Exclusive video premiere of ‘The End’ taken from the upcoming Double-LP Reissue ‘The Lion For Real, Re-Born’ by Allen Ginsberg, out November 3rd via Shimmy-Disc.

Allen Ginsberg — internationally renowned, visionary American Beat Poet — was a figurehead of the global youth movement in the late 1960s, a devoted teacher and scholar, inspiring generations of young poets. He was a racial activist, pacifist, one of the most politically engaged poets for decades, using his voice and international platform as a campaigner for human rights, gay liberation, ecology, and free speech. Nearly all his books remain in print to this day.

In celebration of his legacy, Shimmy-Disc has announced a remixed and remastered reissue of Allen Ginsberg’s 1989 album of spoken-word pieces, entitled ‘The Lion For Real, Re-Born’.

Following the LP announcement and the release of ‘To Aunt Rose’ in September, Shimmy-Disc is sharing a new track from the EP today, titled, ‘The End,’ complete with a new Ambient-Cinema video crafted by Kramer.

Ginsberg wrote this about the track in the record’s original liner notes: “A psychedelic condensation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, scary and somewhat theistic in conception, in continuous rhythm as if there were a great being like Father Fisheye at the end or bottom of the 1960 Universe. Marc Ribot’s music’s appropriately eerie.”

This forthcoming LP release, due November 3, finds Allen Ginsberg — the voice of a generation, fierce, gentle, profound and profane — paired with music created especially for his work, by some of the guiding lights of Jazz in the modern era: Mark Bingham, Bill Frisell, Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, and others. All masterfully coordinated and produced by the mad scientist of collaborations, Hal Willner.

Photo Credit: Macioce (1983; Orlovsky, Ginsberg, Taylor, Kramer, Don Cherry)

First released as ‘The Lion For Real’ in 1989, this time capsule surges forth into the now with 8 additional tracks never included on the original release. These are timeless works, a garden of eden on vinyl to wander through repeatedly, guided by the founding father of Beat Poetry. Graced by an irresistible coda co-written with Shimmy-Disc founder Kramer, his lyrical mantra of ‘Don’t Grow Old’.

Headline photo: Allen Ginsberg | Photo Credit: Macioce (1984, Ginsberg at his East Village NYC Home)

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