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Artist:
GYSIN, BRION
Title:
Self-Portrait Jumping
Label:
MADE TO MEASURE (BELGIUM)
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
MTM 033CD
1993 CD of Brion Gysin's songs, poems and stories, set to music by Ramuntcho Matta, performed by Gysin and Matta, with Don Cherry, Elli Medeiros, Steve Lacy, Lizzy Mercier Descloux & Carolline Loeb, Abdoulaye Prosper Niang, Polo Lombardo, etc. "Album based on texts by the legendary American poet, painter and writer who has influenced two generations of artists. After a brief involvement with the Surrealists, Gysin was one of the first Anglo-Saxons who moved to Morocco in the early Fifties. He became a close friend of William Burroughs', and invented the cut-up technique, which was largely used by the author of
The Naked Lunch
throughout his work. Recorded shortly before his death in 86, this album is a unique document featuring Brion Gysin singing/rapping his own texts on music by Ramuntcho Matta."
Artist:
GYSIN, BRION
Title:
One Night @ the 1001
Label:
SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:
2CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
SR 142CD
Reissue of this long unavailable 1998 album, with new cover artwork. As surrealist painter, poet, novelist, audio experimenter, inventor of the Dream Machine, and favorite collaborator of
William S. Burroughs
, Brion Gysin would influence the most creative minds of the '60s and '70s. In 1954, Gysin launched his 1001 Nights club in Tangier. In his mythic restaurant that stayed opened only a few months, Gysin invited the best traditional Moroccan musicians to perform all night long. The first CD of this document is what the lucky Western and Moroccan customers of the interzone could hear at the time: a varied selection of pure traditional and trance music (along with other Joujouka master musicians,
Bachir Attar
's father). Joujouka utilizes the technique of circular breathing backed by trance-inducing rhythms and sounds from the
rhaita
, reed flutes and small drums. A decade before
Brian Jones
brought this timeless music to the world, this is a unique document recorded by the inventor of the cut-up method himself, digitally remastered by Brion's recordings heir
Ramuntcho Matta
and includes
Paul Bowles
' exclusive introduction. The second volume of this double CD document is based on a spoken word tape called
Dilaloo
that is a precise description -- written and read in 1956 by Brion Gysin "Master Brahim" himself -- of an initiation ceremony in the village of Jajouka. Ramuntcho added a quiet electronic music background generated by a computer algorithm program that he created in Gysin's random permutative spirit. Between the music of trance and the raw cry of being, we see the process of transformation at work. Trust your bones and put your faith in the Third Mind! Rare archives filed in the Aural Documents collection.
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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