"Self-portrait Jumping"
CD
1. Kick (feat. Don Cherry)
2. Junk
3. Stop Smoking (feat. Elli Medeiros)
4. Sham Pain
5. V. V. V. (feat. Lizzy Mercier Descloux)
6. Baboon
7. All Those Years
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1. Kick (feat. Don Cherry)
2. Junk
3. Stop Smoking (feat. Elli Medeiros)
4. Sham Pain
5. V. V. V. (feat. Lizzy Mercier Descloux)
6. Baboon
7. All Those Years
8. Dreamachine
9. Somebody Special
10. The Door (feat. Steve Lacy)
Album based on texts by the legendary American poet, painter and writer who has influenced two generations of artists. After a brief involvement with the Surrealists, Gysin was one of the first anglo-saxons who moved to Morocco in the early Fifties. He became a close friend of William Burroughs', and invented the cut-up technique, which was largely used by the author of "The Naked Lunch" throughout his work.
Recorded shortly before his death in 86, this album is a unique document featuring Brion Gysin singing/rapping his own texts on music by Ramuntcho Matta, with performances by Don Cherry , Elli Medeiros, Steve Lacy, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Caroline Loeb, etc.