Ai Weiwei, O Future, & Aliah Rosenthal - Hum Bom!
from Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America Volume II by Various Artists
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1 Ai Weiwei, O Future, & Aliah Rosenthal - Hum Bom!
2 Anne Waldman, Fast Speaking Music - Pentagon Exorcism
3 Saul Williams & Thurston Moore - A Prophecy
4 Kai Campos & CJ MIrra, feat. Allen Ginsberg - Bixby Canyon
5 Jack Dangers, feat: Allen Ginsberg - Holy Ghost On The Nod Over The Body Of Bliss
6 System 7 feat Allen Ginsberg - Sonora Desert Edge "The Abyss”
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1 WHY? - Death on All Fronts
2 Seb Taylor - Over Denver Again
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Vocals by Ai Weiwei
Lowe Hollowell, Elliot Hollowell, Luna Brutocao: Children’s Choir
Music Production & Arrangement by O Future
Written by Allen Ginsberg & O Future
Published by May King Poetry Music, AH-Lethal and O Future
Video Editor: Alexia Catenazzo
Supervising Editor: Melody London
Executive Producers: Peter Hale & Jesse Goodman in Association with the Allen Ginsberg Estate
Ginsberg's notes on composing the poem:
(from the Holy Soul Jelly Roll Rhino Boxed Set liner notes)
Part I codifies a longer improvisation in a southern church at Anti-War Rally mark- ing U.S. carpet bombing North Vietnam early ‘70’s. Performing this percussive bummer with me at Folk City a decade later, Don Cherry lay down his trumpet and protested squealing “We don’t wanna bomb!?” so Part II evolved to alchemize the aggressive energy into something positive.
I thought that I was finished with the poem but the bombing of Iraq prompted an- other seven stanzas’ blacktop analysis. Part III’s an attempt to lob a word bomb, an explosion of mantric sound, into the middle of what seems by hindsight one of the most successful coups of government brainwash in the history of American mass-media. The fossil fuel addicted West helped fortify Saddam Hussein, age of Iraq populace averaged sixteen, the war was child abuse. This was a live reading for poetry heads crowded into St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery.
Gog and Magog are mirror image mad puppets of war prophesied to appear before world’s final destruction, Biblical Armageddon, (see Ezekiel and Revelation.)
Lowe Hollowell, Elliot Hollowell, Luna Brutocao: Children’s Choir
Music Production & Arrangement by O Future
Written by Allen Ginsberg & O Future
Published by May King Poetry Music, AH-Lethal and O Future
Video Editor: Alexia Catenazzo
Supervising Editor: Melody London
Executive Producers: Peter Hale & Jesse Goodman in Association with the Allen Ginsberg Estate
Ginsberg's notes on composing the poem:
(from the Holy Soul Jelly Roll Rhino Boxed Set liner notes)
Part I codifies a longer improvisation in a southern church at Anti-War Rally mark- ing U.S. carpet bombing North Vietnam early ‘70’s. Performing this percussive bummer with me at Folk City a decade later, Don Cherry lay down his trumpet and protested squealing “We don’t wanna bomb!?” so Part II evolved to alchemize the aggressive energy into something positive.
I thought that I was finished with the poem but the bombing of Iraq prompted an- other seven stanzas’ blacktop analysis. Part III’s an attempt to lob a word bomb, an explosion of mantric sound, into the middle of what seems by hindsight one of the most successful coups of government brainwash in the history of American mass-media. The fossil fuel addicted West helped fortify Saddam Hussein, age of Iraq populace averaged sixteen, the war was child abuse. This was a live reading for poetry heads crowded into St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery.
Gog and Magog are mirror image mad puppets of war prophesied to appear before world’s final destruction, Biblical Armageddon, (see Ezekiel and Revelation.)
lyrics
“HUM BOM!”
Whom bomb?
We bomb’d them!
Whom Bomb?
We bomb’d them!
Whom Bomb?
We bomb’d them!
Whom bomb?
We bomb’d them!
Whom bomb?
We bomb you!
Whom bomb?
We bomb you!
Whom bomb?
You bomb you!
Whom bomb?
You bomb you!
What do we do?
Who do we bomb?
What do we do?
Who do we bomb?
What do we do?
Who do we bomb?
What do we do!
Who do we bomb?
What do we do?
You bomb! You bomb them!
What do we do?
You bomb! You bomb them!
What do we do?
We bomb! We bomb you!
What do we do?
You bomb! You bomb you!
Allen Ginsberg – May 1971 (Fall of America Poems 1965-1971, City Lights, SF, 1973)
Whom bomb?
We bomb’d them!
Whom Bomb?
We bomb’d them!
Whom Bomb?
We bomb’d them!
Whom bomb?
We bomb’d them!
Whom bomb?
We bomb you!
Whom bomb?
We bomb you!
Whom bomb?
You bomb you!
Whom bomb?
You bomb you!
What do we do?
Who do we bomb?
What do we do?
Who do we bomb?
What do we do?
Who do we bomb?
What do we do!
Who do we bomb?
What do we do?
You bomb! You bomb them!
What do we do?
You bomb! You bomb them!
What do we do?
We bomb! We bomb you!
What do we do?
You bomb! You bomb you!
Allen Ginsberg – May 1971 (Fall of America Poems 1965-1971, City Lights, SF, 1973)
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from Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America Volume II,
track released October 6, 2023
2023, Allen Ginsberg LLC
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Renowned poet, world traveler, spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil
rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) defied simple classification.
Ginsberg parlayed his fame and network of connections into a modestly successful career in music.
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