Yesterday snow was falling in The Netherlands for the first time this year in an attempt to turn everything into the appropriate white atmosphere for the days to come. In 2007 Dutch composer Stephen Emmer did the same in two steps at his brilliant album Recitement. The song 'Listen, The Snow Is Falling' of which Emmer made a part 1 and 2 is a cover actually and was first released as a single by Yoko Ono back in 1972. They're not real xmas tracks, but if you listen carefully, there are some bells ringing! Stephen Emmer [...]
PASSENGERS Stephen Emmer feat. Lou Reed Recitement Challenge : 2007 [Buy It] THE L TRAIN IS A SWELL TRAIN AND I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOU INDIES COMPLAIN Out Hud S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. Kranky : 2002 [Buy It] DOWNTOWN TRAIN Tom Waits Rain Dogs Island : 1985 [Buy It] Now Ben's gone and gotten me thinking about the train, the most [...]
Stephen Emmer , Dutch composer and leader of an under-appreciated Factory Records act, has released a "new" record. The album, titled RECITEMENT , will be officially released by Allegro Music on October 14, but you can listen to the mp3 or buy the whole record on emusic.com right now. Emmer has scored new and appropriated recordings by such musical and literary heavyweights as Lou Reed , Jorge Luis Borges (I love him!), Richard Burton , Allen Ginsberg , Sylvia Kristel , [...]
A good spoken word album is well balanced. The music is like a deck chair for the voices. It must hold you comfortably and make you want to close your eyes, without nodding off. It's a tough assignment. Recitement by Dutch composer and musician Stephen Emmer is one of those rare albums where music and vocals mix beautifully. With short stories and poems in English, French, Portuges and Dutch it is easy to dismiss this collection as a highbrow ragbag album, especially when Emmer brings out the dead (Richard Burton and Allen [...]
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