V/A - Jowe Head Presents: Art For All

"Art For All is a collection of music-pieces curated by Stephen Bird (aka Jowe Head), based on the theme of visual artists and artworks that have inspired the musicians involved in the project. He writes: "I presented a challenge to various songwriters and musicians that I know around the world: I asked them to express their feelings about a visual artist or their artwork, in a piece of music. I had already composed and recorded material about William Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Cornell and Hannah Höch, so I was interested to see how other musicians would respond. I allowed them to choose artists as familiar or as obscure as they wished, in a musical setting of their choice. Styles are diverse, encompassing dirty rock and roll, joyful pop-songs, and abstract sound-pieces. Some pieces use electronica or 'found sounds'; some use lyrics, others no words at all. Some pieces are comments on the lives of the artists themselves, others responses to specific ar