Shimmy-Disc Shares New Joan As Police Woman Single + Video via FLOOD | EDGAR ALLAN POE LP ft. Lydia Lunch, Britta Phillips + More Out Today

Shimmy-Disc Shares Joan As Police Woman “To One in Paradise” Single + Video, Releases Edgar Allan Poe Spoken Word & Music LP via FLOOD EDGAR ALLAN POE - To One in Paradise (for Hal Willner) Compilation LP ft. Joan As Police Woman, Lydia Lunch, Eric Mingus, Jennifer Charles, Allen Ginsberg, Britta Phillips, Teller, Thurston & Eva Moore + others (w/ music by Kramer) Out Today via Shimmy-Disc

SAVE: POE - To One in Paradise (for Hal Willner) Save LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Kramer & Joan As Police Woman - “To One In Paradise” Stream | YouTube LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Kramer & Lydia Lunch - "Dreamland" YouTube Last month, Kramer announced a return-to-form, once again revisiting his beloved spoken-word discipline, in collaboration with an incredible roster of artists. Out today via Shimmy-Disc, POE "To One in Paradise" (for Hal Willner) is a collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s  immortal poems read by musicians, poets, actors & one magician, dedicated to the memory of  Kramer's great friend and fellow traveller on the musical roads least taken, Hal Willner (1956 - 2020). Kramer has curated an eclectic collection of voices to render living vision to Poe's entombed words, and draped them in a series of ambient musical landscapes evocative of a world long lost to time. What he offers us here is nothing less than a fully imagined symphony of voice, sound and memory. The music he created that accompanies each reading keeps the light shining on the performer, polishing the space between the poetry and the performance. As a fitting coda, an archival recording of Allen Ginsberg vividly reciting “The Bells” closes out the album.  The track being highlighted today is “To One In Paradise” read by Joan As Police Woman. The reading features music by Kramer & Joan Wasser, created by their 4 hands on one piano. Also accompanying the track is a piece of ambient cinema by Kramer. “To One in Paradise” is an immemorial trip down memory's vanishing cobble-stone lanes. POE “To One in Paradise” (for Hal Willner) is out today via Shimmy-Disc. Kramer & Joan As Police Woman - “To One in Paradise” Kramer Links: Facebook | Instagram | Bandcamp | Youtube Collaborator Links:  Joan As Police Woman | Edgar Oliver | Thurston Moore & Eva Moore | Eric Mingus | Britta Phillips | Teller | Anne Waldman | Lydia Lunch | Larry ‘Ratso’ Sloman | Chloe Webb | Rick Moody | Jennifer Charles | Allen Ginsberg Kramer Bio: Kramer is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, ‘ambient-cinema’ filmmaker, and artist. Celebrated as a collaborator and champion for some of the most boundary-pushing artists of his generation via his NYC-based label Shimmy-Disc, Kramer has played bass guitar with Ween, Butthole Surfers, Half Japanese, B.A.L.L., and numerous other bands.  He revived Shimmy-Disc in 2020 via Joyful Noise Recordings, after being named their 2020 Artist-in-Residence. In 2023, Shimmy-Disc released Kramer's collaborative LP with ambient music pioneer Laraaji, entitled Baptismal. Also in 2023, Shimmy-Disc released a six-EP limited-edition wooden box set of 7" vinyl EPs featuring new collaborations with Britta Phillips (Luna), Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers), Rob Crow (Pinback), Jad Fair (Half Japanese) & Danielson, and with David Grubbs (Gastr Del Sol) as "Squanderers". So far in 2024, Shimmy-Disc will release three of Kramer's planned collaborative LPs. The first with Pan American (Mark K. Nelson) entitled Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road, released in March and most recently, The Walk with Kato Hideki, released in August. 2024 will conclude with first LP from SQUANDERERS, a trio featuring guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs, and 2025 will begin with our second release from the amazing archives of electronic music pioneer BRUCE HAACK, "THIS OLD MAN". Originally released in 1975, this LP has never been reissued, until now. Re-Mastered by Kramer and available in a limited-edition of 100 hand-numbered black vinyl LPs via mail-order only, or in stores on clear vinyl. Release Date: Feb. 28, 2025. POE - To One in Paradise (for Hal Willner) - TRACK LISTING:  All Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (read by…) Side A “To One in Paradise” by JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN “Eldorado” by EDGAR OLIVER “To My Mother” by THURSTON MOORE & EVA MOORE “The Valley of Unrest” by ERIC MINGUS “A Dream Within a Dream” by BRITTA PHILLIPS “Evening Star” by TELLER Side B “Fairy-Land” by ANNE WALDMAN “Dreamland” by LYDIA LUNCH “The Sleeper” by LARRY “RATSO” SLOMAN “Silence” by CHLOE WEBB “Imitation” by RICK MOODY “The Lake” by JENNIFER CHARLES “The Bells” by ALLEN GINSBERG Producer: Kramer Executive Producer: Michael Minzer (for Paris Records) Mixer(s): Mixed and Mastered by Kramer Composer(s): All music composed and performed by Kramer except: “To One in Paradise” Music by Kramer & Joan Wasser, “To My Mother” Music by Kramer & Thurston Moore