UbuWeb Sound - Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

1. Allen Ginsberg + Peter Orlovsky | Punk Rock & Old Pond (13:00)
from The Nova Convention (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1978)

2. Please Master (4:40)

Recorded at Columbia University, NYC, April 17, 1975
from Totally Corrupt (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1976)

3. Vajra Mantra (2:00)

Recorded at Western Illinois University, April 15, 1972
from The Dial-A-Poem Poets (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1972)

4. I'm a Victim of Telephones (1:30)

December 1968
from The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Disconnected (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1974)

5. C.I.A. Dope Calypso 4:00

from Sugar, Meat, Alcohol (Giorno Poetry Systems)

6. Green Automobile 1953

6:30, Recorded Sacramento State College, April 23, 1971
from The Dial-A-Poem Poets (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1972)

7. Jimmy Berman

4:04, musicians: Bob Dylan, Artie and Happy Traum, John Schole, Arthur Russell, David Amram, recorded at the Record Palnt, NYC, November 1971

from The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Disconnected (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1974)

Reading at the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
October 25, 1956
MP3 (24:41)

1. A Supermarket in California (2:21)
2. In back of the real (0:44)
3. Introduction to Howl (2:43)
4. Howl I, II, III (18:27)
5. Howl I (12:36)
6. Howl II (3:30)
7. Howl III ( 2:21)

Reading at the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
February 27, 1959
MP3 (38:55)

1. Poem Rocket (4:25)
2. Message from Paris (0:44)
3. Squeal (1:21)
4. Wrote This Last Night (1:06)
5. The Lion for Real (4:14)
6. To Aunt Rose (2:27)
7. Ignu (6:50)
8. To Lindsay (0:41)
9. Kaddish (16:25)

Ginsberg singing William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience

Recorded Live at the Knitting Factory, NYC
May 4, 1995
1. Howl - I, II, III (22:37)
2. Howl Epilogue (2:58)

May 5, 1995
1. Introduction to Kaddish (2:40)
2. Kaddish I (10:11)
3. Kaddish II (36:43)
4. Kaddish - Hymmnn (1:37)
5. Kaddish - III (1:46)
6. Kaddish - IV (2:17)
7. Kaddish - V (1:57)
8. William Blake's Nurse's Song (4:45)

May 6, 1995
1. Wichita Vortex Sutra I (3:14)
2. Wichita Vortex Sutra II (12:52)
3. Wichita Vortex Sutra III (5:51)
4. Wichita Vortex Sutra IV (5:41)

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Allen Ginsberg and Margaret Mead discuss the orgin of the term "Beat"

HUM BOM - Allen Ginsberg recorded by Chris Funkhouser, 22 April 1994, Hudson, New York

For Other Allen Ginsberg Recordings and Information:
Ginsberg Audio Page at Allen Ginsberg Trust
AllenGinsberg.Org

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