Gavin Friday & Howie B - Death on All Fronts (America is Falling)

from Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical Tribute by Various Artists

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The track listing for the vinyl is as follows:

Side A
1) Scanner - Elegy for Neal Cassady
2) Shintaro Sakamoto - Manhattan Thirties Flash
3) Thurston Moore & Lee Ranaldo - Hum Bom
4) Ed Sanders (The Fugs) - Memory Gardens
5) Mickey Hart - First Party at Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels (Drones Du Jour)
6) Howie B with Gavin Friday - Death On All Fronts (America is Falling)
7) Disco Pusher - A Prophecy

Side B
1) Angélique Kidjo - Uluru Song
2) Bill Frisell - Over Laramie
3) Andrew Bird - Easter Sunday
4) Devendra Banhart - Milarepa Taste
5) Yo La Tengo - Bayonne Entering N.Y.C.
6) Lang Lee - Pain on All Fronts

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there was no rhyme or reason for choosing 'Death on All Fronts' other than it felt right … and the ease in which the Vocal was recorded made it even make more sense … the force and potency of the words are unquestionable … the poem feels like it was written yesterday but it was over 50 years ago ….shows you how ahead of its self the beautiful mind of Ginsberg was … we dedicate this to the memory of our friend and love Hal Willner x ….Gavin Friday Dublin January 2021

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Death On All Fronts

“The Planet Is Finished”

A new moon looks down on our sick sweet planet
Orion’s chased the Immovable Bear halfway across the sky
from winter to winter. I wake, earlier in bed, fly corpses
cover gas lit sheets, my head aches, left temple
brain fibre throbbing for Death I Created on all Fronts.
Poisoned rats in the Chickenhouse and myriad lice
Sprayed with white arsenics filtering to the brook, City Cockroaches
stomped on Country kitchen floors. No babies for me.
Cut earth boys & girl hordes by half & breathe free
say Revolutionary expert Computers:
Half the blue globe’s germ population’s more than enough,
keep the cloudy lung from stinking pneumonia.
I called in Exterminator Who soaked the Wall floor with
bed-bug death-oil: Who’ll soak my brain with death-oil?
I wake before dawn, dreading my wooden possessions,
my gnostic books, my loud mouth, old loves silent, charms
turned to image money, my body sexless fat, Father dying,
Earth Cities poisoned at war, my art hopeless—
Mind fragmented—and still abstract—Pain in
left temple living death—

Cherry Valley, September 26, 1969

Courtesy Harper Collins Publishers / City Lights Publishers

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from Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical Tribute, released February 5, 2021
Gavin Friday - Vocal
Howie B - Production & Mix

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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. ... more

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