New York City-based label, Infrequent Seams has announced The Travel Agency is on Fire, a collaborative project featuring Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, and James Ilgenfritz reading from previously unpublished William S. Burroughs cut-ups that were uncovered by Alex Wermer-Colan in 2015 broken up into four discs. Each boxset is hand-assembled and will feature a hand painted a decorative slip cover, and a 12 page booklet to go along with the CDs. Find the tracklist below.

23 others are featured as collaborators as well, either as a part of the Anagram Ensemble or as individual artists playing accompaniments to the reads. Some of the featured artists include Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ drummer, Brian Chase, Elliott Sharp and Kerosene Jones.

The first single from the project, “Vampire Lips,” is out today, August 13. The song features improvisations from Anagram Ensemble while Thurman and Waldman read over the track.

The first two discs will feature readings and instrumentals while the last two will feature selections of recordings from the Anagram Ensemble’s recording sessions.

Wermer-Colan, a Burroughs scholar, originally published The Travel Agency Is On Fire in 2015 by Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. He has previously worked with Bernhard Lang to release an album of the same name in 2020.

Burroughs pioneered the cut-up technique by using the texts of J.D. Salinger, William Shakespeare and as well as his peers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Tracklist:

DISC 1

1. Man Like Goodbye — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
2. Fading Violins of Autumn — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
3. Vampire Lips — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
4. Alien On Tracks — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
5. The Flesh Of My Fathers Dream — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
6. Soccer Scores Vaudeville Voices — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
7. Taste My Mouth In Your Ear — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
8. Implacable Hostility — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
9. Jack Kerouac Come In Please — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
10. Crazy Automatic Room — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
11. Hunger of Fruitful Suburbs — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
12. Memory Fading In The Brain — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
13. Serene As Dogs On A Public Square — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
14. I Am I Old Father Fisheye — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
15. So Putrid I Couldn’t Take My Eyes Off It — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
16. Silence Man Bleeds Black — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
17. What He Did Not Know — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
18. The Sadness of Empty Human Dreams — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
19. They Were Projecting The Ray Of Their Love Into Infinity — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
20. Soil Linen Land — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz
21. The Great Call of Bacteria Invading the Brain — Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, James Ilgenfritz

DISC 2

1. Like Invasion Now Not Practice — JG Thirlwell, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore
2. Mechanical Cherries Are Frozen In Other Words — AC Diamond, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore
3. Heat Lightning — Bob Bellerue, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore
4. Vultures In The Street — Chuck Bettis, Anne Waldman
5. Fossil Orgasm — Sarah Belle Reid, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore
6. Thrilled With My Deathlessness — Elliott Sharp, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore
7. Paris Repopulates Hard-Ons — Dustin Krcatovich, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore
8. Virginal Cuelties of Children — Teerath Majumder, Anne Waldman
9. Me And They And Them — Jiryis Ballan, Anne Waldman
10. Desire Out Of The Graveyard — Chuck Bettis, Thurston Moore
11. God Blood Leaking All Over — Jonah Rosenberg, Thurston Moore
12. Expectancy Growing In Vaudeville Voices — JG Thirlwell, Thurston Moore
13. Truckloads of Angel Hearts — Mark Trecka, Anne Waldman
14. Aliens On Tracks Mr Bradly — Elliott Sharp, Thurston Moore
15. Fire Advantage — Dustin Krcatovich, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore
16. An Abyss Welded By Fear — Sarah Belle Reid, Anne Waldman
17. Dreams Made In Setting Forth — Jiryis Ballan, Anne Waldman, Thurstone Moore

DISC 3

1. AC Diamond, Kerosene Jones — Anagram Ensemble
2. Daniel Carter — Anagram Ensemble
3. Brian Chase, Zeena Parkins, William Winant — Anagram Ensemble
4. James Ilgenfritz, Ras Moshe, Devin Waldman — Anagram Ensemble
5. Devin Waldman — Anagram Ensemble
6. Daniel Carter, AC Diamond — Anagram Ensemble
7. Michael Foster, Pauline Kim Harris, Brian Chase — Anagram Ensemble
8. David First, Michael Foster, William Winant — Anagram Ensemble
9. Daniel Carter — Anagram Ensemble
10. James Ilgenfritz, Ras Moshe, Kerosene Jones — Anagram Ensemble
11. M Lamar — Anagram Ensemble
12. Zeena Parkins, Pauline Kim Harris — Anagram Ensemble
13. David First, James Ilgenfritz, William Winant — Anagram Ensemble
14. James Ilgenfritz, Zeena Parkins, William Winant — Anagram Ensemble
15. Pauline Kim Harris — Anagram Ensemble
16. Brian Chase, James Ilgenfritz, Zeena Parkins — Anagram Ensemble
17. David First — Anagram Ensemble
18. James Ilgenfritz, Michael Foster, David First, Zeena Parkins — Anagram Ensemble
19. Michael Foster, Zeena Parkins — Anagram Ensemble
20. James Ilgenfritz — Anagram Ensemble
21. David First, Pauline Kim Harris — Anagram Ensemble
22. James Ilgenfritz, Zeena Parkins — Anagram Ensemble
23. Michael Foster, James Ilgenfritz, William Winant — Anagram Ensemble

DISC 4

1. Daniel Carter, Ras Moshe, Devin Waldman — Anagram Ensemble
2. James Ilgenfritz, Michael Foster, William Winant — Anagram Ensemble
3. Ras Moshe — Anagram Ensemble
4. Michael Foster, Pauline Kim Harris, James Ilgenfritz — Anagram Ensemble
5. William Winant — Anagram Ensemble
6. Ras Moshe, Kerosene Jones — Anagram Ensemble
7. Brian Chase, David First, James Ilgenfritz — Anagram Ensemble
8. Daniel Carter, Ras Moshe — Anagram Ensemble
9. David First — Anagram Ensemble
10. Kerosene Jones, Daniel Carter — Anagram Ensemble
11. Michael Foster — Anagram Ensemble
12. James Ilgenfritz, David First, William Winant — Anagram Ensemble
13. Brian Chase, David First — Anagram Ensemble
14. James Ilgenfritz, Robbie Lee, Elliott Sharp — Anagram Ensemble
15. James Ilgenfritz — Anagram Ensemble