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LouD Speka

About Me

I have been experimenting with spoken word for a couple of years and have performed in a few places including Space Girls Poetry Salon, Foundry, Upper Room, Synergy Tuesdays, Lick It, Fresh, Sunday Sounds, party for the planet, and the Oh Bars Spoken Cabaret, Small World Festival, Big Green Ball, Littlest Birds, Lazy Birds, Out of Step, Spoonful of Poison, Poetry Café, London Poetry Festival, and Luminopolis. I have been a featured poet of Twin London Poetry Collective with my piece Windmills Turned Lighthouses.I also enjoy playing around with beats n experimenting with sounds. I draw from diverse inspiration from Trip Hop to Folk to Intelligent Drum N Bass. I like to write about social and political issues I am passionate about including social justice in world trade, peace, and climate change. Some of my pieces are philosophical others meditative and some are just plain su-real- in a good way!



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Member Since: 10/05/2007
Band Website: youtube.com/loudspeka
Band Members: Band members include myself (Louise) I produce some of the music myself and I also collaborate with musicians/producers. People I have collaborated with include Producer Spied (Germany) who made music for Message-less Bottle, Jinadu for Windmills Turned Lighthouses, Simon Stevenson produced music for untold and DJ Ross the Red was involved in En-wronged. I have also worked with DJ looped Exodus from Holland and Space Fruit who did music for the Art of High Flying. I have also collaborated with guitarist Nev for live acoustic stuff. I am really interested in collaborating with music producers or live musicians so please get in touch if you want to work together or try something out. I produced the music myself for Mean and Unpleasant Land and Tainted Fairy Tales.
Influences: Am into varied music, I especially appreciate socially conscious and spiritually uplifting lyrics. Poetry Influences-Ursula Rucker, Ani DiFranco, Saul Williams, Gil Scott-Heron, Zack de la Rocha, Music- Lamb, Faithless, LTJ Bukem, Nitin Sawhney, DJ Krust , Badmarsh & Shri, Portishead, Massive Attack, Leftfield, I also like world music, and acoustic folk. Afro Celt Sound system, Bano De Gaia, Asian Dub Foundation, 4hero, Bob Dylan, Beastie Boys, Roots Manuva. I am spiritually and philosophically inspired by writings of Hermit Monk and Poet Activist Thomas Merton.
Sounds Like: I am only just starting to find my way in mix-ing spoken word with music. I don’t want to pin it down too much but want to experiment with how sounds and words combine. I like reflective electronica with ambient soundscapes, electronic acoustic and Drum n Bass when not too aggressive. I also appreciate the rhythm and energy of conscious MCs.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Morning Photo

Great to see the sun rising through the barbed wire.
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:25:00 GMT

windmill poem

Windmill..: Louise Donkin (LouD Speka).-A poem I wrote back in February 07   Spin Doctors spin spoke of windmills wings flinging dandelions seeds inter-changes winds   whirling base...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:39:00 GMT