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Allen Ginsberg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EVA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,614 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #73 in Music > Miscellaneous > Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews > Poetry

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Allen in Downtown Ambient Spacejazz Territory, January 8, 2000

By 

Stephen Silberman "writer, Wired Magazine" (SF, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lion for Real (Audio CD)

My Polish comrade below has his facts confused: none of the music on this album was written by Glass or McCartney. It is indeed a mystic wonderful album, however, produced by Hal Willner, the imaginative impresario who also created the jazz-savvy tributes "Weird Nightmare" and "Amarcord Nino Rota." This album lays moody, resonant readings of Allen's poetry into atmospheric and haunting jazz soundscapes played by NY's best and brightest: Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell. The recording of "Kral Majales" in perhaps the best musical setting of Allen's poetry ever done -- all of this is passionate, intelligent music, with Allen's Jovian Blake voice the dark jewel at the center.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is absolutely mystic album, possesing the whole soul., April 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lion for Real (Audio CD)

I can not find the right words to describe my feelings, when I listen to this album. I think, that everyone who is possesed by The Beat Generation movement has to have it! The music created by Philip Glass or Paul McCartney beautifuly refer to Ginsberg's poetry. The whole album presents the long story- the road through life, full of a lot of charming events and experience. I suggest listen to Mr. Ginsberg "as he walked the Universe"- this is the howl for beauty.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feel Ginsburgian Poetry Through Experimental Jazz, June 18, 2000

By 

Steve Dufrechou (Memhpis, TN --America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lion for Real (Audio CD)

Listening to poetry is great, especialy when it's read by the poet themself. But being able to feel the poetry like it was almost a tangible object is another. This album does just that. Aside from "Hum Bom" and "C'mon Jack", every track is complety amazing. The jazz aspect, along with Allen's distinct voice, of the album allows the listener to hear the poems come to life and then run though their veins like a glorius drug. Every poet should have this album. It should be issued to them immeadiatly following the completion of their very first poem! "jazz killed itself/don't let poetry kill itself" --"Poem" by Jack Kerouac