New Album from Raymond Antrobus and Evelyn Glennie: Aloud

Raymond Antrobus and Evelyn Glennie [Tape Op #154] return with a new album, Aloud, part two of their spoken word poetry collaboration. Produced again by Grammy-winner and regular Tape Op contributor Ian Brennan [#116] (Tinariwen, Parchman Prison Project, The Good Ones [Rwanda]), the album was recorded 100% live in a single afternoon without rehearsal and with almost every track being a first take. Glennie’s parts were 100% improvised without her having prior knowledge of any poem performed.
Monolith Cocktail wrote about Antrobus and Glennie’s debut that it was “unlike anything you may have heard or felt in some time.”

The Canadian Broadcast Company (CBC) hailed it as a “beautiful collaboration.”
Evelyn Glennie is the most renowned solo percussionist in the world and the only deaf musician to ever win a Grammy (which she has done twice, while also being nominated five other times).
Raymond Antrobus is a Jamaican British, Ted Hughes Award winning poet whose newest book is an exploration of deafness titled, The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound.
Both Antrobus and Glennie have formally been awarded honorific titles by the Queen of England. Antrobus holds an MBE (Knighthood); Glennie the rare title of Dame.