Richard x Bennett - SCAVENGER in 6 parts
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SCAVENGER in six parts
The six parts are:
1) twelve days of chemo
art installation slowly torn down
2) all i have left is my words
memory and loss
3) love and garbage
destroy the jail
4) how to kill a plant
amaryllis arrives and dies
5) backgammon
gambler makes ultimate bet
6) my elegy
afterlife fantasy
About the SCAVENGER music Bennett says “I didn’t stop being funky just because I was sick. The easiest thing on the piano is to sound depressing so that was avoided. Vibes are also featured prominently. My vibes were rescued from an abandoned storage container so they fit the theme perfectly. People sent me tracks from around the world and I layered them on top of mine.” Along with the studio tracks is an eighteen minute raga development taken from a concert at Columbia University in February.
The SCAVENGER world also features “Love and Forgetting” (Ropeadope release:12/6/24) an imaginative reimagining/remix album with the British electronic musician Aaron Dolton (aka HUW). “L&F” has poetry by Paula Jeanine Bennett as well as rXb that refers (however obliquely) to illness. There are also recitations about metaphysics, mortality, pilgrimage and cell phones.
rXb says: “it's beautiful music. HUW takes obscure parts of my new songs and creates a boombap jazz universe. Lay back and listen to it and your problems will disappear.”
SCAVENGER in six parts uses music from both releases.
Asked about theme, rXb says “obviously cancer overwhelms your life, but making art during this time was cathartic. Hopefully these pieces will impact and help others as well. I’d be delighted if it gave people some deep pleasure.”
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