Sixteen Haiku and Other Stories

Sixteen Haiku and Other Stories Artist: Sigmatropic
Label: Thirsty Ear
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 700435714229
EAN: 0700435714229
ASIN: B00015HVOC


Release Date: 2004-01-20

Sixteen Haiku and Other Stories


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Tracks:

  1. Introduction - (featuring Robert Wyatt)
  2. Haiku One - (featuring Laetitia Sadier)
  3. Haiku Two - (featuring Martine Roberts)
  4. Haiku Three - (featuring Mark Muleahy, In The Museume Garden)
  5. Haiku Four - (featuring Alejandro Escovedo)
  6. Haiku Five - (featuring Carla Torgerson)
  7. Haiku Six - (featuring Carla Torgerson/Ahis Boyatzis)
  8. Haiku Seven - (featuring Akis Boyatzis)
  9. Haiku Eight - (featuring Edith Eitzel)
  10. Haiku Nine - (featuring Mark Eitzel)
  11. Haiku Ten - (featuring Cat Power)
  12. Haiku Eleven - (featuring Simon Joyner)
  13. Haiku Twelve - (featuring Lee Ranaldo, Unprofitable Boat Line)
  14. Haiku Thirteen - (featuring Alex Gordon)
  15. Haiku Fourteen (a)(Sung In Greek) - (featuring Akis Boyatzis)
  16. Haiku (b) - (featuring John Grant)
  17. Haiku Fifteen - (featuring James William Hindle)
  18. Haiku Sixteen - (featuring Lee Ranaldo)
  19. Dead Sea, The - (featuring James Sclavunos, Logbook II)
  20. Water Warm - (featuring Pintcie Maclure, Sketches For A Summer)
  21. This Human Body - (featuring Howe Gelb)
  22. Jasmines, The - (featuring Steve Wym)

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Album Description

This record features the poetry of Greek Nobel Laureate George Seferis set to the beautiful and subtly colored music of Sigmatropic. Following the album's success in Greece, the poems were translated into English and sung by an all-star cast including Cat Power, Robert Wyatt, Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab), Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Eitzel, Steve Wynn, Howe Gelb, Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), and more. Multi-instrumentalist and producer Akis Boyatzis, the nucleus of Sigmatropic, blends live instrumentation and studio wizardry into a diverse collection of songs that drift fluidly through folk and rock styles into dark ambience and back out again. Enhanced CD includes the video for "Haiku Five", featuring Carla Torgerson and Akis.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars It's a pearl of a find..........2006-01-31

I can't believe this CD isn't more popular, given its interesting mix of artists and its beautiful and evocative melodies and lyrics. I think it would appeal to a wide variety of music fans, from those into ambient sounds to anyone who digs unusual but catchy pop tunes, like the Talking Heads. I bought it after hearing Cat Power's song -- the shortest one on the CD, clocking in at an infuriatingly short 2 minutes. Besides the music, the CD bestowed another bonus: I discovered the work of George Seferis. Sigmatropic is a wonderful homage to his poetry and an exciting example of the interpretive possibilities of modern music.

4 out of 5 stars Gorgeous soundscape, low on the songwriting........2004-09-18

I suppose it's an empty critique to say that the album does not showcase much strength in songwriting. Yet the album was the collaberation of 19 established vocalists (e.g. Cat Power, Robert Wyatt who is also featured on the new Bjork album "Medulla", and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth), none of whom are working with their own lyrics but are converting the poetry of George Seferis to music.

The poetry is gorgeous, no doubt. The music itself matches and maybe excells Seferis' kaikus. Ranging from light acoustic experimentation to what borders on trance, the album is musically varied and stunning. It's amorphous in it's form and has little in the sense of forward motion or climax, but works tremendously well in it's soundscape and emotive atmosphere. In many ways, the work sounds like the product of a marraige between Miles Davis and Sigur Ros, with the occasional passionate affair with Bjork.

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