DANIEL JOHNSTON+BILL BISSETT+MICHAEL HURLEY+MELTZER 2LP

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 DANIEL JOHNSTON / RICHARD MELTZER / MICHAEL HURLEY / TULLI KUPFERBERG / BILL BISSETT / IRA COHEN / M.L. LIEBLER / ARTHUR SZE / MICHAEL HOROVITZ / STUART DYBEK / ETC.

 BREATHE ON THE LIVING 2-LP

Locust / Nexus 

Limited Edition

w/4-page 12"-sized insert 

Very rare limited edition press, Special Anniversary issue of the Nexus (poetry) Magazine from Dayton, Ohio, this issue being 2 long playing vinyl records. Featuring exclusive material from a variety of about 40 poets-visual artists, between them one finds Daniel Johnston, Bill Bissett, Michael Hurley, Richard Meltzer and many more...

Some info on the release:  Extremely rare limited edition issue, released in Usa sometime in the late 80's as a special issue for the Anniversary of the poetry Magazine Nexus, being its' 25th issue. This special issue took the form of 2 long playing records featuring about 40 poets-visual artists and musicians. Between those one finds an early appearence of Daniel Johnston, canadian poet Bill Bissett, Michael Hurley, Ira Cohen, Tulli Kupferberg and many many more (see for complete tracklisting below). A weird mix of poetry, sound poetry, music and free form pieces. Nearly never turns up for sale, maybe your only chance to grab a copy!! 

Editorial from the booklet: "And so it's today, October 19th, 1989, 6 a.m. I've just noticed that i haven't flipped my wall calendar since July and it is snowing for the first time outside my window, a cold wet icy snow. A squirrel has found a hole in the rotten eaves of my house and has taken refuge in the inner structure, sotckpilling nuts. Strange posters hang on the wall, advertising bands i'd never heard of a year ago, SPACEMEN 3, NIRVANA, SISTER RAY.
The title Breathe on the Living comes from a poem of Kenneth Patchen, an Ohio poet and watercolorist who was perhaps 50 years ahead of his time with his visions of peace and ecological sanity. And so this record is for him more than anyone else. I think he would dig it. It is also for all the Chinese students mowed down on Tiananmen Square last June, an incident that many Americans have already forgotten about, either through apathy or a desire to be on good economic terms with those bastards in power.
Ends of decades are always interesting in the states, because it is really the only time we ever reflect on ourselves and take stock. The 1980s have witnessed the brutal homogenization of life and thought in this country and a hyperindustrialization (i.e. destruction) of the landscape such as we've never seen. As our coastal waters and revers become too polluted to sustain life (one third is such at last count) and plutonium levels makes place like Rocky Flats, CO uninhabitable (the public doesn't know this yet), the fortunate retreat ever further into eath-tone condo fantasylands insulated with cable, VCR, temporary lovers, New Age accouterments, exotic pasta, adult toys, pop spirituality manuals, USA today and oat bran. We've grown older, but apparently no wiser.
This record is for all those who are dedicated to de-bunking the worn-out myths that still carry common currency and forging a heroic path, as Joseph Campbell suggests; withdrawing from the world of things and achievements and tuning into promptings of the inner life, the transcendent, the eternal, the human, the poetic. I not only believe that poetry can counter-affect our civilization's self-annihilating course, but that this is the greatest time to be alive and writing poetry, because of our situation. With global pollution, overpopulation and atmospheric warming, we need to get a grip.
The poets and musicians on this collection are too disparare to lump into one group. Yet, all of them, on one way or another, share the communality of being mavericks or outlaws, standing outside the 20th Century death trip, speaking truth on the cutting edge of the known and refusing to take life lying down or anesthetized. Breathe on the Living is meant to illumiate new potentials and possibilities, to excite awareness and touch the forgotten Inner Self, to ignite the dry timber of imagination.
Love, Bob.
P.s. Additional poems and outtakes too lengthy to include on this collection are available by sending a blank C-90 cassette and a dollar to cover postage to NEXUS, 006 University Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45430 USA." 

Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas. Johnston's musical work gained some notoriety when he moved to Austin, Texas Johnston began to attract the attention of the local press and gain a following augmented in numbers by his habit of handing out tapes to people he met. Live performances were well-attended and hotly anticipated. His local standing led to him being featured in a 1985 episode of the MTV program The Cutting Edge featuring performers from Austin's "New Sincerity" music scene. Subsequently he performed at the 1985 Woodshock music festival in Austin, where he was featured in a short documentary of the festival, Woodshock. In 1988, Johnston visited New York City and recorded 1990 with producer Kramer at his Noise New York studio. It was released in 1990 on Kramer's Shimmy-Disc label. This was Johnston's first experience in a professional recording environment after a decade of releasing home-made cassette recordings. His mental health further deteriorated during the making of 1990.

