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| 1 |
Blind Violinist
Recorded By [Music] – Ira Cohen |
0:47 | ||
| 2 | Imagine Jean Cocteau | 1:18 | ||
| 3 |
Song To Nothing/Letter To Caliban/End Of A Line
Ching, Cymbal, Bells – Eddy Sayer Didgeridoo [Didgeriddo] – Stephen Kent Performer – Lights In A Fat City Recorded By [Stephen Kent] – Naut Humon Suling, Oboe [Piri], Sampler [Samplings] – Kenneth Newby |
5:22 | ||
| 4 |
Kathmandu Dream Piece
Flute – Loren Standlee Guitar – Raja Samyana Organ – Hetty MacLise Percussion – Angus MacLise Performer – Angus MacLise And The Tribal Orchestra Recorded By [Kumbh Mela Recording] – Ira Cohen, Ira Landgarten Voice [Chants] – Ziska Baum |
5:40 | ||
| 5 |
Cembalism
Harpsichord [Cembalum] – Angus MacLise |
4:45 | ||
| 6 |
Tangier Telegram From The Majoon Traveler/From The Moroccan Journal 1987
Recorded By [Music] – Ira Cohen |
8:23 | ||
| 7 |
Allah Moulana Jilala
Recorded By [Field Recordings] – Brion Gysin, Paul Bowles |
8:34 | ||
| 8 |
Even The King Of The Ginza Must Sometimes Sleep/For Yamaguchi Kenjiro/Tokyo Birdhouse/For Kazuko Shiraishi
Drums – Ed Blackwell Harp [Dousso N'gouni], Flute, Keyboards – Don Cherry Recorded By [Don Cherry] – Hans Christian Reumschüssel* |
4:30 | ||
| 9 |
Ornette Comes Home
Alto Saxophone – Ornette Coleman Clarinet – Robert Palmer (3) Performer – Master Musicians Of Jajouka, The* |
3:53 | ||
| 10 | This Is Real Timing | 0:37 | ||
| 11 |
Djemaa El Fna
Recorded By [Music] – Ira Cohen |
4:41 |
Credits
- Design [Cover] – DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Inspiral Icon
- Engineer – Naut Humon
- Photography – Ira Cohen
- Producer, Edited By, Edited By [Cut Up], Mixed By – DJ Cheb I Sabbah
- Recorded By [Ira Cohen] – Bill Laswell (tracks: 4, 6, 8, 9), Naut Humon (tracks: 2, 3, 10)
- Written-by [All Poems And Prose], Voice [Read By] – Ira Cohen
Notes
This is Sub Rosa's Aural Document SR62.
It is subtitled "The Poetry Of Ira Cohen With DJ Cheb I Sabbah's Cut Up Mix Of Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Angus MacLise, Lights In A Fat City, Jilala".
It is dedicated to Brion Gysin.
Music of tracks 1, 6 and 11 recorded in Marrakesh in 1987.
Field recordings of track 4 recorded at Kumbh Mela festival in Hardwar in 1986; Tibetan Horns sampled from "Tibetan Rituals" on Auvidis/Unesco.
Recording in track 5 recording courtesy of Ossian K. MacLise, Sheldon Rochlin and Mystic Fire, circa 1964.
Field recordings of track 7 recorded in Tangier in 1961 and dedicated to Ira Cohen.
Recording of Don Cherry on track 8 at Earwax.
Music in track 9 from the track "Midnight Sunrise" on the album Dancing In Your Head.
All tracks engineered and assisted at Bloody Angle Studios.
All tracks © Cohen/Sabbah except 3 © Extreme and © Cohen/Sabbah
7 © Trance Records and © Cohen/Sabbah
8 © Eternal River and © Cohen/Sabbah
9 © Phrase Text Music, ASCAP and © Cohen/Sabbah
Lights in the Fat City appear courtesy of Extreme
All photos © Ira Cohen
Special thanks to John Solt, Bob Moore, Philippe Franck, Suzanne Thomas.
Track 7 is titled "Allah Moulana Jilala" inside the booklet, "Allah Moulana" on the sleeve.
Master Musicians of Jajouka are called "The Master Musicians of Joujouka".
"At last we are on the verge of cracking the st*r language".
This is a digipak release.
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