In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle travelled to New York City to meet up at the apartment of beat writer William S. Burroughs. They started the task of compiling the experimental works which had never been heard.
Allen Ginsberg, the voice of a generation, fierce, gentle, profound and profane, paired with music created especially for his work, by some of the guiding lights of Jazz in the modern era - Mark Bingham, Bill Frisell, Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, and others.
This album falls somewhere between a box of curios you might find in your eccentric uncle's closet and a set of Beatnik rituals to help you lose your mind.
On March 25th, Toronto avant-pop experimenters Bernice will follow up their Polaris Prize longlisted 2021 LP Eau De Bonjourno with Bonjourno My Friends, an EP featuring seven remixes of songs from EDB.