Interest in Johnston increased when Kurt Cobain was frequently photographed wearing a t-shirt featuring the cover image of Johnston's album Hi, How Are You which music journalist Everett True gave him. In spite of Johnston being resident in a mental hospital at the time, a bidding war to sign him ensued. He refused to sign a multi-album deal with Elektra Records because Metallica was on the labels roster and Daniel was convinced that they were possessed by Satan and would hurt him. He also dropped his manager who brokered the deal, because Daniel believed he too was possessed by Satan. Ultimately he signed with Atlantic Records and released Fun, produced by Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers in 1994. Johnston contributed two songs to the soundtrack for Larry Clark's controversial 1995 film Kids, produced by Folk Implosion and Sebadoh's frontman, Lou Barlow. Johnston later covered Schoolhouse Rock!s "Unpack Your Adjectives" for a compilation of the popular education songs called Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks in 1996. In 1990, Johnston played at a music festival in Austin, Texas. On the way back to West Virginia on a small, private two-seater plane piloted by his father Bill, Johnston had a hypomanic episode believing he was Casper The Friendly Ghost and removed the key from the planes ignition and threw it out of the plane. His father, a former Air Force pilot, managed to successfully crash-land the plane despite that according to Bill "There was nothing down there but trees". Although the plane was destroyed, Johnston and his father emerged with only minor injuries. As a result of this episode, Johnston was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. In 2004, he released The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, a two-disc compilation. The first disc featured many artists, such as Tom Waits, Beck, TV on the Radio, Jad Fair, Eels, Bright Eyes, Calvin Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips covering songs written by Johnston. The second disc featured Johnston's original recordings of the songs.

Condition: Vinyls lie in excellent condition, they look super clean with the exception of a couple of light scuffs and play nicely all along with light surface noise at the beggining of each side, while cover lies in very good+ condition with light age wear.

Tracklist

A1 Nanao Sakaki And Friends – Praha 4:46 A2 Ira Cohen –
Imagine Jean Cocteau Recorded By – Ira Lingarten 1:13 A3 Ira Cohen – Tokyo Birdhouse Recorded By – Ira Lingarten 1:52 A4 Michael Andre – Memory Of A Good Cigar 0:46 A5 Michael Andre – Gloria Swanson 0:33 A6 Nina Zivancevic – June 2:48 A7 Julian Beck – I Am Removing My Wig 1:58 A8 Michael Horovitz – Glove Song 1:08 A9 Bill Bissett – Fevr Thots In Th Arktik Recorded By, Tape – Chris Meloche 4:45 A10 Karl Young – Intense Sun High Wind 0:42 A11 Jud Yalkut Reads Eric Barker – Little Sun River 1:35 A12 Stuart Dybek – Bruise 3:44 B1 Jeff Poniewaz – Burning The Flag 4:30 B2 John Wolff – Butterfly Effect 2:01 B3 Robert Bové – Childe Robert From The Dark Tower Ran 2:38 B4 John Brandi – A Field Guide To The Body's Anatomy Recorded By – Debora Bluestone
Producer – Robert Winson 2:46 B5 Arthur Sze – The Negative 2:14 B6 Laura Albrecht And Larry Albrecht – Tiananmen Square Incident Lyrics By, Voice – Laura Albrecht
Guitar, Synthesizer – Larry Albrecht 3:41 B7 Antler – Campfire Talk 2:00 B8 Ken Wainio – Getting Rid Of The Ego 2:48 B9 John Macker – How I Feel About The Venice Poems C1 Dan Propper – Footnotes To Believe It Or Not 1:03 C2 Tuli Kupferberg – Arse Longer Vita Herring 3:00 C3 Richard Meltzer – The Valium Restaurant 0:30 C4 Sean Wolf Hill – The Last Dinosaur 0:56 C5 Christian Gore – Editorial 2:45 C6 John M. Bennett And Byron Smith – Flow Of Truth 3:30 C7 Robert Winson – Carnivores Recorded By – Jill Warren
Performer – Poetry Devil, The, Robert Winson, Tim Gagan, Tommy Rae Archuleta
Performer, Written-By – Brian S. Curley 0:42 C8 Miriam Sagan – Burden Performer – Melinda Curley, Miriam Sagan, Poetry Devils, The
Performer, Written-By – Brian S. Curley 2:02 C9 Suzi – 13 Enuf 2:17 C10 Thomas Rain Crowe – S(h)Ea 3:25 C11 Michael Basinski – 3 4:47 D1 Men & Volts – Bad Luck Bye Bye Guitar – Jeff Cronenberg
Producer, Recorded By – Rich Bates
Guitar, Vocals – Phil Kaplan
Bass – Roger Stevenson
Drums – Jon Proudman 3:43 D2 Michael Hurley – The Monkey Song 8:30 D3 Gregg Spence – Dribbleglass 2:21 D4 Daniel Johnston – I'm Dreaming Of Jeannie 1:35 D5 Oxymorons, The – Pain 2:36 D6 Chris Pospisl – Meditation/Revelation 2:12 D7 M.L. Liebler – The Jazz Saxophone, Written-By – Faruq Z. Bey
Producer – Frank Pahl
Drums – Doug Gourley
Lyrics By, Voice – M.L. Liebler

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