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“If you are constantly fearful
you will not enjoy your
clean dress”
At the top of this year,
I saw Milwaukee-based artist
Alexander Kollman
aka s.al aka Safari Al
perform at a poetry
reading in Chicago.
Playing beats he had made
(specifically for the reading)
through an old tape player,
he read from pages
of the recently released
Silt Rifle:
his first exclusive
bi-monthly
multimedia creation
through Patreon.
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subscribers directly receive
original material
in the form of zines and cassettes.
While Silt Rifle's first edition,
Stone School,
was released months ago,
it is now available
for all non-Patreon users
via Bandcamp.
You can listen
to the double-sided
32 minute reading
(over original production)
as well as purchase cassettes,
shirts, and jewelry.
While you're at it,
you can enjoy a video
of s.al in his poetic element,
complete with Blues Clues-esque
illustrations by Carol Brandt.
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