Recorded, mixed & mastered 14 Feb 1988, 30 Nov 2023, 01 Dec 2023 & 03 Jul 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.
Acoustic guitar, effects
This original version of "The Distorted People That I Know" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 548, The Sound Of Silence
The sound of silence
is all the instruction
you’ll get
by: Jack Kerouac
Like other “Beat Poets”, Jack Kerouac was attracted to Eastern philosophy, perception, and poetry. Together with Ginsberg and Whalen, he helped “Americanise” the haiku form and introduce it to a wider audience outside of Japan.
“The American Haiku is not exactly the Japanese Haiku. The Japanese Haiku is strictly disciplined to seventeen syllables but since the language structure is different I don’t think American Haikus (short three-line poems intended to be completely packed with Void of Whole) should worry about syllables because American speech is something again…bursting to pop.
"Above all, a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella.”
(Kerouac)
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Artwork by Jim Lemanowicz - 31 May 2017, Boston, MA, USA
Original Soundcloud post - https://soundcloud.com/blisterpop/the-distorted-people-that-i-know-naviarhaiku548
A newer mix of this piece was included on the 2024 album All Roads Lead To Jimmy Lem
https://music.blisterpop.com/album/all-roads-lead-to-jimmy-lem
Music & art © 1988, 2017, 2023, 2024 Jim Lemanowicz
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