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Words to the Blind is the name of a 37-minute, Dada-inspired concert staged last year in London by post-punk outfit Savages and Japanese psych-punk outfit Bo Ningen.
Nov 21, 2014 · Written in two days and recorded live shortly after, Words to the Blind is a single 37-minute track that doesn’t sound too much like Bo Ningen and even less like Savages. That’s probably the point.
Words to the Blind opens with a rambling conversation between a French speaker and a Japanese speaker, poems read by members of the respective bands with each speech relegated to its own side of the mix. The bands begin by pulling the shared sonic space apart into two entities, then gradually unifying it in distorted chaos.
Nov 19, 2014 · We meet at a cafe in Clapton to discuss their Words To The Blind project: a live recording of the joint performance their bands gave at London’s Red Gallery last year and released this week. The two groups united on stage to dabble in a spot of simultaneous poetry, the Dadaist concept of sonic nonsense.
Nov 19, 2014 · All of these influences come into sharp focus when you first examine Words To The Blind. From surrealism you get the dream-like spaces of snarled post-punk atmosphere, abstract half-heard lyrics running together, waves of cacophonous distortion interweaving with each other.
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Nov 11, 2014 · Formed when the arch Anglo-French post-punkers took time out of a late-night recording session to catch the London-formed fully-Japanese band (go figure) in all of their live apocalyptic glory, the Savages-Bo Ningen partnership first bore fruit in the guise of an innovative ‘simultaneous sonic poem’ performed on a specially-designed ‘U ...
Nov 17, 2014 · Words to the Blind by Savages, Bo Ningen released in 2014. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
