LONDON DAVE + ROGER + RON MOODY + MOLLY ON LSD + SCHWITTERS

Alan Dunn, Jeff Young and Martin Heslop

Broadcast as part of CITIES AND MEMORY, curated by Stuart Fowkes, February 2016.

To mark the centenary of the founding of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, CITIES AND MEMORY offered a range of field recordings to be worked with. Kurt Schwitters passes through Liverpool en route to the Isle of Man. Dunn, Young and Heslop sift through their collection of frail human recordings, from individuals isolated by society to those left severly damanged by the military's LSD experiments. These voices are layered over peculiar recordings of Mexican water hoses and Formula 1 trials.

Kurt Schwitters on Liverpool Docks
Picking up cigarette butts
And filling his pockets

Kurt Schwitters on Liverpool Docks
Chewing up tram tickets
Gluing them with spit to a ripped bible

Kurt Schwitters on Liverpool Docks
Dreaming of Hanover
Overcoat tails flapping like a mad crow

Kurt Schwitters on Liverpool Docks
Writing to his son Ernst
But then eating the letter

Kurt Schwitters on Liverpool Docks
Burning a newspaper
Its headline 'Gestapo'

Kurt Schwitters on Liverpool Docks
Sending Isle of Man postcards
To his dead mother.

MP3 (EACH TRACK IS 60 SECONDS)

LONDON DAVE + CANADA + SOCCER CROWD, ST CLAIR

LONDON DAVE + MEXICO + SAN BARTOLO BROKEN HOSE GURGLING

MOLLY ON LSD + THAILAND + RESTAURANT AT SUVARNABHUMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

RON MOODY + MONTREAL + FORUMILA 1 RACE DURING PRACTICE

ROGER CT + HESLOP REMIX + SCHWITTERS + MEXICO + SAN BARTOLO BROKEN HOSE GURGLING 1

ROGER CT + HESLOP REMIX + SCHWITTERS + MEXICO + SAN BARTOLO BROKEN HOSE GURGLING 1

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