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Artist:
GYSIN, BRION
Title:
Live In London 1982
Label:
SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
SR 247CD
In Autumn 1982, in Brixton, London,
Brion Gysin
, the eternal accomplice of
William Burroughs
, renewed the methods of performance by reciting texts, hastily brought together with this performance, accompanied by
Slits
-member,
Tessa
,
Steve
of
Rip, Rig and Panic
,
Gile
of
Penguin Café Orchestra
, and
Ramuntcho Matta
on guitar. Ramuntcho, in the style of Brion, called this session "White Funk." Most of the texts were written upon meeting Burroughs, at the time of the invention of the cut-up. The influence that Brion Gysin has had on contemporary music may never be taken fully into account, particularly when he introduced
Brian Jones
of
The Rolling Stones
to the shepherd's music of Joujouka. Those times were still audacious: the music was created during the sound-checks! Musically, the choice of traditional instruments expresses the desire to be free of machines (because, as Burroughs says, "
We ourselves are machines
."). This recording is evidence of the extraordinary creativity and spontaneity of the musical and artistic scene at that time, and it refuses to age a bit. Beyond the nostalgia inspired by the invocation of that bygone cultural scene, this is a renewed wake-up call for a kind of creativity that is terribly difficult to find today.
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