2024-02-02 21:23:00
Reissue of the album “Junk” by the American poet and photographer Brion Gysin.
We regularly rediscover Brion Gysin, a key but little-known figure in the beat generation and close friend of William Burroughs. A jack of all trades, Gysin was a poet, photographer, painter but also the inventor of the cut-up (following the Dadaist poems of Tristan Tzara) and the Dreamachine, the observation of which with closed eyes (and possibly drugged) provoked psychedelic visions.
An American born in England, he lived for a long time (and died) in Paris while being friends with the punks or the Palace gang, starting with Alain Pacadis. It was there that he recorded this poetic slam album set to music by Ramuntcho Matta, a figure of the scene of the 70s and 80s and post-Jacno companion of Elli Medeiros, for whom he notably produced the hit Toi mon toi. We find her on this disc alongside Don Cherry, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Caroline Loeb, the Senegalese drummer Abdoulaye Prosper Niang or even Yann Le Ker, the guitarist of Modern Guy, and Frederic Cousseau of Suicide Romeo. The sound has aged a little, but remains emblematic of this post-punk white funk tinged with jazz fusion which was being experienced at the time from New York to Paris.
Brion Gysin Junk (Wewantsounds /Modulor)
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