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Shintaro Sakamoto feat Allen Ginsberg - Manhattan Thirties Flash

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

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    Complete 20 tracks and liner notes booklet with poems.

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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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about

Even though I live in Tokyo in the year 2020, the theme of "Manhattan Thirties Flash" is one that I can relate to very well. I felt that this is a universal theme for people living in cities all over the world, so I decided to take up this poem. The poem is very visual, and various images popped into my head, so I had a lot of fun creating the music in a way that allowed me to interpret it in my own way. For my Japanese reading, I tried to keep the tone much like the narration at the beginning of a dystopian film, or a parent reading a storybook of old stories to their children. I am honored to be a part of such a wonderful project.

-- Shintaro Sakamoto

lyrics

Manhattan Thirties Flash

Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine Crash cookie-cutting
dynamo rows of soulless replica Similitudes brooding tank-like in Army Depots Exactly the same exactly the same exactly the same with no purpose but grimness
& overwhelming force of robot obsession, our slaves are not alive
& we become their sameness as they surround us—the long stone streets inanimate, crowds of executive secretaries alighting from subway 8:30 A.M.
bloodflow in cells thru elevator arteries & stairway glands to typewriter consciousness, Con Ed skyscraper clock-head gleaming gold-lit at sun dusk.

1968

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from Allen Ginsberg​’​s The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical Tribute, released February 5, 2021
Produced, All Instruments Performed & Recorded by Shintaro Sakamoto
Sampled Poetry Reading by Allen Ginsberg
Japanese Poetry Reading by Shintaro Sakamoto
Japanese Translation by Maki Hakui
Mixed by Soichiro Nakamura @ Peace Music, Tokyo Japan 2020
Thanks to Yasutaka Minegishi (Presspop inc.)

Shintaro Sakamoto appears by the courtesy of zelone records

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

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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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