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Michael Mantler & Marianne Faithfull - Comrade
Now here's a real oddity.
Michael Mantler is a trumpeter and composer, probably best known for his time in Carla Bley's band and from his formation of the Jazz Composers' Orchestra. He's very much on the fringes of jazz, seemingly preferring to spend most of his creative energy in composition.
On the 1987 album Many Have No Speech he set poems by Samuel Beckett, Ernst Meister and Philippe Soupault to music. It's a slightly forbidding affair: ambient, atonal, and uncompromisingly bleak. To read the texts, he managed to secure the services of a remarkable trio of voices: Jack Bruce, Robert Wyatt and Marianne Faithfull.
Here's my pick of the tracks, Faithfull's reading of Soupault's Comrade. Along with the more celebrated Louis Aragon and André Breton, Soupault was one of the co-founders of surrealism. Faithfull gives an exceptional performance here, wringing a merciless self-disgust from his words as she speaks as an observer moved to detachment by depression. Pop-tastic. The music is played by the Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, with electric guitar provided by Rick Fenn. This is powerful stuff.
Michael Mantler & Marianne Faithfull - Comrade
Now here's a real oddity.
Michael Mantler is a trumpeter and composer, probably best known for his time in Carla Bley's band and from his formation of the Jazz Composers' Orchestra. He's very much on the fringes of jazz, seemingly preferring to spend most of his creative energy in composition.
On the 1987 album Many Have No Speech he set poems by Samuel Beckett, Ernst Meister and Philippe Soupault to music. It's a slightly forbidding affair: ambient, atonal, and uncompromisingly bleak. To read the texts, he managed to secure the services of a remarkable trio of voices: Jack Bruce, Robert Wyatt and Marianne Faithfull.
Here's my pick of the tracks, Faithfull's reading of Soupault's Comrade. Along with the more celebrated Louis Aragon and André Breton, Soupault was one of the co-founders of surrealism. Faithfull gives an exceptional performance here, wringing a merciless self-disgust from his words as she speaks as an observer moved to detachment by depression. Pop-tastic. The music is played by the Danish Radio Concert Orchestra, with electric guitar provided by Rick Fenn. This is powerful stuff.
Michael Mantler & Marianne Faithfull - Comrade
