 LINKO – aka Carl Cracknell, is a sound and spoken word artist and audio activist – rhymer in the rap tradition, and sampler of sounds and music to mix whole albums of original hip hop style audio. He has spent years collecting sounds, music of all kinds, spoken word clips and noises. He also has an interest in music for the deaf, and has a Level 1 British Sign Language qualification. Albums include the Whelkism presents series; ‘The Great Eclectic’ ‘CARE?’ ‘From Re;leaf to anxiety’ ‘Return of the Great Eclectic’ ‘Memento Mori: songs for the marble orchard’, and the following which have full colour collage style inlay/self designed covers - The Year Dot: An EP. 2003 Linko: Talk Turning Horse Lingo. 2004 Linko: I Speaka Da Linko. 2005 Linko: Battle Of Los Texeter. 2006 Memento Mori: 1542. 2007 South West Beets Union: Frm Ghosts Of X/ Past. 2008 His latest album is a strikingly sombre and echoingly dark spoken word album with sampled loops, Path8DeepImpacts. Impressive, haunting and unmissable…a unique experience – to be listened to with the volume up! He is currently making Path8DeepImpacts into a live show to be available for commission. If it comes near you, don’t miss it! Seriously – even if you hate spoken word events, you should be moved by this show. He has performed at the Glastonbury Festival, as Re;Leaf, one of The Lords of Misrule acts in the Poetry & Words Tent, Hay-on-Wye Festival Fringe, Holmbush Festival, Live Art Forum South West’s 3 Minute Warning, Plymouth Phoenix, Exeter Phoenix, Timepiece and 3 Fat Fish in Exeter, and has been featured on Vibraphonic Radio during the Vibraphonic Festival, amongst others. He was regular Thursday night DJ at the Velvet Lounge in Exeter, and currently does guest nights on both Phonic FM Radio and on Wednesday DJ nights at The Bamboo Garden in Exeter. He holds a degree in Fine Art from the University of Plymouth, and visual interventions include burning American flags (for which he was nearly sent down), billboard improvement, roadsign adaptation, and ‘The Junk Cross’ constructed one Easter out of flytipping waste – a huge cross in the Haldon Hills. Much of his work is stencil and graffiti based, and he also works with collage. Linko, or Mr. Linko to you, rarely smiles, but then he has a great deal to growl about. However, if he does smile at you, enjoy. To commission the Path8DeepImpacts show or to book Linko as an act for your festival, venue, or event, e-mail; philosophynotes1973@yahoo.co.uk |