A great day for neo-poetry
Yessir, it’s here, the Penultimate DVD! A new day, that from
eternity past was marked for newness; Neo-poetry: “We are
his poetry, we are new men / and if you don’t believe me
read Ephesians 2:10!“. Shout outs to urbanmissiontv for their
blitz clips of the awe-inspiring acts, giving a taster of the full
sets, now available to order from the verbswish.com store.
Much like the newness of this Ressurection Sunday, it’s great to
get, but even better to give as a gift. Thanks for all your
support in buying this DVD and supporting what we’re doing.
Enjoy the show, and let us know what you think.
Don’t listen to verbswish poetry!
until you’ve watched this. What your about to watch is spoken word, but perhaps not as your use to hearing it. This is probably the best introduction to one of my particular fields - matters of religous truth and sprituality, and to properly appreciate what it is were trying to do with a lot of poems, you need to have watched the video first. It’s kind of a necessary qualifier. It’s about an hour long, and is done by Greg Koukl, one of my mentors. I suggest you find an hour when no-one will bother you, put the kettle on and watch/listen carefully.
Just as an opening illustration, a couple of years back I asked a well known poet (who I won’t name) the question, “Is it wrong to torture babies for fun?”, for clarity I added “I want to know whether the act itself is wrong, objectively so; whether at any time, anywhere, under any circumstances it could possibly be morally acceptable to torture babies for the pleasure it brings you?” and the poet responded with a chilling, “it depends”. I am not kidding you, this actually happened, it was a question borrowed from Greg who will explain in the video why the poet gave this disturbing response.
When you’ve watched, please come back and leave your comments and thoughts here - all viewpoints welcome:)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9219638402717265149&q=greg+koukl&hl=en
Swish Spins - The Experiment
Ok, so here’s the confession. Inside me there is a DJ trapped waiting to get out, I like radio, but on the real, I cant’ really find many shows I love, so here’s how it’s gonna work: From time to time I’ll post the play list here:
At the moment this is…
(1) Partly me spinning records for me, and partly me giving you the heads up on what we like sonically over here at TRANSTATIC.
(2)If you’d like to actually hear the set for yourself - holler.
(3) If enough people do (2) then we’ll put out the show, if not I’ll revert to (1:)
Session 1 (27/02/08)
Robot Rock / Oh Yeah - Daft Punk (Alive 2007)
Love Revolution - Lenny Kravitz (Love Revolution)
To know Him is to love Him - Amy Winehouse (Live session)
Wordplay - Jason Mraz (Mr A-Z.)
That’s the way of the world - Dwele (Interpretations)
1983 , Flying Lotus (1983)
The Hype, NSM - (Brownswood Bubblers)
Cryin Out - Trip Lee (If They Only Knew)
Hands Up - DJ Premier (Hip-Hop Instrumentals Vol. 3)
Brazillian Groove [Instrumental] - Jay Dee
The Chronicles (I Will Always Love H.E.R)
Not A Slave - J.R (Life By Stereo )
Every Step - Tawiah (iTunes Single of the week)
Oh My Daze!
Yes, that is correct spelling, I really meant to say ‘daze’. Such is the euphoria after this weekend’s off-the-handle celebrations for the launch of record label and my life into its 26th orbit of the calendar. Was joined by the fabulous Abimaro for a joint b’day celebration that I won’t forget in a hurry. Great people, great vibe, nuff love. Big up’s to all the acts: hang-tight Poet Michaela who soldieried it all the way down from Brum to be there. Plus James Crooke, what can I say, ”dude!”, watch out for him, had the crowd pulling up his acoustic brit pop (not something you see every day) - such a dark horse he leaves charcoal hoof prints - trust. Asah Shabazz blessed the mic with some awesome flows, including the stellar ‘better now’.
In all, a beautiful start for TRANSTATIC. Thanks for showing out e’rybody, God willing we’ll do it all again in a couple months, don’t sleep.
[verb]swish
Cafe Suki gig 23/03/08, cancelled
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Cafe Suki gig - postponed till 23/3/08
The Cafe Suki show originally scheduled for Sunday 10th Feb 2008 has been rescheduled till the March 23 2008. More info available from www.xtrasleek.co.uk
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Who/what is [verb]swish?
A type of word + a sound, in a noun? a lyricist; a name, a style, a purpose, a privilege
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[verb]swish is a lyricist originally from South London delivering his unique style of spoken soul and neo-poetry. Often seen leading a vocal ensemble, with his band or delivering straight accapella spoken word. His debut book, Selected Swishes is re-released in Feb 2008 with a debut album also due out this year on TRANSTATIC records
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