Allen Ginsberg - Material Wealth [CD]

Real Gone Music

£19.78

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: RLGM16761PMI
Barcode: 848064016762
Release Date: 09 Feb 2024
Genre: Comedy & Spoken Word

Allen’s voice in poems and songs 1956-1996

Heyday Again Records Catalog # Hey102 / Compact Disc - Distributed by Real Gone Music

The compact disc audio soundtrack to the book
Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg published by Powerhouse Books (distributed by Simon & Schuster)

Featuring musical accompaniment from:
Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Elvin Jones, Lenny Kaye, Philip Glass, David Mansfield, David Amram, Arthur Russell, and more

In 1994, Rhino Records released a 4-CD boxset Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Songs & Poems 1949-1993 assembled by the late great Hal Willner that gathered together an unprecedented and definitive collection of Allen’s poems and singing. Long out of print, this forthcoming single disc both draws from and adds to Ginsberg’s incredible body of recorded work. This new Material Wealth CD (an audio soundtrack to the book of the same name) will compactly explain to people, this is who the heck Allen Ginsberg was!

A lifetime of Allen Ginsberg’s love, spirituality, passion, politics, culture, art in poem and song. These classic, yet rare, and some previously unreleased poems and songs are a bible of bop prosody from one of the Holy Trinity of the Beat Generation. The CD track listing is:
Hum Bom (1984) with Elvin Jones
Birdbrain (1981) with The Gluons
Howl (1983) written 1955
Going to San Diego (1971) with Bob Dylan, David Amram, Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky
Grey Monk (1969) words by William Blake / music by Ginsberg
Prayer For John Sinclair (1971) with Peter Orlovsky
Put Down Yr Cigarette Rag (Don’t Smoke) (1976) with Arthur Russell, Jon Sholle, David Mansfield, Steven Taylor
Do the Meditation Rock (1982) with Bob Dylan, Arthur Rosato, David Mansfield, Steven Taylor America (1956)
Kaddish (1964) For Naomi Ginsberg 1894-1956
First Party At Ken Kesey’s With Hell’s Angels (1995) written 1965
Raghupati Raghava (1971) with Arthur Russell, Peter Orlovsky, Jon Sholle, Moruga
The Ballad Of The Skeletons (1996) with Paul McCartney, Phillip Glass, Lenny Kaye, Marc Ribot, David Mansfield words by Ginsberg / Music by Ginsberg, Glass, McCartney
On Neal’s Ashes (1971)
Gospel Noble Truths (1984) with Peter Orlovsky, Steven Taylor, Mark Kramer

Compiled and annotated by Pat Thomas - reissue producer of 2016’s 3-CD The Last Word On First Blues which gathers Allen’s 1971 to 1984 rock, blues and folk singing/songwriting and the reissue producer of the 2017 The Complete Songs Of Innocence And Experience by William Blake, tuned by Allen Ginsberg – his 1970 album of William Blake poems set to music and sung by Allen with additional recordings of the era including Buddhist mantras. Housed inside a 4-panel wallet with a 16-page booklet.