Crass Agenda
Savage Utopia
Exit 2-04

Savage Utopia part 1 mp3
Savage Utopia part 2 mp3
Savage Utopia part 3
Savage Utopia part 4
Savage Utopia part 5 mp3

Savage Utopia employs a very different version of Crass Agenda [to How], driven by the beats and glitchy synthesisers of Matt Black (Coldcut) rather than Paul Clarvis's drums, but there's a similar rhetoric - a long poem that Rimbaud wrote in the early 1970s inspired by a journey across the United States. (John Walters - The Guardian)

Penny Rimbaud from the Crass Agenda (ex-collective), a loose collective of musicians, performance artists and poets formed in 2003 by the leaders of the seminal anarcho-punk outfit Crass that split in 1984. Savage Utopia features featuring Eve Libertine, Christine Tobin , A-Soma , Louise Elliot , Kevin Davey , Phil Robson , Liam Noble , Davide Mantovani , Matt Black (of Coldcut ) performing work by Penny Rimbaud

Penny Rimbaud Spokesman and political brainchild behind Crass, Penny has been a leading figure in UK political revolutionary culture from the late 1970s. Although nominally part of its initial wave, Penny blasted punk music's fake revolution, its deepening treacherous attitude towards its radical origins that had involved DIY culture and political protest.

Christine Tobin is currently one of the leading, critically rated vocalists working out of the contemporary jazz scene. Her earlier work includes stints in Django Bates' Delightful Precipice, Tim Garland's Lammas, and she has worked in bands with Julian Arguelles, Kenny Wheeler, Joe Locke, Clark Tracey, Gary Husband and Billy Childs amongst many others as well as recording her own idiosyncratic singer song writing and interpretations now on her sixth album due out this month on Babel. Australian saxophonist and flautist Louise Elliot leads her band The African music-inspired Jazz Hearts that includes trumpeter Claude Deppa and also plays with the Grand Union Orchestra and Mervyn Africa Group, the Guest Stars and Jah Wobble. Italian born bassist Davide Mantovani is also typical of the versatility of the artists on this CD, having wide artistic recording and performing experience with Steve Lodder, Spirit Level, Juan Martin, Monica Vasconcelos among others as well as extensively studying mime, acting and film score composition.

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