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Kramer Presents “At Apollinaire’s Grave”

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There’s no query that Allen Ginsberg is likely one of the best poets to ever write, and that reality is just not unrecognized by multi-instrumentalist/producer Kramer, who’s a legend in his personal proper with a prolonged roster of recorded works, touring credit with bands similar to The Fugs and Butthole Surfers), and collaborations with the likes of Daniel Johnston and Galaxie 500 amongst others.

Kramer’s most up-to-date work goals to make clear grasp wordsmiths similar to Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Terry Southern, Sam Lipsyte, and lots of extra, because it takes a few of their most iconic items and units them to music. The total-length LP of phrases and music — Phrases & Music, E-book One — is out tomorrow by way of Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings, and as we speak, PopWrapped are delighted to premiere its focus observe, “At Apollinaire’s Grave” that includes the phrases of Allen Ginsberg sound-tracked with a tender, orchestral, and barely eerie instrumental composed by Kramer.

Requested concerning the observe and his relationship with Ginsberg, Kramer says: “’At Apollinaire’s Grave’ has all the time been certainly one of my favourite poems by Allen Ginsberg. I’d seen/heard him learn it at St Marks Church greater than as soon as within the 1980’s, together with one time particularly, when Gregory Corso was heckling him from the group, however I had by no means heard this Library of Congress recording of him studying it till Michael Minzer despatched it to me.When Allen and I have been working collectively at Noise New York in 1987 on a tune referred to as ‘Pricey M,’ I had instructed him that I’d wished to compose music for his ode to Apollinaire, however we’d simply by no means received round to it, as our respective schedules simply by no means coincided.”

He goes on so as to add: “He was the toughest working poet on earth, all the time accessible to any younger author or poet, on the lookout for steerage. And now he’s gone. However his phrases won’t ever die, and the light thunder of his voice rings everlasting. Few poets wielded the form of energy Allen possessed. He was Zeus tossing phrases of lightning down from Olympus, like so many raindrops. I used to be fortunate sufficient to have been caught up in just a few of these storms, at the very least for a short time. This piece from my Phrases & Music, E-book One LP has been in-the-making for nearly 40 years. I hope it speaks to you, simply as Allen all the time spoke to me…with Love.”

Take a look at the video for “At Apollinaire’s Grave” above and for extra data on Kramer, give his web page a like on Facebook.

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