F0NO9 // Douglas Kearney & Val Jeanty – Fodder (LP)
$16.95
Release Date: March 23, 2021
Run Time: 37:44
Description
Recorded live in Portland, OR on August 9, 2019, Fodder splinters the sounds you were looking at on paper into the document you can hear through speakers. &/or vice versa. Drawing in part from the award winning poetry collection Buck Studies‘ “Loud-Assed Colored Silence” series, Douglas Kearney (words) and Val Jeanty (sounds) interweave new and old texts of original composition, samples, and improvisation to create live sound chemistry, raw energy, and better listening through playing. Pull up.
Fodder can also be found on Bandcamp, Spotify and other online streaming platforms.
Purchase of Fodder includes a 11 x 11 insert of the poem “That Loud-Assed Colored Silence: Scat,” as well as liner notes written by artist/archivist Nick Twemlow. The record itself is not black but clear.
Publication of this project was made possible by a Project Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC). Fonograf Ed. gratefully acknowledges RACC for their help and support.
About the Author
Poet/Performer/Librettist Douglas Kearney has published six books, including the acclaimed poetry collection Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016). His seventh book, Sho, will be out in April 2021 (Wave Books). He has opened for Amiri Baraka and has shared stages with Saul Williams and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs. A Whiting Writer’s and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly awardee with residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others, Kearney teaches at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.
Val Jeanty, also known as Val-Inc, is a Haitian afrofuturist, drummer, turntablist, and professor at Berklee College of Music. Jeanty is a pioneer of the electronic music subgenre called Afro- Electronica (also called “Vodou-Electro”) incorporating Haitian Vodou rhythms with digital instrumentations by synergistically combining acoustics with electronics and the archaic with the postmodern. Jeanty’s Afro-Electronica performances include The Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and internationally at The Venice Biennale in Italy. She is a Van Lier fellow and was commissioned by NYSCA for Roulette’s Intermedium Residency. Jeanty has worked with a diverse array of artist including the late great Geri Allen, Anthony Braxton, Terri Lyne Carrington and Francisco Mora Catlett. Other highlights include “Fascinating Her Resilience” a Wesleyan University commissioned multimedia collaboration with professor Gina Ulysse and with Afro-Cuban bassist Yosvany Terry on his Grammy-nominated album “New Throned King”.
Track List
SIDE ONE
1. Do the Deep Blue Boogie!
2. “The invention of scat” (Interlude)
3. That Loud-Assed Colored Silence: Scat
4. That Loud-Assed Colored Silence: Moan
SIDE TWO
1. “I’m here to help” (Intro to “Manesology”)
2. Manesology (After Charlottesville, but before it too, shit)
3. Sho
4. Eulogy for an Afro Pick
5. I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always