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Junkies of Spoken Word and Song: rejoice! because this is the fix you’ve been waiting for. If you want to hear more recordings by various members of The Raving Poets scene, if you wish to own some of these obscure, defiantly underground works (just to prove to others how unusual you are), scroll down and find out why a number of Raving Poets are currently biding their time in rehab centers, being treated for “serious addictions to recording.”
The Raving Poets - Remixed
The Raving Poets
The Raving Poets release
first ever re-mix recording.
The Raving Poets, now in the midst of their seventh year of spoken-word performance with improvised music, are proud to announce the release of The Raving Poets – Remixed.
“These thirteen tracks, featuring Edmonton poets, show the Raving Poets and this art-form of spoken word and music honed to near perfection,” says spokesman Michael Gravel. “The spoken word on this CD is eclectic and electric. It captures the spirit of the Raving Poets experience.”
To order this CD, email gord@ravingpoets.com
SAMPLE TRACKS:
Mumbo Jumbo, A Word Circus
The Raving Poets
The Best of the Best from the Temple of Love's wild-ass high-wire act.
To order this CD, email gravel@ravingpoets.com
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Pig Poetry
The Raving Poets
Rub your greasy pork loins, make a Christmas wish, and stuff this
piggish product into someone's stocking this season! This big, bad,
bloated, boozed-up double CD is packed with meaty, grease-dripping verse
about sex, psychotic farmers, Sept. 11th, Tele-Tubbies, guns, corpses, know-it-all
aunts, hobos and a just a bit of hope to get you through those nights
when you're alone again. Recorded live.
To order this double CD set, email gravel@ravingpoets.com
The Beat Goes On
The Raving Poets Band & Various Artists
From the beginning of March to a never-ending night of rhymin' & rappin' on July 30th, 2002, the beat did go on. And on. Here – on yet another eight-CD set of The Raving Poets Band recorded live with an endless array of Edmonton poets – you'll hear why people kept coming back for more. Was it because of the band's new addition: the funky hip electronics of Master Eds and his “Beat Box”? Maybe. Or perhaps the poetry was just better than ever. Sex. Psychosis. Drugs. Drink. Politics. Pain. Puberty. Love. Death. God. It's all here, with great word grooves byDelvina Greig, Jeremiah John, Phil Jagger, Gary Lee, Dawn Carter, and oodles more.
To order any single CD from the series or the whole bunch, email gravel@ravingpoets.com
SAMPLE TRACKS:
- Funk (Vivek Dasoar)
- A Letter to Mr. C (Phil Jagger)
- UnTITled (Delvina Greig)
Peace Talks
The Raving Poets Band & Various Artists
In February 2002, Peace Talks hit number one on the charts of CJSR-FM 88.5 (Edmonton's alternative radio station). On one hand, it seems a bit odd, the fact that so many listeners and DJs dug so deeply an eight-CD set of various spoken word artists backed by The Raving Poets Band and recorded live. On the other hand, give this stuff a listen. This is raw, passionate stuff written and performed in response to the tragic events of September 11th and everything after. There's a whole lotta spiritually charged healing going on here, featuring great tracks by Amir Ghahary, Vivek Dasoar, John Chalmers, Kathy Fisher, Gordon McRae, and many others.
To order any single CD from the series or the whole bunch, email gravel@ravingpoets.com
SAMPLE TRACKS:
- Re-evolution (Amir Ghahary)
- Check It (Jeremiah John)
OPEN
Mark Kozub
This CD is a nervous breakdown, therapy, superheroes, comic book characters, tombstones, nuclear kisses, real life devils, and sex with Jesus. It is dark, light, punk-jazz and polkas. Each word, each note breathed into the alto saxophone or plucked from a fretless bass is haunted. “Open” is the place where horror marries comedy and gives birth to Frankenstein children who are huggable all the same.
To order, email Mark at abeatnik@telusplanet.net
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front porch sessions
six guys named Deb
This is the first official release from Six Guys Named Deb , a group of musical outcasts who really should never have been thrown together. Their music defies clear definition. "Brilliant shit!" Lance Zotzman, Globe and Male . "They make a sound!" Carl Rubinski, Edmonsun Journal .
They are drawn to intelligent lyrics, catchy melodies, and lush harmonies. Tom Waits, Jane Siberry, Lyle Lovett and the Chicago blues inform their music and their hearts. This CD offering is an amalgamation of six guys , namely: Randy Edwards on guitars and vocals, Robert Stosky on bass and vocals, Malcolm Swann on bass, Andrew Latta on drums, Thomas Trofimuk on keyboards and vocals, and of course, Laphroaig single malt scotch makes up the key sixth, hidden member.
