Compromise

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IT'S GOT TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE...

The ballad of general kiev



I'll tell ye a tale
of an ogre renknowned
A general and gourmand
who fought for no crown

an ogre so large, twud shake up the ground
when to battle he strode drunk and unbowed

general kiev he was a crafty old ogre
when battle would start
he'd just drink til twas over
and mop up the wounded 
with a casual glee
to take to his pot the slain as his meat

he would cook in the half way
and eat through the night
stoking the fires until morning light
when thunderous snores would tear through the inn
general kiev would sleep with a meaty green grin

to share at his table was an honor and risk
as he'd take up his flagon in a mighty green fist
to drink of his namesake, a terrible cider
that turn men into babies, more meat for the fires

but now the inns quiet, no snoring like thunder
and the back door mans gone, but not for a wander
for the general he's died but never forgotten
so to Kiev, we'll raise up our glasses
and drain to the bottom

(I've got a bottom you can raise right her love)

The Balled Of General Kiev

Flamant

Retaliation Beat

Original spoken word poem by KMLS over music composed by T Hopkins from the Man Room Sessions 2022. Used with permission and with much gratefulness.

More spoken word and poetry at slowmover.org

Sleeping Separately We Die (Mix by T Hopkins)

Live @Szimpla Budapest, 2015.06.23. 

Cover by: Lőrinc Borsos
Sound Mixing: David Krolikowksi 
Sound Recording: Mihaly Kovacs 

Download the full concert here:
https://busterkeatonuk.bandcamp.com

You can watch the full concert as well: 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuHThdVX7SU

Brushing the Sorrow Away (Live @Szimpla Budapest, feat. Aron Porteleki)

A remix of our most recent Man Room Session.  Featuring Mr Edrick Waghorn on vocals, Mark Horrell on guitars, Tom Hopkins on bass, strings and guitar and a certain John Lydon providing some interesting speech.

Hold Music (Remix)

Here We all Are (Lucier Mix)(extract) 
For a long time I’ve been thinking of what a feminist re-working of Lucier’s “I Am Sitting In A Room” might sound like. It’s a great work but I couldn’t help but wonder about Lucier’s position as the only sound in the room, the male artist apparently voluntarily isolated and cut off from the rest of society with his voice becoming more and more re-enforced and literally bouncing back at him from his environment reflecting only him. I wanted to see what happened when my voice was looped over and over again into the outside world so that it combined with the sounds of the other people and the other species that I share space with. 
In March and April 2020 the UK went into lockdown to try and slow the spread of the virus C19. The inner cities everywhere became quieter as traffic and planes decreased. The weather was unusually warm and sunny. Birds sang and insects buzzed. In my part of East London where the small gardens of terraced houses are divided from the neighbours gardens on three sides by fences, you could hear but not see the various activities of your often unknown neighbours at various points of the day and night. Many people no longer were allowed to go to work but worked in the garden, played with their children and  enjoyed being outside. 
All recordings Here We all Are (Lucier Mix) were made during the start of this time while sitting in the same position in my garden in Hackney, London in late March and April, 2020. 

I am very grateful to Vanessa Rossetto for inviting me to contribute to AMPLIFY 2020  quarantine and giving me the chance to try out my ideas. 
The full 16 minute track is available on AMPLIFY2020 Bandcamp https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/here-we-all-are-lucier-mix?fbclid=IwAR20pdja4wEyF_nPe4vqOp-i5OY6rEK_neOAVV9D_n6MjFImgNvpClHy8vM

I am grateful that live in a house with a garden. 1 in 5 people in the UK live below the poverty line and many have suffered during the lockdown 
Any financial contributions from Here We all Are (Lucier Mix) will be donated to the Hackney Food Bank  https://hackney.foodbank.org.uk/

Here We All Are (Lucier Mix) extract

Preparations for an Imaginary conflict is a multichannel sound installation which was originally commissioned for “Staging Disorder”, an exhibition which considered the relationship between photography, sound art and modern conflict. Using recorded material UK public information media, oral history, archival news, texts and specific geographical sites, the work examines the rhetoric of war which has been used by successive generations of politicians to prepare the public for a possible attack or to build up the idea of the hostile ‘other’ in a number of real and fictional

Preparations For An Imaginary Conflict (stereo Mix)

http://www.themanroomsessions.bandcamp.com

Hold Music (Remix)

The M.R.S.

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