Label: Unexplained Sounds Group

超高内容オマージュ!!1950年代のビート・ジェネレーションを代表する作家の一人であり、既存のテキストから単語を切り取り異なる順序で混ぜ合わせる"カットアップ"で知られる偉人ウィリアム・S・バロウズ。様々な企画ものV.Aを出版するイタリアUnexplained Sounds Groupが手掛けた、このレーベル周辺アーティストらによるバロウズへのオマージュ音源集。Sigillum S、Rapoon、David Lee Myers、PBKなどベテラン勢を含む全13名の作品を収録、氏の声をコンクレート的に、また複雑な雑音へと変容させた非常にカッコイイ作風が目白押し。









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.