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Four Horsemen

bpNichol, Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton, and Rafael Barreto-Rivera.


photo: Robert Hindley-Smith

Two Nights, 1988 (Performed on October 9 & 10, 1987)

  1. Side A (41:12): MP3
  2. Side B (30:39): MP3

Live Performance at The Rivoli, Toronto, October 11, 1984

with Steve McCaffery on reeds

  • Track 1 (3:41): MP3
  • Track 2 (4:16): MP3
  • Track 3 (3:35): MP3
  • Track 4 (7:20): MP3
  • Track 5 (4:59): MP3
  • Track 6 (4:37): MP3
  • Track 7 (5:57): MP3
  • Track 8 (7:13): MP3

Live in the West (Toronto: Starborn Productions, 1977)

  1. Mayakovsky (2:50): MP3
  2. Assassin (1:27): MP3
  3. Sally Wants to Go (2:57): MP3
  4. Over-Revised (2:55): MP3
  5. Holy Thursday (2:33): MP3
  6. Matthew's Line (4:10): MP3
  7. Sonada (6:12): MP3
  8. Mischievous Eve (9:32): MP3
  9. Good-bye > Stagelost (13:11): MP3

Liner notes (via EPC)
Produced by Starborne Productions
Engineer: Robert Hindley-Smith
Assistant Engineer: Renwick Day

Nada Canadada (Toronto: Griffin House, 1973)

  1. from Beast (bpNichol) (1:04): MP3
  2. Matthew's Line (3:11): MP3
  3. Allegro 108 (3:51): MP3
  4. Seasons (14:36): MP3
  5. Coffee Break (0:58): MP3
  6. Theme (9:53): MP3
  7. Monotony (1:57): MP3
  8. Michael Drayton (3:03): MP3
  9. In the Middle of a Blue Balloon (6:36): MP3

Producer: Robert Hindley-Smith
Engineer: John de Nottbeck

Other Four Horsemen Links

The Four Horsemen, Live in the West (UBU)

Video of The Four Horsemen performing (clip from Ron Mann’s documentary Poetry in Motion): (YouTube)

From The Prose Tattoo; Selected Performance Scores of The Four Horsemen (Thing.Net)

Carnivocal – A Celebration of Sound Poetry (features McCaffery and Nichol, and other poets):

See also PennSound pages for Nichol, McCaffery, and Dutton.

Artistic Response:

The Four Horsemen appear by courtesy of Axis Productions, Ltd. The Four Horsemen arebpNichol, Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton, and Rafael Barreto-Rivera.