CD Import

Complete Songs Of Innocence & Experience

Allen Ginsberg

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Catalogue Number
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101387
Number of Discs
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2
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CD
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Product Description

The original 1970 MGM album on CD and Digital for the fi rst time, plus a second disc of rarities and previously unissued songs. Lester Bangs, in Rolling Stone magazine, said the album was, like a labor of love, a salute from a young visionary to an ancient sage. Allen Ginsberg began tuning William Blakes poetry in 1968 (inspired by attending the tumultuous protests at that years Democratic Convention in Chicago), but the origin of the album dates back to a 1948 vision or auditory illumination as he called it, of William Blake reciting poetry to him in his Spanish Harlem apartment. Moved by this, Ginsberg began to set Blakes poetry to music. In 1969, he began recording musical versions of Blakes poetry with Peter Orlovsky, and jazz legends Bob Dorough, Don Cherry, Elvin Jones! 19 of those songs were released the following year as Songs Of Innocence And Experience.

Track List   

Disc   1

  • 01. (a) Introduction (b) The Shepherd
  • 02. The Echoing Green
  • 03. The Lamb
  • 04. The Little Black Boy
  • 05. The Blossom
  • 06. The Chimney-Sweeper
  • 07. (a) The Little Boy Lost (b) The Little Boy Found
  • 08. Laughing Song
  • 09. Holy Thursday
  • 10. Night
  • 11. Nurse's Song
  • 12. The Sick Rose
  • 13. Introduction
  • 14. Ah! Sunflower
  • 15. The Garden Of Love
  • 16. London
  • 17. The Human Abstract
  • 18. To Tirzah
  • 19. The Grey Monk
  • 20. The Grey Monk
  • 21. Brothels Of Paris

Disc   2

  • 01. A Cradle Song
  • 02. The Divine Image
  • 03. Spring
  • 04. Nurse's Song
  • 05. Infant Joy
  • 06. A Dream
  • 07. On Another's Sorrow
  • 08. Holy Thursday
  • 09. The Fly
  • 10. The School Boy
  • 11. The Voice Of The Ancient Bard
  • 12. 0Padmasambhava Mantra
  • 13. Om Namah Shivaye
  • 14. Roghupati Raghava

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