Little Metropolis
The Little Metropolis CD, book, digital download and merchandise are all available to buy from our Bandcamp site.
Starting life as an hour-long show commissioned by Stroud Fringe Festival in 2015, Little Metropolis is a CD and accompanying book made in collaboration between poet Adam Horovitz and musician Josef Reeve, with further contributions from illustrator Adam Hinks and photographer James Kriszyk. It has been shortlisted for the 2016 Saboteur Awards.
Asked to create a show celebrating the town they grew up in, Horovitz and Reeve set about creating “a collective autobiography of Stroud, albeit a highly impressionistic one”, as David Clarke puts it in his review for Sabotage Reviews. To this end they interviewed six of the town’s residents, spanning three generations, and made a collage of their voices, which was then woven in amongst the music and poetry. “The echoing voices of Stroud inhabitants between the poems reflect on the key theme of the project as a whole: the places which seem to offer us a sense of enduring identity are themselves in a state of constant flux,” writes David Clarke.
Little Metropolis weaves various influences together into a cohesive whole, drawing on everything from Allen Ginsberg to The Orb, acid jazz to Frank O’Hara, John Donne to Trip Hop. It celebrates people long-gone and still present, the psychogeography of shop signs, formative pubs, cafes and markets and the curious minutiae of life in a small town in Britain, aiming to be at once local and universal whilst offering up poetry and social history you can dance to.
There are also two dance remixes of tracks from the album available; you can hear the Jamie Rainbow Stroud Love Zone remix of The Pelican below…
The Little Metropolis CD, book, digital download and merchandise are all available to buy from our Bandcamp site.
