Tracklist

1	K-9 Was In Combat With The Alien Mind-Screens	13:29
2	Origin And Theory Of The Tape Cut-Ups	3:43
3	Recalling All Active Agents	1:25
4	Silver Smoke Of Dreams	4:50
5	Junky Relations	2:56
6	Joujouka	1:30
7	Curse Go Back	1:12
8	Present Time Exercises	2:18
9	Joujouka	0:43
10	Working With The Popular Forces	2:37
11	Interview With Mr. Martin	2:59
12	Joujouka	1:26
13	Sound Piece	2:14
14	Joujouka	2:39
15	Burroughs Called The Law	1:34

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – Play It Again Sam [PIAS]
• Glass Mastered At – DADC Austria
• Recorded At – Naropa Institute
• Recorded At – Institute Of Contemporary Arts
• Recorded At – BBC Studios

Credits

• Artwork [Concept], Design – Frédéric Walheer, Guy Marc Hinant
• Liner Notes – James Grauerholz
• Photography By [Cover] – Harold Chapman
• Producer – Bill Rich

Notes

Track 1: Early cut-up tapes made by Ian Sommerville and WSB around 1965, probably in New York and London.
Track 2: From a lecture given by WSB at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, April 20, 1976.
Track 3: Excerpt from tape made in 1960 by Brion Gysin at BBC Studios in London, using BG's permutational technique.
Track 4: Tape made in early 1960's by Ian Sommerville and WSB, using the "drop-in" method.
Track 5: Excerpt from a radio talk by WSB in 1961 in London, "A Day in the Life of a Junky", tape courtesy of the University of Kansas Libraries.
Track 6, 9, 12, 14: Excerpts from live tape made by WSB at the Joujouka Festival in the hills of Morocco with Ornette Coleman, January 18, 1973.
Track 7: From early 1960's tape, WSB chanting an anti-curse.
Track 8: Cassette work by WSB in London, ca. 1971, using radio, television, several tape recorders.
Track 10: WSB cut-ups with Dutch Schultz's last words and news texts, shortwave radio noise, mid-1960's, London.
Track 11: Excerpt, WSB performance at the ICA in London, February 28, 1963; tape courtesy of Gordon C.A. Craig.
Track 13: Produced By Ian Sommerville using the inching technique, 1960's?
Track 15: WSB routine recorded mid-1960's - dropping a dime on the Nova Mob; tape courtesy of the University of Kansas Libraries.

Archival reconstruction by Romana Recording Studios, Kansas, Summer 1986.

W.S.B. at the Beat Hotel, Paris, 1958.

Acknowledgements to Peter Christopherson and Genesis P-Orridge, who early recognized the importance of this kind of tapes.
Thanks to Naropa Institute, the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, the BBC, the ICA & Gordon Craig, London. Special thanks to James Grauerholz for his help in the completion of this record.

Production: Sub Rosa
Distribution: P.I.A.S.

Made in Austria

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 5 413356 800821
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): SUBCD-006-8 13 A3 MASTERED BY DADC AUSTRIA
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): SUBCD-006-8 13 A1 MASTERED BY DADC AUSTRIA
• Rights Society: BIEM/SABAM

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SUB 33005-8	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(LP, Album)	Sub Rosa	SUB 33005-8	Belgium	1986
SR V08	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Gat)	Sub Rosa	SR V08	Belgium	2008
CD006-8, SUB CD006-8	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(CD, Album)	Sub Rosa, Sub Rosa	CD006-8, SUB CD006-8	Belgium	1988
SR08	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Sub Rosa	SR08	Belgium	2001
SRV08	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Gat)	Sub Rosa	SRV08	Belgium	2013

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