Chris Newman
NEW SONGS OF SOCIAL CONSCIENCE
SIX SICK SONGS
LONDON

NEW SONGS OF SOCIAL CONSCIENCE (1990)
1. It Wouldn't Do You Any Harm mp3
2. She Nose It
3. Only Love your Life
4. I Know It's So
5. Good Day After Good Orgasm
6. Beautiful Sky
7. I Got My Videos
SIX SICK SONGS (1984)
8. Touchez
9. Celtic Lullaby
10. They Remembered I Forgot
11. Watch 'em Bend
12. Latest French Style
13. Airships On My Tit
LONDON (1992)
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rere 185 - CD 1998 - 38'53"

Born in 1958 in London. He´s studied at King´s College, London (1979 bachelor of music),then, from 1980 - 83, music theatre with Mauricio Kagel at the Musikhochschule Köln. He´s now living and working in Berlin. Since 1980 he´s produced a wide range of artistic works, including music, painting, poetry, video and performance. Numerous exihbitions, concerts and readings in Europe and the USA. He gave concerts at Hessischer Rundfunk, Deutschlandfunk, Konzerthaus Berlin, Musikakademie Basel, Conway Hall London, ICA London, Kitchen New York, Cooper Union New York and many other places.

"These songs are built of everyday material, ´nothing special´ taken out of context, ´nothing special´ put on a pedistal. Not the exception. No escapism. The always & everything material. Potentially anything from this potential anything I build my work. Material which occurs to me without censorship. I have no preconception as to what a song is ´meant´ to sound like. This material, having been collected in the net of my head is then compiled, but not in a collage-type way - I loathe collage - but in a way which spreads the material onto time, spreads its meaning along the line of time. In singing the songs I do not try to be a singer but rather a singing self; in the way the material is a potential anything, I am here a potential anybody, a potential anybody put up on a pedistal."

Chris Newman voice
Michael Finissy piano, voice on 2,9,14