'spiritual demons' by roxword is spoken word that rocks in a variety of musical and intellectual directions. It moves seamlessly from r & b to jazz to rock to classical to soundscape to new age to music beyond category... more », all expertly punctuated with the mind-bending poetry of roxword. The disc features 21 original compositions and over 55 minutes of aural and mental stimulation...provocative visions to haunt your inner world and inspire your outer life. roxword is the latest in spoken word.« less
'spiritual demons' by roxword is spoken word that rocks in a variety of musical and intellectual directions. It moves seamlessly from r & b to jazz to rock to classical to soundscape to new age to music beyond category, all expertly punctuated with the mind-bending poetry of roxword. The disc features 21 original compositions and over 55 minutes of aural and mental stimulation...provocative visions to haunt your inner world and inspire your outer life. roxword is the latest in spoken word.
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Tammy Kaiser | Seattle, WA USA | 07/20/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I love it! On a windless night, with the owls outside and a nice merlot by the bedside i closed my eyes and drank in every brilliant word of this man's verse. What a gifted poet. The only thing better than this CD would be a personal appearance in my bedroom. This man is wavy!"
""We are all ghost poets simply composing our complicated lives..."
Track 9, Gridlock BluesI've enjoyed the poems and prose of Roxword for several years now. This is a guy who never loses his sense of humour while tackling head-on all the questions we find so hard to answer in life-or else find hard to accept. I mean, who can argue with the rapier-like point of "Ecological logic"...flush it
dust it
wash it
bag it
burn it
plant it
dig it
suck it
sweep it
keep it
but all we do
is move our dirt
around.That same kind of in-your-face-with-a-sense-of-grace attitude is now spread across 21 tracks on Roxword's debut CD, "Spiritual Demons". This time he's in the company of a team of equally poetic musicians including Christopher Benham ("america's most wanted playboy on the ultimate bachelor make-out drum kit"), and Karl Sutton ("feature-flavored maestro on retro-ghetto keyboards")."There's a saw in my brain buzzin like a hurrican and it's takin' down trees like they had some disease..."
Track 8, Everyone needs a good jobThere are some real masterpieces here, beginning with track two, no one but one, in which Roxword plays the role of a small-town circus barker inviting one and all to "step right up and witness the six-headed monster of your own desires". Check out track 6, roadside attraction, a poem sprung from the moral twists and turns on the road of lifeStill trying to get a fix on what Roxword is all about? Take a tablespoon of TomWaits, add a cup of conscience, stir in a siren voice, combine with one beat machine plus guitars and a keyboard--then let rise for one hour as you sit back and relax while gems like 'return to grace' and 'immaterial witness' wash over you. Go ahead and treat yourself to this wonderful debut by a truly gifted poet/performer."
Poetry in Motion
Lenchen Elf | UK | 12/29/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Rox takes sharp witty sardonic look at man and brings his charged and challenging use of language to buzzing electric life with original music and unique delivery. Highly recommend this as a reminder to look at yourself, your values then to enjoy what life really is, in his words, from the poem Immaterial Witness:
"exactly perfect in your own imperfection" :-)"
It just gets better and better
elizabeth rose wild | vancouver,canada | 01/23/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"at first i didn't get it. i wasn't listening close enough. by the third time i was hooked.if he's ever in your town make sure you catch his performance. his voice reminds me of a beautiful,soulful,romantic leonard cohen. this man is truly gifted!!"
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Emilio Iacabuci | Vancouver, B.C. | 08/02/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"...I'll also be the first to admit, I'm shallow and ordered the CD based on the cover art alone and as part of a creative writing poetry review assignment my college class is working on. When it arrived, I cued him up, poured a wine and started taking notes. Before long, I realized the CD was over and I hadn't taken a note. His words took me to the edge of the universe and back. It was dreamy and well worth putting on once more before falling asleep on the couch. His words fell into my dreams and I woke up smiling. He should be getting lots of airplay with 'Roadside Attraction'. I tried to check out his web site but couldn't get on. Check him out..."
Track Listings (21) - Disc #1