PENNY RIMBAUD (CRASS) - "ACTS OF LOVE" - CD / BOOK

PENNY RIMBAUD (CRASS) - "ACTS OF LOVE" - CD / BOOK

Recorded towards the end of Crass' 7 year social bombardment & previously released in 1985 on vinyl, Acts of Love was Penny Rimbaud's 'other voice'.

50 poems written from 1968 to 1973, set to music - classical, jazz & avant garde - composed by Rimbaud & performed by Eve Libertine.

“Everything that we write is a love song.”— Crass: Yes Sir, I Will

A new edition of the first ex-Crass work from Penny Rimbaud, Eve Libertine and Gee Vaucher, now presented as it was originally conceived, as a 124 page perfect-bound book of 50 poems by Rimbaud, each illustrated by Vaucher, with the accompanying audio CD of songs composed by Rimbaud and sung by Libertine, remastered in 2008 and now released for the first time on CD.

Included on the CD which accompanies the book are the original 50 tracks of the 1985 album release in remastered form plus 21 additional tracks of studio extras and out-takes, and a poem by Eve Libertine.

This remastered version of Acts of Love is dedicated to the memory of John Loder and to that of Wally Hope which whom Penny Rimbaud co-founded the Stonehenge Festivals.

Subtitled: "Fifty Songs To My Other Self".

Tracks 1/50 - remastered version of the original album
Track 51 - interlude
Tracks 51/70 - album out-takes and remixes
Track 71 - First Woman, a poem by Eve Libertine