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
Music, Voice and production: Miho Hatori
Written by Allen Ginsberg and Miho Hatori
Published by May King Poetry Music, & Fruits of The Rhythm Publishing, administered by G 9 Music
Coincidentally, my friend lived on the same floor as Mr. Allen Ginsberg (opposite door). I happened to be there when Mr. Ginsberg passed away. The open door was open (for his soul could go out from the door). We could see Tibetan monks chanting and standing around him. I will never forget this memory in my life. And here, 26 years later, the beautiful opportunity to create this song came to me.
I was very attracted to the title: IRON, an artificial object, a symbol of American modernism (industry, the transportation technology of the railroad, technology), and HORSE, nature (uncontrollable), an animal with physicality, a wild, free-roaming, feral creature.
It's as if the title explores the human position on the earth then.
I felt and visualized the history, weight, and hope of being in America in his voice. As I listened to it repeatedly, I began to feel more of his passion, his responsibility as a poet, and a kind of obligation (in a good way). I also thought he was chanting a mantra for the future. And like he was looking at the view from a place far away from the earth. I felt, once again, that this powerful fusion and relation of a bird's-eye perspective and emotion is what poetry is all about.
What have we been able to awaken since then? What is the new American identity? I chose this poem in the hope that in this current dichotomized situation, we can look back again at the scene he left us in the form of this poem and that it is a good suggestion of what context we have crossed. We are still, and yet, IRON HORSES.
His voice still has a powerful living wisdom
lyrics
“IRON HORSE”
The Universe is empty
The Universe is empty
“No time No time Sam Lewis—
Oh—No time nowCarolyn,
No time now, Neal.”
Morning, crossing New Mexico border
massive cliff waves
on earth mid-America—
hill north with yellow tipis trading post and gas stations rare
Indian center of America — Gallup ahead
I’d like to live here, a blessing
these cliffs under the shimmer-
ing consciousness of LSD.
Passing through the plain line level everywhere, fenced flat,
horizon gray fleeced with cloud haze
bringing blue where Gemini men walked in space that day—
And ninety-nine soldiers piled on the train at Amarillo—
Hadn’t read the paper four weeks
training Air Force
Pneumohydraulics
—Ninety-nine soldiers entering the train
and all so friendly
Only a month
hair clipped & insulted
They weren’t too sad,
glad going to some electronics field near Chicago
—Been taking courses in Propaganda,
How not to believe what they were told
by the enemy,
Young fellas that some of them had long hair
before they came to the heated camp
friendly, over hamburgers
Volunteered
assignments behind the line of Great Machines
that drop Napalm,
milking
the Calf of Gold.
Three months from now
Vietnam, they said.
Walking the length of the train,
Lounge Car with Time Magazine
Amarillo Globe, US News & World Report
Reader’s Digest Coronet Universal Railroad Schedule,
everyone on the same track,
bound leatherette read on sofas,
America heartland passing flat
trees rising in night—
Dining Car — one lamb chop $2.75
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
