awake in th red desert, by bill bissett & th mandan massacr

awake in th red desert

by bill bissett & th mandan massacr

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1.	th deacon bros in barbados 00:21	buy track
2.	o a b a 02:27	buy track
3.	an ode to d a levy 01:23	buy track
4.	my mouths on fire 04:17	buy track
5.	2 awake in th red desert 03:36	buy track
6.	arbutus garden apartments 6 pm 04:28	buy track
7.	heard ya tellin 02:35	buy track
8.	fires in th tempul 02:09	buy track
9.	she, still and curling 03:30	buy track
10.	is yr car 2 soft 4 th road 00:31	buy track
11.	and th green wind 01:48	buy track
12.	yu sing 01:09	buy track
13.	now according to paragraph C 02:30	buy track
14.	she's a very good cook 02:15	buy track
15.	air to th bells / th face in th moon 05:36	buy track
16.	valley dansrs 04:29	buy track
17.	colours 02:04	buy track

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Remastered version, from 2019's Unknown Province (Alex Moskos, Félix Morel)

NOTE: To maintain continuity of the original 1968 tracklisting, this edition does not contain the bonus tracks as featured on the 2001 CD by GearFab, however, this edition does contain lesser-known tracks by bill bissett from 1966 and 1967, previously released on the long out of print cassette Past Eroticism by Underwhich Editions from 1986.. These will also be included on the forthcoming retrospective archival release "circulin th moon".

"recorded in 1968 by pioneering sound-and-concrete poet bill bissett after arriving in vancouver from halifax, the album finds his sundry gang of poets, visual artists, and musicians in th mandan massacre constructing a perfectly lysergic backdrop for their lead agitator's possessed delivery: growling like a streetcorner doomsday prophet, jabbering like a preacher speaking in tongues, and repeating single lines until they become smeared syllables of sound. ... there are three basic modes on awake in th red desert: bissett unaccompanied; backed up with the kinds of out-rock incantations that groups like sun city girls and the no neck blues band would summon decades later; or warped with tape loops and buchla synth by massacre member and engineer wayne carr." - jesse locke

"backed by a band of interesting musicians (a few of whom went on to straighter afterlives), bill bissett created an insane mass of sound, comparable to what mayo thompson’s red crayola was doing in texas around the same time, laced with heavy fugs overtones. pure freaked sonics, created while stoned, for an audience that was similarly blasted, and was willing to decode what was going on using the very best acid logic available. if you don’t feel your teeth wiggling while this plays, i suggest you may never feel that particular feeling. in your life. bill bissett is still going today, and we heartily suggest that anyone who digs this album runs out and tries to nail down one or another of his wonderful books before the sun sets." – byron coley, 2019

credits

released September 22, 2023

words & harmony - bill bissett

toy flute - roger tentrey
flute & tape recorder - ross barrett
guitar - terry beauchamp
percussion – gregg simpson, harley mcconnell, ken paterson, martina clinton
buchla box - wayne carr

produsd by jim brown
engineerd by wayne carr
tape digitizations on tracks 15 thru 17 by simon-cameron hutton

very special thanks to alex moskos and félix morel for all that they do

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bill bissett Toronto, Ontario

This is a Bandcamp page devoted to documenting, archiving and sharing the art, music and poetry of bill bissett.

Here we will find music and poetry by bill bissett himself, as well as collaborative projects with friends. such as Honey Novick, Adeena Karasick, Chris Meloche and of course many more.

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