Song(s) of the Day # 3,555 Voice Actor

 

Music and writing a blog about it on a daily basis , is an odd thing these days, oddly akin to being a trainspotter or a member of a fixated and vaguely obsessive cult. Task for today; determining the best album by Kate Bush. 

I was obliged to leave a Facebook group which set itself these kind of objectives earlier on this year. Much as I'd enjoyed it when I first joined, I eventually found it too obsessive and too repetitive for my tastes. It was drifting into the realms of writing and exchanging lists rather than talking about music and I finally found I'd had enough, Like Groucho Marx, I'm naturally suspicious if any club that would choose to have me as a member. So I left to focus my energies on this equally odd pursuit.

Back to music, though it's slightly questionable whether you deem today's Song(s) of the Day to be entirely musical in every respect. I've been led here by Spotify's complex but pretty unerring recommendation system. You listened to this, you might like this. 

I've arrived at Voice Actor and their decidedly freaky record Fake Sleep by this process. It's like waking up from a deep sleep and finding yourself in the middle of a long and confusing Ingmar Bergman film which probably wouldn't make much sense if you'd watched it from the start, 

Voice Actor is as much of an art project of the kind that Laurie Anderson or Yoko Ono embarked on as a conventional music one. You find youself in the company of a woman of indeterminate nationality, Scandinavian probably, my guess Swedish. Banging on relentlessly about a series of unrelated scenarios. All pretty obsessional ones. Such as finding yourself on the top storey of a bus going to Camden and being slapped by a stranger. That's just the strangest episode of the journey here.

I found Fake Sleep an interesting ride this morning listening to it in full. Dream is the best analogy for the experience of listening to it. Or perhaps finding yourself wandering round a modern art installation in a gallery. I enjoyed the experience, though like that art installation, once you've been round once, I'm not sure I'll go round again.