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The Good Ones (Rwanda) feat. Allen Ginsberg - Falling Asleep In America

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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“We never had passports until we were in our forties. We never even thought we’d travel outside Rwanda’s borders in our lifetime, let alone to America. America remains a dream, always just out of reach."
- The Good Ones (Rwanda) July 28, 2020

All proceeds from the sale of this track will be donated to HeadCount.org promoting voter registration and participation in democracy through the power of music. It is part of our tribute project celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s “The Fall of America: Poems of these States 1965-197” New tracks based on these poems will be added every two weeks.

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Falling Asleep in America

We’re in the Great Place, Fable Place, Beulah, Man wedded
to Earth, Planet of green Grass
Tiny atomic wheels spin shining, worlds change Heavens
inside out, the planet’s reborn in ashes,
Sun lights sparkle on atomic cinder, plants levitate, green
moss precedes trees trembling sentient,
Stone eats blue skies solar dazzle with invisible mouths &
flowers are the rocks’ excrement—

Each million years atoms spin myriad reversals, worlds in
worlds interchange populations—
from worm to man’s a tiny jump from earth to earth souls
are borne ever forgetful—
populations eat their own meat, roses smell sweet in the
faeces of horses risen red-fac’d.
Consciousness changes nightly, dreams flower new uni-
verses in brainy skulls.

Lying in bed body darkened ear of the bus roar running,
only the eye flickering grass green returns me to
Nashville.

April 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, track released October 2, 2020
Adrien Kazigira—guitar, lead vocals
Janvier Havugimana— harmony vocals, percussion
Reading by Allen Ginsberg, ca 1971 Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Ginsberg Collection. Special thanks, Barry Miles
Mastering - Scott Petito at Scott Petito Productions
Published by May King Poetry Music, & Toy Gun Murder Publishing

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Allen Ginsberg New York, New York

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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