The 365 Days Project, hosted at WFMU’s Blog, posted mp3s of the 2-CD set: Factual Eyewitness Testimony Of: UFO Encounter. Here’s Side 1 (23:06):
Reminds me of a favorite 80s-wave songs, Suburban Lawns “Flying Saucer Safari” (2:08 mp3):
High School Teacher & Slam Poet Taylor Mali on “What Teachers Make”:
“Vox Humana” is the theme of this month’s Radio DavidByrne.com, his 3-hour monthly webcast. Sez Bryne: “I’ve recently stumbled on a bunch of wonderful recent recordings that feature spoken word or the human voice manipulated in various ways — it almost makes me think this might be a time when this vague genre might be flourishing. Really exciting and sometimes funny stuff. Not quite singing, most of the time, but definitely musical. I have read that singing uses one side of the brain and speaking the other, and this stuff probably bridges the gap.”
The a web-stream playlist (128K mp3; also in iTunes Radio: Eclectic) is stuffed w/ great musical Spoken-Wierd, including Joe Frank, Eno, Waits, T.Heads, the Books, Beefheart, and lotsa stuff by the talented SLC composer, and bud of HV, Phillip Kent Bimstein.