Track List:

1. Post Mortem Blues of Succession
2. Liquid Art
3. Agent Orange
4. Traitor
5. Antebellum
6. Uterus
7. Vagrant
8. Defect of Birth
9. Desperation
10. If I Were An Ape
11. Dissipated Ritual (Lies of the Emperor) 06900
12. Poetaster
13. Envy
14. Defiant Skin
15. Filthy Voodoo Rhymes
16. Industry
17. Dissipated Ritual (Lies of the Emperor) 069042-096049

Label: Optimism through Pessimism Records
Big-Hired Assassin: One man, and an Army of words
Spoken word is an ambiguous genre to say the least. You could have a Spaulding Gray monologue on CD and call that spoken word, or listen to Rollins complain about airports on an audio cassette; even reciting a published novel onto audio format so the blind could experience the yarn of some well-known author could be considered spoken word. And they all are forms of spoken word, in its literal definition. But the Big-Hired Assassin album is poetry vocalized, poetry realized by the author himself, all the inflections and tones that resided in his mind while writing the work has been transferred so that we can all feel what he felt. Here we get not only the words, but the soul of the words.