BONNER KRAMER …AND THE CRIMSON MOON WHISPERS GOODBYE

LP (180 Gram)
Original Artwork by Valerie Zars
Numbered & signed edition of 20 ex.
d’or092
Date of Publication: 19 June 2026

BONNER KRAMER Artist/Musician/Composer/Performer/Filmmaker/Record Producer & Founder of Shimmy-Disc
As an artist/composer, Kramer has performed and/or recorded with John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, Gong, WEEN, Half Japanese, Butthole Surfers, Squanderers (w/ David Grubbs and Wendy Eisenberg), Chuck Johnson, Pan American, Kato Hideki, Allen Ginsberg, LARAAJI, Daevid Allen, Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt, and hundreds more.
During his long tenures buried within the walls of his recording studios Noise New York and Noise New Jersey, Kramer has recorded and produced hundreds of artists as diverse as Daniel Johnston, Urge Overkill, LOW, Will Oldham, Galaxie 500, White Zombie, King Missile, SPAIN, Jad Fair, Paul Leary, to name just a few.
Through his iconic Shimmy-Disc label, Kramer has also released LPs by John Zorn’s Naked City, Boredoms, Ruins, and numerous spoken-word LPs by Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginserg, Gregory Corso & Marianne Faithfull, and Edgar Allen Poe.
Kramer has composed ambient music for numerous art installations, most recently for Dutch multi-media artist Tinca Veerman.
Among Kramer’s most recent works are the release of his first solo LP in 5 years, entitled ‘…and the crimson moon whispers goodbye’, and composing music for Allen Ginsberg’s epic poem ‘KADDISH’ for the Centennial celebration of the great poet’s birth in 2026.
Kramer currently lives and works in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina near Asheville, USA.

VALERIE ZARS My first ever collaboration on an LP jacket was for, ‘…and the crimson moon whispers goodbye’ by Bonner Kramer. It was a painting I had just completed which was hanging on my studio wall, salon style along with many other pieces. He walked in and said ‘that’s the one’. The original artwork was 24”x24”, acrylic, and sight black matte paint on canvas. For the Astres D’Or special release, I based this new limited edition jacket series on my original painting, taking the image into the alternate worlds that could be explored and created by watercolor merging with gouache on rough black deckled-edge paper. I used metallic washes on these new cover pieces, and worked with the reflective qualities that photographic reproductions or standard printing techniques would never pick up accurately. The original painting was inspired by a snippet from Herbert Huncke’s memoir, in which he talked about one of the most frightening experiences in his life causing him to be filled with an awareness of beauty that nothing else could ever touch. Each work is unique and is signed by myself and Kramer on the reverse, along with the hand numbered edition and LP title.
Personal info: After decades of pursuing my ‘professional’ interests in publishing, photography, photojournalism, architecture and commercial design, I am now ensconced in my own studio working full-time on artwork which runs the gamut from painting, collage, assemblage to writing poetry & prose. Thinking about Art and the inner muse, I ask myself how many doors can I open when everything is walls. How do I fade slowly and more boldly, leaving traces so I can find a way back into that space between dream and disappearance where the ideas and inspirations are waiting, shimmering.. The sky may be a cloud museum, and my core narrative may be a song of decay. I am more than half way through my Time. Vision is like a river. You never see the same color the same way twice. Color never repeats. Life will always be amazing. Observe well, question, notice, abandon rules and respond. Make Art. I will have my first solo show in decades this September at the Revolve project space in Asheville, NC.

Bonner Kramer ~ …and the crimson moon whispers goodbye

Side A:
Whispers for the Blessed(12:15)
Whispers for the Damned (13:15)

Side B
Whispers for the Living (11:10)
Whispers for the Dead (14:20)

All Music Composed & Performed by Kramer
(Published by Tess Music, BMI)

Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Kramer
(January 2023 through July 2025

in a limited-edition of 20 LPs for Astres d’Or

Artwork by Valerie Zars (Zarstar, 2026)