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Port Bou
Label: Infrequent Seams
Released: 2017
Track listing: Port Bou Overture; A Room; Sh; Words; Ajsa; Creation; Reproduction; Translation.
Elliott Sharp: Port Bou
by Mark Sullivan
Composer/multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp chose a dramatic subject for Port Bou: the last minutes in the life of philosopher Walter Benjamin at Port-Bou (a town in Catalonia, Spain) as he was fleeing Nazi-occupied France. This is a man preparing to commit suicide, so the music is appropriately intense. I'm reminded of Laurie Anderson's performance piece about Difficult ...
Rub Out The Word
By Steve Buscemi/Elliott Sharp
Label: Infrequent Seams
Released: 2016
Track listing: The Right Spells; The Human Virus; The Writer; Rub Out The Word; The Word Was
Flesh; Taking The Virus.
Steve Buscemi/Elliott Sharp: Rub Out The Word
by Mark Corroto
Is it significant that Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) and William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) were born just one year apart? Maybe. Sinatra began as a teen idol, before developing into American's bon vivant and arbiter of cool, and finally a cranky old man. On the other hand, the writer Burroughs was born a cranky old man, and perpetuated ...
Steve Buscemi/Elliott Sharp: Rub Out The Word
by Mark Sullivan
You don't have to follow Beat literature to have some familiarity with writer William S. Burroughs, especially in his spoken word role. Performance artist Laurie Anderson collaborated with him several times, notably on You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1981) and Mister Heartbreak (Warner Bros., 1984). Bill Laswell's Material ...