Performer: William S. Burroughs
Title: Break Through In Grey Room
Released: 1987
Country: Belgium
Style: Abstract, Spoken Word, Experimental
Category: Electronic / Audiobooks
Album rating: 4.1
Votes: 922
Size MP3: 1746 mb
Size FLAC: 1329 mb
Size WMA: 1359 mb
Other formats: MP1 APE ADX MPC ASF RA MP4
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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
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