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John Sinclair, the renegade poet, scholar and
cultural revolutionary released his new album
on Monday 24th March 2014. John, has been
described as an Archetype of the 1960's art,
music and literary synthesis, and who today, is
still kicking with both feet on his trajectory for
cultural transformation. His new record fea-
tures ten tracks from his book of verse: always
know: a book of monk. Twenty poems planted
firmly in a single-shot session, and carefully
trimmed down to ten exhibits for this album.
Beatnik poems, great odes and personal reflec-
tions of the Be-Bop jazz persuasion, all flower-
ing together.
First conceived of in Detroit City, spring 1982,
and developed throughout the 1980s with
streaks of fresh edits leading right up to the
session itself, John navigates some of these
texts for the first time in over twenty years,
free-styling his energized sincerity and atten-
tion to every word, transforming the text on
the page into his unique unmistakable spoken
word.
Themusic was written and arranged by Steve
Fly who mirrored John’s poems in the music by
initially combing the tempo of the original
songs recorded by John ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie,
Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker and Thelonious Monk.
John Sinclair - “Mohawk” CD
Out now on Iron Man Records, Birmingham.