Fall of America Volume II --- Album Release from the Ginsberg Estate

Cremation Piece (on Neal’s Ashes) by

Oliver Ray & No Land, featuring Allen Ginsberg

included on Fall of America, Volume 2

alongside pieces from Phillip Glass, AI Wei Wei, Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Fast Speaking Music & many others

Cremation Piece Track:

Music / Sounds / composed by: Oliver Ray

Poem Arrangement / voice: No Land

Texts: Allen Ginsberg

Violin: Cornelius Dufallo

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The Ginsberg estate writes:

We’re excited to announce that ‘The Fall of America’ Vol II is available today across all streaming platforms with all proceeds benefiting PEN America. PEN stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression worldwide.

This powerful musical tribute (a benefit for PEN America) celebrates the 50th Anniversary of beloved poet Allen Ginsberg’s “The Fall of America: Poems of these States” and includes tracks by Ai Weiwei and Philip Glass. Links for purchase for both Vol I & Vol II can be found at: https://ginsberg.lnk.to/thefallofamerica2

Left to Right: No Land, Jesse Goodman, poet Anne Waldman, Peter Hale, Filmmaker Ed Bowes

Link to album review: https://nysmusic.com/2023/10/15/philip-glass-thurston-moore-dj-spooky-and-many-more-set-allen-ginsbergs-poetry-to-music-in-the-fall-of-america-volume-ii/

Link to Cremation Piece featured on Allen Ginsberg.org

https://allenginsberg.org/2023/10/f-o-27-fridays-weekly-round-up/

Many thanks to Peter Hale & Jesse Goodman

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No Land & Luke Stewart in Kingston NY

No Land & Luke Stewart

works for poem, spirit, & bass

May 25 2023 

Kingston NY 

upcoming performances

 

flyers by Will Carra 

photographs by Marilyn Montufar & Electrofelina 

 

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photo by richard lenz

 No Land

"vision seamstress winged" - (anonymous)

No Land's work continues in the lineage of the downtown NYC avant garde, honoring an intuitive vow towards creation. Her art evokes reverence for mystery in the forms of her paintings, drawings, photojournalistic works, films, & poet- performances with musicians. She has been guided by spirit encounters with downtown artists, poets, elders and activists, spending formative time amongst Occupy Wall Street's street-art revolutionaries, Steve Cannon's Tribes Gallery, and Anne Waldman's outrider poet worlds.

As a poet, bandleader & vocalist, she has performed at The Whitney Museum, the William Burroughs Bunker, Jazzfest Berlin, Crossing Borders Festival (the Hague), Enclave Festival (Mexico City), LaMaMa Galleria (NYC), The Kennedy Center (DC), The Poetry Project, Pioneer Works, Fotografiska NY Museum, & on NYC street corners during the pandemic.

She performs her poem-mosaic-ruminations with different formations of musician collaborators: Luke Stewart (Irreversible Entanglements), Bentley Anderson, Daniel Carter, Oliver Ray (Patti Smith Group) & others. She has curated performances & gatherings of her artist peers & communities since 2009 in NYC. 

In 2018, she released Authentic Artifice, an art-book of poetry and photographs, published by Newest York. Her photojournalistic work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Disonare, The Village Voice, at Fotografiska Museum, Photo Saint-German (Paris) and in publications by Bill Moyers and Levy Gorvy Gallery. Her cinema work has premiered at The Poetry Project (NYC), Harvard University, Zebra Poetry Film Festival Berlin (2020), the John Giorno Foundation, The Woodberry Poetry Room, & elsewhere.

Her art was recently commissioned for the cover of Anne Waldman’s Bard, Kinetic book (Coffee House Press, 2023). Her forthcoming book publications include: The Velvet Wire with Anne Waldman (Granary Books) & Putting On Minds, a book of poems and artworks. Her collaboration with Oliver Ray "Cremation Piece" was released by the Allen Ginsberg Estate in 2023. She has taught/guest lectured at The New School, Rutgers University, University of New Haven, Naropa University, in prisons, NYC public schools & at No Land's experimental art school for young artists. 

photo by richard ross

dreamshock

 

recent works

No Land on Montez Press Radio interviewed by Lumia 
https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/2902

public link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mss46fBAY0&ab_channel=NoLand

Poet, artist, & image-wielder, No Land, is interviewed by Lumia on a long distance call from NYC coast to San Francisco coast. The two discuss the Mercy-Eye, Moses, ancient neighborhoods of new york & No Land's art work and lineage.

This segment features audio clips from No Land's archives of her public performances and private recordings

Escaped Nun for Mary Korte Film 

https://vimeo.com/807315555