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System 7, feat: Allen Ginsberg - Sonora Desert Edge (The Abyss)

from Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America Volume II by Various Artists

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    Side A

    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
Written by Allen Ginsberg, Miquette Giraudy, & Stephen Hillage.
Music and production: Miquette Giraudy, Steve Hillage
Published by May King Poetry Music, & System 7


We were strongly attracted to Sonora Desert-Edge because this poem describes in a unique way a quintessential area of our favorite part of America. It took us a while to find a music concept that worked with the imagery of the poem and Allen Ginsberg’s voice – and then one day on a whim we tried placing it with an older track of ours called The Abyss and it seemed to fit really well. We did some adaptation to the music track to make it fit even better, and got a result. Hopi Rain…
–Stephen Hillage, January, 2021

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“SONORA DESERT EDGE”


“Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum”
—Drum H. from Gary S. from Tarthang Tulku

Brown stonepeaks rockstumps
cloudless sunlight
Saguaro green arms praying up
spine ribs risen
Woodpecker-holed
nose-pricked limbs
lifted salutation—
orange flower eyes lifted on
needly Ocotillo stalk
Jumping Cholla pistils closing pollened
eyebrow-vagina buds to the
poked pinkie—
Palo Verde smooth forked branch
above prickly-pear ears

Smoke plumed up white
from scratched desert plain,
chemical smoke, military copper
airplanes rotting,
4% Copper Smelter smog

—in wire cage, ivory hook-beaked
round black pupiled
Bald Eagle’s head, tailfeathers
hung below claw’d branch, symmetric
body plumes brown webbed like dollarbills,
insecticides sterilized many
adults

—green duck neck sheen spectral as
moon machines
Raven hopping curious black beaked
Coyote’s nose sensitive lifted to air
blinking eye sharp
as the rose bellied Cardinal’s ivory whistle

—tiny bright statues of Buddha
Standing,
blue desert valley haze—
cactus lessons in sentience,
Trees like mental carrots—Anaconda
smelters white plumesmoke in
San Manuel, or Phelps-Dodge
in Douglas?—
Yellow’d Creosote bushes in granular
dust, hills jeep tracked,
Prairie dogs stand quivering-spined in
cactus-shade. A museum,

minds in Ashramic City—tweetling
bird radios—Hopi Rain:

Allen Ginsberg - April 29, 1969
Fall of America Poems: 1965-1971, City Lights, SF 1973

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from Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America Volume II, track released October 6, 2023
2023, Allen Ginsberg LLC

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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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