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The Majoon traveler

Title
The Majoon traveler / the poetry of Ira Cohen ; with DJ Cheb i Sabbah\u0027s cut up mix of Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Angus Maclise, Lights in a Fat City, Jilala.
Author
Cohen, Ira
Publication
Brussels, Belgium : Sub Rosa, [1994]

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Additional Authors
  • Sabbah, Cheb i, DJ.
  • Cherry, Don
  • Coleman, Ornette
  • MacLise, Angus
  • Gysin, Brion
  • Lights in a Fat City (Musical group), performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Description
1 audio disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Series Statement
Aural documents ; SR62
Uniform Title
Aural documents ; SR62.
Alternative Title
Poetry of Ira Cohen
Subject
  • American poetry > 20th century > Readings with music
  • Music > Marrakech
Genre/Form
Poetry readings (Sound recordings)
Note
  • Title from container.
  • "All poems and prose written and read by Ira Cohen"--Container.
  • "Dedicated to Brion Gysin"--Container.
Event (note)
  • Tracks 1, 6 and 11 recorded in Marrakesh in 1987; field recordings in track 4 recorded at Kumbh Mela festival in Hardwar in 1986; field recording on track 7 recorded in Tangier, 1961; other recording information detailed on container.
Contents
1. Blind violinist (:45) -- 2. Imagine Jean Cocteau (1:16) -- 3. Song to nothing/Letter to Caliban/End of a line (Lights in a Fat City ; Stephen Kent, didgeridoo ; Kenneth Newby, suling, piri, sampling ; Eddy Sayer-Ching, cymbals, bells) (5:19) -- 4. Kathmandu dream piece (Angus Maclise and the Tribal Orchestra) (5:37) -- 5. Cembalism (Angus Maclise, cembalium) (4:41) -- 6. Tangier telegram from the Majoon traveler/From the Moroccan journals (8:23) -- 7. Allah Moulana Jilala (8:30) -- 8. Even the King of the Ginza must sometimes sleep : for Yamaguchi Kenjiro ;Tokyo birdhouse : for Kazuko Shiraish (Don Cherry, Dousso N\u0027gouni, flutes, Keyboard ; Ed Blackwell, drums) (4:27) -- 9. Ornette comes home (Ornette Coleman, alto saophone ; Robert Palmer, clarinet ; the Master musicians of Joujouka) (3:50) -- 10. This is real timing (:36) -- 11. Djemaa el Fna (4:40)
OCLC
  • ocm33476472
  • 33476472
  • SCSB-5891109
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries