William S. Burroughs wave

William S. Burroughs — Nothing Here Now But The Recordings (1981) Nothing Here Now But The Recordings was originally compiled by Genesis P-Orridge and ’Sleazy’ Peter Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle in 1980 from Burroughs’ personal archive, and is re-released by Dais Records. As a collection of Burroughs’ tape experiments, the tracks vary considerably in fidelity and length. Some are bursts of language and noise, shaped by chance operation. Burroughs applied his cut-up techniques as much to audio tape as to the printed page, and the results are the basis of this collection. Tracks like ’Outside the Pier Prowled like Electric Turtles’ do not make for an easy first listen, being an “occasional muffled report“ to use Burroughs’ own words. В 1980 году Дженезис Пи-Орридж и Питер Слизи Кристоферсон отправляются в Нью-Йорк ради встречи с Уильямом Берроузом в его квартире, известной как “Бункер“. Берроузу была нужна их помощь в составлении и издании его ранее неизвестных кассетных записей, которые у него накопил