PERFORMANCE POEMS James & Margot Schevill PROVIDENCE RI

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~ James & Margo Schevill ~
Performance Poems by James & Margo Schevill

released c. 1983 by Cambridge Records # CRS 2002

< comes with a free CDR digital recording >

stereo US original pressing of this very obscure
of this likely Privately Pressed album of inventive
album of "Performance Poems" which are pretty much
Sound Poems or Tone Poems done by this great husband
and wife avant-garde music & poetry duo and this record
comes with a 12-Page booklet that has lyrics and phrasings
for the sound poems on this album. the liner notes mention
John Cage regarding to his investigations of Thoreau's Journals
as well as Dadaist Dada poets Kurt Schwitters and
Ernst Jandl and the sound poet Dave Hazelton


~ contents ~


Walking & Running
Search For A Level Voice
Simultaneous Searchings
American, Build Insane Cars
Four Sound Poems:
"Woman"
"Machine"
"Vietnamization"
"Bureaucrat"
In 1983 An Elizabethan Fool Fills Out the
Application Forms For A Job in An American Corporation
Meditation On The Syllable "OM"
Listening To "You Know" In The Park
Places For Spring
The Dark Voice
A Drip Poem For Jackson Pollock
ABC, A Bestiary
Ad Sound History
The Story Of Stupid
The Possibilities And Impossibilities Of Snow
Lament For Sounds: Elegy For Dave Hazelton


~ credits ~


James Schevill (Poet Vocals)
Margot Schevill (Mezzo-Soprano Singer Vocals)


~ condition ~


record is in Near Mint  Condition and has
been fully play tested and it sounds great other than
a few spots during the second song where there are brief
bits of noise that must be from a pressing flaw because the
record is visually in beautiful condition (the problem sounds are
little brief glitch sounds) & otherwise plays without any skips

the cover is in Near Mint Condition with bold bright
printing & has no seam splits, writing or markings and
the only wear to note is just a hint of ringwear and
the lyric booklet is in fantastic condition

displays & plays well


~ matrix #'s ~


side one : CRS-2002-A
side two : CRS-2002-B

the above is 'scrawled' into the dead wax
and each side also has EDS mastering stampers


~ James Schevill ~


James Schevill wrote an epic sequence of poems called
The American Fantasies: Collected Poems 1945-1981 and
received the Rockefeller and Ford Foundation award grants
and the William Carlos Williams award as well as grants from
the Richard Rodgers and Roadstead Foundations as well as
the Governor's Award in the Arts in Rhode Island and was
awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship & he was director of the
Poetry Center at San Francisco State College & also taught
at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island


~ Margot Schevill ~


James Schevill was (is?) a Mezzo-Soprano singer, actress
and music teacher who made her debut with the San Francisco

Opera in 1959 and had a lengthy concert & opera career and
performed throughout the US and Europe and also specialized
in performance of twentieth-century chamber music and she
helped found the New Music Ensemble and also taught
at Brown University & the Conservatory of the
Trinity Square Repertory Company


~ privately pressed ~


there was a time
when vinyl was the preferred format
for releasing records & many musicians would release and
distribute their own recordings when they couldn't find a
label to release their recordings & these types of DIY records
are referred to as "privately pressed" by today's collectors
and are now hard-to-find & sought after because they were
almost always made in extremely small quantities as artistic
or craft-based endeavors rather than purely commercial
ventures with no attempt at cashing it in commercially often
making for interesting & innovative DIY recordings that are
more honest, experimental and unusual than commercial
releases & many "private press" records have never been
'discovered' by today's listeners making them important
to collectors of many different recorded genres


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