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Artist:
Edwin Torres
Title: "Novo" (oozebap cd015)
From
New York and after his excellent "Holy Kid" on Kill
Rock Stars label, a new and amazing amalgam of poetwirl, poetryck,
poetrust and poetrail by disappropriationist shockworker poet
Edwin Torres...
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Tracklist:
01
- L.O.V.LOV.I.E. 2:06 (excerpt)
.mp3
02 - Peesacho 1:58 (excerpt)
.mp3
03 - Lounging In The Age Of Aquarius 2:38
04 - 1-2-3-4 Hey 1:01
05 - Auntie Drug 1:36
06 - Fiasco/Here 2:51
07 - A Postcard From Across The Youmisphere 5:02
08 - Temple 2:06
09 - Good Eye Color 0:10
10 - The Modern Phallus 3:02
11 - Raspberry Bernstein 0:24
12 - BePower 2:36
13 - Soundsniper 1:21
14 - Son Mi Son 3:11
15 - Boy (You Need Love)
1:26
16 - Silliest Bernstein 0:07
17 - Gum Wrapper 1:33
18 - Motor Priest 6:37
19 - 1-2-3-4 Ho 1:19
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All
words and vocals by Edwin Torres.
http://www.brainlingo.com
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bio:
Edwin
Torres started creating text and performance work in 1988
under the banner "I.E. Interactive Eclecticism,"
an invented 'movement' whose purposefully broad term gave
his one-man variety shows a forum, e.g. I.E. Songs, I.E. Dances
and I.E. Costumes were interspersed with audience interaction.
In 1990, he discovered poetry at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
and The St. Marks Poetry Project and poems evolved out of
what were then I.E. Monologues.
He has since collaborated with a wide range of artists, creating
performances that mingle poetry with vocal/physical improvisation,
visual theater, music and sound. His media assault includes
MTV's first Spoken Word Unplugged, Rolling Stone Magazine,
High Times, and thanks to his goatee, on the cover of New
York Magazine's "The Beats Are Back" issue among
others and has traveled the world, performing at many festivals,
cafe's, classrooms and beaches; as well as taught workshops
and performed across the United States and overseas.
He is recepient of poetry fellowships from The Foundation
For Contemporary Performance Art, the New York State Foundation
for the Arts, and The Poetry Fund and his CD Holy Kid was
part of The Whitney Museum's exhibition, The American Century
Pt. II. Edwin is currently co-editing "POeP!" an
eJournal, and "Cities Of Chance: An Anthology of New
Poetry from The United States and Brazil," both from
Rattapallax Press. Books and projects are included elsewhere
on http://www.brainlingo.com
Publications:
Anthologies / Short Fuse (Rattapallax Press), Role Call (Third
World Press), Poetry Nation (Vehicule Press), Heights Of The
Marvelous (St. Martins Press), An Anthology Of (New) American
Poets (Talisman Press), Verses that Hurt (St. Martins Press),
and ALOUD: Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt
Press)
Journals / Chain, The World, Cross-Cultural Poetics, Longshot,
Bombay Gin, PomPom, Lungfull, Ixnay among others
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Some poems from NOVO.........
L. O. V. LOV. I.E. (track 01) (excerpt)
.mp3
MY
EYES
YOUR EYES
LIVE
LIQUID
FILLED
LIVES
MY
LIPS
TRAVEL
QUIETLY
FROM
WHAT
YOU HEAR
TO
WHAT
YOU
TASTE
SO
GOOD
YOU
LIE
LIKE
YOU
L.
O.
V.
OV.
LOV.
I.E.
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LOUNGING IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS (track 03)
I've
just requested Up Up and Away
by The Fifth Dimension from the piano lady
But play it slow... "Slow?..oh!" she says
with a heavy New Jersey accent - eyelids
half-moon-half-smokey-cabaret-cool o.k. she walks away
nodding in her black spandex
I
imagine a beautiful flight of tender emotion
from this slowed down tempo...I can only imagine
"We'd
- like - to - o - pen - this - set - with - a - piece - called
Up - Up - and - A - way" she says in her best sultry
voice, each syllable
a starlet looking to be discovered
Starts...piano plays...slow nice...like
Mister Rogers' fake jazz...beautiful schmaltz
some notes...out of tune...o.k....makes it...even more
ugly/beauty/slowly...tune....amazingly...contorts
into background...leaving foreground...to deconstruct
into schmaltz...of itself...I
am left...traveling the piano keys...with my
slow image ballooning...playing with
the tempo of my...flying in
my beautiful...my beau-ti-ful...over everything
flying...over everything that's wrong...and
everything that's doubt...and all I am
is white keys...over black keys
in a restaurant...where no one ever heard of...
or thought of ever slowing...and I...am free...
and schmaltz...and out of tune
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THE MODERN PHALLUS (track 10)
New
Symbol Of Sexuality - Ball
Flanked by two rods / Inversion of expected order
o
I o ... I o I
...Old Sexuality
................................New Sexuality
Balls
in conjunction with / Hard Shape = / Context of Genitalia
Once taken dick out of balls / Left with = / Dickless Ball
Vice Inverse would be / Infra Boom Spam & / Two mounds
Representing cheeks / Posterior flesh or breasts / Feminine
flesh
Two rounds = Testicles / Male flesh / Laying vulnerable /
Side
by side / To be divided / by Hard Fact: / that / One hand
could
> Cover / Slap < One...shape given or shape made / ?
