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Vinyl records London are pleased to introduce this New Vinyl Records Double Vinyl by Marc Almond & Michael Cashmore. Two complementary creative sensibilities in intimate interlock supreme compositional and vocal talents fusing to make uniquely dramatic musical and vocal interpretations of searing beauty and insight. Specifically, this suite of songs feature the heightened lyricism of a stunning array of cult poets, both contemporary and of yesteryear. Feasting With Panthers is a stellar collaboration between composer Michael Cashmore Current 93 and vocalist Marc Almond of Soft Cell fame, in the nearest thematic echo and nod, in the latter039s vast back catalogue, to the darker gothic influences of his celebrated Marc And The Mambas period and his acclaimed LAbsinthe and Jacques twisted chanson solo albums.This albums defining aesthetic is the setting of outsider poems to music. Poems by Count Eric Stenbock plus unique lyrical translations by celebrated poet Jeremy Reed of works by Jean Genet, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, as well as Reed039s own poetry. The emphasis throughout is on 039decadent039 poems of thwarted love, illfated romance, selfdestruction and death many poems are woven with homoeroticism, laced with opium dreamstates and all are accompanied by Michael Cashmore039s haunting and melancholic music that lends the verses a deft yearning for beauty and a bittersweet, melancholic longing for lost innocence and youth.Originally released in 2011 and long since deleted, Feasting With Panthers is now restored to back catalogue availability as a double vinyl album its first ever vinyl edition with a variant of the original album artwork and two printed, full colour inner sleeves complete with lyrics and pictures and featuring four bonus tracks. The album was recorded over several years by the artists sending music files back and forth by email and post the artists never once recording together in the studio. Berlin based Michael Cashmore worked at home composing the music, playing all of the instruments and adding Marc039s vocals from files recorded in London. The resulting album is a glorious union of sensual talents, both in voice and music, complementing the intriguing and evocative poetic texts.The project began after Current 93039s David Tibet gave Marc a book of poems by the Baltic German poet Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock. Marc was instantly attracted to the dark eroticism and the melancholic yearning of the verse and, so, contacted Michael Cashmore, whom he had previously worked with on Current 93039s reading of Idumea. He felt Michael would have the right understanding of the verse with his intricate, beautiful musical compositions. From this, the project developed to include many of Marc039s favourite poems by some of his favourite 039outsider039 poets with common thematic ground.
