Format: vinyl LP
Label: Dais Records - DAIS 065 (US, 2016)
Edition: 1000 copies on black vinyl
Genre: Spoken Word, Experimental
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Info & Description (from the original label info):
In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson (then of Throbbing Gristle renown) travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of famed beat writer and cultural pioneer William S. Burroughs and his executor James Grauerholz to starting the daunting task to compile the experimental sounds works of Burroughs, which, up until that point, had never been heard.
During those visits, Burroughs would play back his tape recorder experiments featuring his spoken word “cut-ups”, collaged field recordings from his travels and his flirtations with EVP recording techniques, pioneered by Latvian intellectual Konstantins Raudive. Throughout the next year, P-Orridge, Christopherson and Grauerholz would spent countless hours compiling various edits, each collection showcasing Burroughs sensitive ear and keen experimental prowess for audio anomaly within technical limitations.
By the time 1981 came through, Burroughs had relocated to Lawrence, KS in which to escape the violence and mania of New York City life. It is in Lawrence that P-Orridge and Christopherson put the finishing touches on the record that would be known as “Nothing Here Now but the Recordings”. The album would come out in the Spring of 1981 as the final release for the shuttering Industrial Records, brought about by the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle. The album remained out of print until 1998 when John Giorno and the Giorno Poetry Systems included the album on a multi-disc retrospective CD box set compiling the majority of Burroughs seminal recordings.
Dais Records worked closely with the Estate of William S. Burroughs to finally reissue, for the first time since its original release in 1981, a proper album reissue of William S. Burroughs “Nothing Here Now but the Recordings” in its original vinyl format to celebrate the centennial anniversary of William S. Burroughs. Fully remastered from the original master tapes.
Notes:
Tracks A1 to A6, A8, B3, B4, & B6 - Early 1960's
Tracks A6, B2 & B5 - Circa 1965.
Track A7 - Circa 1978.
Track B1 - Circa 1959.
Track B7 - 1960-1961
Master Tape Produced at Sound Recorders, Kansas City, U.S.A. in August 1980.
"Our thanks to William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville for their help and lasting inspiration."
Dedicated to the memory of Peter Christopherson 1955-2010.
Dais Records would like to thank James Grauerholz and The Estate of William S. Burroughs, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Josh Bonati, Peter Wright, Thomas Dobrowolski and The Wylie Agency for all their assistance and support.
A special thanks and appreciation to John Giorno and Giorno Poetry Systems for years of presenting these tracks after their initial release.
Under license from the Estate of William S. Burroughs. Originally release on Industrial Records 1981.
Second edition of 1,000 copies. This second edition has the barcode printed on the jacket as opposed to the barcode sticker present on the first edition from 2015.
Tracklist:
A1 "Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard"
A2 "The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes"
A3 "Summer Will"
A4 "Outside The Pier Prowed Like Electric Turtles"
A5 "The Total Taste Is Here" - News Cut-Up
A6 Choral Section, Backwards
A7 "We See The Future Through The Binoculars Of The People"
A8 "Just Checking Your Summer Recordings"
B1 Creepy Letter - Cut-Up At The Beat Hotel In Paris
B2 Inching - "Is This Machine Recording?"
B3 "Handkerchief Masks" - News Cut-Up
B4 "Word Falling - Photo Falling"
B5 Throat Microphone Experiment
B6 "It's About Time To Identify Oven Area"
B7 Last Words Of Hassan Sabbah