![]() The title track is presented in four segued movements, for a total duration of 30 minutes. Fluvium on the other hand is a piece fully integrating its elements into a single whole and thus comes much closer to a radio play. Angel High Wires kept a certain degree of separation between voices (the melodies) and electronics (the accompaniment). Her vocal improvisations are laced with Archer's bubbling electronic textures, some quite harsh, and saxophones. ![]() Of the original singers only Julie Tippetts remains. This time around, the poet herself recites, emphasizing the phonetical plays contained in her words, pushing them toward the sound poetry of Sten Hansson. The first album featured a cast of singers interpreting Monk's poems. It's follow-up Fluvium drops the idea entirely. ![]() "At its core, Angel High Wires, Martin Archer's first collaboration with writer Geraldine Monk was a song cycle. Archer's stylistic flexibility suits such a project, chasing the utterance, keeping it company and enriching it.Haunting." - Wire They play, clash, spark and rub up against one another in unpredictable ways with unforseen consequences. "Geraldine Monk's poetry activates words, makes them events rather than hollow vessels for received understanding. ![]() Martin Archer - electronics, saxophones, melodica Completing the disk is a related but separate composition, Aftershock, featuring a dramatically multi tracked Julie singing over electronically scrambled spoken word (again from Fluvium) by Geraldine. ![]() The work then moves into faux pastoral territory before concluding with the violently pointillistic Metablethers. After a shimmering instrumental prelude, the first part concludes over an ominous drone, which is picked up by an almost African sounding ostinato in the second section. Unlike Angel High Wires, which is mainly sung, in Fluvium Geraldine's own spoken performance of her text takes centre stage. Fluvium is the second CD collaboration by Archer and Monk, following on from Angel High Wires. It was originally conceived as a live performance work for the duo, but this recorded version adds virtuoso vocal orchestrations by Tippetts. ![]()
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