The Ark Anthony Joseph

• 1 James 07:13
• 2 Blue Susan 04:55
• 3 Transposition of Space (Glissant) 07:56
• 4 The African Origins of UFOs 05:12
• 5 The Ark 08:47
• 6 Your Bird & I 04:19
• 7 Baron Samedi 11:16
• Total Runtime 49:38

Info zu The Ark

Zehntes Studioalbum des renommierten britisch-karibischen Afrojazz-World-Poeten als Doppel-Album. Der afrikanische Ursprung von UFOs - selbst George Clinton hätte dieses afrofuturistische Konzept, das Anthony Joseph vor fast zwanzig Jahren in seiner gleichnamigen Kurzgeschichte untersuchte, wohl nicht verworfen. Während dieser Zeit veröffentlichte der trinidadische Sänger und Dichter eine Reihe von Alben, doch die Idee ließ ihn nicht los. Nach einer Phase der Reflexion und künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Musiker und Produzenten Dave Okumu wurde sie sogar zum zentralen Thema seines neuen Albums. Die Geschichte, die die Grundlage für die ersten, als Duo entwickelten Stücke bildete, diente schließlich als Sprungbrett für "Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back" und jetzt darauffolgend "The Ark“, ein so vielschichtiges Abenteuer, dass es in zwei Teile aufgeteilt werden musste. Die sieben mächtigen Tracks oszillieren souverän zwischen Fusion, Jazz und afrokaribischem Erbe, als Gäste sind Tom Skinner, Eska Mtungwazi, Colin Webster, Nick Ramm, Aviram Barath, Byron Wallen, James Wade Sired, Dan See, Richard Spaven und Giacomo Smit bei den Aufnahmen dabei. Ein Meisterwerk!

Dave Okumu, Gitarre, Bass, Programmierung, Perkussion
Eska Mtungwazi, Gesang, Gesangsarrangement
Tom Skinner, Schlagzeug
Byron Wallen, Trompete
Nick Ramm, Keyboard
Colin Webster, Saxophon
Aviram Barath, Fender Rhodes, Synthesizer
Dan See, Schlagzeug

Anthony Joseph
is a poet, novelist, academic and musician who moved from Trinidad to the UK in 1989. A lecturer in creative writing at Birkbeck College, he is particularly interested in the point at which poetry becomes music.

As well as four poetry collections, a slew of albums, and three novels – most recently Kitch – Joseph has published critical work exploring the aesthetics of Caribbean Poetry among other subjects. He performs internationally as the lead vocalist for his band The Spasm Band. Sonnets for Albert is his first poetry collection since Rubber Orchestras. His most recent album is The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives.

The life of Caribbean people is not really documented. So this idea of Caribbean life being fragmented is something that I've had in my mind for a long time. So when I came to write this collection for my father, I realized that it was the same process and what I had were fragments, especially with him, because he wasn't around in a physical sense all the time. So all I had were little photographs, scattered memories, and remembrances. They're little parts of his life and parts of my experience with him... I never disliked my father. I always loved him and always was fascinated and captivated by him.

My relationship with improvisational music is something that I'm still trying to theorize and trying to understand exactly why it is that it works. So all I know is that, in approaching a poem, it's about form and content. It's about matching process to content. And for me, the act of writing poetry is kind of like a jazz soloist puts together a solo. It's related in that way because as a writer, as a poet, you are always looking for the new. You're looking for something, a new way of saying something. You're using language that everyone uses, but you're always trying to reuse it in an original way. Always trying to have a phrase or metaphor that is new.

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