A Wet Handle by Ivor Cutler - Hoorgi House [HHCD03] FLAC download included with physical items

A Wet Handle

Ivor Cutler

A 83 track spoken word album (57m 53s) — released October 12th 2018 on Hoorgi House

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If you love Ivor Cutler's unique voice, then here is a treat you've been waiting for. If you are also a fan of Ivor Cutler's art work, then you will also enjoy the CD package which incorporates several of his extraordinary drawings.

The later period of creative production from Ivor Cutler saw poetry have an increasingly high profile in his repertoire: typically short cryptic pieces which can take several listenings to begin to digest. But there is no guarantee of certain understanding. "Never knowingly understood" was one of Ivor's self-descriptors (an alternative reworking of the John Lewis department store's guarantee "Never knowingly undersold"), and although some pieces may be relatively straightforward - even curiously devoid of figurative language - others have oblique or incomprehensible allusions. This was his style. And to the extent that he spoke about this work at all, he would only speak of the sound, the music of words, rather than meaning or metaphor. He refused to explain what he was doing - "It's not me, it's my unconscious" was his line - and he held that evasive trajectory, never engaging in critical discussion of his work.

N.B. If you want Ivor Cutler's songs, don't buy this record! There are no songs here, just 83 tracks of spoken word delivered by Ivor Cutler reciting his poetry.
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