Gregory Corso, the youngest, most kinetic voice of the Beat Generation alongside giants like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg is given new life.

Shimmy-Disc, the cult label founded by visionary Kramer, is finally reissuing ‘DIE ON ME,’ the rare and intimate collection of Corso’s last spoken-word recordings, for the first time ever on vinyl.

Originally a 2002 CD, this vinyl edition has been newly remastered and edited by Kramer. The sessions span from 1959, culminating in Corso’s final recordings made by the late Hal Willner between January 7–10, 2001—just days before the poet’s death.

Shimmy-Disc is leading the charge with the extraordinary focus track, ‘As Rome Burned,’ featuring Marianne Faithfull. In a lighthearted, melodic, and hypnotic shift, Corso sings his words, creating a transcendent, playful moment of connection.

Corso himself once wrote to Ginsberg (Rome, October 1958): “Am writing this in the sniper’s ruin just before Shelley’s tomb…Romance is madly alive!…this is the sturdy unfailing symbol of Romance: Cypress, marble, moon.” This release captures that spirit, an almost out-of-time voice seeking one last revelry with the Ancients.

Kramer summarizes the importance: “Corso at his best, as he is here, cannot be matched. As Ginsberg so often said, ‘He is the greatest of us all.'”