Spoken dub manifesto vol.1

THE GUESTS :

Mark Stewart
Aged only 17, Mark Stewart founds the Pop Group, still considered as one of the most influent bands of the 80'S post punk era. Following this unique experience, he collaborates for a couple of years with The Maffia, producer Adrian Sherwood and his mythical label On-U Sound. Stewart is also considered a major actor in the connection between a certain « black music » and English punk rock of the time.
(UK) skysaw.org/onu/artists/markstewartmaffia

Giovanni « Subtitle » Marks
Giovanni Marks is special, part of the Labwaste duo, renegade from the West Coast Workforce and Project Blowed, immense, over productive, elusive, multi-talented, he is as interesting to watch as difficult to follow. The music by this fan of Sonic Youth, Company Flow and Autechre has no equivalent. Stuffed with so-called antinomic influences, the rap of this adopted « project blowdian » is rough, aggressive, synthetic and above all terribly singular.
(US) giovannimarks.com

Dylan Bendall
Inventive guitarist part of the excellent French noisy-dub band Lab°, Dylan Bendall is also a surprising singer/poet, evolving in post-dada spheres, mixing a certain sense for the absurd and a very « British » psychedelism. He was also a member of late mutant crew General Dub, under the name September Face.
(UK/F) mille-milliards.com

Mohammed El Amraoui
Born in 1964 in Fès, Morocco, Mohammed El Amraoui has been living in Lyon 1989 he is involved with editing association Poésie Rencontres. « Mohammed El Amraoui writes, tells, reads in French. / Mohammed El Amraoui writes, tells, reads in Arabic. / Mohammed El Amraoui creates pictures, syntaxes, his own grammar. / Mohammed El Amraoui avoids conventional words, he has got « fire on the tip of his tongue », and finds « the sun a little soft .» [B. Bretonnière]
(MAR/F) la_cause_des_causeuses.typepad.com/photos/en_pomie_amie/fcondit_001.html

Hakim Bey
Provocative and controversial character, piratologist, poet and philosopher, at the source of a redefinition of heretic Islam, Hakim Bey is a philosophical and virtual influence on the internet from he is now careful to stay away from now on. Just like these pirates he is inspired of, he has chosen clandestineness. Located everywhere and present nowhere, distrusting the show business industry, he has built his own enclave, and remains anonymous. TAZ : Temporary Autonomous Zone, is his own poetic extrapolation of G. Debord's work.
(US/TAZ) autonomedia.org

Black Sifichi
DJ, poet, photographer, writer, performer and multimedia-addict, Black Sifichi is famous for his declaimed texts and radio shows (Nova, Aligre FM, L'écho des garrigues and RTF). In 2002, Epok magazine states about him that it didn't take long after arriving in NYC for him to become the leader of Parisian underground. He recently collaborated with Norscq, UHT, Ezekiel, Lena, Black Dog, Tempsion and Brain Damage.
(UK/US/F) romanapoli.com/black

Suzanne Thoma
(Austria/Can) Suzanne Thoma, Austrian-Canadian video and graphic artist, has been creating for the past ten years an eclectic musical itinerary. Singer and composer, she collaborates with many bands like Elgam, Lab°, Nolderise and M83. For two years now she has been actively involved with duo Octet for whom she composes, produces, and sings (last remix to date « Girl » for Beck). Her organic and sensual approach also appears in her electronic compositions for many contemporary video pieces (« Macula » Henri Foucault [Biennale de Venise], « Mon père au Vietnam» Suzanne Thoma [Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris], « From Dirt to Dust » Suzanne Thoma [Conservatoire Georges Bizet, Paris]).

Ted Milton
Singer, since the early 80's, in Blurt, legendary no wave/post punk band, Ted Milton never changes, howling, screaming, he declaims his absurd poems then grabs his saxophone for free improvisations. Ted strikes poses. He dances. He takes risks. He is unbelievable. Is Ted Milton crazy or just pretending? Anyway, never wondering about fashion or success, he is always there, unperturbed. Faithful. Sam Clayton Jr (Jam/F) Unique sound engineer regularly working with Toots & the Maytals, Steel Pulse, The Skatalites or The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Sam Clayton Jr encapsulates the very essence of the Jamaican « scientist ». His recent multiple activities - radio, remixes, writing - take him beyond his role of technician, and make him appear as a pluridisciplinary artist following one rule : spontaneity. He has been living in France now for a couple of years.
(UK) tedmilton.com

Bart Plantenga
At the initiative for twenty years now of the legendary radio phonic show Wreck This Mess, in New York (WFMU), Paris (Radio Libertaire), then Amsterdam (Radio Patapoe), Bart Plantenga, « non-fiction novelist », is, among other things, the author of the novels Beer Mystic and Paris SexTête, and publishes today YODEL-AY-EE-OOOO : The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, a secret history of Yodel, ancestral vocal technique. He is also a founding member of NY writing group « Unbearable Beatniks of Light ». He lives now in Amsterdam.
(US/ND) www.wfmu.org/~bart or google \"Bart Plantenga\" or \"Beer Mystic\" or \"Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo\".

Emiko Ota
After being part of various experimental punk/rock groups in the 80's in Japan, Emiko Ota, Drummer/percussionist and singer, moves to Paris and joins the Mami Chan band. More recently, she creates, with husband Andrew Sharpley, the project « ae », a mix of soft melodic substances, rhythmical computer cut-ups and various declaimed punk collages. Emiko is also part of traditional Japanese project Sakura.
(JAP) site.voila.fr/japanfolkgroup/index.html sonig.com