Archive release

Break Through In Grey Room

William S. Burroughs · 1986 · Vinyl-Lp · BE · SUB 33005-8

Track A1: Early cut-up tapes made by Ian Sommerville and WSB around 1965, probably in New York and London. Track A2: From a lecture given by WSB at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, April 20, 1976. Track A3: Excerpt from tape made in 1960 by Brion Gysin at BBC Studios in London, using BG's permutational technique. Track A4: Tape made in early 1960's by Ian Sommerville and WSB, using the "drop-in" method. Track B1: Excerpt from a radio talk by WSB in 1961 in London, "A Day in the Life of a Junky", tape courtesy of the University of Kansas Libraries. Track B2: Excerpt from live tape made by WSB at the Joujouka Festival in the hills of Morocco with Ornette Coleman, January 18, 1973. Track B3: From early 1960's tape, WSB chanting an anti-curse. Track B4: Cassette work by WSB in London, ca. 1971, using radio, television, several tape recorders. Track B6: WSB cut-ups with Dutch Schultz's last words and news texts, shortwave radio noise, mid-1960's, London. Track B7: Excerpt, WSB performance at the ICA in London, February 28, 1963; tape courtesy of Gordon C.A. Craig. Track B9: Produced By Ian Sommerville using the inching technique, 1960's? Track B11: WSB routine recorded mid-1960's - dropping a dime on the Nova Mob; tape courtesy of the University of Kansas Libraries. Archival reconstruction by Romana Recording Studios, Kansas, Summer 1986. Acknowledgements to Peter Christopherson and Genesis P-Orridge, who early recognized the importance of this kind of tapes. Thanks to Naropa Institute, the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, the BBC, the ICA & Gordon Craig, London. Special thanks to James Grauerholz for his help in the completion of this record.