Anne Waldman

photo: Gary MacKender

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz

January 26, 2004 (32:04): MP3

March 4, 2010 (28:34): MP3

The Eye of the Falcon - New & Selected
with Ambrose Bye
2006
1. Without Stitching Closed the Eye of the Falcon (3:29)
2. Better for Us All - music with Lenny Lesser (4:14)
3. The Marriage of William Blake (2:03)
4. Dallas (5:45)
5. Tanks Under Trees (6:55)
6. The Posture of Her Arms & Hands (3:07)
7. Devil's Working Overtime - guitar with Jason Wahlberg (3:19)
8. In Bed with the Patterns On - text and voice with Lenny Lesser (4:22)
9. Invitation to a Picture Hanging (2:08)
10. Singapore (3:13)
11. Thy of No Dire Greenhouse Effect - voice with Eleni & Eva Sikelianos (3:28)
12. What the Policeman Told Me (3:00)
13. Curse - music with Malcolm Marshall (3:17)
14. Did Die - voice with Eleni Sikelianos (2:59)

All text written and performed by Anne Waldman
All music written, performed and produced by Ambrose Bye
Mastered by Dave Drago (www.davedrago.com)
Production by Ambrose Bye (hambrose13@hotmail.com)
(Recording courtesy of Farfalla Press and Gary Parrish)


Alchemical Elegy - Selected Songs and Writings
2001

1. Duality (4:45)
2. Paean: May I Speak Thus? (AIDS Litany) (4:56)
3. Crack in the World (4:08)
4. Jack Kerouac Dream (2:31)
5. Book of Events (5:00)
6. excerpt from Pieces of an Hour (Dear John Cage...) (5:45)
7. Kalyanamitra (The Spiritual Friend) (2:54)
8. Notes on Sitting Beside a Noble Corpse (3:16)
9. excerpt from Devil's Working Overtime (2:08)
10. Citipatti Blues (5:00)
11. Pratitya-Samutpada (1:46)
12. Stereo (4:08)
13. Kali Yuga Blues (3:20)
14. from lovis II (2:50)
15. Verses for the New Amazing Grace (2:44)
16. First Thought (for Rudy Burckhardt) (3:27)
17. excerpt from Memorial Day (with Ted Berrigan) (5:00)

Produced by Anne Waldman & Steven Taylor
Engineered by Tyler Burba & Steven Taylor
With the exceptions of tracks 1, 13, & 17, all pieces were engineered at the William Burroughs Word Virus Lab,
Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado

Battery - Live at Naropa 1974 - 2002

1. Fast Speaking Woman (5:43)
2. Skin Meat Bones (3:24)
3. Anarchy (2:02)
4. Two Hearts (0:47)
5. Number Song (0:32)
6. Phone Call From Frank O'Hara (2:51)
7. Kill or Cure (5:36)
8. Corridoror (2:30)
9. You're Like Ice (1:51)
10. HD: Split from Hesperus (0:20)
11. Battery (3:20)
12. Abortion (1:52)
13. Open Address to Senator Jesse Helms (1:44)
14. Paean: May I Speak Thus (4:15)
15. Cut Up: Long, It Took Long (4:30)
16. Al Seuno (5:00)
17. Writing (1:33)
18. Born Again Blues (4:12)
19. Furor Bellicus (3:53)
20. Tibetan Love Song (0:57)
21. By Candle's Light, A Bedouin (2:10)
22. Pieces of an Hour (4:31)
23. Field of Mars (6:59)

All selections were recorded live at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and have been preserved within the Naropa Audio Archive. E-mail archive@naropa.edu for more information.
Battery © 2003 Fast Speaking Music.

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
April 15, 2003

1. "Garden of Love" (1:11)
2. "And Is It" (2:13)
3. "What nascent irony" (2:43)
4. "Global Positioning" (3:08)
5. "Contra Niki" (2:38)
6. "Rogue State" (2:28)
7. "Clean the Giotto" (2:31)
8. "What the Policeman Told Me" (3:10)
9. "Dark Arcana: Afterimage or Glow, from Iovis 3" (20:13)

Recording Engineer: Seth Laracy

By the Side of the Road
Anne Waldman (texts & voice)
& Ishtar Kramer (harmonium & voice)

1. Kalino Kalinche (2:52) - Ishtar Kramer
    traditional Macedonian song
    (as taught by Mary Sherhart)

2. What Nascent Irony? (5:01) - Anne Waldman

3. Garden of Love (1:19) - Anne Waldman
    poem by William Blake;
    tune by Allen Ginsberg

4. Members of All My Tribe (3:50) - Anne Waldman

5. Rogue State (2:23) - Anne Waldman

6. Heaven Was Pitiless (3:10) - Anne Waldman
    text: old Chinese/Tartar song;
    musical accompaniment: 'Nilleshna' theme by Lisa Gerard

7. Tamo Ledolu (3:53) - Ishtar Kramer
    traditional Macedonian song

Recorded at The Naropa Studio
2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80302
All Anne Waldman songs/poems © 2002 by Fast Speaking Music.
Recording and mixing by Tyler Burba.
Producer: Janus Issacantos-Maciuk & Fast Speaking Music


Rattle Up A Deer
Live at Penny Lane 1989
Anne Waldman & Bernadette Mayer

1. Introduction by Tom Peters (1:49)
2. Rattle Up A Deer (with Bernadette Mayer) (9:56)
3. Iovis, Part VI (15:20)
4. Ampabali's Song (Song of a Buddhist Nun) (3:15)
5. from Not A Male Pseudonym (4:27)
6. End Announcements (2:23)

Sound engineers: Michael Zangari & Tom Peters
Recorded on portable 4 track directly through non-amplified music.
Original master tapes property of "So. You're a Poet," Archives/Tom Peters, all rights reserved. © 2004.
(Recording courtesy of Farfalla Press and Gary Parrish)



Also of interest:
Waldman reads her poetry, including "Fast Speaking Woman." S Press, 1974. (29:04): MP3 , RealAudio
Segue at the Ear Inn, October 27, 1984 (41:00): MP3
Waldman at the Benefit Reading for Will Alexander, November 1, 2007 (12:15): mp3

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2004-5 Anne Waldman. Used with permission of Anne Waldman. Distributed by PennSound.