Performer: William S. Burroughs
Genre: Electronic / Non Music / Folk, World, & Country
Album: Break Through In Grey Room
Released: 1986
Style: Cut-up/DJ, Experimental, Spoken Word
MP3 version ZIP size: 1673 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1278 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1595 mb
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 562
Other Formats: DMF AU VOX MIDI MMF DTS AA

Tracklist

A1	–Ian Sommerville & William S. Burroughs	K-9 Was In Combat With The Alien Mind Screens	13:29
A2	–William S. Burroughs	Origin And Theory Of The Tape Cut-Ups	3:43
A3	–Brion Gysin	Recalling All Active Agents	1:25
A4	–Ian Sommerville & William S. Burroughs	Silver Smoke Of Dreams	4:50
B1	–William S. Burroughs	Junky Relations	2:56
B2	–Master Musicians Of Jajouka	Joujouka	1:30
B3	–William S. Burroughs	Curse Go Back	1:12
B4	–William S. Burroughs	Present Time Exercises	2:18
B5	–Master Musicians Of Jajouka	Joujouka	0:42
B6	–William S. Burroughs	Working With The Popular Forces	2:37
B7	–William S. Burroughs	Interview With Mr. Martin	2:59
B8	–Master Musicians Of Jajouka	Joujouka	1:26
B9	–Ian Sommerville	Sound Piece	2:14
B10	–Master Musicians Of Jajouka	Joujouka	2:39
B11	–William S. Burroughs	Burroughs Called The Law	1:34

Credits

• Compiled By [Selections Assembled], Producer – Bill Rich
• Design Concept, Design – Frédéric Walheer, Guy Marc Hinant
• Liner Notes [Introduction Text] – James Grauerholz
• Photography By – Harold Chapman

Notes

Track A1: Early cut-up tapes made by Ian Sommerville and WSB around 1965, probably in New York and London.
Track A2: From a lecture given by WSB at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, April 20, 1976.
Track A3: Excerpt from tape made in 1960 by Brion Gysin at BBC Studios in London, using BG's permutational technique.
Track A4: Tape made in early 1960's by Ian Sommerville and WSB, using the "drop-in" method.
Track B1: Excerpt from a radio talk by WSB in 1961 in London, "A Day in the Life of a Junky", tape courtesy of the University of Kansas Libraries.
Track B2: Excerpt from live tape made by WSB at the Joujouka Festival in the hills of Morocco with Ornette Coleman, January 18, 1973.
Track B3: From early 1960's tape, WSB chanting an anti-curse.
Track B4: Cassette work by WSB in London, ca. 1971, using radio, television, several tape recorders.
Track B6: WSB cut-ups with Dutch Schultz's last words and news texts, shortwave radio noise, mid-1960's, London.
Track B7: Excerpt, WSB performance at the ICA in London, February 28, 1963; tape courtesy of Gordon C.A. Craig.
Track B9: Produced By Ian Sommerville using the inching technique, 1960's?
Track B11: WSB routine recorded mid-1960's - dropping a dime on the Nova Mob; tape courtesy of the University of Kansas Libraries.

Archival reconstruction by Romana Recording Studios, Kansas, Summer 1986.

Acknowledgements to Peter Christopherson and Genesis P-Orridge, who early recognized the importance of this kind of tapes.
Thanks to Naropa Institute, the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, the BBC, the ICA & Gordon Craig, London. Special thanks to James Grauerholz for his help in the completion of this record.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SR V08	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Gat)	Sub Rosa	SR V08	Belgium	2008
CD006-8, SUB CD006-8	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(CD, Album)	Sub Rosa, Sub Rosa	CD006-8, SUB CD006-8	Belgium	1988
SUB CD006-8, CD006-8	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(CD, Album)	Sub Rosa, Sub Rosa	SUB CD006-8, CD006-8	Belgium	1987
SR08	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Sub Rosa	SR08	Belgium	2001
SRV08	William S. Burroughs	Break Through In Grey Room ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Gat)	Sub Rosa	SRV08	Belgium	2013