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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Anne Waldman: Vocals
Heru Shabaka-Ra: Trumpet
Devin Brahja Waldman: Saxophone
Max Davies: Bass, Noise, and Live Drums
Ambrose Bye: Synths, Composition, and Production
Written by Allen Ginsberg and Ambrose Bye
Published by: May King Poetry Music, & Fast Speaking Music
This is still such a prescient poem, a ritual eviction and adjuration. Let this evil be gone! It needs to be performed, intoned, sung. It is still rigorously active as a calling out, a naming, a radical shift of frequency for our consciousness as a
country, a power, dangerous to itself and the world. And opening with the lone poet-citizen-voice is tenderly arresting and historic, coming on heels of the famous rallying cry of the colonists during the American Revolution. It is amazing
how compact this text is, how energized Ginsberg’s heart-cry, and it’s also a history lesson, a time nugget. As well as an actual location for protest. Blistering and profound. I always loved the notion of transforming the Pentacle’s skeleton
to a maiden temple. This screed really rises with the kinetic “Apokatastasis!” invoking a doctrine of restoration, the uniting of all wayward beings and horrors of war to blessedness, which then builds further to the mind-protecting agency of
mantra. Allen could often seamlessly mix the secular with the divine, the past to the future and enact transformation and liberation through poetry. It’s an honor to mouth these words with the shaping of music composed here. I am always
delighted to work with my own family and musical friends as we navigate worlds of woe.
--Anne Waldman, JKS, Boulder Sept/2022
lyrics
“PENTAGON EXORCISM”
“No taxation without representation”
Who represents my body in Pentagon? Who spends
my spirit’s billions for war manufacture? Who
levies the majority to exult unwilling in Bomb
Roar? “Brainwash!” Mind-fear! Governor’s language!
“Military-Industrial-Complex!” President’s language!
Corporate voices jabber on electric networks building
body-pain, chemical ataxia, physical slavery
to diaphanoid Chinese Cosmic-eye Military Tyranny
movie hysteria—Pay my taxes? No Westmoreland wants
to be Devil, others die for his General Power
sustaining hurt millions in house security
tuning to images on TV’s separate universe where
peasant manhoods burn in black & white forest
villages—represented less than myself by Magic
Intelligence influence matter-scientists’ Rockefeller
bank telephone war investment Usury Agency
executives jetting from McDonnell Douglas to General Dynamics
over smog-shrouded metal-noised treeless cities
patrolled by radio fear with tear gas, businessman!
Go spend your bright billions for this suffering!
Pentagon wake from planet-sleep! Apokatastasis!
Spirit Spirit Dance Dance Spirit Spirit Dance!
Transform Pentagon skeleton to maiden-temple O Phantom
Guevara! Om Raksa Raksa Hu? Hu? Hu? Phat Svaha!
Anger Control your Self feared Chaos, suffocation
body-death in Capitols caved with stone radar sentinels!
Back! Back! Back! Central Mind-machine Pentagon reverse
consciousness! Hallucination manifest! A million Americas
gaze out of man-spirit’s naked Pentacle! Magnanimous
reaction to signal Peking, isolate Space-beings!
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
