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Track Listing
1. Train Surfing
2. Falling Down Laughing
3. Zeno's Law of High-Heeled Shoes
4. Desert Town
5. It Goes
6. My Ruins
7. Pools of Mercury
8. Things That Fly
9. I Am Not Kurt Schwitters
10. Hairshirt Fracture
11. Female as Thunder
12. Cinco de Mayo
13. Message Left on a Phone Machine
14. Beast Within, The
15. 8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain
| Details | | Producer: | Anton Sanko | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Jim Carroll (vocals, spoken vocals); Anton Sanko (guitar, lap steel guitar, keyboards, bass) (David Torn (guitar, dobro, koto, loops); Erik Sanko (guitar, E-bow, bass, background vocals); Tristan Avakian (guitar, bass, background vocals); Lenny Kaye (guitar, background vocals); Gordon Minette (trumpet, piano, keyboards, bass); Frank Vilardi (drums, percussion).
Recorded at Easter Island Recording, New York, New York.
Though everyone from Dylan to Jewel has dabbled in poetry with varying degrees of success, Carroll is among the few (Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen) to successfully explore both poetry and rock & roll. He was known as a writer of verse and poetry when he combined his imagistic lyrics with post-punk rock at the end of the CBGB's era. He's made both spoken word and rock band recordings, but this is the first time he's combined the two. Aided by erstwhile Suzanne Vega sidemen Anton Sanko and Frank Vilardi (among others), he ventures into hard-hitting rock ("Falling Down Laughing"), accompanied recitation ("Things That Fly") and pieces that combine poetry with evocative, ambient soundscapes. Carroll's literary skills and his succinct delivery help to make POOLS OF MERCURY a satisfying mix of music and verse.
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