Anne Waldman Visits Ergot September 4th
Acclaimed poet Anne Waldman will be joining Ergot Records’ Adrian Rew Thursday, September 4th on the earlier side of the 8-10pm ET show to talk about her new record Your Devotee In Rags, which is out now on Siren Records and from which they’ll be playing a couple tracks. If you miss it live, tune in to the program’s archive.
From Bandcamp:
Your Devotee in Rags is a missive to this age of patriarchal power. Its songs and poems are designed to specifically confront that power and hold it to account. Taking such activist inspiration from musicians like Lido Pimienta and Tanya Tagaq, musically YDIR blends acoustic and electronic genres, waltzes, laments and Pauls Boutique-era Beastie Boys mash-ups all with the intent of creating a new artistic headspace: sonic poetry. The cultural direction is forward, the earbuds open up the stereo field. Listening to YDIR is, in a word, empowering.
he texts of these sonic poems are drawn from The IOVIS Trilogy: Colours in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011).
Anne Waldman: voice, text
Andrew Whiteman: sounds, programming, voice on track 8
Black Howard: drums
with
Ariel Engle: voice on track 5 & 7
Kate Fenner: voice on track 1
Naomi Klein: voice on track 2
Kyo Maclear: voice on track 10
Martha Wainwright: voice on track 1 & 6
Devin Brahja Waldman: saxophone on track 9
About Anne, from her website:
Internationally recognized and acclaimed poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community, a culture she has helped create and nurture for over four decades as writer, editor, teacher, performer, magpie scholar, infra-structure curator, and cultural/political activist. Her poetry is recognized in the lineages of the Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain trajectories of the New American Poetry. But has raised the bar as a feminist, activist and powerful performer. She has read in the streets as well as numerous larger venues such as the Dodge Literary Festival in the USA and the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, the T.S. Eliot Memorial Foundation at Harvard University, and continues to teach poetics all over the world. She remains a highly original “open field investigator” of consciousness, committed to the possibilities of radical shifts of language and states of mind to create new modal structures and montages of attention. Her work is prophetic, multidisciplinary, energetic, passionate, panoramic, fierce at times.
