Artist description Spoken word performance by award-winning Los Angeles poet/vocalist & co-founder of The Sacred Beverage Press, Matthew Niblock. Frequently accompanied by a startling variety of startling musicians in startling fashion.

Music Style Spoken word w/musical note(s).

Musical Influences Ellyn Maybe, Disposable Heroes of Hipocrisy, Jeffrey McDaniel, Hal Wilner, Viggo Mortensen, Duke McVinnie, Tracy Thielen,

Similar Artists I don't think so.

Artist History Matthew Niblock is the author of GOD THE MOTION PICTURE (1994, Dance of the Iguana Press), HELLO MY NAME IS ABERDEEN (1996, Inevitable Press), DRINK ME (with Amelie Frank, 1997, Valley Contemporary Poets Press), THE DEAD ZOO (1998, Cassowarry Press) and PAT BENATAR MEDLEY (2000, Inevitable Press). His work has been published widely in literary journals and anthologies, including Caffeine Magazine, Speakeasy, Sheila-na-Gig, the Los Angeles Times, Scream When You Burn, 51%, many more. Once, Matthew was actually banned in Boston. He co-founded The Sacred Beverage Press with poet Amelie Frank in 1994. They produced the award-winning literary journal BLUE SATELLITE for 6 years, and edited & published & books by Erica Erdman, Jeannette Clough, Nelson Gary, Ellyn Maybe, the Carma Bums, Richard Osborn Hood, francEyE, Elliott Baker, more. Their Carma Bums book TWISTED CADILLAC is now on the required reading list in English: Beat Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Matthew Niblock is the recipient of the Allen J. Freedman Poetry Prize for his poem. "Zoo Metaphors, " and he has been twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He was a member of the 1998 semi-finalist Venice Beach Team at the National Poetry Slam in Austin, and has toured throughout the U.S., performing spoken word, as a backing vocalist for performance poet June Melby, and with his bands, first The Clear, and more recently, superman loses the girl again. His spoken word/audiocollage/improvisational music performance cassette-only releases THE HOUSE I LIVE IN, FILM SCHOOL, and VOICEBOX have received critical praise in the performance press, and have been widely sold and (more than occasionally) bootlegged. Now available for the first time on DAM CD: GOD THE MOTION PICTURE (previously released as WATER) featuring Casey Arrillaga (Chapman Stick & percussion), Anna Ferraro (piano), Tracy Thielen (autoharp & guitar), Rich Ferguson (drums), Cliff Ulrich (guitar, harmonica, vocals), Kira Arrillaga (vocals) & Matthew Niblock (text, vocals, percussion), more. Recorded live to DAT at the legendary Iguana Cafe in 1995. Upcoming: a new book from The Sacred Beverage Press: The Extended Haiku Remix Project. Etc.

Group Members Matthew Niblock does the talking. There's a bunch of people playing a bunch of stuff while he's doing it, though.

Instruments first comes the word. then the the other stuff. and the other stuff is anything we can beg, borrow, or steal. please note: all muscial compositions on this here page, except that down by the riverside stuff (trad.) was improvised by the players. brave fol

Albums God the motion picture

Press Reviews Best Southern California Poet---NEXT... Magazine. "...the best spoken word performer I have ever seen."---Greg Stant, www.spokenwar.com

Location Los Angeles, Ca - USA

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