Series: ex libris — Theme: Sunday's reading room: the songbook that outlived its authors. Duration: 58m · 12 tracks, fully programmed and narrated on wobuzz radio.
Sunday's reading room: the songbook that outlived its authors. The hour is built on one record, September Songs - the 1997 project in which a Broadway punk, a jazz diva, a goth troubadour, a beat novelist and an opera soprano read Kurt Weill's exile songbook aloud in a Toronto warehouse, with two archive voices, 1930 and 1955, inside the running order. From there the room crosses into other ways a page becomes sound: a synthesizer taught by hand to read a Bach wake-call, and, for the dark, this year's Frankfurt guest country in one band - Czechs who named themselves 'now we get it'. …
Tracklist: Nick Cave — Mack The Knife · PJ Harvey — Ballad of the Soldier's Wife · Lotte Lenya — Pirate Jenny · David Johansen;Ellen Shipley;Bob Dorough;Ralph Schuckett — Alabama Song … (+8 more)
