09/11/2025
GREGORY CORSO - "DIE ON ME"
..now available for pre-order in a Limited-Edition of just 111 LPs on black vinyl, directly from the Shimmy-Shop:
https://shimmy-disc.com/products/die-on-me
Produced by HAL WILLNER
featuring MARIANNE FAITHFULL, ALLEN GINSBERG, PETER ORLOVSKY and STUDS TERKEL
Edited and Mastered for Vinyl by KRAMER
Executive Producer: Michael Minzer
The first single/video, "FOR HOMER", is here.
(Ambient-Cinema by Kramer)
https://www.stereoembersmagazine.com/stereo-embers-video-track-exclusive-for-homer-from-shimmy-disc-vinyl-reissue-of-beat-poet-gregory-corsos-final-album-die-on-me/
Dave Cantrell at Stereo Embers says:
First released a year after the poet’s death in 2001, 'DIE ON ME' features tracks that span from 1959 to mere days before his passing, as is the case with the track we preview today, a fact that can’t help but bring an unsurpassed pathos to what we hear. Gently enhanced by original producer Hal Wilner’s score, the poem unspools with a touching – and frankly, unmatched – candor that almost feels foreign when heard inside our current world’s daily, decidedly unpoetic, noise, and as such presents like a balm spoken by a mere immortal come to visit us and ground us once again in the messy purity of human existence. No bombast, no hollow pride, and, most importantly, no fear. Just the voice of a particular truth the kind of which is, alas, too often sorely missing from our collective consciousness in our current moment. Given that, its (first ever) vinyl reissuing by Shimmy-Disc on November 7th is something close to an act of mercy, offering this (and fourteen other tracks which include the passed immortal presences of Allen Ginsberg, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Orlovsky and Studs Terkel) like, well, an offering to the ineffable, a sense that, inevitably given its authorship, rather reverberates like a spiritual echo thoughout the visual treatment Kramer’s given it here. Entrancing, moving, inimitable, not to mention inspiring considering the brink Corso was speaking from when this reading was captured, among whatever more one could say about this recording, the humanity inherent, the fearlessness in the voice of the poet, neither resigned nor defiant, is simply deathless.
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