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J.J. Tindall
Tindall's audiopoetry embraces both the pop and the more aesthetic/artistic lines of contemporary spoken word. Therein he has found success in creating work that is accessible to laypeople, while rendering ample ideas and subtle innovations for more critical listeners. He adheres to a "poetry first" agenda, where the sonic arrangements made for his language have freedom to embody or amplify his message, but they neither take over nor become the message. Keeping a balance between sound and language does not necessarily exclude their interaction, however. Rather than restrict the music to merely framing speech, Tindall and Rex Tangle arrange musical ambience that heightens the language by unison or, sometimes, by divergent counterpoint. Language and music enjoy a dialogue. Tindall has been compared to Beat or Rock poets of the late 20th century. However, his practice is more akin to poet-musician contemporaries in North America, such as Heather Haley and Ian Ferrier, and poetry bands of the 1980s and 1990s such as Algebra Suicide (Lydia Tomkiw, lead poet) and Circadian Rhythm (Christopher Stewart, lead poet). The following tracks were recorded by Tindall and his colleague Rex Tangle in 2004, with the group name "Quoil" (pronounced as coil). Text and vocals are by Tindall, and the remainder of the compositions were created by Tangle. They're excerpted from their disc titled A Foggy Oasis:
- December 2004
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