Almond, Marc / Cashmore, Michael: Feasting With Panthers - VINYL LP
Artist: Almond, Marc / Cashmore, Michael
Label: Sfe
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5013929842571
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2025-05-02
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT
Double vinyl LP pressing. A stellar collaboration between composer Michael Cashmore (Current 93) and vocalist. Marc Almond of Soft Cell fame. 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 latter's vast back catalogue, to the darker gothic influences of his celebrated Marc And The Mambas period and his acclaimed 'L'Absinthe' and 'Jacques' twisted chanson solo albums. This album's 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 Reed's own poetry. The emphasis throughout is on 'decadent' poems of thwarted love, ill-fated romance, self-destruction and death: many poems are woven with homo-eroticism, laced with opium dreamstates and all are accompanied by Michael Cashmore's 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 in a 2xCD mini-album sleeve style capacity wallet complete with a fold-out poster lyrics sheet and featuring four bonus tracks. The album was recorded over several years by the artists sending music files back and forth by e-mail and post; the artists never once recording together in the studio.
Tracks:
1.1 The Thief and the Night A2 - Sonnet XI
1.2 Boy Caesar
1.3 The Lunatic Lover
1.4 Crime of Love
1.5 Sleeper in the Valley
1.6 Song of the Unwept Tear
1.7 Patron Saint of Lipstick B5 - Gabriel
2.1 El Desdichado
2.2 Hotel de France and Poetry
2.3 The Man Condemned to Death C4 - Feasting with Panthers
2.4 Gabriel (2025 New Orchestrated Instrumental)
2.5 The Man Condemned to Death (2025 New Orchestrated Instrumental)
2.6 The Lunatic Lover (Live, Official Bootleg) D4 - Gabriel (Live, Official Bootleg)
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