VARIOUS – POE: To One in Paradise – LP – Clear Vinyl [NOV 15]

LP – Limited Edition Clear Vinyl.

Features readings from collaborators such as Thurston & Eva Moore, Joan as Police Woman, Edgar Oliver, Britta Phillips, and more. Music composed by Kramer. First pressing on clear vinyl.

Edgar Allan Poe‘s timeless poetry read by artists, writers, poets, musicians & magicians, in service to the work and also to the memory of a great friend and fellow traveller on the musical roads least taken, Hal Willner. Kramer has curated an eclectic list of voices to render fresh vision to old words. The music he created that accompanies each reading keeps the light shining on the performer, polishing the space between the poetry and the performance. As a fitting coda, an archival recording of Allen Ginsberg vividly reciting ‘The Bells‘ closes out the album. The unaccompanied reading from June 1981, is an excerpt from his ‘Expansive Poetics‘ study course at The Naropa School of Disembodied Poets – Boulder, CO.

Tracklist:

1. Joan as Police Woman – To One in Paradise
2. Edgar Oliver Eldorado
3. Thurston & Eva Moore – To My Mother
4. Eric Mingus – The Valley of Unrest
5. Britta Phillips – A Dream Within A Dream
6. Teller – Evening Star
7. Anne Waldman – Fairy-Land
8. Lydia Lunch Dreamland
9. Larry Ratso Sloman – The Sleeper
10. Chloe Webb Silence
11. Rick Moody Imitation
12. Jennifer Charles – The Lake
13. Allen Ginsberg – The Bells