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I am totally hooked. One of the most immersive works I heard in ages. Like a slowly evolving poison, these sounds and words will grab your mind and lead you to paths sweet and dark.
Favorite track: Out of Hell, Through Hell, Lads.
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Pro-dubbed tapes, edition of 30. Mastered by Russell Haswell. Paper inner sleeve with printed artwork, plastic cases. Printed tapes. Rubber-stamped and numbered.
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Book of poems. 40 pages. Printed on recycled paper. Colour.
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The first release on Sonic Poetics, a new label/publisher. Poetry by Simon Pomery, sound by Blood Music. Poems about song lyrics and sounds + music about poetry x the sonic = s.p.
Popular Songs hears music and poetry as the primary method of human communication. While the project was begun in 2019, a big influence from 2020 onwards has been 'The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelego' by Francois J. Bonnet, specifically his notion of 'desiring-listening': "Desiring-listening is the listening that perceives in the object that it targets a certain promise. This promise is unspeakable because it augurs both the realization of the object and the accomplishment of the goal, the fulfilment of listening." Sonic poetics begins at the moment of the unspeakable.
Popular Songs links with old friends and looks on and outward these are the days my friends into new collaborations, performances, solo and collective actions, the first of which will be held at London’s Cafe Oto, where this album and book will be sold. The next release will be someone else. “Praise be the ear, thanks for listening”.
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released June 5, 2022
Sound and poems written and performed by Simon Pomery: 'The Dave', voice, field recording, 12-string, Yamaha/Ludwig/Zildjian/Pro Mark, Double Iron Cobra, Serge, radios.
'The Crying of the Air' read by Yousuke Yukimatsu
'This is the Missing' read by Charlene Sandy
'The Old Main Drone' read by Lukatoyboy
Except for ‘Children, Bamboo Houses’ written and read by Yousuke Yukimatsu
Recorded 2019-2022
BMS, The Commons, London, Berlin, Tokyo
Mastered by Russell Haswell
Cover art by S McEvoy, 'mouth to mouth' (c)3 (2021)
Thank you: Tobin, S McEvoy, Russell, Roberto, Will, Robert, Jaime Williams, Masumi Saito, Joseph Persad, Charlene, Yousuke, Luka, Christian De Vito, Philip Marshall, Sayaka, Matt Nish-Lapidus, Sandra, James, Alex, Jamie Lee Saint Genet, PAIN JERK, Jordan Cunningham, dingndents, Lucas, Alessandro, Lilo, Sacha Kahir, Lottie Lou, Nick Golden Cabinet, Megan Gerard O’Connell, Frida Foberg, Masha Wysocka, Martina, Erina Kawachi, Krisztián Puskár, Fielding, Matilda, Martin, Lucia, Guy Birkin, Brad, Nakul Krishnamurti, Strahinja, Nisha Ramayya, Tom Mudd, Isa, Eduardo, Jonathan Crabb, Joe Gilmore, Stefan Fähler, Wobby.
Blood Music (founded in London, 2007) is the name of Simon Pomery’s project for examining the internal, through physical and
psychological processes. His works for drums, percussion, guitars, strings and electronics have crossed genres such as post-punk, no wave, modern classical, techno, electrocoustic, text-sound composition, and free improvisation....more
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