Curium | yes is

From the album 'Nowever' by Curium. Available from Dynamophone Records. Poems by E.E Cummings. Read by Fonta Hadley.

Curiums great appreciation for the unfettered humanity of E.E. Cummings is celebrated on this suite of twenty-two poems, read by twenty-two different people evenly spaced around the world. Set against an evocative, electronic backdrop of detailed soundscape, Nowever explores life and meaning, searching for Cummings' "truths" through his own works, interpreted by the voices of glad and young, aged and ageless -- busy monsters all -- from Taipei to Glasgow, Sardinia to California.

http://dynamophone.com/nowever.htm

"Curium's gleaming melodies and crunchy beats evoke early Morr Music while the brightly chiming synth tones occasionally recall Eno; natural sounds (birds, rain) also expand the sonic palette in particular settings ("yes is a pleasant country"). Curium's music parallels the texts in unfolding fluidly without recourse to overly fixed structures, resulting in a consistently engrossing hour-long suite that's neither song cycle nor spoken word but some unusual amalgam of the two."-Textura

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• E.E Cummings
• Curium
• Fonta Hadley
• experimental
• ambient
• Tennessee Valley
• Marin