Very happy Diamanda Dramm is performing her Chimp show live this month and through 2026. The songs are based on poems from two of my books and pick up our longstanding collaborative exchange. The trailer for her show is here https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NszyAxRHdso

credits for Chimp Live
music/violin/voice : Diamanda La Berge Dramm
concept : Diamanda LBD, Sonne Scheermakers
text : SJ Fowler

https://diamandadramm.com/chimp-live/ promo text “Dramm is an intriguing appearance on stage and a great musical talent. Compositionally, Chimp is a personal milestone in size: ten numbers that last a total of 40 minutes. A new challenge is to translate this material into a liveshow, that conserves her so characteristic combination of sublime and spontaneous. The songs are based on texts by British avant-garde poet Steven J Fowler, with whom Dramm has a longstanding collaboration. They are specifically drawn from I Will Show You the Life of the Mind (on Perscription Drugs) and The Great Apes. Dramm brings these two works together through a suggested image: the world of waiting rooms enfolds the world of the apes….”