Eugenio Miccini ‎– Concerti Di Poesia (1983, LP, Italy)

RADIOTAXI 9 - "CONCERTI DI POESIA"

Side A

A1. Melodramma Per Acqua, Tosse E Poco Più, 1966 (19:00)
A2. Commutazione Di Comunicazione Di Commutazione, 1979 (3:00)
A3. Il Soma,  1981 (3:00)
Side B

B1. Alfabeto, 1978 (15:00)
B2. Erotica, 1982 (9:00)

Note
Vibrazioni del Sonoro
Gatefold cover with English and Italian text by Eugenio Miccini.
Supplement to Lotta Poetica N.14
Recorded at B&B Record Studio, Verona, Italy.

While many sound poetry albums may sound like a good idea in theory (especially if you've got a thing for flipped out vocalists) the reality of actually sitting with one is often as enticing as a dry hump with a hair shirt. That however is not the case here, or at least not with the jarringly odd A side (the flip side being a bit of a wash unless you get aroused by the idea of someone holding down the FF button on a cassette deck). Miccini was something like the grand old man of Visual Poetry in Italy during his life; an art practice that involved collapsing together words, figures, signs and symbols. A similar set of aesthetic collisions and elisions is in evidence here, as ancient tinny gramophones underpin increasingly hectic stereo-panned recitation en route to what sounds like armageddon in a clock making factory. (Mutant Sound)