via imomus.com
On Wednesday September 1st Momus presented his new album Hypnoprism on Barbara Murdter's show Popkontext on Berlin radio station Reboot FM. Momus played a selection of music and talked (in English) about his new tracks. The show is archived here.
On Tuesday 21st September Momus will deliver a 45-minute speaking-singing lecture in Berlin entitled The Emotional Lecture. It happens at the ImageMovement shop in Mitte (Oranienburger Str. 18 10178 Berlin) at the invitation of Andreas Reihse from Kreidler, and is part of a biweekly curated program entitled MOVE #.
The 2010 album from Momus, Hypnoprism, is released in the US and Europe (via labels American Patchwork and Analogue Baroque) at the end of September. The album features on its cover Diamond Eye, a painting by New York-based Japanese artist Misaki Kawai. Design is by James Goggin of Practise. The record can be pre-ordered via iTunes (digital) and Amazon (physical), as well as from the labels themselves.
Momus aka Nick Currie would probably be surprised to find himself in a list of contemporary Scottish intellectuals - but this brilliant and notoriously beyond-good-and-evil art songsmith, born in Aberdeen but based in Berlin, wrote himself into the pantheon with The Book of Scotlands, a Borgesian spin through alternative realties of Scotland in which "300 years of Calvinism were replaced with 300 years of Calvino" (Thoughtland's review here). Other than that, he's one of the cleverest minds alive on art, politics and transgression.