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MALANGA, GERARD - Up from the Archives

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Sub Rosa SR170 Release Year: 2000 Note: personal collection of archive recordings (poetry, readings, discussions, music) by this poet, photographer, filmmaker, performer (with VELVET UNDERGROUND) & main assistant of ANDY WARHOL at the "Factory", feat. MALANGA readings & dialogues with JACK KEROUAC, ALLEN GINSBERG, W. BURROUGHS, music by ANGUS MacLISE, IGGY POP, THURSTON MOORE, etc.. 15 tracks, extensive booklet with many photos... a pure historic sub-culture document! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info "GERARD MALANGA: HIS LEGACY New York poet, photograph, performer with the Velvet Underground, Gerard Malanga, was Andy Warhol's close friend and his first assistant in the golden age of the 60' Factory (paintings: Red Jackie, Brillo Box, Mao, Flowers... all the films - including Sleep, Empire, Chelsea Girls... - the Velvet Underground era...). What we present here is really his unique legacy. FROM WARHOL TO BURROUGHS... First hand documents from the personal archives of Malanga - it contains rare documents with voices of Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, the American poet Gregory Corso, Jack Kérouac, Willard Maas ... Some come from unknown documents recorded by Malanga himself during the shooting of Warhol 's films... Other great document: Gerard Malanga, poetry reading at Leo Castelli Gallery, l964... for the first exhibition of Warhol's famous "Flowers" All begin with a conversation between William Burroughs and Malanga, about "dreams"... UNPUBLISHED MUSIC FOR GERARD This record also contains unpublished music by Angus MacLise (... Velvet Underground before Velvet Underground and La Monte Young Orchestra with John Cale and Tony Conrad) and new pieces by Iggy Pop and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). It ends with Gerard and dj Olive, live at the 'Cooler' of New York, last year... the loop is looped." [label info] www.subrosa.net