"Real English Tea Made Here" (2007)







London, England: Audio Research Editions (CD set), 2007.
5" x 5" x 0.375", three CDs in slipcase with twelve page booklet, "ARECD301".

Real English Tea Made Here, a 3-CD set of audio works by William S. Burroughs, curated by Colin Fallows and Barry Miles, and released by Audio Research Editions (London, England) in 2007. Digitally mastered at FTC Studio in Liverpool England, engineered by Dave Crummey.  Booklet essay by Barry Miles with an introduction by Colin Fallows, produced "during a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Liverpool School of Art and Design."

As note in the introduction, "Real English Tea Made Here is an anthology of the cut-up tapes of William S. Burroughs. Containing rare and unpublished material, of over three hours duration... [these] were originally created in Tangier and New York in the early 1960s using reel-to-reel analogue tape, sound-on-sound technology."

This includes multiple photographs of William S. Burroughs taken by Brion Gysin, Barry Miles, and Ian Sommerville. 1,000 copies produced.

This specific copy was acquired from Jeff Goldberg, writer/publisher, former editor of High Times and publisher of Traveler's Digest.

Disc 1:

  1. "It's an Experiment" (0'44")
  2. "Cut-ins with Dutch Schultz" (17'32", recorded in NYC, c. summer 1965)
  3. "23 Skidoo" (6'14", recorded at Burroughs' loft at 210 Center Street, NYC, June 1965)
  4. "Are You Tracking Me?" (44'30", recorded on April 20, 1965 at 210 Center Street, NYC)
Disc 2: 
  1. "Old Farmer's Almanac" (39'48", recorded at 210 Center Street, NYC, circa April 1965)
  2. "Puertos de Los Santos" (33'10", recorded c. summer 1965, NYC)
Disc 3: 
  1. "The Paper Pulled Down the Sky" (16'06", recorded in Tangier, Morocco early in 1964)
  2. "Wonderful Copenhagen" (16'47", c. summer 1965, NYC)
  3. "Towers Open Fire" (14'54", recorded in 1964, either in Tangier, Morocco or at the Hotel Chelsea, NYC)
  4. "We Are the Night Family" (7'29", recorded in 1964 in NYC)

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