Q&A: She’s the only Deaf Grammy-winning artist. He’s an acclaimed Deaf poet. Their new album is extraordinary – Hartford Courant

By August Brown, Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — On “Sound Machine,” a track from the new album “Aloud” from poet Raymond Antrobus and percussionist Evelyn Glennie, Antrobus recalls his fear as a child when he knocked over his dad’s stereo.

“Killing the bass, flattening the mood and his muses / Making dad blow his fuses and beat me,” Antrobus recites, pausing for impact. “But it wasn’t my fault / The things he made could be undone so easily / And we would keep losing connection, but praise Dad’s mechanical hands / Even though he couldn’t fix my deafness I still channel him.”

Antrobus and Glennie are two of today’s most accomplished Deaf artists at the flash point of music and poetry. The Scottish Glennie — the only Deaf artist to win a Grammy — honed an otherworldly approach to her inst