{"id":11077,"date":"2014-01-12T16:31:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=11077"},"modified":"2014-01-13T20:46:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T01:46:34","slug":"allen-ginsberg-does-indian-mantras-on-sloow-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2014\/01\/allen-ginsberg-does-indian-mantras-on-sloow-tapes.html","title":{"rendered":"Ginsberg Does Indian Mantras on Sloow Tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of Allen Ginsberg<\/a>, I’m told a new Sloow Tapes<\/a> cassette entitled “London Mantra” is about to be released. Bart de Paepe<\/a>, producer of the indie label, writes, “It’s a recording George Dowden made at his home in July 1973.” The tape features “Ginsberg solo on his harmonium, singing Indian mantras and a few of his own songs.”<\/p>\n

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Cover artwork by Gerard Bellaart on the ‘London Mantra’ Sloow Tapes cassette.<\/p><\/div>As I replied to de Paepe, “The truth is I’ve never been a fan of Allen’s harmonium singing.” One of Ginsberg’s closest friends, William Burroughs, couldn’t stand his off-key droning either. Which is being charitable. But no matter. The artwork pleases me.<\/p>\n

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Photo of Allen Ginsberg by John Giornio, from ‘London Mantra’ Sloow Tapes cassette.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of Allen Ginsberg, I’m told a new Sloow Tapes cassette entitled “London Mantra” is about to be released. Bart de Paepe, producer of the indie label, writes, “It’s a recording George Dowden made at his home in July 1973.” The tape features “Ginsberg solo on his harmonium, singing Indian mantras and a few of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"category-media","10":"category-news","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LONDON-MANTRA-artwork560.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-2SF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}