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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No Land: vocals, & Ginsberg poem arrangements
Oliver Ray: Synth, acoustic guitar, chakapa, fire, old radio broadcast, voice
Cornelius Dufallo: Violin
Recorded by Patrick Derivaz and Oliver Ray in Brooklyn, NY and Tucson, AZ
Mixed by Paul Cossette and Oliver Ray
Published by May King Poetry Music, & Hierophany Music (ASCAP)
A lot of the poems in Fall of America take place in the car; the book is in some ways an extended road trip journal which culminates with the death of Neal Cassady whose spirit is forever connected with the road and who was familiar with so much of the imagery we see through the windows of the poems. Cremation Piece is an attempt at an audio cremation, a pyre made from images collected from the poems and stitched together by No Land, gathered around Allen’s tender poem for his friend. - Oliver Ray
In spring 2021, Oliver Ray invited me to collaborate on a track he was creating for the Ginsberg Estate, involving Allen’s poetry. I very happily accepted. When I was a young poet, I had often attempted communications thru the veil with Allen, seeking him out for guidance, imagining him father-like, a gemini-nyc-kindred force. To work within this bygone-but-still-ignited realm of poet spirit was a deep gift & a way of thanking Allen.
Oliver’s early musical sketches were moving to me, haunting, heart-felt, with a “drive thru Maya wall” reach beyond. While ruminating on what I might contribute, Oliver and I simultaneously began a journey of traveling across country- back and forth several times between New York City, the Southwest, Maine, California, and all between. Allen’s voice accompanied us often in the car. Pieces from the Fall of America Vol. 1 compilation, Naropa lectures, poetry readings— we heard Allen riff on the painted desert in pink New Mexico. What guidance or mysterious parallels between our journeys and his, fifty, sixty years apart- might have culminated in this Cremation piece— which was also sculpted, recorded & mixed between both NYC & the southwest. Travel notes, radio shards, poem fragments, road shine, the need & love “to go." the Way. ramblers-motion-ethos. In the studio, I worked from a similar swirl of times and places, selecting lines of Allen’s from all different years that struck me, combining and speaking them into new forms. I like to imagine Allen would welcome our contribution as a continuation of the work of poets who travel between all the states. — No Land
lyrics
“CREMATION PIECE (On Neal’s Ashes)”
The planet hanging
the air hanging
“And the Glory of the Lord”
“It's only words I know / that you'll
understand”
several battalions of U.S. troops
Princess Snowflower will steal over….
in Riverside
1920s
song
traveler passing through
Staring out the window tiny church
Proud lights
the air hanging
Communications
bombshells crash on flesh
Taxi-Harmonious Modernity grown rusty-old —
The prettiness of existence! To sit at the window
car crash
Princess Snowflower will
“Speak over the bullhorn to the
herdsmen –”
talking
If anyone had strength to hear
“Check into yourself that you are wrong —
You may be the Wrong”
newscaster
“And the Glory of the Lord”
a phantom skeleton with teeth, skull
resting on a pillow
calling your....
Modernity grown rusty-old —
The prettiness of existence
new consciousness
car crash
fulfilled
to spirit returned
at the window
moonlight sticks of tea
In a circle
And the planet hanging
and the air hanging
and the world released
desire fulfilled
history over
story told
karma resolved
and prayers complete
“And the Glory of the Lord”
and buses roaring thru the street
Delicate eyes that blinked blue Rockies all ash
nipples, Ribs I touched w/ my thumb are ash
mouth my tongue touched once or twice all ash
bony cheeks soft on my belly are cinder, ash
earlobes & eyelids, youthful cock tip, curly pubis
breast warmth, man palm, high school thigh,
baseball bicept arm, asshole anneal'd to silken skin
all ashes, all ashes again.
all ashes again
all ash all ashes again
all ash
Appearance unnecessary now.
Are you reincarnate? Can ya hear me talking?
If anyone had strength to hear the invisible,
drive thru Maya Wall
you had it—
What’re you now, Spirit?
That were body in spirit
by Railroad track
I'm a phantom skeleton with teeth, skull
resting on a pillow
calling your spirit
god echo consciousness
and the world released
desired fulfilled, your history over,
story told, Karma resolved
prayers complete
vision manifest, new consciousness fulfilled,
spirit returned in a circle, and the world left standing empty
destiny fallen on RR track
all ash
all ash
Delicate eyes
all ash
all ash
Allen Ginsberg - August 1968
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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Sonic Youth is one of those bands where you easily run out of superlatives to describe what they created. This could've easily come off as a cynical cash-grab by a band that had broken up 11 years prior to the release of this record, but that's not what this is. Some of my favourite Sonic Youth instrumentals. sentient meat
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021
