ALLEN GINSBERG
HOWL
AND OTHER POEMS
(feat. Philip Glass, Lenny Kaye, Paul McCartney)
and others
Through a precocious interest in Jack Kerouac, then Ginsberg and Burroughs (I think I have read everything but certainly all the Kerouac and also own most of the Burroughs) I heard the Ginsberg voice through my treasured copy of ‘Howl’ with an early bargain bin album and along with early Brautigan albums and an obsession with trying to find the Beats reading aloud. So there comes these superb examples from Zero G Sounds who lately have posted several and the top one was the ‘Howl’ album but then there is this ‘Ballad of The Skeletons’ too featuring Macca, Philip Glass and Lenny Kaye amongst others which is perhaps surprisingly listenable
If you are interested you could do a whole lot worse than download these.
Allen Ginsberg ‘Howl and other poems’ 1959 - ZeroGSounds
but there are others too and this links to one worthy of enquiry . . . . . . . . .
Allen Ginsberg - Lion For Real - ZeroGSounds
Recorded in the late '80s, "The Lion for Real" consists primarily of brief poems set to avant-jazz. Producer Hal Willner has assembled a group that at various times features Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Arto Lindsay, and they skillfully navigate the emotional tones and wit in Ginsberg's poems.This doesn't contain any of Ginsberg's major works, but it's a welcome reminder of his irascible humour and mischievousness.Tracklist:
A1 | Scribble |
A2 | Complaint Of The Skeleton To Time |
A3 | Xmas Gift |
A4 | To Aunt Rose |
A5 | The Lion For Real |
A6 | Refrain |
A7 | The Shrouded Stranger |
A8 | Gregory Corso's Story |
B1 | Cleveland, The Flats |
B2 | The End |
B3 | Stanzas: Written At Night In Radio City |
B4 | Sunset |
B5 | Hum Bom! |
B6 | Kral Majales |
B7 | Guru |
B8 | Ode To Failure |
Tracklist:A1a Introduction 2:10A1b The ShepherdA2 The Echoing Green 1:22A3 The Lamb 1:10A4 The Little Black Boy 3:00A5 The Blossom 1:22A6 The Chimney Sweeper 2:20A7 The Little Boy Lost 1:06A8a The Little Boy Found 1:24A8b Laughing Song 1:24A9 Holy Thursday 1:15A10 Night 3:57B1 Introduction 2:06B2 Nurses Song 2:07B3 The Sick Rose 1:35B4 Ah! Sun-Flower 1:12B5 The Garden Of Love 1:02B6 London 1:55B7 The Human Abstract 2:30B8 To Tirzah 1:42B9 The Grey Monk 4:06
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