VA - Futurism & Dada Reviewed (1912-1959)

Unique collection of original sound recordings made by key figures from both 20th Century avant garde art movements. Three years in the making, and with over one hour of playing time, the CD features sound collages, tone poems, interviews and music made between 1912 and 1959 by luminaries such as: F.T. Marinetti (the poet and guiding light of Futurism in declamatory mode, circa 1931), Marcel Duchamp (a much-discussed but rarely-heard example of Duchamp's musical non-theory, its ambient tones still sounding timeless), Tristan Tzara (hugely influential poet of both Dada and Surrealism, whose abstract techniques went on to influence later writers such as William S. Burroughs), Wyndham Lewis (a rare 1940 reading by a leading light of the British futurist offshoot, Vorticism), Guillaume Apollinaire and Jean Cocteau (not members of either movement, but major influences on both, with Cocteau's contribution from 1929 a fascinating curiosity from the golden age of jazz). The collection also includes material by Antonio & Luigi Russolo, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Janco, Luigi Grandi and Richard Huelsenbeck.