The Elvis Machine, by Kim Vodicka & Jack Alberson

The Elvis Machine

by Kim Vodicka & Jack Alberson

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J. Robot It was a pleasure to help create a sonic backdrop to Kim's incredible performance style. We worked on these off and on over the last couple years and learned a lot about how to present our work along the way, culminating in an amazing improvisation of "Blunt Force Drama". Apart from some post-production (dubby echoes, some glitching), this track is as we performed it. Kim's work pushes buttons and that is a beautiful thing. Favorite track: Blunt Force Drama.

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	1.	High Tea 05:05
	2.	Bechdel Test 05:18
	3.	Blunt Force Drama 09:47

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The Elvis Machine EP features spoken word poetry by Kim Vodicka and music by Jack Alberson. Vodicka's swamp witchy vocalizations whirl through the halls of Alberson's sonic artistry. These tracks correspond to the titular poems in Vodicka's The Elvis Machine poetry collection, released by Clash Books on 07/07/2020. This EP is a companion to the book.

The Elvis Machine is a book of poems inspired by living, loving, and hate-fucking in Memphis, Tennessee—a city still kissed with the 1950s. Forged in a dumpster fire of toxic Elvises, these poems are pornographic bad romances, psychedelic love dirges, and threnodies for sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll. They’ll make you laugh off the pain as much as you'll cry, cringe, and feel exposed in this 'No Boys Allowed' clubhouse of feminine rage and healing.

Order The Elvis Machine book here: www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/kim-vodicka-the-elvis-machine

Order Jack Alberson's most recent release, Kaleidoscope, here: migrainerobotsounds.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidoscope

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released July 7, 2020

Kim Vodicka - Words & Vocals
Jack Alberson - Music, Recording, Engineering, & Production

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Kim Vodicka Memphis, Tennessee

Kim Vodicka is the spokesbitch of a degeneration, "a softer-spoken, more genteel Lydia Lunch," according to the Houston Press. For the past decade, she has toured the country performing spoken word poetry with musical accompaniment. Cruise her at kimvodicka.com. ... more

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