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William S. Burroughs
Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
Format: LP
Record Label: Dais
Condition: New (sealed)
* High quality reissue.
* In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson (then of
Throbbing Gristle renown) traveled to New York City to meet up at the
fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of famed beat writer and
cultural pioneer William S. Burroughs and his executor James Grauerholz to starting the daunting task to compile the experimental sound works
of Burroughs, which, up until that point, had never been heard. During
those visits, Burroughs would play back his tape recorder experiments
featuring his spoken word \"cut-ups", collaged field recordings from his
travels, and his flirtations with EVP recording techniques, pioneered by
Latvian intellectual Konstantins Raudive. Throughout the next year,
P-Orridge, Christopherson and Grauerholz would spent countless hours
compiling various edits, each collection showcasing Burroughs sensitive
ear and keen experimental prowess for audio anomaly within technical
limitations. By the time 1981 came through, Burroughs had relocated to
Lawrence, KS in which to escape the violence and mania of New York City
life. It is in Lawrence that P-Orridge and Christopherson put the
finishing touches on the record that would be known as Nothing Here Now But The Recordings. The album would come out in the Spring of 1981 as
the final release for the shuttering Industrial Records, brought about
by the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle. The album remained out of print
until 1998 when John Giorno and the Giorno Poetry Systems included the
album on a multi-disc retrospective CD box set compiling the majority of
Burroughs seminal recordings.