Ephemera

Urban Graffiti Mix #12

Posted on May 7, 2013 by urbangraffito Posted in Audio, Ephemera, Urban Graffiti Mixes | Leave a comment

Urban Graffiti Mix #12 by Mark Mccawley on Mixcloud

Exceptionally lyrical, subjective, personal. Tracks of love, ecstasy, longing, sex, obsession, desire. Tracks seeking out language to describe the indescribable; also, the madness that accompanies each acceptance or denial of longing, obsession, desire; for each who wins, another must lose; the agony of grief, loss beyond consoling, but not beyond words. Good words. Bad words. Mean words. Transgressive words. Most of all — lyrical words. Passionate, rapturous, ecstatic, euphoric. Yes, love hurts. It’s the only fire we again and again allow ourselves to be burned by.
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Guilty of Everything: Herbert Huncke in Amsterdam — review by Mark McCawley

Posted on April 27, 2013 by urbangraffito Posted in Audio, Compact Discs, Ephemera, Fresh Raw Cuts, Review | Leave a comment

Guilty of Everything: Herbert Huncke in Amsterdam

 

Reading at Ins & Outs Press

 

review by Mark McCawley

 

Guilty of Everything- Herbert Huncke in Amsterdam“Hunke, whom you’ll see on Times Square, somnolent and alert, sadsweet, dark, beat, just out of jail, martyred, tortured by sidewalks, starved for sex and companionship, open to anything, ready to introduce new worlds with a shrug.”

~ Jack Kerouac, “Now it’s Jazz”, Desolation Angels, Chapter 77.

Hobo, narcotics addict, merchant marine, gay hustler, petty thief, convict, storyteller, writer — Herbert Huncke began living an underground life after dropping out of high school in his sophomore year in Chicago, drawn to the underbelly of city life, and quickly began learning how to support himself as a professional drifter and small time grifter.

An autodidact, and primarily anti-academic, Herbert Huncke, whose lifestyle and easy manner of speaking influenced so many, (eventually famous authors and poets, e.g. Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg) coined the term “beat” to name a generation.
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Marco Rea: Pop Surrealist Provocateur — in conversation with Mark McCawley

Posted on March 23, 2013 by urbangraffito Posted in Art, Ephemera, Interview, Visual Art | 1 Comment

Marco Rea: Pop Surrealist Provocateur

 

in conversation with

Mark McCawley

 

Born in Rome in 1975, where he still lives and works, Marco Rea graduated in History of Contemporary Art, producing for many years graffiti on the walls of several Italian cities as a graffiti artist. It was during this time that Rea created and developed his own unique ‘Pop Surrealist’ technique of spray painting on billboards and the pages of glossy magazines. The result being nothing less than provocative.

From Bulgari to Art by Marco Rea

From Bulgari to Art by Marco Rea

Take for instance, ‘From Bulgari to Art’, in which Rea’s technique transforms glossy magazine advertising into something entirely new, alive. Rea has raised the culture jamming ethos of Italy’s urban street artists — a form of subvertising used to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising — into an entirely new realm of artist endeavour which focuses not only on subverting or critiquing political or advertising messages, or their negation, but to transcend both image and message with one of Rea’s own creation.
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Urban Graffiti Mix #11

Posted on March 17, 2013 by urbangraffito Posted in Ephemera, Urban Graffiti Mixes | Leave a comment

Urban Graffiti Mix #11 by Mark Mccawley on Mixcloud

The Great Culture Machine has limited definitions of what does, and what does not constitute contemporary literary culture, and in doing so, has overlooked many new hybridized, avant-garde, and experimental crossovers by innovative and pioneering musicians, artists, writers, performance artists and poets dating back decades. Three months in the editing, UG Mix #11 took into special account notions of Sprechgesang and Sprechstimme — musical terms which refer to an expressionist vocal technique between singing and speaking, though sometimes used interchangeably, when compiling the mix. So, when quite often, the resulting musical and literary hybrids crossed over into realms of poetry, narrative, and music as well as within each — again and again I put forth the idea that certainly new definitions and genres should be created, or at very least a dialogue begun towards a more inclusive notion of what is literary, especially when words leave the printed page and take flight.

Smash the Sun Alight & Iranian Doom by Sterbus — review by Mark McCawley

Posted on March 9, 2013 by urbangraffito Posted in Audio, Compact Discs, Fresh Raw Cuts, Review | Leave a comment

Smash the Sun Alight & Iranian Doom

by Sterbus

 

review by Mark McCawley

 
Smash the Sun AlightBorn on August 14, 1979, in Rome, Italy, Sterbus — who also goes by the name Emanuele Sterbini — is a contemporary DIY musician whose work is heavily influenced by the RIO Movement (Rock In Opposition), progressive rock, avant-prog, avant-garde and experimental music. Sterbus makes regular use of dissonance and atonality in his songs, along with complex and unpredictable song arrangements and the inclusion of disparate musical genres. His use of polyrhythms, highly complex time signatures, free and experimental improvisation make such influences as Zappa, Cardiacs, Henry Cow quite easy to identify in the music of Sterbus. On tracks such as “Gay Cruise”, “Wooden Spheres + Heartquakes”, and “A Sigh of Relief”, Sterbus combines playful elements of progressive rock and alt rock with pop rock sensibilities in new and exciting variations.
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