CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Louise Landes Levi
Album....: City Of Delirium
Label....: Sloow Tapes
Size.....: 63,4 MB
Source...: TAPE
Playtime.: 39:11 min
Genre....: Psychedelic
Release..: May-24-2011
Encoder..: LAME V3.98.4 -V0
Quality..: avgkbps 44.1Hz Joint-Stereo
Track List:
01 19:41 Untitled
02 19:30 Untitled
Release Notes:
LLL, NYC, world traveler and poet, years in No. India,
Holland /Amsterdam & No. Italy/Arcidoso where she still
lives, in stone tower, at least half the year.
Publishing numerous books, chaps and broadsides, she
also translated Rene Daumal Henri Michaux and great
tantric poet, 16th century Mira Bai. 'Her poems sing in
the mind and dance through the heart and throat, and
arms & legs, w. great clarity and bliss. Louise is
Saranswati, goddess of poetry (John Giorno). This tape
collects poems from the late sixties to the present. In
addition to writing, Louise is also a player (sarangi
and flute). In these recordings, the spoken word is set
to music drawn from two of her cassettes æKinnariÆ and
æPadmaÆ, recorded in Munich and West Hurley, NY,
respectively and produced, in mid and late eighties, by
Felix Mensingh. Louise played in the Floating Lotus
Magic Opera Compnay (Daniel Moore, Angus Maclise, Terry
Riley) and studied Indian music w. Annapurna Devi, Ali
Akbar Khan and La Monte Young. 100 copies.