Another fantastic addition to Sloow Tapes on-going documentation of fringe/counter-cultural poets that sits nicely on the shelf alongside the Louise Landes Levi and Simon Vinkenoog cassettes. Eddie Woods aka “The Gangster Poet” is a world traveller, poet and publisher now based in Amsterdam, best known for his 70s journal Ins & Outs and his Ins & Outs Press that published works by Jack Micheline, Jan Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ira Cohen, Simon Vinkenoog, William Levy and more. This cassette consist of a series of readings – he still has the voice of a Soprano – of variously dated poems, kicking off with his amazing fantasy/fable of enlightenment and sexual gnosis The Faerie Princess which combines Tolkein-esque imagery with a libidinous commitment to the joys of fuck. Indeed, the bulk of his poetry is centered around a sensual reengagement with the world on its own terms and it feels so completely liberated, so Babalon-ian, it’s enough t make you wanna quit your dumb job yesterday and tickle your asshole with knee-high grass. The flip side of the cassette features “The Second Coming Of Kali”, a “surrealist sexual autobiography until age 37” begun in Kathmandu in 1976 and dedicated to Divine Mother. Fantastic and highly recommended.