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    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

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    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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Today’s litany is still profit and war; since time immemorial, a forever recitative on man’s capacity for destruction. Allen dedicated these verses to the poet Ezra Pound, who is quoted as, “Poetry is news that stays news." Each line cements profit, war, their corporations, generals, and minions as current and future news; a non-stop 24-hour never-ending broadcast. The poem is read with the urgency of a prodded newsboy atop his street corner perch, “Extra, Extra, Read all about it!" - Aliah Rosenthal, January 23, 2021

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War Profit Litany

To Ezra Pound

These are the names of the companies that have made money
from this war
nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousandeighty
Hebraic
These Corporations have profited by merchandising skinburning phosphorus or shells fragmented to thousands of
fleshpiercing needles
and here listed money millions gained by each combine for manufacture
and here are gains numbered, index'd swelling a decade, set
in order,
here named the Fathers in office in these industries,
telephones directing finance,
names of directors, makers of fates, and the names of the stockholders of these destined Aggregates,
and here are the names of their ambassadors to the Capital, representatives to legislature, those who sit drinking
in hotel lobbies to persuade
and separate listed, those who drop Amphetamines with
military, gossip, argue, and persuade
suggesting policy naming language proposing strategy, this
done for fee as ambassadors to Pentagon, consultants to military, paid by their industry:

and these are the names of the generals & captains military,
who now thus work for war goods manufacturers;
and above these, listed, the names of the banks, combines, investment trusts that control these industries:
and these are the names of the newspapers owned by these
banks
and these are the names of the airstations owned by these
combines;
and these are the numbers of thousands of citizens employed
by these businesses named;
and the beginning of this accounting is 1958 and the end
1968, that statistic be contained in orderly mind,
coherent & definite,
and the first form of this litany begun first day December
1967 furthers this poem of these States.

December 1, 1967

credits

from Allen Ginsberg​’​s The Fall of America: A 50th Anniversary Musical Tribute, released February 5, 2021
Voice - Aliah Rosenthal
Saxophone - Sandra Weiss
Drums - Nicolas Stocker
Recorded at Moods Jazz Club, Zürich, Switzerland.

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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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