Minstrels Anonymous

by Andy Seven

Minstrels Anonymous is Andy Seven's first solo album after several decades of making noise in the trashed-out back alleys of Hollywood. It combines folk music with heavy goth and industrial influences ala Death In June and Emily Jane White, along with spoken word poetry with sonic landscapes influenced by early Seventies electronic artists like Ruth White, Delia Derbyshire's White Noise, and Jean-Jacques Perrey.

Genres: Poetry

13 pages, MP3 CD

Published January 15, 2021

About the author

Andy Seven has written for music magazines and is a veteran of the original Hollywood punk scene where he played with many legendary bands. Seven's writing employs roman noir/pulp fiction elements with a strong Fifties Beat influence to create a new genre of hard-boiled writing, punk noir. His novels Hot Wire My Heart and Every Bitch For Himself are prime examples of his crime fiction.

Mr. Seven lives in Hollywood and is the author of the bi-weekly blog Out Demons Out, which is now in its sixteenth year. His poetry can be read in the anthologies Will To Flutter and Horror Sleaze Trash Quarterly.
He can also be heard reading his poetry on his three albums Minstrels Anonymous, Sea Level Drive, and Scorpio Rising.

Reviews

[Harry Whitewolf · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one hell of an amazing ear-assaulting experimental word-and-sound jazz-crash offering that I'm sure to listen to again and again. "Halloween Birthday" is my fave. More like this please Andy!

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although Minstrels Anonymous is an album it's a work of poetry readings, so I've decided to add it to my family of literary works. If you're interested in downloads or a fully packaged CD here's my link on Bandcamp:

https://andysevenltd.bandcamp.com/rel...

As spoken word artists go, my main influences are monologists like Joe Frank, Ken Nordine, Lord Buckley, and the great Gary McFarlane. The Kenneth Patchen album with the Canadian Jazz Quartet was also a major influence on my album.