CD and booklet of poetry, melodies and art.
Join poet bill bissett and audio artist, painter and musician Pete Dako as you've never heard them before.
Never content to rest his mind, bill bisset delivers deth interrupts th dansing / a strangr space. Over 70 minutes in length, this haunting and abrasive, playful and sensual, direct and mysterious collection is sumptuous and inviting. About death, life and more often than not, about nothing at all, this political, romantic and revelatory recording is perfect for the enrapturing wanting soul.
Sink your ears and soul into bill bissett's words and melodies, Pete Dako's audio artistries and the percussion of Ambrose Pottie.
The CD is accompanied by a 36 page booklet of the text for these works plus drawings by bill bissett. deth interrupts th dansing / a strangr space is produced by Pete Dako.
bill bissett garnered international attention in the 1960s as a pre-eminent figure of the counter-culture movement in Canada and the U.K. In 1964, he founded blewointment press, which published the works of bpNichol and Steve McCaffery, among others.
bissett's charged readings, which never fail to amaze his audiences, incorporate sound poetry, chanting and singing, the verve of which is only matched by his prolific writing career - over seventy books of bissett's poetry have been published.
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