Mikado Koko - Songs To Our Other Selves CD

RELEASES ON THE 9/9/22

Japanese outsider avant-gardist, poet and producer, Mikado Koko, presents a new album "Songs To Our Other Selves". The album is an exploration and continuation of Penny Rimbaud’s classic fifty-track album "Acts of Love", released in 1984.

Penny Rimbaud composed, arranged and produced "Acts of Love" with assistance from keyboardist Paul Ellis. The album consists of fifty short poems set to contemporary classical music, performed by Eve Libertine and Paul Ellis, and is accompanied by a book of fifty collages by artist Gee Vaucher. Koko’s production takes Rimbaud’s classic work to new sonic territory whilst maintaining the integrity and concepts behind "Acts of Love".

"For Songs To Our Other Selves", Koko has selected twenty tracks to extend Rimbaud’s short haiku-like bursts of energy into a fierce juggle of cutups and electronica, each track becoming a piece in its own right, yet somehow maintaining the poetic intensity of Rimbaud’s originals.

Koko’s adaptations maintain the dramatic intensity of Rimbaud’s work, in particular allowing Libertine’s dynamically expressive vocal performances to demand attention whilst introducing glitchy, mind- bending electronic elements, warping Rimbaud’s recordings into otherworldly, surreal sounds.

Tracklist:

1. Track 01
2. Track 02
3. Track 03
4. Track 04
5. Track 05
6. Track 06
7. Track 07
8. Track 08
9. Track 09
10. Track 10
11. Track 11
12. Track 12
13. Track 13
14. Track 14
15. Track 15
16. Track 16
17. Track 17
18. Track 18
19. Track 19
20. Track 20