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Thursday, 6 December 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Chapter One, Tea for One
HE WIPES VOMIT FROM HIS BEARD, holds his head in his hands, drools over a steaming puddle between his legs. Spit falls like lead into a bitter soup. His own thoughts, only recently exiled, clamour, his efforts to quell them a failure. As he witnesses his internal juices, they are translucent, viscid, their motion perpetual, so his head spins, so his sick whispers a stolid tune, agitated by expulsion. A message is repetitive, he has heard it before. He strains for clear air, his nostrils filled with dire scents, closes his eyes. Where cornucopias overflow with cool poisons; he contemplates slaking a thirst, it is enough to make him smile. He looks to a closed door and hopes it is locked. He is anxious, such purges will bring a landlady running for her linen, her reputation, her broom for sweeping away miscreant lodgers. She might be counted on to drop to well-worn knees, to plead with her lord for sufferance. He can imagine her popping eyes, hear her bitter prayers and cannot help but laughter and fear of eviction at homespun hands. His proprietress, his ample flutterer, spinster posing as widow, implacable landlady, his Madame Maladroit; thin, bony lips painted a colour not unlike charity, chastity, wrists wrung at any prospect of iniquity, muttering of an end to society, raising a well dusted icon to ward him away. Shell be arriving, he thinks, right this instant. from the novel, Tea for One, by Kemal Mulbocus
Friday, 26 August 2011
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Audio & Video Clips
Its summer, which means that I'm touring Europe with the Spasm Band. We have a new album released this August, so as we get ready for that, here are a few recent clips from my recent performances with and without the Spasm Band.
Firstly though, listen to an edit of the first release from the forthcoming album, this is 'Griot' a homage to all urban griots of past, present and future.
Anthony Joseph 'Griot' (Long Radio Edit) by heavenlysweetness
And here is part 1 of recent clip of a performance in Antwerp with Brazzvll.
Finally, here's a recent performance from Rich Mix, London. The song is 'Generations'. The album version was produced by Gerry Dammers.
Firstly though, listen to an edit of the first release from the forthcoming album, this is 'Griot' a homage to all urban griots of past, present and future.
Anthony Joseph 'Griot' (Long Radio Edit) by heavenlysweetness
And here is part 1 of recent clip of a performance in Antwerp with Brazzvll.
Finally, here's a recent performance from Rich Mix, London. The song is 'Generations'. The album version was produced by Gerry Dammers.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Philly's Congo Prayer - a slideshow
This is a slide show I did for a poem from my forthcoming Rubber Orchestras collection. Its a tribute to Philly Joe Jones, John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy.
Sunday, 24 April 2011
Interview in Shelf Unbound
Here's a recent interview I did for the US magazine Shelf Unbound in which I discuss influences, process and music.
You can read the full interview
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