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Bob Cobbing
The Spoken Word: Early Recordings 1965-1973

Compil. UK 2009 on British Library label
Spoken Word (Poetry)

Track 1 recorded 1965; also known as "ABC in Sound"; previously issued as Side A of the first Writers Forum LP; this transfer taken from the original master tape. Track 2 recorded 1966; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 3 recorded 1966; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive; this performance is different from the track titled "Worm" issued on the 1988 Birkyak LP "Aberration" (Klinker Zoundz KZ8801). Track 4 recorded 1968; this 7.05 version is presumably an unedited version or an alternate treatment of the core material; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 5 recorded 1968; previously released on the LP "Sound Texts. ? Concrete Poetry. Visual Texts" (Stedelijk Museum RSC 246, 1970: this transfer from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 6 recorded in Paris, 1968; previously released on cassette on the Balsam Flex label; this transfer taken from the original master tape. Track 7 recorded in Paris, 1968; previously released on cassette on the Balsam Flex label; this transfer taken from the original master tape; this is a different work from 'Computer Poem 6" on the 1988 Birdyak EP "Green Computer" (Klinker Zoundz KZ8805). Track 8 recorded 1968; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 9 recorded 1969; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 10 recorded 1971; previously issued on the LP "Experiments in Disintegrating Language / Konkrete Canticle" (Arts Council 33AC, 1971; this transfer from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive; this performance is different from the track titled "The Sacred Mushroom" as issued on the the 1988 Birkyak LP "Aberration" (Klinker Zoundz KZ8801). Track 11 recorded 1973 at Cardiff University studio; issued on a yellow flexidisc as part of issue four of the American concrete poetry journal Typewriter, under the title "e colony - a version"; also issued on the cassette "The Italian Job" by Peter Finch and Bob Cobbing (Klinker Zoundz KZ8802C, 1988); this transfer from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive.

Musicians

	Bob Cobbing voc, 1920-2002 GB album by, voice
	Jennifer Cobbing compiled by, photography by, front cover, performer, other
	Steve Cleary compiled by
	Stephen Willey liner notes, introduction
	Annea Lockwood zth, g, cwb, *1939 NZ performer, other
	François Dufrêne voc, 1930-1982 FR performer, other
	Ginette Dufrêne , performer, other
	Henri Chopin voc, 1922-2008 FR performer, other
	Konkrete Canticle , performer
	Michael Chant , voice
	Paula Claire voc, voice
	John Whiting , US electronics
	Peter Finch voc, perc, *1947 GB voice, jew's harp, producer

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