HW, OFF: Spaceseed cd with Bridget Wishart and Harvey

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:20:25AM -0500, Carl Edlund Anderson typed out:
> On 07 Apr 2009, at 07:36 , Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
> >her reemergence onto the music
> >scene seems to have been more of the `Black Elk Speaks' standard than
> >the _California Brainstorm_ `Reefer Madness' standard alas
> Well, that's may be in part because the songwriters for "Reefer  
> Madness" are not currently available to her! ;)

	There is much in what you say here :-) Bridget's voice is often 
apparently at its best when dealing with someone else's words. She 
recognises poetry and rhythm when she reads it, but her own words, er, 
do not ring my lyrical bells. So one of the more interesting recent 
Wishart appearances, to me, was on the My Outer Space 3 compilation that 
someone here alerted us to a while back (I see there's now a 4 
already!):
http://www.myouterspace.net/mos3/mos3.html
She's on several of these MOS tracks but on that album she's doing 
something with what seems to be the core outfit behind the idea, or at 
least the most frequently-appearing, Hensel 3000, called `Voyager 1', in 
which she simply reads, in warm and slow tones, some kind of simple 
publicity piece about the mission of the Voyager 1 satellite. It works 
really well. By contrast, her contribution to MOS2:
http://www.myouterspace.net/mos2/mos2.html
is, well, not so much my thing... Yours,
					 Jon

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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk