Squidco: Schorken, Hanna: You Told Me How To Dance

You Told Me How To Dance

Hanna Schorken is a published German writer & poet, jazz vocalist and free improviser, since 2005 living in Koln and developing a personal and idiosyncratic approach to sound poetry and experimental voice recordings, heard here in a 7 part work where each movement completes the titles of the poem "I So Liked Spring"; "You"; "Told"; "Me"; "How"; "To"; "Dance".

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UPC: 5609063405767

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs576
Squidco Product Code: 26723

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2018
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Fattoria Musica, in Osnabruck, Germany, in March, 2018, by Steffen Lutke.

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"Hanna Schörken, born 23 of July 1985 in Duisburg, Germany. In 2005 she moved to Köln, in order to study comparative literary studies at the University of Bonn. At this time she began writing her own poems and soon she had readings in several cafés and institutions. While concentrating on publishing, writing and reading her poems she started to experiment with her voice. Her readings became more and more voice performances. She decided to study Jazz Singing and moved to the Netherlands in 2008, where she was accapted at the ArtEZ Conservatory / Institute of the Arts. She studied and attended workshops with: Silvia Droste, Romy Camerun, Fay Claassen, Florian Weber, Markus Stockhausen etc. She sings and performs in several projects of jazz and free improvised music as well as interdisciplinary projects in the field of dance, literature and music."

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Track Listing:

1. I So Liked Spring 2:05

2. You 5:16

3. Told 6:45

4. Me 4:14

5. How 5:46

6. To 3:13

7. Dance 5:28

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