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Dutch composer Stephen Emmer will bring his Recitement LP to the U.S. tomorrow (October 14) via Allegro Music. Those who have paid close attention to Forkcast and/or Pitchfork.tv in the last couple months might have caught the video for Recitement's "Passengers", a track that puts Lou Reed's reading of a text by Paul Theroux over music by Emmer.

The rest of Recitement takes the same shape as "Passengers": Music composed, arranged, and performed by Emmer soundtracking new and appropriated recordings of written works by Samuel Beckett, Charles Baudelaire, and Yoko Ono, among others. In addition to Reed, the list of performers on Recitment includes Allen Ginsberg, Jorge Luis Borges, and Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead).

If all those names aren't enough to pique your interest, there's one more: Bowie/T. Rex/Morrissey collaborator Tony Visconti produced and mixed the disc.

Recitement:

01 Listen, the Snow Is Falling (Pt 1)
02 Passengers
03 The Leaden Echo
04 Mondo Sparito
05 La Beaute
06 Absolutely Grey
07 Invergence of the Twain
08 Boy With a Cart
09 Everness
10 Gaan
11 Disconnected
12 La Pauvre Prostituee
13 O Enterrado Vivo
14 Soms Bidden om Een Kwieke Dood
15 Balcon de France
16 Soweto Sonata
17 Listen, the Snow Is Falling (Pt 2)