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BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.

Album Format Label & Cat. Number Description Year Price (incl. 19% VAT)  
The Instrument of Control CD Archivio Letterario 0604WB collection of rare recordings of William Burroughs in conversation and readings from the 70s & 80s 2006 €14.00
Thee Films 1950s - 1960s DVD Cherry Red Records crdvd146 collection of his experimental art movies with ANTHONY BALCH & BRYON GYSIN !! 2007 €19.50
Three allusive Tracks from Break Through in a Grey Room 7inch Sub Rosa SR266 collector's item! "Curse go back", "Interview with Mr. Martin", "Burrourghs called the Law", numb. ed. 300 copies; label design by STEPHANE BLANQUET 2009 €11.00
A Man Within (Documentation) DVD Good Movies/Neue Visionen stunning documentation (90 min.) about the highly influentual underground writer (1914-1997) with lots of archive material, interviews, photos, feat. insight talks with PATTI SMITH, GENESIS P ORRIDGE, IGGY POP, PETER WELLER, GUS VAN SANT, JELLO BIAFRA, etc. etc. ., a soundtrack by SONIC YOUTH and lots of bonus material (short films, homevideos, deleted scenes.. comes in a very nice packaging (cardboard folder, poster), english w. subtitles 2012 €10.00
Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages CD Sotpackan sp0067 recording from 1968 feat. BURROUGHS as narrator with his uncomparable voice for this 'dark humorous' silent cult film from 1922 - the avant-jazz soundtrack in between is from: DANIEL HUMAIR (percussion), BERNARD LUBAT (piano organ), GUY PEDERSON (double bass), JEAN-LUC PONTY (violin), and MICHEL PORTAL (sax, flute) => 'Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath'; 76 min. 2014 €13.00
Call me Burroughs LP Superior Viaduct SV094 first time re-issue of W.S. BURROUGHS first LP from 1965 - reading from 'Naked Lunch' and 'Nova Express' with his inimitable voice... "An eerie, deadpan drawl guides the listener through sci-fi innerscapes, narcotic nightmares, reports from the edge of the apocalypse" 2016 €24.00
Curse Go Back LP Paradigm PD 031LP re-issue of a rare CD ("Electronic Revolution") with original cut-up experiments by BURROUGHS recorded in 1968, comes with insert feat. an essay and so far unseen photos, lim. 500 clear vinyl ; "This is the first readily available edition of an hypnotic and meditative recording that examines the hidden power of words. Closer to work of sound poetry than anything literary" 2016 €22.00
Let me hang you LP Khannibalism KK003 / Ernest Jenning Record Co. EJRC122 recordings from 20 years ago, with new musical input: BURROUGHS reading his favourite parts of NAKED LUNCH, combined with musical and sound creations of BILL FRISELL and WAYNE HORVITZ (NAKED CITY), EYVIND KANG and many more, creating a kind of atmospheric soundtrack and background for the ever strange contents of the novel... finally these recordings have been re-found & finished by KING KHAN and other musicians. 13 pieces, pretty obscure but it works!!! multi-coloured vinyl, gatefold cover 2016 €23.00
Ali's Smile LP Paradigm Discs PD 36 re-issue of one of the rarest ever published BURROUGH's LP (from 1971, only about 50 non-damaged copies could be distributed) with a reading from 1970 ("A tale of revenge, heartless cruelty and amulet power, muddied with frequent recourse to Scientological references"), plus "Nova Dispatches", earliest recordings with shorter texts done on tape in 1963 by the master himself ("Cut-up and Fold-In Techniques", "Virus", "Nova Mythology"); nice ed. with numbered inlay + postcard, 1000 copies 2021 €26.00
Break Through in Grey Room LP DAIS Records DAIS197LPC SUB ROSA compiled and released this LP in 1986 with rare, highly experimental early cut-up recordings from the 60's to 70's, working with BRION GYSIN, THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA; and mathematician IAN SOMMERVILLE... *the record is as much an exhibition of studio and composition technique as it is a document of underground culture at that time.* - clear vinyl 750 copies (black vinyl available, too) 2023 €25.00
Break Throuigh in Grey Room LP DAIS Records DAIS197LPC   2023 €25.00
Nothing Here Now but the Recordings LP DAIS Records DAIS 065 re-issue of this now almost historical LP from 1981 - the last release on Industrial Records (IR0016), coordinated and produced by GENESIS P-ORRIDGE and PETER CHRISTOPHERSON who put together this compilation of incredible spoken word cut up experiments and field recordings, in fact the first widely available release with BURROUGHS recordings; back in print, re-mastered audio + re-stored artwork, Clear vinyl ed. lim. 750 copies (black vinyl available too) 2023 €25.00