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Artist:	BECKETT, SAMUEL
Title:	...the whole thing's coming out of the dark
Label:	INTERMEDIUM (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	INTER 001

Repress now available. Impressive debut release on this new German label. "'... the whole thing's coming out of the dark', it was Samuel Beckett who used this term about the origin and quality of his radio plays. The recordings in this production provide an impressive documentation of Beckett's 'visual writing'. To the fore in the selection of texts for this CD were the author's so-called 'eye pieces', together with some of his observation and movement sketches: Molloy (1951), L'image/the Image (1959), and Company (1980) -- three texts from different phases in the life of the Irish author and Nobel literature laureate. They are read by actors Natasha Parry, Barry McGovern, and Raymond Federman. The playing directions for the instrumentalist on this CD (Uwe Dieksen) are derived directly from the so-called sucking stones sequence in Beckett's novel Molloy, where the author has his protagonists invent three variations of the correct way to suck 16 pebbles -- distributed between two coat or trouser pockets. Everything takes place inside the head, and yet these image provoking speech rituals find their way to the outside. Everything becomes the listener's projection room. We look on the speakers as we would an open, exposed interior. Speech is its own dissecting instrument. Existence is transferred into speech, being is removed from its time. The images remain, the sound of speech remains -- in which the secret of an entire world is concealed." Limited stock, deleted item.

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