| The poetry of jazz and the jazz of poetry…
"Penny Rimbaud's How? by Crass Agenda, recorded live and unrehearsed at the Vortex, is a big slab of hardcore "beat cafe" experience, a long poem in response to Allen Ginsberg's famous Howl. "I saw the best minds of my generation gagged by the opiate of capital; fallen angels busting for a budgetary fix, established Christs nailed to cash or crucifix," declaims Rimbaud against a spontaneous underscore of saxes, basses, trumpet and drums." (John Walters - The Guardian)
Penny Rimbaud: Spokesman and political brainchild behind Crass, Penny has been a leading figure in UK political revolutionary culture from the late 1970s. Although nominally part of its initial wave, Penny blasted punk music's fake revolution, its deepening treacherous attitude towards its radical origins that had involved DIY culture and political protest.
And the jazz improvisers:
Christine Tobin , Ed Jones, Louise Elliott, Davide Mantovani, Mika Myllari, Paul Clarvis, Ricardo Dos Santos. |