Reed,Jeremy & Ginger Light Big City Dilemma CD

The Ginger Light is the musical collaboration between the acclaimed poet and author Jeremy Reed and the musician and producer Itchy Ear. Together they create a performance dynamic unparalleled in British Poetry and an excitement usually only generated by pop. The Ginger Light fuses spoken word, music, sound design and song. This is Jeremy Reed's debut CD release. He has had 50 major literary works published over the past 25 years; more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels and volumes of music and literary criticism including tomes on Marc Almond (with whom he is a frequent collaborator), Billie Holiday and Elvis Presley and translations of Cocteau, Montale and Adonis among many others. He has won many prestigious literary prizes like the Somerset Maugham Award and was patronised by the legendary artist Francis Bacon.

1. Piccadilly Bongo 2. Nifty Jim 3. Jack the Ripper 4. Thieves Like Us 5. Born to Lose 6. Urban Decay 7. Big City Dilemma 8. West End Survival Kit 9. Bacon/Garbo 10. Gunn Dead 11. Finding the Thief 12. Rimbaud's Formula 13. Pete 14. Lisa's Voice 15. Multitrack 16. Sleeper in the Valley