FRANZ MON - Stimmen lauter Stimmen (Lauttexte 1962-64 + Horspiel 1971) LP Photobook Alvvays) to mix six of

Alvvays) to mix six of the record’s eight tracks

with the swing-time swagger of the opening unison riff in "Peasantry or 'Light

and which percolate the album thru to the queered hallucination ‘Face in the Water’ and mesh of spindly strings and loner whispers in ‘Flood of Light’

Rita Simon

FRANZ MON - Stimmen lauter Stimmen (Lauttexte 1962-64 + Horspiel 1971) LP Photobook Alvvays) to mix six ofFranz Mon (born 1926) is a pioneer in the field of concrete, visual and phonetic poetry. He once licked the new radio play into shape like no other german speaking playwright before him. As a sound poet and with his 'articulations' or phonetic pieces, he conceptually renewed sound poetry in the postwar years. A tension of research is generated. Franz Mon is a tireless researcher, his material is language. In "Artikulationen" he speaks of " the dance