William Burroughs - Nothing Here Now But The Recordings

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William Burroughs - Nothing Here Now But The Recordings 

ORIGINAL COPY. FIRST UK PRESSING. Released 1981. Mono. Industrial Records, catalogue number; IR016.

 

Overall Sleeve Condition : EXCELLENT (NEAR MINT).

Front cover:   Laminated front cover. Perfect condition apart from a tiny repaired nick to the bottom right hand corner

Rear cover:   Matt, tiny amount of fading. 

Edges/Corners/Opening Slit:  No tears, no seam splits.

I would grade this sleeve as mint bar the tiny nick mentioned above.

 

Vinyl Condition, Visual: MINT 

Vinyl Condition, Audible: MINT

No skips, no jumps, no static crackle, no dust crackles, no sign of any play, no wear. Plays superbly.  Well preserved and cared for, no decrease from the original sound quality. Kept in stunning condition by the previous owner.   

Label Condition : MINT

 

 

William S. Burroughs - Nothing Here Now but The Recordings - 1981
Industrial records IR0016
Complied by Genesis P-Orridge at the Burroughs archives in Lawrence. Under the title "From the archives of William S. Burroughs 'Nothing Here Now but the Recordings'", the album was cut in January 1981. Co-producers were James Graurerholz and Peter Christopherson. Engineer was James Grauerholz. Project co-ordination in the U.K. was done by Peter Christopherson & Genesis P-Orridge, co-ordination in the U.S.A. was done by James Grauerholz. Sleeve design and photo were by Peter Christopherson. Sleeve notes were by Genesis P-Orridge. This was the last release on Industrial Records.

Tracklist:

Side One (22.07) 1. Captain Clark Welcomes You Aboard (Early 1960s) 2. The Saints Go Marching Through All The Popular Tunes (Early 1960s) 3. Summer Will" (Early 1960s) 4. Outside The Pier Prowed Like Electric Turtles (Early 1960s) 5. The Total Taste Is Here - News Cut-up (Early 1960s) 6. Choral Section - Backwards (Circa 1965. 7. We See The Future Through The Binoculars of the People (Circa 1978) - Text of a lecture given by W.S.B. to the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado in Summer 1976 originally entitled "It Belongs To The Cucumbers" cut-up with phrases from the book "Breakthrough - Voices From The Dead" by Konstantin Raudive with which the lecture dealt. The cut-up was made in 1978 in Boulder on a borrowed taperecorder. Basically Raudive deals with the phenomena of intelligible phrases spoken in different languages by often identifiable people appearing on blank tape run through a machine at high record level in an otherwise silent environment. In other words no apparent input. 8. Just Checking Your Summer Recordings (Early 1960s) - The tune is "Brother can't you spare a dime?" Side Two (22.41) 1. Creepy Letter - Cut-up at The Beat Hotel In Paris (Circa 1959) - Earliest surviving cut-up tape. Recorded during a conversation between Brion Gysin (the person who originally conceived the cut-up technique), Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs and probably Sinclair Beiles (unconfirmed). This tape was made in the Beat Hotel, 9 Rue Git le Coeur, Paris in 1959. A letter from London dealing with film business connected to Antony Balch is spontaneously cut-up after an incantation to "se what it really says". 2. Inching - "Is This Machine Recording?" (Circa 1965) - Inching tech- nique involved manually pulling the recorder whilst recording, or while re- recording, inch by inch. "I.S. is Ian Sommerville." 3. Handkerchief Masks - News Cut-up (Early 1960s) - Examples of the cut- up technique applied to radio and TV news broadcasts are included as demonstrations not as finished works in themselves. The theory is that the future "leaks through" that the real message can be revealed. Here is a U.S. President on trial for perjury before a Grand Jury over 10 years before Watergate. 4. Word Falling - Photo Falling (Early 1960s) - Ian Sommerville operated the echo on this track which uses text from Nove Express, a cut-up book by W.S.B. 5. Throat Microphone Experiment (Circa 1965) - These were experiments carried out holding a microphone against the throat whlst talking in the hope of recording sub-vocal speech. Burroughs himself notes that whilst he has no doubt that sub-vocal speech occurs, the equipment he used then and the microphones accessible to us even now fail to register this on tape. "All we got were some interesting noises." 6. "It's About Time To Identify Oven Area" (Early 1960s) 7. Last Words of Hassan Sabbah (1960-61) - Hassan Sabbah "The Old Man Of The Mountain" was the leader of a fanatical fraternity in the eleventh century A.D. that lent its name, the "hashasheen" to the concept of assassination. His base was a castle on Mount Alamut in Northern Persia. This Text by William S. Burroughs is an expansion of a section in Nova Express written and read onto tape in the Empress Hotel, London 1960-1961. This hotel has since been demolished. The tape was intended to illustrate a condition of advanced paranoia. Brion Gysin has visited Mount Alamout, now a ruin. - text by Genesis P-Orridge

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