The PhonoRealistes

"Songs For A Dead Hare" is a collection of art-folk balads by Canadian artists Daniel Wong and Mary Anne McTrowe that presents 10 low-fi narrative investigations of art history. Songs include a letter from Sol Lewitt to Eva Hesse, a jab at Nicholas Bourriaud's relational aesthetics, and a call-and-response between east and west coast. Other songs consider Hannah Höch, Yves Kline's "very own hue," Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, the life of Barnett Newman, the futurist manifesto, and the history of conceptual art. Also see the Phonorealistes website for a cover of Daniel Johnston's "Story of an Artist". Mixing humor and history with a bedroom-punk 4-track aesthetic, the Phonorealistes are a strange mix of slacker, iconoclast and academic.


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