{"product_id":"feasting-with-panthers","title":"Feasting With Panthers","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stellar collaboration between composer \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Cashmore\u003c\/strong\u003e (Current 93) and vocalist \u003cstrong\u003eMarc Almond\u003c\/strong\u003e of Soft Cell fame. Two complementary creative sensibilities in intimate interlock; supreme compositional and vocal talents fusing to make uniquely dramatic musical and vocal interpretations of searing beauty and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpecifically, this suite of songs feature the heightened lyricism of a stunning array of cult poets, both contemporary and of yesteryear. \u003cem\u003eFeasting With Panthers\u003c\/em\u003e is a stellar collaboration between composer \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Cashmore\u003c\/strong\u003e (Current 93) and vocalist \u003cstrong\u003eMarc Almond\u003c\/strong\u003e of Soft Cell fame, in the nearest thematic echo and nod, in the latter's vast back catalogue, to the darker gothic influences of his celebrated Marc And The Mambas period and his acclaimed ‘L’Absinthe’ and ‘Jacques’ twisted chanson solo albums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis album’s defining aesthetic is the setting of outsider poems to music. Poems by Count Eric Stenbock plus unique lyrical translations - by celebrated poet Jeremy Reed - of works by Jean Genet, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, as well as Reed's own poetry. The emphasis throughout is on 'decadent' poems of thwarted love, ill-fated romance, self-destruction and death: many poems are woven with homo-eroticism, laced with opium dreamstates and all are accompanied by \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Cashmore\u003c\/strong\u003e's haunting and melancholic music that lends the verses a deft yearning for beauty and a bittersweet, melancholic longing for lost innocence and youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 2011 and long since deleted, ‘Feasting With Panthers’ is now restored to back catalogue availability. The album was recorded over several years by the artists sending music files back and forth by e-mail and post; the artists never once recording together in the studio. Berlin based \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Cashmore\u003c\/strong\u003e worked at home composing the music, playing all of the instruments and adding \u003cstrong\u003eMarc\u003c\/strong\u003e's vocals from files recorded in London. The resulting album is a glorious union of sensual talents, both in voice and music, complementing the intriguing and evocative poetic texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe project began after Current 93's David Tibet gave \u003cstrong\u003eMarc\u003c\/strong\u003e a book of poems by the Baltic German poet Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock. \u003cstrong\u003eMarc\u003c\/strong\u003e was instantly attracted to the dark eroticism and the melancholic yearning of the verse and, so, contacted \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Cashmore\u003c\/strong\u003e, whom he had previously worked with on Current 93's reading of ‘Idumea’. He felt \u003cstrong\u003eMichael\u003c\/strong\u003e would have the right understanding of the verse with his intricate, beautiful musical compositions. From this, the project developed to include many of \u003cstrong\u003eMarc\u003c\/strong\u003e's favorite poems by some of his favorite 'outsider' poets with common thematic ground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SFE","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":51187915424075,"sku":"2242518","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CDx2","offer_id":51187914768715,"sku":"2242515","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Screenshot_2025-01-31_at_14.11.22_b19b21c2_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1738345837","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/feasting-with-panthers","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}