Cargo Records

Zen & Senryu

During his lifetime, Alan Watts (1915-1973) became, and remains, one of the most beloved interpreters of Eastern thought. For more than forty years, Alan Watts introduced the Western world to the full range of eastern philosophies and arts all filtered through his buoyant personality and charm. His life and work reflect an astonishing adventure. There remain few treats as wonderful and lively as this.

Haiku and its companion release, Zen and Senryu, hold the truly unique position of documenting a poetic form (Haiku) or philosophy (Zen) and Satire (Senryu) through both lecture and stunning performance. Both discs feature the instantaneous Japanese translations by Sumire Hasegawa Jacobs to the spare musical accompaniment of Vince Delgado, Robert Garfias and Henry Jacobs. This brilliant tension between Alan Watts' self assured delivery and Sumire's urgent cries, makes both Haiku and Zen and Senryu two of the most essential documents for admirerers of Watts' rich personality, eastern thought, and the heavy ways of 1960s counterculture.

Track Listing

1. Introduction
2. Untitled Zen Poems
3. Untitled Zen Poems
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44. The Senryu Poems: Man & Women
45. The Senryu Poems: Love & Marriage
46. The Senryu Poems: Children & Animals
47. The Senryu Poems: Professions
48. The Senryu Poems: Miscellanious Subjects