I'm not normally one for listening to the lame cd's you get with music mags, but Mojo seems to be pretty good at dishing out quality selections from time to time. A few months ago they did a Sub Pop cd to coincide with their 20th anniversary. All the usual suspects were on the cd, but there was one guy I’d never heard before called Steven Jesse Bernstein and I was immediately struck by the intensity and delivery of his poems which he read over jazzy / lounge / experimental music. Bernstein suffered from mental illness and unfortunately committed suicide in 1991, which meant that the album was never fully completed, but the 10 tracks he did record are testament to his genius. (Buy Prison)
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