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‘Nth ENTITIES: Phil Manzanera Doesmusic/AnnaLeDoes Poetry’

 

Release date: 30 April 2012

 

Phil Manzanera, Roxy Music guitarist, solo artist and record producer, releases ‘Nth Entities, on 30 April on his label, Expression Records. This startingly beautiful album is a collaboration with poet, Anna Le.  It is a collection of nine poems, which Anna Le recites to Manzanera’s original compositions, with four bonus tracks.

 

The project was seeded two years ago, when Phil and Anna had a chance encounter at Gavin Martin’s ‘Talking Musical Revolutions’, with this particular evening being dedicated to the life and work of Jimi Hendrix.  It was Charles Shaar Murray,  music writer and Hendrix’s biographer, who, along with the rest of those present, was captivated by Anna’s Jimi poem and turned to Phil ……’you should set that to music’ he said…..

 

Charles Shaar Murray writes in the album foreward:

“….and lo and behold..he’s done just that. (He) has framed a whole heaping handful of AnnaLe’s verse in  a staggering variety of musical settings….”

 

AnnaLe’s powerful verse, ranges from specific homages to Jimi Hendrix, Lee Scratch Perry and Stevie Wonder, to sensual personal musings on ‘Lego Limbs’,  herself as a “mixed Caribbean kebab” in ‘ My Nth Entities’ and the realities of ‘The American/British Dream’.

 

Tracklisting is:

ALL THE WHILE

CALI’S CAUTIONERY TALE

MY NTH ENTITIES

JIMI

LEGO LIMBS

THE AMERICAN/BRITISH DREAM

MOUNTAIN TOP DREAMING

SCRATCH

VOWEL PLAY

 

Bonus tracks:

SOS

JIMI REPRISE

THE WONDER OF WONDER

MUSIC ALL THE WHILE

 

The CD is accompanied by a stunning, vibrantly illustrated book of AnnaLe’s poems.

 

Nth Entities clip and JIMI track at:

www.manzanera.com

 

www.facebook.com/public/AnnaLedoesPoetry

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