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Prolific punk pioneers Penny Rimbaud and Martin 'Youth' Glover proudly present their collaboration - Penny Rimbaud & Youth - album, Corpus Mei, out 19 November via One Little Independent Records, with limited edition vinyl available from January.
In a conjoining of creative spirits, Corpus Mei is a proclamation and, indeed, the re-establishment of a dream - "the romanticist vision of the one that is the all", as it's described by Penny, "I once said that physicists are mystics armed with facts. This album plays with that truth wherein passion is expressed as an undeniable material force, and love, equally material, its raison d'etre: an old voice in a new setting".
In a series of epic, cinematic soundscapes, Penny spits tales of the grotesque and absurd. Gargantuan sermons delivered in counter to swelling, emotive orchestration where he and former bandmate Eve Libertine deliver a slew of anti-capitalist weaponised poetry. With their carefully constructed verse, they arm the listener against corrupt institutional powers as well as the abstract. High concept and highly descriptive, these vivid and dramatic pictures are painted with artful, honest passion against a monstrous, post-apocalyptic backdrop.
Recorded and mixed over the year 2011 and then remixed in 2019 (it took all that time to see the depths), Corpus Mei brings together two disparate elements and makes them as one - Penny Rimbaud & Youth. Rimbaud is perhaps best known as a founder member, drummer and lyricist of the seminal anarchist punk band Crass. Since those times, he has dedicated his life to the headier pursuits of poetics and philosophy. Youth, whose post-punk band, Killing Joke, remains a vibrant musical force, has at the same time become one of the most sought-after record producers of today. Realising from the outset that they shared an interest in the creation and promotion of "matters spiritual", these two now-legendary characters set out to recreate and externalize the dream that it might further become a living reality.
"Recording and writing this album was an intense and wonderful experience", Youth tells us, "Penny is one of the great visionary poets of our generation. A seer and prophet... crying to the universe, alone up on the mountain. Part Blake, Part John the Baptist and part Buddha. His is the limb nailed to the cross of our cultural banality. Such a narrative demands a suitably epic backdrop. Composing and producing this music, as a foil to Penny's beautiful and terrifying, almost biblical monologues, has been one of my greatest achievements in over 40 years of making music. The themes reveal Penny's almost psychic pre-cognition of today's dystopia and the sudden slo-mo apocalypse were all living through now. Nevertheless, it leaves you with a feeling of hope, inspiration and many positive possibilities. This was a great challenge and a deep channeling in itself. Despite the serious nature of the work we were mostly laughing and really enjoying each other's company, the sessions were filled with joy and love."
"Throughout the recording of Corpus Mei," Penny says, "the symbiosis was proved – we are as one, above as below. Trust that wisdom, and creative love will prevail: the very core before the apple".
While Corpus Mei will see the light of day in about two months, the video for its third track, "We The Mountain, We The Sea" has just been unveiled, and it awaits you below. Link
Corpus Mei tracklist:
01. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
02. Mammon's Minions
03. We The Mountain We The Sea
04. And If I Lust
05. I Too
06. Incantations Of Intimacy
07. You Stare
08. You Brave Old Land
09. Shadows
10. Bread & Wine
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