As we run down towards the New Year, I’m sharing some of our most popular mixtapes from over the years.
This Mixtape went out in January 2021 and featured a number of poetry readings placed to music, including readings by Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, which I remixed to music by Calexico from Feast of Wire (2003) and Hot Rail (2001). Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, painter and owner of the world-famous literary landmark that is City Lights Bookstore (and publishing house) in San Francisco, also features. The month after this Mixtape came out, Lawrence passed away (February 22, 2021). He was 101 years old (read my article about him here).
You can also hear two tracks from We Come the Sun (on Decca Records) – The album was composed by Cerys Matthews with Hidden Orchestra and features 10 UK poets.
Plus
- Music from Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton’s Music and Poetry of the Kesh.
- Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy featuring George Xylouris.
- Under the Reefs Orchestra.
- Hairetis Harper – featuring vocalist Yiagos Hairetis (Crete) and experimental harpist Maria-Christina Harper (London) – we wrote about them here.
Music Played
- Calexico and Allen Ginsberg – Untitled III / In The Back of the Real / Strange New Cottage in Berkeley (Folk Radio Remix)
- Calexico and Jack Kerouac – Crumble / The Beat Generation (Folk Radio Remix)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Pt.10
- Under the Reefs Orchestra – Entre les roseaux
- Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Rooftop Garden (feat. George Xylouris)
- Liz Berry, Cerys Matthews, Hidden Orchestra – Connemara
- Adam Horovitz, Cerys Matthews, Hidden Orchestra – A House Built From Cloth
- Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – Music and Poetry of the Kesh – 05 A Homesick Song
- Hairetis Harper – Tsakoniko
- Anna Linardou – Heterotopia
- Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith – Knowledge Of The Self
- Alex Gallacher – Quantock Hills Field Recording