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Anat Ben David and Anna Dennis - The Promise Of Meat

from THE PROMISE OF MEAT by Anat Ben-David with Anna Dennis/Richard Scott

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‘The Promise of Meat’ (Anat Ben David and Anna Dennis)
‘The Promise of Meat’ was composed and performed with Anna Dennis by vocally improvising
fragments from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Beginning as a narrative song (using
Golding’s descriptive scenes of the jungle), it gradually degenerates into eloquent chaos, the
slow tribal thud evoking an atmosphere of imminent violence, with Dennis’s soprano sonically
mapping the landscape like a kind of organic synthesiser.

lyrics

The air here was dark too,
And the creepers dropped their ropes
Like the rigging of foundered ships.
The tree trunks and the creepers lost in green dusk
Thirty feet above and all about was the undergrowth

Shrank at the cry with a hiss X3 eeeeee

Of an indrawn breath,
2:20 (the Whine)
2:30 Like the rigging of founded ships/insects
Becoming less a hunter than a furtive thing,
and his breath…
3:16 Aaaaromatic bushed a bole of meat and light
03:25 the promis the promis… of meat/Ape-like among the tangle

Ape-like among the tangle of trees
Hard patter of hoofs, castanet sound, (uncommunicative forest)
And the surge of blood:
The promise of meat
04:29 more oppressive than the heat, the whine of insects,
04:43A harsh cry that seemed to come out

05:00
More oppressive than the heat, X4
the whine of insects,X2

Dark aromatic bushes, a bowl of heat and light.

uncommunicative forest

more oppressive than the heat, the whine of insects,


The air here was dark too, and the creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships. The whine

The tree trunks and the creepers lost in green dusk
Thirty feet above and all about was the undergrowth

Shrank at the cry with a hiss X3

Of indrawn breath,
(in the afternoon sunlight)
07:15
Ape-like among the tangle of trees
Hard patter of hoofs, castanet sound,
And the surge of blood
The promise of meat

08:42: among the tangle of trees
million million…

A harsh cry seems to come out of the abyss

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from THE PROMISE OF MEAT, released April 15, 2021
Anat Ben David and Anna Dennis, Daniel Walton- Trumpet

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Anat Ben-David London, UK

Dr Anat Ben-David explores the freedom of live improvisation combined with traditional methods of musical composition. Her background in experimental theatre (the school of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem) and as a member of electro–punk band and art collective Chicks On Speed, has led to projects such as Kairos OperaArt at the V&A in 2017. ... more

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