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‘Break Through In Grey Room’ by William S. Burroughs

Release date 15 November 2005 (Sub Rosa)

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1.01 K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens
1.02 Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups
1.03 Recalling All Active Agents
1.04 Silver Smoke of Dreams
1.05 Junky Relations
1.06 Joujouka
1.07 Curse Go Back
1.08 Present Time Exercises
1.09 Joujouka
1.10 Working with the Popular Forces
1.11 Interview with Mr Martin
1.12 Joujouka
1.13 Sound Piece
1.14 Joujouka
1.15 Burroughs called the Law

Officially re-released, this is one of Sub Rosa's absolute classic releases, back in print at last.

Featuring extraodinary cut-up voices recorded during the mid 60s in hotel rooms in New York, Paris, London... It's impossible not to recognise the writer's voice; which displays a sonority which is present in the silence of every text he wrote. An explosion of styles, a blasting of borders, the silence after a gunshot, the overtaking of the fetishized word, from the exploded painting to the cut tape.

Beginging the proceedings here is a 13 and a half minute piece, K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens, recorded around '65 with Ian Sommerville somewhere in New York and London, including various monologues, radio short waves and music... Tapes, cut and cut and cut up to the limit of sense, emerged new structures of communication... and senses. Words gain power when loosing the boundaries of semantics.

Included also on this release is Joujouka music recorded by WS Burroughs in the hills of Morocco with Ornette Coleman, circa 1973.