+ ! /
Suggestive of mountains - Nature / Mother Figure...lying on
her side
Peaks at full / Erection / Horizon complacent / & Ready...
inwait...inlet...islet...ninsula...penin...penile...entry
/ into diary / valley
Crotch of land / gives way to Tourists / Invading Native Soil
Virgin flesh / 13 year-old discovery = / Independence / Suggestive
of
New Land / to / Claim / Geometric flesh / Sha Sha Shapeless
Groinhole
Stake Flag in / Old Sexuality / Unexpected Hot Spot - Ball
In conjunction with + / Hard shape = / Context of Genitalia
New Symbol / of Modern Phallus
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A POSTCARD FROM ACROSS THE YOU-MISPHERE (track 07)
wurds
some flynte aboot lite treesless ryne't'anto dere paper cup
thoiy willow willsas slides aslope away into theyr sunaverts
pools im sorro trays ovjoil adriu'ft upon m'willed reminder
lights
a million suns a'log ago their moans adorn th'innr verse
amma
caress'mmm days of ahhhhh.....sooool
nada lites the daze of soun
nada lites the daze of soun
nada lites the daze of soun
nada lites the daze of soun
ima'gima
gimen lo'pelo paleen noun sofar insoar incrusst oiy've
trustted tount apits en' wailed agin th' moltin s'unyvers
trypti chi'm alightl'd vice averse intolted voked apon th'withered
wyst untwigged apoin a most untuun'ed who-niverts
amma
caress'mmm days of ahhhhh.....sooool
nada lites the daze of soun
nada lites the daze of soun
nada lites the daze of soun
nada lites the daze of soun
me
andres quiyz'ed quested poss'd in haste thy quizzled stript'
avowed
torn lettre lit by fired erupted tongues untired of musi-verse
timitless on dyin' loov est whilt'd oak atolled un-truethened
by
mine oun untestled trust enveloped bi th'cryin' sonora-verts
immu
cariss'mmm days of ahhhhh.....sooool
nada brites the daze of soun
there's nothin' like a day ov soun
nada lites the daze of soun
nothin' brites the day like sound
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BOY (track 15) Boy
(You Need Love).mp3 1:26
you
need love
you need faith
you need hope
you need space
you need love
so
don't wait
and don't wait
and don't wait
and don't wait
you'll find love
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SON MI SON (track 14)
Ke
- ZARON - ZARON - ZARON
Quesa - RON - saron - saron
Sa - Ki - ron - kiron - kiron
Keka - kon - chh - chh - (ccc)
Pesa - son - sason - sason
Quesa - me , sa - me , sa - me
ZA za - ron , zaron , zaron
Quita - le , ta - le , ta - le . . .
sus manos en mi manos, son mi son
sus cuerpa en mi cuerpo, son mi son
ya - ye - yo - , ye - yo , ye - you
yo , yo , yo
Mujer desnuda - me
tiene loco con tu culpa, tu cuerpo
desnuda - me - toda mente
cuerpo a cuerpo - completamente mentally -
from toe - to toe - to toe . . .
hiris
- ki - rom k - rum , hki - rhhum - meh
kissy - rose - e - rose - eros
so so is so mi sopa de , son mi son
Sis - r know , she - know , she - kno
what - i - lie , i - li
what - she - li , she - li , ya - yeyo - ye -
you - Que raison - Se ron - D'etre ( raison d'etre )
De karon , Ka ron - W'etre ( maison tre'te )
Metre FA , ou Bonne , ou Bonne ,
Ya - se - ci bonne , c'est trexie , si - no - mi - son
me gusta mi sopa de , son mi son , de co - ra - zon - zon
- zon
sait , MARONNE , MAAARRONE , MAAARRRRRRONE!!!
Pestri
- w'etre , pastry? Croissant - Quiera ( monte )
ida - noche - a - mano a mano , me toca - me , toca - me -
Mujer bestida - desnuda - de corazon
me tiene - desnudo , udo , udo , WHO - DO . YOU - DO , KARON!
- ze zon , ze zora con , zaron - zaron
ya - ye yo - me ya - me son - mi - son
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GUM WRAPPER (track 17)
KEEP YOUR COUNTRY CLEAN
DEPOSIT TRASH INNA COUNTRY CLEANER
KEEP YOUR WORLD CLEAN
DEPOSIT TRASH INNA YOU CLEANER
KEEP YOUR YOU CLEAN
DEPOSIT TRASH INNA WORLD CLEANER
DEPOSIT TRASH INTO THE WORLD
KEEP YOU CLEAN
GET DIRTY
THROW YOU IN
DIRTY UP
REPEAT DIRT
GET CLEAN
KEEP DIRT
THROW WORLD IN
KEEP YOUR WORLD
KEEP YOUR WORLD
KEEP YOUR WORLD
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SOUNDSNIPER (track 13)
My new telescope
Lets me hear what I see
89 planets are born from these eyes - every night
Hearing confessions from every falling star
Each mercy spilled - stings electricity
Every sound created - crackles
You - were falling in my window
Crazed
Pileriver drive echo wash
Ambient fingers
Mechanized novella...every night
I travel the atom sea
Strailing every wharfs' margin for blood
Every year at my eyes
Leaving sorrow prone, rubbing
Chasm-ismic resin - to focus in on sin
Tonight...
I sit
By my window
Immaginate the world outside
3, 4 becomes
My day slowly takes
Shape - 1 grain
At a time - I steal
Every window - I visit
Glass in my crosshairs - I target
Every day
I hear you splint
The off reflection
Transluscent stone of a night so clear
Along your ancient folding site, I've been your
Dear remnant, incremental
Seedling for distance - dazzler of dust,
I hear your age, your arc and
At the last...
Washing off infinity...
I put my glass away
And stay
Behind
The world outside...too loud
For eyes so bold and clearly broken
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