New York pop-art archival cd document from the 60's to the 90's featuring Andy Warhol, WS Burroughs, Iggy Pop, Thurston Moore [Sonic Youth], Jack Kerouac, dj Olive, Allen Ginsberg, Angus maclise. Gerard Malanga [the bronx, 1943- .... ] writer, filmmaker, performer [with The Velvet Underground] and Andy Warhol's main assistant, superstar & and closest friend at the Factory from 1963 to 1970. also know as a seminal photo archivist of the pop culture, Gerard Malanga edited for Sub Rosa a selection of his audio documents from the early 60's to the 90's and invited some of his friends [Iggy Pop, Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth, dj Olive] to be part of this vivid archive mixing the past with the present and the future. + a special booklet with photo portraits & poems and an introduction by the artist.' Initially issued in 1999
GERARD MALANGA: HIS LEGACY
new york poet, photograph, performer with the velvet underground, gerard malanga, was Andy Warhol' s close friend and his first assistant in the golden age of the 60' Factory (paintings: Red Jackie, Brillo Box, Mao, Flowers... all the films - including Sleep, Empire, Chelsea Girls... - the velvet underground era...what we present here, is really his unique legacy.
FROM ANDY WARHOL TO WILLIAM BURROUGHS...
first hand documents from the pesonal archives of Malanga - it contains rare documents with voices of Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, the american poet Gregory Corso, Jack Kérouac, Willard Maas ... Some come from unknown documents recorded by Malanga himself during the shooting of Warhol 's films...
Other great document: Gerard Malanga, poetry reading at Leo Castelli Gallery, l964... for the first exhibition of Warhol s'famous "Flowers"All begin with a conversation between William Burroughs and Malanga, about "dreams"...
UNPUBLISHED MUSIC FOR GERARD
This record contains too unpublished music by angus mclise (... velvet underground before velvet underground and La Monte young orchetra with John Cale and tony conrad) and new pieces by Iggy Pop and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth). It ends with Gerard and dj Olive, live at the "Cooler" of new york, last year... the loop is looped.