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The Frequency of Magic

by Anthony Joseph

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Chapter 1 10:30
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Chapter 2 09:27
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Chapter 3 10:46
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Chapter 4 10:52
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Chapter 5 10:38
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Chapter 6 09:28
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Chapter 7 07:49
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Chapter 8 11:03
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Chapter 9 10:57
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Chapter 10 09:40
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Chapter 11 11:17
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Chapter 12 10:31
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Chapter 13 11:45
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Chapter 14 11:58
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Chapter 15 12:30
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Chapter 16 09:00
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Chapter 17 10:03
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Chapter 18 11:01
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Chapter 19 10:09
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Chapter 20 11:00
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Chapter 21 09:46
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Chapter 22 11:47
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Chapter 23 09:05
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Chapter 24 11:22
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Chapter 25 09:01
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Chapter 26 09:12
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Chapter 27 10:27
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Chapter 28 11:39
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Chapter 29 09:59
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Chapter 30 10:14
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Chapter 31 09:52
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Chapter 32 10:20
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Chapter 33 08:54
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Chapter 34 10:07
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Chapter 35 09:21
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Chapter 36 09:26
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Chapter 37 09:18
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Chapter 38 11:57
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Chapter 39 10:50
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Chapter 40 10:25
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Chapter 41 09:47
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Chapter 42 11:16
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Chapter 43 10:06
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Chapter 44 09:20
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Chapter 45 09:28
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Chapter 46 10:36
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Chapter 47 11:06
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Chapter 48 10:13
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Chapter 49 08:14
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Chapter 50 12:46
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Chapter 51 09:50
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Chapter 52 11:06
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Chapter 53 10:26
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Chapter 54 11:18
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Chapter 55 10:21
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Chapter 56 09:01
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Chapter 57 10:23
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Chapter 58 10:09
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Chapter 59 09:40
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Chapter 60 12:02
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Chapter 61 10:28
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Chapter 62 12:54
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Chapter 63 12:33
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Chapter 64 10:09
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Chapter 65 10:31
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Chapter 66 11:25
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Chapter 67 11:02
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Chapter 68 11:39
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Chapter 69 09:49
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Chapter 70 10:19
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Chapter 71 13:28
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Chapter 72 11:07
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Chapter 73 10:04
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Chapter 74 10:38
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Chapter 75 11:02
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Chapter 76 10:12
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Chapter 77 10:39
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Chapter 78 09:43
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Chapter 79 10:20
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Chapter 80 11:07
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Chapter 81 10:19
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Chapter 82 10:58
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Chapter 83 09:26
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Chapter 84 08:50
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Chapter 85 14:16
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Chapter 86 11:35
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Chapter 87 10:04
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Chapter 88 10:39
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Chapter 89 11:57
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Chapter 90 11:43
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Chapter 91 11:38
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Chapter 92 11:21
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Chapter 93 09:45
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Chapter 94 11:34
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Chapter 95 09:12
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Chapter 96 12:55
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Chapter 97 11:00
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Chapter 98 09:16
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Chapter 99 11:03
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Chapter 100 17:54

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The Frequency of Magic

Innovative, ambitious, both poetic and gritty, Anthony Joseph’s groundbreaking novel The Frequency of Magic was published in 2019 to wide critical acclaim. In 2021 Joseph recorded the entire novel's 100 chapters - each of 1000 words each - with his band.

At almost 18 hours listening time, this unique, landmark recording was first streamed in 2022 as an episodic podcast by Bocas Lit Fest in collaboration with Speaking Volumes and is made available here for download for the first time.

The Frequency of Magic is simultaneously a portrait of Trinidad and a portrait of creative obsession, shot through with musical rhythms and cadences.

Anthony Joseph writes:

“In the summer of 2021, I went into Love Electric Studios in London with my regular band; musicians I’ve worked with for over a decade. For five days, we improvised and spontaneously created soundscapes and grooves which I read over. At the beginning of the week, the task of recording 100 chapters of 1,000 words each seemed daunting, especially when each chapter lasted around 10 minutes! But we found our flow and made it to the end around 5 pm on Friday evening. The improvisational but naturally accurate elements of the music — which moves from ambient textures to free jazz — echo both the free-spirited, surrealist mode in which I wrote and edited the text, and the novel’s narrative form, in which everything occurs simultaneously. The spaces where these two elements align is truly the frequency of magic.”

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released July 3, 2023

Anthony Joseph – Vocals, percussion, flute
Denys Baptiste – Tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Andrew John – Bass
Thibaut Remy – Guitar, percussion, keyboards, bass
Colin Webster – Tenor and baritone saxophone, keyboards, flute
Jason Yarde – Alto saxophone
Rod Youngs – Drums

Recording, Engineering, Mixing — Andy Hughes
Recorded at Love Electric Studios, London
Produced by Anthony Joseph

Funded by the Arts Council England
With thanks to Spoken Volumes and Bocas Lit Fest

Recordings copyright © 2021 Anthony Joseph

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Anthony Joseph London, UK

Anthony Joseph is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician.
He has released eight critically acclaimed albums with French label Heavenly Sweetness and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London.

​His new collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry.
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