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01. Brion Gysin - Welcome
02. Brion Gysin - Minutes To Go #1
03. Brion Gysin - Cut-Ups
04. Brion Gysin - Teaching
05. Brion Gysin - Illusion
06. Brion Gysin - Minutes To Go #2
07. Brion Gysin - Ad Lib
08. Brion Gysin - Impro:1
09. Brion Gysin - Cut-Ups: 1960 (Bardo Hotel)
10. Brion Gysin - Ahead, Ahead: 93 Million Miles Away
ARTIST
TITLE
Live In London 1982
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SR 247CD SR 247CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/19/2007

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.