| Note: | RARE. HARK TOO! is WORM's tribute to the original 1980 album Hark! By Jacques Plafond - an alias for Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers. According to our particular vision Wim T. Schippers (1942) is one of the most intriguing and creative minds of our time. His works are stupendously intermedial: sculputures, television dramady (drama-comedy), top 40 hits, theatre, radio but always plump themselves firmly within the fields of fluxus, deregulation, orchestrated chaos and phenomenally unexpected craziness. These are a-dynamical works: a big chair ruining the enviroment, a rock flying above the pedistle, negative contributions to exhibitions, a theatre play cast entirely of dogs, mega-radio-hits about burglars, drunks and food, and regular radio and television shows in which everything that could go wrong went wrong. Schipper's work can even lay claims to have influenced the Dutch dicionary, importing new words and sayings into his native language. The album Hark! was conceived by Wim T. in 1980 and shoulder to shoulder with a who's who of Dutch musicians gradually took shape over a period of a year. By the time it was finished however, his record company had a new director at he helm, who lost no love of Hark! It was left to sink without a trace on a barrier of reef of neglect somewhere well beyond the pop charts. With Hark Too!, WORM -a Rotterdam workspace and venue for adventurous music, film and new media- salutes Wim T. Schippers on this rather odd album with a lovingly hand-picked crew representing some fair-headed boys and girls of today from Holland. |
