Various Artists "POE: To One in Paradise" Clear LP (2024)

Details: Various Artists "POE: To One in Paradise" Clear LP (2024, Shimmy-Disc). New stock, sealed.

Description: "POE "TO ONE IN PARADISE" (for Hal Willner) Shimmy-2027 (Release Date: October 18, 2024) ...Keeping the flame of spoken-word alive for a world that appreciates the gothic sensibilities of Poe's poetry now more than ever. 13 Beautiful renderings offered by 13 luminary voices from across the spectrums of poetry, literature, theater, music and magic...featuring music by Kramer**. All music composed and performed by Kramer - ** except: “To One in Paradise” Music by Joan Wasser, Kramer, & “To My Mother” Music by Thurston Moore & Kramer. 13 Artists reading 13 poems by EDGAR ALLAN POE In Loving Memory - HAL WILLNER

This LP of Edgar Allan Poe’s timeless poetry was created in reverent tribute to Kramer's great friend and fellow traveller on the musical roads least taken, Hal Willner (1956 - 2020). As a fitting coda, the LP closes with an archival recording of Allen Ginsberg vividly reciting “The Bells”. The unaccompanied reading from June 1981 is an excerpt from his ‘Expansive Poetics’ study course at The Naropa School of Disembodied Poets - Bolder, CO."

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING:

01. Joan As Police Woman - To One In Paradise
02. Edgar Oliver - Eldorado
03. Thurston Moore, Eva Moore - To My Mother
04. Eric Mingus - The Valley of Unrest
05. Britta Phillips - A Dream Within a Dream
06. Teller - Evening Star
07. Anne Waldman - Fairy-Land
08. Lydia Lunch - Dreamland
09. Larry "Ratso" Sloman - The Sleeper
10. Chloe Webb - Silence
11. Rick Moody - Imitation
12. Jennifer Charles - The Lake
13. Allen Ginsberg - The Bells