherubs”
KSE #354 (poetry chapbook), BILL SHUTE, “Revelation In Slow Motion”
KSE #364 (poetry chapbook), LUIS CUAUHTEMOC BERRIOZABAL, “Make The Light Mine”
KSE #352 (poetry chapbook), BILL SHUTE, “Bridge on the Bayou”
chapbooks are $6 postpaid in the US, $7 postpaid elsewhere
As always, thank you for support of independent, non-aligned artists and arts organizations such as Kendra Steiner Editions….now in our 12th year of operation, from here in San Antonio, Texas
In a few weeks we’ll be starting up the new music releases for 2017, and there are A LOT of surprises coming and a strong release schedule of about a dozen albums for the year….the first being a stunning new creation from San Diego-based composer A.F. JONES….stay tuned for that….
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