The Somniloquist

by M. Gira

The Somniloquist cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 January 2000
  • Label: Young God Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:13:16
  • Community rating: 3.2/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Somniloquist' records Michael Gira reading his own fiction and spoken pieces before a live audience. The monologues, drawn from his writing of the period, are delivered without musical accompaniment, their bleak and corporeal imagery carried entirely by voice.

Genres

Descriptors: entertainment-industry, repetitive, spoken-word, monologue, vulgar

Tracklist

  1. Bloodsucker (5:49)
  2. The Sex Machine (12:20)
  3. MTV And The Cult Of The Body (25:00)
  4. The Idiot (17:10)
  5. My Birth (12:57)

Credits

  • Steve Anderson - layout
  • Simon Henwood - photography by
  • John Sarfell - recorded by
  • William Rieflin - recorded by

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