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Thurston Moore, feat: Saul Williams - A Prophecy

from Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America Volume II by Various Artists

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    Side A

    1 Ai Weiwei, O Future, & Aliah Rosenthal - Hum Bom!
    2 Anne Waldman, Fast Speaking Music - Pentagon Exorcism
    3 Saul Williams & Thurston Moore - A Prophecy
    4 Kai Campos & CJ MIrra, feat. Allen Ginsberg - Bixby Canyon
    5 Jack Dangers, feat: Allen Ginsberg - Holy Ghost On The Nod Over The Body Of Bliss
    6 System 7 feat Allen Ginsberg - Sonora Desert Edge "The Abyss”

    Side B

    1 WHY? - Death on All Fronts
    2 Seb Taylor - Over Denver Again
    3 Ashes - September on Jessore Road
    4 Miho Hatori - Iron Horse "The Universe is Empty"
    5 Philip Glass feat Allen Ginsberg - Have You See This Movie

    Vinyl Bonus Download: DJ Spooky aka that Subliminal Kid with Antoine Drye - Beginning of a Poem of these States

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Saul Williams: Voice
Thurston Moore: Guitars
Ambrose Bye: Production & mixing
Written by Allen Ginsberg & Thurston Moore
Published by May King Poetry Music , & Ecstatic Peace Library,

The essence of Allen’s A Prophecy poem from 1968 is its emotional call to us in the here and now, us who live in the catalytic chaos of a world Allen could only offer poetic prayer to before he passed onwards. Well, here we are now dearest Allen, rallying and resisting, revolting and revealing, your “prophecy” in constant manifestation, fighting fascism as soldiers of peace, informed by your singing out from the “mind jail”. Love always, Thurston

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“A PROPHECY”

O Future bards
chant from skull to heart to ass
as long as language lasts
Vocalize all chords
zap all consciousness
I sing out of mind jail
in New York State
without electricity
rain on the mountain
thought fills cities
I’ll leave my body
in a thin motel
my self escapes
through unborn ears
Not my language
but a voice
chanting in patterns
survives on earth
not history’s bones
but vocal tones
Dear breaths and eyes
shine in the skies
where rockets rise
to take me home

– May 1968
(Fall of America Poems: 1965-1971, City Lights, SF 1973)

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from Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America Volume II, track released October 6, 2023
2023, Allen Ginsberg LLC

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Renowned poet, world traveler, spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) defied simple classification.

Ginsberg parlayed his fame and network of connections into a modestly successful career in music.
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