Cut UP. Deconstructing W. S. Burroughs, by Various Artists

Cut UP. Deconstructing W. S. Burroughs

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Reed Rosson Interesting stuff super experimental and trippy.

Michael Borella Cut ups work on at least two levels on Cut UP. Deconstructing W. S. Burroughs. The 13 artists that have contributed tracks were able to employ it both with their underlying music as well as any vocal, spoken word, or field recordings that appear in the foreground. The result is a weird and singular form of psychedelia.

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Caesar The disc is an immersive auditory experience, a journey through the intricate webs of Burroughs' thought. The tracks, characterised by industrial, ambient and noise sounds, evoke the rebellious and subversive atmosphere of the years when Burroughs was working. The Cut-Up technique is reinterpreted in a musical key, with samples and sound fragments. www.versacrum.com/vs/2024/06/cut-up-deconstructing-w-s-burroughs-by-various-artists.html Favorite track: Mythologies For The Age Of Control.

Marco Zonta Another gem by USG, different approaches to experiemntal electronic by different high caliber artists, from improvisation to dark ambient, all perfectly experimental and fitting the whole concept.

david_86 The latest release from the ever-awesome USG is a collection of tracks dedicated to W. S. Burroughs, an American writer and visual artist widely recognized as a primary Beat figure and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. The results is otherworldly, and unsurprisingly haunting, with each of the thirteen tracks provided by a different musician offering the listener something unique while fitting perfectly into the album's overall spooky vibe. Wonderful! Favorite track: Rain.

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Paolo L. Bandera - Riconnessione Iconoclatstica Sacrale
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David Lee Myers, Sonologyst, Lars Bröndum - Unus et Trinus
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The Tapes - A Touch Of Despair
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RhaD - Metamusic
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Between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, the literary and stylistic technique of William S. Burroughs (Saint Louis 1917-Lawrence 1997) influenced an entire generation that was, in those years, in direct collision with the social system. A somewhat controversial and brilliant figure, a man on the fringes of civilization. From his mind emerged the creative writing technique that burst onto the scene under the name of Cut-Up. This procedure was previously introduced by the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, involving cutting words from an existing text to generate a new meaning by mixing the various words in a different order. Burroughs took this technique to the extreme, making it very popular and influencing every artistic realm, particularly the field of rock and experimental music. The list of his disciples in the musical domain is extensive, including names like David Bowie, Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, and Throbbing Gristle, to name just a few.
It is from this devotion to the technique and the persona of this legendary writer that the homage by the Unexplained Sounds Group and the musicians involved in the project is born, paying tribute to the great American writer.

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released June 6, 2024

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SOUNDOHM
From the always fantastic imprint, Unexplained Sounds Group known for its rigorous efforts exploring some of the most obscure corners of experimental sound practice comes “Cut UP. Deconstructing W. S. Burroughs”, an astounding new collection exploring contemporary practices rooted in avant-garde tactic - the“cut up”- developed and advocated by the legendary Beat writer William S. Burroughs.
Visionary and endlessly surprising in its venturing from the beaten and expected paths, via the work of 13 artists including Rapoon, Adi Newton, PBK, Sigillum S, David Lee Myers and more - it stands as a powerful rethinking of the potential of ambient music through the lens of industrial music, electronic experimentalism, and subtle treatments of musique concrète.

Mark Hjorthoy
This is a genius collection of excellent music from a label that never disappoints.
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Avant Music News
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Grey Clay Radio
Like all the themed compilations by the USG network of labels, it is a supremely excellent offering. A whole constellation of artists focused on this one theme pays tribute by the ever magickal act of creativity.
Through and across each of the diverse styles and interpretations can be triangulated a feeling of true respect and affection for Burroughs. As an album it is hugely beautiful and affecting
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Luminous Dash
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Vers Sacrum
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This Is Darkness
With each of the 13 tracks offering something different, there is something here for everyone – dark ambient, drone, experimental and avant-garde music to name just a few genres covered here. Wonderful stuff!
www.thisisdarkness.com/2024/07/10/frozen-in-time-this-is-darkness-playlist-july-2024/

RUMORE
No writer has gained as much recognition in the world of industrial and avant-garde music as William S. Burroughs. His imagery, filled with horror and psychic distortion, perfectly matched the waking nightmare of the antagonistic music of the second half of the last century. 110 years after his birth, the Unexplained Sounds Group releases a collection of "wild boys" of experimental music such as Sigillum S (and soloist Paolo Bandera), PBK, Adi Newton (Clock DVA, TACG), Rapoon, and others, dedicated to celebrating the man, his places, his toxic hallucinations, and the writing reinvented through cut-up techniques. Among many, this is certainly one of the best tributes to the tangerine figure of the "hombre invisible."80/100

BLOW UP
Among the names that are incessantly recurring when it comes to discussing literary influences and preferences, Burroughs is certainly one of the most cited, his genius, which exploded in the years between the end of the 50s and the beginning of the 60s, is inevitably recognized beyond generational barriers. For the content of his writings, but above all for the cut-up technique that had taken the concepts of Dada poetry to the extreme, bringing it into the cerebral sphere of the individual as a narrative methodology, no longer bound by criteria of rules that were too stringent and suffocating. Having now earned a well-deserved credibility, with his valuable works such as Sonologyst and with the Unexplained Sounds Group catalog that is rapidly and qualitatively growing, Raffaele Pezzella has not encountered excessive difficulty in gathering a high-prestige cast ready to compete in a tribute to his beloved uncle Bill. Naturally, the voice element, mostly sampled and looped, is common to various contributions, so much so that it represents a constant in a path of deconstruction by Burroughs himself, as underlined by the title, always marked by the demolition of structures and the assembly, viaticum of new meanings, of the resulting rubble. Dark ambient scenarios are favored by Sigillum S, Phoanøgramma and The Washing Planck, Nihil Impvlse, with ethnic components that are clearly felt in Dead Voices On Air and Rapoon, ambient solutions favored by 400 Lonely Things and P.U.M.A. and more strictly ahead of Allan Segall and PBK. For the restless development of their participations, they appear to embrace more decisively the fragmentary conceptuality of the American writer Paolo Bandera, David Lee Myers and Mario Lino Stancati.
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Mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).
Artwork and layout by Matteo Mariano.
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