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Port Bou

By Elliott Sharp

Label: Infrequent Seams
Released: 2017
Track listing: Port Bou Overture; A Room; Sh; Words; Ajsa; Creation; Reproduction; Translation.

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Elliott Sharp: Port Bou

Read "Port Bou" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
March 15, 2017

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 ...

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