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Track Listing
1. Windshield Wipers
2. Tears
3. Suede
4. Zebra
5. Sidewalks
6. Breathing
7. Chimney
8. Queen
9. Nothing
10. Apple Cider
11. Bathtub
12. When You're Born
13. Piccolos
14. Knee
15. Pea
16. Great
17. Eyelashes
18. Clock
19. Ear
20. Ping Pong
21. Freckles
22. Cellophane
23. Dream
24. Gabardine
25. Planet
26. Meat Balls
27. Sky
28. Envelope
29. Roller Skate
30. Blotter
31. Moth
32. Indians
33. Lampshades
34. Cigars
| Details | | Distributor: | Revolver USA Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
WINK is the only one of Ken Nordine's albums on which he's speaking someone else's words. Instead of his own surreal brand of "word jazz," WINK is a reading of the 34 brief poems from Robert Shure's chapbook TWINK, originally published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Press in 1958. (Upon its original 1967 release, this record was also called TWINK, but when the album was reissued by Asphodel on CD in 2003, the title was amended.) Shure's poems were written as interior dialogues, and that's how Nordine performs them, with his voice split between the two stereo channels--normal on the left, echoing and reverb-soaked on the right. Under these surreal, often hilarious tracks, an experimental jazz quartet plays percussion-heavy improvisations that, like the poems themselves, are marvels of beat-generation economy. Although purists might scoff because Nordine didn't write the pieces himself, WINK is both essential for fans and an excellent starting point for curious newcomers.
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