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From The Desk Of El Perro Del Mar: Robert Montgomery

A visit to a musical instrument museum with her toddler son inspired El Perro del Mar’s Sarah Assbring to recalibrate her pop sensibilities and work on what would become KoKoro. It was a “please-touch” museum where they could play the instruments, and Assbring fell in love with the percussion used in Indonesian gamelan music, and with harps from Asia and Africa. KoKoro looks outward, both musically and lyrically, to the world, and rather than a tender clinch, it’s a wholehearted bear hug of global pop sounds. Assbring will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on her.

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Assbring: Robert Montgomery is a British poet and conceptual artist. I think of him as a street poet, taking back the public space, urging us passersby to wake up, think and rebel. Someone said about his work: “To encounter his work is to have your body filled with a sad thunder and your head filled with a sad light. His work arrives at us through a kind of lucid social violence.” This is exactly how I felt the first time I stumbled upon one of his poems, and in themselves they inspired me to seek out another way to form my own language on KoKoro. Robert Montgomery’s one of my biggest loves right now.

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