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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Allen Ginsberg: Voice
Kai Campos & CJ Mirra: Music production & arrangement
Written by Allen Ginsberg, Kai Campos, & CJ Mirra
Published by May King Poetry Music, John Sampson, and Kai Campos
Kai Campos appears courtesy of Warp Records
Bixby Canyon was already our first choice but then we got sent the recording of Allen Ginsberg reciting the poem outside with the sound of the wind and the sea and it brought it to life. That became the thread to write the music around - following the flow of his words which paint these amazing images.
There’s already a lot of musicality to the performance in the recording and we just tried to write in conversation with the rhythm and play-fullness of the language and imagery; the repeating elements and evolving textures in the keyboards are trying to fill out the world that the poem creates.
Kai Campos and CJ MIrra, February 2023
lyrics
BIXBY CANYON
Path crowded with thistle fern blue daisy,
glassy grass, pale morninglory
scattered on a granite hill
bells clanging under gray sea cliffs,
dry brackensprout seaweed-wreathed
where bee dies in sand hollows
ant-swarmed above
white froth-wave glassed bay surge
Ishvara-ripple on cave wall
sea birds
skating wind swell,
Amor Krishna Om Phat Svaha air rumble at
ocean-lip
Yesterday
Sand castles Neal, white plasm balls round
jellies—
Skeleton snaketubes & back
nostrils’ seaweed-tail dry-wrinkled
brown seabulb & rednailed
cactus blossom-petal tongues—
Brownpickle saltwater tomato ball
rubber tail Spaghettied
with leafmeat,
Mucus-softness crown’d Laurel thong-hat
Father Whale gunk transparent
yellowleaf egg-sac sandy
lotus-petal cast back to cold
watersurge.
Bouquet of old seaweed
on a striped blanket, kelp tentacle spread
round the prayer place
Hermes silver
firelight spread over wave sunglare—
The Cosmic Miasma Anxiety meditating nakedman
—Soft Bonepipe!”
Musical Sea-knee gristlebone rubber
burp footswat beard ball bounce
of homosexual Shlurp ocean hish
Sabahadabadie Sound-limit
to Evil—
Set limit, set limit, set limit to
oceansong?
Limit birdcries, limit the Limitless
in language? O Say
Can You See The Internationale
Mental Traveller Marseillaise
in waves of eye alteration Politics?
’Tis sweet Liberty I hymn in freeman’s sunlight
not limited to observe No Nakedness signs
in silent bud-crowded pathways, artforms
of flowers limitless Ignorance—
Wet seaweed blossoms froth left, sun breathing
giant mist under the bridge,
gray cliffs cloud-skin haloed
Yellow sunlight of Old
shining on mossledge, tide foam
lapped in harmless gold light—
O Eyeball Brightness shimmering! Father Circle
whence we have sprung, thru thy bright
Rainbow horn, Silence!
So sings the laborer under the rock bridge,
so pipes pray to the Avalanche.
– Big Sur, June 16, 1968 (grass)
Fall of America Poems: 1965-1971, City Lights, SF 1973
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....more
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