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| Inger Lorre 14 x 9 inches, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2018 |
I don't listen to popular much anymore, sure, the radio is on sometimes and Maria, my wife, plays a tune now and then, but other than Cat Power I'm not selecting any. What I have been playing most are ethnographical field recordings, a bit of (modern) classical music, free jazz, and also a bit of word-jazz. The last category is directly related to two exhibitions at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery celebrating the work of Jack Kerouac. I listened to a number of Kerouac cds, some spoken word and some with a jazz accompaniment. One cd in particular I've played several times; a tribute cd that features a host of well known (popular) musicians and (beat) poets. On it are the poets Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Kerouac himself, and William S. Burroughs. The musicians include expected names for a compilation on Kerouac such as members of Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, and Lydia Lunch but there are also REM's Michael Stype, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, Eddie Vedder, Juliana Hatfield, John Cale and other notables from the music scene. Inger Lorre (depicted above) teams up with Jeff Buckley for a performance of Kerouac's poem Angel Mine set to music. It's my favorite track. Inger Lorre, btw, is a singer and painter from San Francisco, she once led a band named The Nymphs.
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