William Burroughs – Nothing Here Now But The Recordings – VINYL LP

Description

In 1980, GENESIS P-ORRIDGE and PETER “SLEAZY” CHRISTOPHERSON (then of THROBBING GRISTLE renown) traveled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of famed beat writer and cultural pioneer WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS and his executor JAMES GRAUERHOLZ to starting the daunting task to compile the experimental sounds works of Burroughs, which, up until that point, had never been heard. During those visits, Burroughs would play back his tape recorder experiments featuring his spoken word “cut-ups”, collaged field recordings from his travels and his flirtations with EVP recording techniques, pioneered by Latvian intellectual Konstantins Raudive. Throughout the next year, P-Orridge, Christopherson and Grauerholz would spent countless hours compiling various edits, each collection showcasing Burroughs sensitive ear and keen experimental prowess for audio anomaly within technical limitations. By the time 1981 came through, Burroughs had relocated to Lawrence, KS in which to escape the violence and mania of New York City life. It is in Lawrence that P-Orridge and Christopherson put the finishing touches on the record that would be known as Nothing Here Now but the Recordings. The album would come out in the Spring of 1981 as the final release for the shuttering Industrial Records, brought about by the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle. The album remained out of print until 1998 when John Giorno and the Giorno Poetry Systems included the album on a multi-disc retrospective CD box set compiling the majority of Burroughs seminal recordings.

Tracklist :

A1 “Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard”
A2 “The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes”
A3 “Summer Will”
A4 “Outside The Pier Prowed Like Electric Turtles”
A5 “The Total Taste Is Here” – News Cut-Up
A6 Choral Section, Backwards
A7 “We See The Future Through The Binoculars Of The People”
A8 “Just Checking Your Summer Recordings”
B1 Creepy Letter – Cut-Up At The Beat Hotel In Paris
B2 Inching – “Is This Machine Recording?”
B3 “Handkerchief Masks” – News Cut-Up
B4 “Word Falling – Photo Falling”
B5 Throat Microphone Experiment
B6 “It’s About Time To Identify Oven Area”
B7 Last Words Of Hassan Sabbah