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After experiencing a vision of William Blake reciting poetry to him in his Spanish Harlem apartment, Ginsberg began to set Blake’s poetry to music. His album "Songs of Innocence and Experience" (1970), featuring Ginsberg with Peter Orlovsky, Don Cherry and Bob Dorough, now finally comes to CD. You also get two previously unissued tracks: an alternate take ("Grey Monk") and a song intended for the original LP but omitted due to time constraints ("Brothels of Paris"). And that’s just disc one; disc two brings you his 1971 return to the Blake material (in San Francisco with cellist Arthur Russell) plus the three Tibetan mantras they recorded with a Buddhist choir. Unseen photos and new interviews in the booklet complete the experience! Omnivore.