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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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