Album UK 1993 on Grey Matter label
Spoken Word (Spoken Word)
Tracks 1-8 recorded & edited by Ian Sommerville in Paris, May 1965. Released as Call Me Burroughs by Gaît Frogé's English Book Shop, Paris in October 1965. Track 9 recorded in London, 1970. Released in October 1971 on a one-sided LP as Ali's Smile with accompanying book in an edition of 99 copies by Unicorn Press, Brighton. The texts are taken, sometimes in a substantially different form, from the following sources: Tracks 1 & 2 from Naked Lunch 3, 4, 7, 8 from Nova Express 5 from The Ticket That Exploded 6 from The Soft Machine 9 from Exterminator! Front cover calligraphy by William Burroughs from the 1959 Olympia Press edition of Naked Lunch.
William S. Burroughs voc, 1914-1997 US typography, calligraphy, album by |
Antony Balch photography by |
Charles Henri Ford photography by |
Harold Chapman photography by |
Robert Mapplethorpe photography by |
Ian Sommerville recorded by, edited by |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
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1 | The Heat Closing In | William S. Burroughs | 6:55 | |
2 | Meeting Of International Conference Of Technological Psychiatry | William S. Burroughs | 5:06 | |
3 | The Fish Poison Con | William S. Burroughs | 7:09 | |
4 | These Our Actors | William S. Burroughs | 1:34 | |
5 | Silence To Say Goodbye | William S. Burroughs | 4:17 | |
6 | Where You Belong / Gongs Of Violence | William S. Burroughs | 6:44 | |
7 | Inflexible Authority | William S. Burroughs | 10:50 | |
8 | Uranian Willy / Towers Open Fire | William S. Burroughs | 2:04 | |
9 | Ali's Smile | William S. Burroughs | 21:33 |