Brion Gysin - Live In London 1982

As surrealist painter, poet, novelist, audio experimenter, inventor of the Dream Machine, and favourite collaborator of William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin influenced the most creative minds of the '60s and '70s.
Autumn 1982 (Brixton, London) Brion Gysin renews the methods of performance by reciting texts, and hastily brought together: Tessa (member of Slits), Steve (of Rip, Rig And Panic), Gile (of Penguin Café Orchestra), and Ramuntcho Matta on guitar. Ramuntcho, in the style of Brion called this session 'WHITE FUNK'.
Most of the texts were written upon meeting Burroughs, at the time of the invention of the cut-up and the music was created during the sound-checks ! Musically, the choice of traditional instruments expresses the desire to be free of machines (because, as Burroughs says, 'We ourselves are machines.') and this recording is evidence of the extraordinary creativity and spontaneity of the musical and artistic scene at that time.

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