The Spoken Word: Early Recordings 1965-1973

Track 1 recorded 1965; also known as "ABC in Sound"; previously issued as Side A of the first Writers Forum LP; this transfer taken from the original master tape. Track 2 recorded 1966; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 3 recorded 1966; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive; this performance is different from the track titled "Worm" issued on the 1988 Birkyak LP "Aberration" (Klinker Zoundz [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/786422]KZ8801[/url]). Track 4 recorded 1968; this 7.05 version is presumably an unedited version or an alternate treatment of the core material; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 5 recorded 1968; previously released on the LP "Sound Texts. ? Concrete Poetry. Visual Texts" (Stedelijk Museum [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1600974]RSC 246[/url], 1970: this transfer from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 6 recorded in Paris, 1968; previously released on cassette on the Balsam Flex label; this transfer taken from the original master tape. Track 7 recorded in Paris, 1968; previously released on cassette on the Balsam Flex label; this transfer taken from the original master tape; this is a different work from 'Computer Poem 6" on the 1988 Birdyak EP "Green Computer" (Klinker Zoundz KZ8805). Track 8 recorded 1968; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 9 recorded 1969; from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive. Track 10 recorded 1971; previously issued on the LP "Experiments in Disintegrating Language / Konkrete Canticle" (Arts Council [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/717545]33AC[/url], 1971; this transfer from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive; this performance is different from the track titled "The Sacred Mushroom" as issued on the the 1988 Birkyak LP "Aberration" (Klinker Zoundz [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/786422]KZ8801[/url]). Track 11 recorded 1973 at Cardiff University studio; issued on a yellow flexidisc as part of issue four of the American concrete poetry journal Typewriter, under the title "e colony - a version"; also issued on the cassette "The Italian Job" by Peter Finch and Bob Cobbing (Klinker Zoundz KZ8802C, 1988); this transfer from Bob Cobbing's personal tape archive.