The nine songs and one bonus track make an auspicious debut for the group. "Folky, jazzy, poppy blues at it's best!!!" Robert now takes pictures and designs Web sites. Malcolm is involved in session work in L.A. Edwards is heavy into music and was last heard on the latest Steely Dan CD (moaning in the background on Jack of Speed). He is also a founding father of the Raving Poets movement. Andrew is living in London, England with his wife. Trofimuk lives in Field, BC, in an abandoned church with his wife and child, and cat. (Do not attempt to visit him unless you bring scotch). He is also a founding father of the Raving Poets movement and has just published his first novel (see the Poets section of this site).
The songs speak for themselves. Listen. Listen....
To order your copy, email sales@ravingpoets.com
Web: www.sixguysnameddeb.com
SAMPLE TRACK:
Blue One
Mysterio
Listen to the “hi-fi sci-fi” guitarist of the Raving Poets Band squeezing the weirdest sounds from his Stratocaster and an arsenal of sound effects gear. Blue One could best be described as “Metal Machine Music meets Brian Eno”… or as “shades of 70s prog-rock with an infusion of Rammstein.” Although this is a sonic journey made mostly with ultra-magic ultra-squealing six string guitars and a myriad of synthesizers, Blue One also offers lyrical content about as deep as a kiddy's pool. If you like songs about pre-programmed WAL-MART greeters, news personalities on hard drugs, and wiener people from outer space, Blue One's one for your collection!
To order your copy, email: abeatnik@telusplanet.net
SAMPLE TRACKS:
Jesus flying home for Christmas
wind-whipped deserts
cancer as lover
The poetic work of Kathy Fisher comes to CD
"think
of me naked"
with the Raving Poets band and guests
Covering four seasons and two continents, Kathy Fisher's fearless poetry is rivaled only by her drop-dead gorgeous reading of it. Find out how bones grow light.
Contact: ashesandbones@netscape.net
SAMPLE TRACKS:
The Unveiling 
Mosaic
Gary Lee
Tracks:
The Evolution of Creation
Badlands (Down At the End of Time As We Know It)
For the Soldiers of Fortune Fighting Freedom
"The War Is the War Against the Imagination"
Portrait of An Artist
Incident Report
Saturday Night At the Akali Singh Sikh Temple
Stabat Mater
Industrial Jazz Factory
No Man's Island
Campfire Music
Thanks to the Raving Poets Band for backing me up on the live cuts and
to all the other friends and musicians who lent me their ears and their
creativity. Thanks to Kevin Dootson for shooting the cover photos, to Kirk
Norsworthy for dupe-licity, to Todd Kuziw at B Scene Studios for burning
the master and to Arlene Williams and Ron MacLellan, editors of "Songs
of the Street" for their support and encouragement and to all the poor
street people who sell "Songs of the Street" to supplement their meagre
incomes.
To order contact Gary Lee @ gleemanprod@hotmail.com
SAMPLE TRACK:
Lounge Lizard
Phil Jagger
"If you run into the lounge lizard of poetry on the highway of life, skin him alive and use him for boots." Phil Jagger Like watching a cheesy sci-fi flick from the 1950s backwards and strung out on mushrooms. This debut CD from Edmonton's truest cult poet – the surrealistic “Buddhist cowboy poet” with the voice like a two bit JFK imitator eating broken glass and a mind like a steel crap – will make you say goodbye to your pathetic 9 to 5 existence and take up a new one as a circus geek. There's fruity-loop synth junk, industrial rusted-metal jazz and enough Burroughsian wordplay here to choke a real cowboy poet's horse. There are no lawn gnomes in this man's avantegarden, just the King Kong bigness of an Alberta sky seen through X-ray glasses made by a junkie wearing his mother's clothes.
SAMPLE TRACKS:
Sniper
Corey Hamilton
Lesser mortals have called Hamilton's work "angry" and "disturbed" - and yes, there IS something indelibly creepy about spoken word rants where the reader imagines himself showing up with the heads of 'the boss's family' in a bloody garbage bag - but the more you truly LISTEN to "SNIPER" you'll find out that it's filled with anguish, desperation, loneliness, and a haunting sense of yearning that truly gets under your skin.
Contact: www.dramaticsituations.com
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