FORTHRIGHT SLAPDASH, Live in Guelph, September 2016, by Kevin McNeilly and Geoff Mitchell

FORTHRIGHT SLAPDASH, Live in Guelph, September 2016

by Kevin McNeilly and Geoff Mitchell

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1.	Embouchure, from Embouchure 04:22	buy track
2.	Blue and Boogie 1: Blue, from Ammons: A Sheaf of Words for Piano 03:45	buy track
3.	Four Out of Five Par(r)aphrases, for Nicanor Parra 06:53	buy track

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This live EP contains three of four tracks performed by poet Kevin McNeilly and pianist Geoff Mitchell at the 2016 Guelph International Jazz Festival Colloquium, "Improvise Here! Profiles in Practice." "Embouchure" is the title poem from Kevin McNeilly's 2011 poetry collection; in performance, the text is disassembled and rearranged in response to, and as a set of cues or provocations for, a piano improvisation. "Blue and Boogie 1: Blue" is a version of a track from Ammons: A Sheaf of Words for Piano, which is a suite of text-piano pieces linked to the life and music of the great boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons (and available on Bandcamp). Geoff Mitchell improvises around phrases drawn from Ammons's recordings. "Four Out of Five Par(r)aphrases" is a suite of in-the-moment poetry and music, improvised on phrases and texts by the great Chilean anti-poet, Nicanor Parra, who had just had his hundred-and-second birthday. (The opening section is a live re-translation of Parra's "Ars Poetique." Other fragments and intertexts make their way into the performance, too, including work by A. M. Klein, Samuel Beckett and Geoffrey Chaucer. The suite concludes by reworking parts of Parra's "Imaginary Man.") A fourth track, an improvisation on "Like Someone in Love," was performed but isn't included here. There were no microphones, and no amplification was used: everything's acoustic.

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released June 8, 2017

Geoff Mitchell, piano playing
Kevin McNeilly, poetry out loud

Recorded on a Sony PCM-D50 at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, on 14 September 2016, as part of the 2016 Guelph International Jazz Festival Colloquium.

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Kevin McNeilly Vancouver, British Columbia

Kevin McNeilly writes and speaks, and he's also an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. He blogs at Frank Styles: frankstyles.blogspot .ca