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    Complete 20 tracks and liner notes booklet with poems.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical Tribute via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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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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"Recorded in our studio home in Paris with 104 Fahrenheit temperature appropriate with the meaning of the poem. I had so much fun and went completely uncensored with the music! It is a slowdown Afrobeats groove (which gives it a Trip Hop vibe) with a sample of traditional horn from Benin and some analog synths from the 70’s when the poem was written"
- Angelique Kidjo August 8th, 2020

lyrics

Ayers Rock / Uluru Song (from Sad Dust Glories)

“When the red pond fills fish appear
When the red pond dries fish disappear.

Everything built on the desert crumbles to dust.
Electric cable transmission wires swept down.

The lizard people came out of the rock.
The red Kangaroo people forgot their own song.

Only a man with four sticks can cross the Simpson Desert.

One rain turns red dust green with leaves.
One raindrop begins the universe.

When the raindrop dries, worlds come to their end."

Central Australia, March 23, 1972

credits

from Allen Ginsberg​’​s The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical Tribute, released February 5, 2021
Angelique Kidjo - Voice, mix and production.
Mastering - Taylor Deupree / 12K

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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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