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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about
Voice: Allen Ginsberg
Piano: Anton Batagov
Production and editing: Alex Gray
Published by May King Poetry Music, & Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc.
Wow! It’s just like when we used to perform together! It’s like the pieces were made for each other. - Philip Glass
lyrics
“HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE?”
Old maple hairytrunks root asphalt grass marge, November branches rare leaved,
Giant woodlegged wiretowers’ threads stretch above pond woods highway, white sun fallen hills West.
Car rolling underpass, radio hornvoice “the sight of Bobby Seale bound & gagged at Trial” denied lawyer presum’d innocent?
MDA Love Drug Cure Junk Habit? Rochester Exit one mile flashing out Volkswagen window—
Blue sky fring’d with clouds’ whale-ghost-blue schools north drift—
High, high Manson sighed on Trial, how many folk in jail for grass Ask Congressman?
Highway Crash! Politics! Police! Dope! armed robbery Customary E. 10th street, no insurance possible.
—Brown deer tied neat footed dead eye horned across blue Car trunk, old folks Front seat, they’re gonna eat it!
Help! Hurrah! What’s Going on here? Samsara? Illusion? Reality?
What’re all these trailers row’d up hillside, more people? How can Lyca sleep?
Cows on Canandaigua fields lactate into rubber stainless steel plastic milk-house machinery vats ashine—
Revolutionary Suicide! Driving on Persian gasoline?
Kill Whale & ocean? Oh one American myself shits 1000 times more Chemical waste into freshwater & seas than any single Chinaman!
America Suicide Cure World Cancer! Myself included dependent on Chemicals, wheels, dollars,
metal Coke Cans Liquid propane batteries marijuana lettuce avocados cigarettes plastic pens & milkbottles—electric
in N.Y.C. heavy habit, cut airconditioners isolation from street nightmare smog heat study decentralized Power sources 10 years
not atomic thermopollutive monolith. Om. How many species poisoned biocided from Earth realms?
O bald Eagle & Blue Whale with giant piteous Cat Squeak—Oh Wailing whale ululating underocean’s sonic roar of Despair!
Sing thy Kingdom to Language deaf America! Scream thy black Cry thru Radio electric Aether—
Scream in Death America! Or did Captain Ahab not scream Curses as he hurled harpoon
into the body of the mother, great White Whale Nature Herself,
thrashing in intelligent agony innocent vast in the oil-can sick waters?
All Northvietnam bomb-Cratered ruined topsoil Laos in secrecy more bombs than many W W II’s!
Mekong swamp lethicided by Monsanto Pentagon Academy Death-brains!
What wisdom teaching this? What Mafia runs N.J.? What Mafia knew J. Edgar FBI?
What’s Schenley’s Whiskey trader Fleischmann’s Hoover Institute?
What opium’s passed thru CIA Agents’ airplane’s luggage in Saigon, Bangkok, Athens, Washington?
What narcotic agent’s not dependent on Shit for a living?
What Bank’s money created ex nihil serves orphan, widow, monk, philosopher?
or what Bank’s money serves real Estate Asphalt over widow’s garden? Serves old Nick in the Pentagon?
Old Indian prophecies believe Ghost Dance peace will Come restore prairie Buffalo or great White Father Honkie
be trampled to death in his dreams by returning herds’ thundering reincarnation!
Oh awful Man! What have we made the world! Oh man capitalist exploiter of Mother Planet!
Oh vain insect sized men with metal slaves by Great Lake Erie, tenderest Passaic & Hudson poisoned by dollars!
BID TAMPERING PROBED IN LACKAWANNA Buffalo News headline folded on rubber floor, car vibrating smooth to sun ruddy woods’ dusk quiet—
Radio hissing cough words dashboard noisemusic—Any minute Apocalypse Rock!
Brown Pelican eggs softened by DDT. Seal’s livers poisoned to Northman. Oceans Dead 2000 A.D.?
Television Citizen 6% Earths human Americans ingest half the planet’s raw matter as alchemized by Syracuse Gen. Electric Power brown robot palace near 8 Lane Thruway’s Exit before Ramada Inn.
HXL Trucks sleeping on brokenearthed embankment past Iron-strutted passages,
fields aglitter with damp metallic garbage under th’electricwire trestles—
And woods survive into another Thanksgiving’s brown sacred silence—
Lights on cars front Western Lane gray twilight falls on rolling robotland.
Allen Ginsberg - November 1970
Fall of America Poems: 1965-1971, City Lights Books, 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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