Monday, July 22, 2013

Fast Geek Press to release a new multimedia collection of poems called Not Good With Names by Charly Fasano featuring music by Denver’s Malamadre on August 8, 2013.


Not Good With Names is a multimedia book of 30 poems based on 30 linocut block print portraits by Charly Fasano. It includes an mp3 download code of Fasano reading the book in its entirety, backed by the music of Malamadre. It will be released as a paperback book, an ebook, and an mp3 download audio book. Not Good With Names can be thought of as a book of poetry or a record with an illustrated lyric book. Either way, it immerses the reader into Fasano’s brief observations of thirty composite characters. 

The paperback version features a QR Code at the beginning of the book that the reader can scan with a smart phone application in order to access streaming audio portions of the book while looking at the illustrations and reading the poems. The mp3 download of the audio portion of the book, featuring the collaboration between Charly Fasano and Malamadre, includes a PDF of the block print portraits that can be printed as a zine. Fasano and Fast Geek Press hopes the integration of smart phone and tablet technology, as well as the use of QR Codes to link the reader of poetry books to additional media, will invigorate interest in poetry as a popular, tangible and accessible art form.


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Denver, Colorado’s Malamadre is Alejandro Sanchez, Vincent Fasano and Alan Muniz. Malamadre can be looked at as an international art collective rather than a band. Hailing from Mexico, Costa Rica and the U.S., Malamadre brings together a diverse vision of artistic experience and influences. They describe their style of music as synchronized drowning. Their brand of world/avant-garde/jazz is cinematic in how they use changing tempos and subtle rhythmic instrumentations to add space and mood to a landscape of loosely constructed improvisations. The improvised themes that are explored by banjo, guitar, keyboards, trumpet and drums produce unique performances and recording sessions that are rarely repeated. Not Good With Names is their first release. Visit http://malamadremusic.tumblr.com.


Charly the city mouse Fasano is a poet, printmaker, and filmmaker from Ithaca, NY via Denver, CO. He has performed and opened up for bands like Lucero, Drag the River, The Queers, Crime in Stereo, Mark Mallman, Tim Barry, Matson Jones, Land Lines, Cory Branan and more.  He is the co-founder of cassette tape and book label – Fast Geek Press, Pretend You Can Reab audio zine, and As Well As Magazine. He has released a vinyl ep, a CD, two cassette tapes and four books of poems.  Fasano’s poems have appeared in Yellow Rake Zine, Lubricated Magazine, Growing Strange Magazine, This Ain’t No Cowtown Compilation Number  Two and multiple poetry podcasts. His  films and music videos have appeared at movingpoems.com, Westword and The Onion’s AV Club.

Not Good With Names will be available at http://fastgeekpress.storeenvy.com and amazon.com
For more information please visit: http://fastgeekpress.tumblr.com and http://cmousefasano.com