Keith Haring cover art Burroughs+Coil+Sonic Youth+Husker Du+Giorno+ Broken Music

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The Dial-a-Poem Poets: A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse-- William S. Burroughs / Husker Du / John Giorno Band / David Johansen / Sonic Youth / Cabaret Voltaire / Diamanda Galas / Coil / Michael Gira / David Van Tieghem / Jessica Hagedorn & The Gangster Choir label & cat. no.:
Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 035 pressed in:
USA date:
1985 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: vg+ (few minor unfeelable scuffs)
Cover: vg+ (light edge and corner wear, inner sleeve slightly wrinkled) description:
Great and rare gatefold album, a compilation of mostly exclusive tracks put together by beat poet John Giorno featuring beautiful artwork by Keith Haring designed especially for this lp (on the front and back covers, the inner gatefold, and even both sides of the inner album sleeve!). Featuring poetry readings, art punk, no wave, electronic/industrial, and text-sound/sound-poetry. This lp is listed in the Broken Music catalog of artists' record works.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Burroughs was an experimental poet and drug literature legend associated with the beat movement, the cut-up technique, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Joan Vollmer, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Paul Bowles, Norman Mailer, J. G. Ballard, Alexander Trocchi, Jeff Nuttal, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern, Mick Jagger, Ministry, Gus Van Sant, Sonic Youth, Tom Waits, David Cronenberg, and Kurt Cobain. • Beat poet Giorno ran the Dial-A-Poem-Poets Giorno Poetry Systems label and worked with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Coil, Sonic Youth, Meredith Monk, Anne Waldman, Arto Lindsay, Psychic TV, and Lydia Lunch. • This lp should be of interest to fans of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lucien Carr, Genesis P-Orridge, Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, Einsturzende Neubauten, John Cale, Nirvana, Clark Coolidge, Charles Amirkhanian, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tony Shafrazi, pop art, Roy Lichtenstein, Yoko Ono, Kenneth Patchen, Henri Chopin, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, Charles Bernstein, Jackson MacLowe, Lyn Hejinian, text-sound, sound poetry, and poesie sonore. Check out my other items for more early electronic/synth/concrete/electroacoustic, avant garde/experimental/noise, free jazz/improv, artist records, audiophile, quadraphonic, and 20th century classical vinyl. US Shipping - Media Mail with tracking is $5.00 for up to 2 12" records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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