Voiceprint Music - Release

Release

£9.99

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Catalogue number

VP403CDMO

Release date

08/10/2007

Format

CD and Book

Label

Voiceprint

Robert Calvert

Centigrade 232

Disc 1

1. THE FIRST LANDING ON MEDUSA - Swing 2. Ode to a Crystal Set 3. The First Landing on Medusa 4. Ode to a Time Flower 5. Some Sketches of a Hand 6. The Starfarer's Despatch 7. Song of the Gremlin 8. The Pause 9. The Clone's Poem 10. Centigrade 232 11. Fahrenheit 451 12. The Naked and Transparent Man Gives Thanks 13. BUSTER KEATON AND THE VIRGIN SPERM DANCER - Dance Steps 14. Lines for a Conception Card 15. Lady with a Looking Glass 16. The Siren 17. Buster Keaton and the Virgin Sperm Dancer 18. Your Time 19. A Refusal to Mourn the Removal, by Surgery of Two Benign Tumours 20. Circle Line 21. An Unposted Letter 22. THE URBAN MOUNTAINEER - The Clerk 23. Cleaning a Rapidograph 24. A Letter of Complaint to the Council 25. Fly on the Screen 26. The Recovery 27. Nail-Biter 28. Mountaineering in Suburbia 29. The Last Kitten 30. Caterpillar 31. Snowfall 32. Insomnia 33. Storm 34. Overslept 35. The Day We Hunted Birdsong 36. Fountains in the Park 37. Coots 38. RAGWORM IN A ROCK POOL - Shell 39. Beach Combing 40. Ragworm in A Rock Pool 41. Seagulls (for Richard Bach) (1) 42. Seagulls (for Richard Bach) (2) 43. Recollections of a Seaside Love Affair 44. The Drowned Man 45. THE RED BARON REGRETS - Churchill's Secret Rock Deal 46. The Red Baron Regrets 47. John Keates at Margate 48. Voodoo Child (In Memory of Jimi Hendrix) 49. The Legend of Esra Pound

THIS IS A MAIL ORDER TITLE ONLY.

"232 is the temperature at which writing paper burns rather than book paper. It's meant to signify the writer destroying his rough drafts." - R.C.

Despite the fact that most people view Robert Calvert as a rock musician, Robert actually viewed himself as a poet and a writer. It is of course easy to see where the confusion arises as Robert was for many years a member of British rock band Hawkwind. Robert recorded numerous albums with the band between the years 1971 and 1978 including important releases such as Space Ritual and Quark, Strangeness and Charm.

Originally published in 1977 Centigrade 232 is seen amongst the Robert Calvert as being an important publication gathering together as it did some of Robert Calvert’s best work up to this point including Centigrade 232, Beach Combing, First Landing On Medusa and Fly On The Screen.

In 1986 Robert Calvert recited Centigrade 232 and sold the tape through his mailing list. These cassette tapes are like the book - now incredibly rare and treasured collectible items in part due to their rarity. Original copies of the book and cassette now change hands for inflated sums on the traders and collectors markets.

October 2007 will see a limited edition reprint of Centigrade 232. The book will come as a limited edition package which includes a CD of the original Robert Calvert recording of Centigrade 232.

This highly collectible edition will cost just £9:99 plus p&p and be limited to just 500 copies with each copy being individually numbered.