(jopappy and the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk

Author: makalani bandele

Publisher: Futurepoem (2024)

(jopappy and the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk is a frenetic multimedia jam session of discursive lyric arranged and produced by poems written in bandele's invented prose poetic form the unit. The form gets its inspiration from virtuoso pianist Cecil Taylor's groundbreaking 1966 album Unit Structures, insofar as it desires to embody the feel of collective improvisation encountered in Free Jazz as poetics. Through the application of Free Jazz aesthetics, the language is pushed toward a heightened ambiguity, as wildly different subjects and source materials are played right after, alongside, and over against one another generating new valences and surprising, even playful suggestions that are at odds with common interpretations of phrases. Enter here to experience Free Jazz as a groove theory, a language model, and an underlying approach to artistic expression.