Ian Craig William/ Kago - Split Series #24The twenty fourth and last ever issue in FatCat's long running and much loved Split Series finally arrives on the 25th anniversary of the Brighton based label. It features acclaimed Canadian singer composer Ian William Craig alongside the brilliant but little known Estonian poet singer Kago. Whilst markedly different, these two fine artists each use their voice as a central element of their craft, mediating it through technology and analog tape to

During the years around the First World War Reesen came to the conclusion that he was the best conductor in town despite not having studied at the conservatoire

I was thinking of this because the music sounded like pursuit

including the New York Philharmonic

The Waits songs I was hearing through these women were breathing differently and deeply

Are the fisher maidens of this world too clueless to sense that the poet has some truly admirable qualities

which are congenially embodied by the unusual instrumentation of the arde Trio

Aarich Jespers describes the album as a whole as "soft and dark

added a tragic aspect

and those who wanted to emulate the soulful craft and passion of the trailblazers from the previous decade

a Roland CR-78 drum machine

In December 1926

Naples and Munich and composing more than two dozen operas in all