Description

Composer, pianist and producer Peter Vukmirovic Stevens has teamed up with the prolific punk poet Penny Rimbaud to create ‘SLENCE’, a contemporary experiment of balance between piano and spoken word. It’s released on November 25th on One Little Independent avant-garde subsidiary Caliban Sounds.Rimbaud’s apocalyptic and dramatic narration is delivered with vivid fervour, while Stevens uses an elegant, emotive approach tocounter it. Both find harmony in juxtaposition

Lyrically Rimbaud explores a terrain he’s spent much of his later career treading; themes of antimilitarism and the grim details ofhistoric conflict. War is a disturbing, monstrous entity across his poetry, with deeply descriptive prose placing his listener in the verydirt itself. As befits his anarcho past, a lot of the writing discusses authority, with the relationship between the privilegedandmarginalised investigated fully. Wrestling oneself from under the boot of power and the radical fight for freedom may well behiswheelhouse, but here Penny Rimbaud is accompanied by something completely new.

Track listing:

1.S lence
2.Paper Devils
3.Not They
4.Of Summer’s Passing
5.In Silence
6.S lence II
7.Within Dark Streams
8.Shadows
9.Pity in the Poetry
10.I Am the Enemy