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Binding The Devil - Satanism & Witchcraft Reflected in 20th Century Tomes
A direct follow up to Spell Bound, Binding The Devil takes a closer examination of the obsession with Satanism and celebrity witches in the mass market publishing industry of the 1970s and 1980s.
Spell Bound - Exploring Witchcraft And The Occult Through Vintage Paperback
A compilation of iconic occultist book covers from the late 60’s to early 80’s. Spell Bound looks at the phenomena of occult pulp that emerged from the widespread witchcraft revival of the 70’s, leading to a boom of illustrative and darkly colourful covers that charm the viewer’s eye with foreboding demons, esoteric scenery, and sensual witchery.
Groove, Bang And Jive Around
Despite decades of notoriety as one of the “filthiest books in the world,” Steve Cannon’s first and only novel, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first being published by the Paris-based Ophelia Press in 1969. Due to its scarcity, the New York Press deemed it “an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York’s black cognoscenti have transmogrified the work into urban myth.” This debut, revised for release by Olympia Press in 1971, cemented Cannon’s place as a…
"Collaborations" Readings
*300 copies limited edition* Recital is proud to present an artists’ record from the two giants Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth. Hamilton (1922-2011) is revered as the father of British Pop Art as both theorist and practitioner, in addition to famously designing the artwork for The Beatles’ White Album. Dieter Roth (1930-1998) was a Swiss German artist who blithely ignored all artistic boundaries and aesthetic dictums. His oeuvre includes hundreds of artist books, almost half a thousand prints,…
New Book (Book)
New Book is the title of a new publication by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti. New Book is a new poem composed of three existing poems re-edited by Forti. As reading this poem, one moves forward with wonder amid everyday memories, recollections of life, a sense of civic duty, glimpses of a precarious world, the beauty of nature, melancholy, a rage to live.
Book Covers 1930-2000 (Book)
A collection of 400+ minimal book covers compiled by Charles Deroyan (1930-2000).
Folklore Activist - The Art of Ben Edge
Ben Edge’s paintings capture a unique vision of British calendar customs and folklore. Although we have seen a resurgence of interest in these matters of late, when he began painting folk traditions in the last decade, Ben was an anomaly by virtue of placing such subjects at the centre of his practice.
Folklore Activist is a 40-page visual primer showcasing Ben’s artwork alongside an in-depth interview with Weird Walk, plus the print debut of his essential Folklore Activist Manifesto.
Pattern-Thinking (Book)
For Fuller, nature is the most exquisite technology we know; and what underlies all of his work is the quest to uncover nature’s fundamental principles―in order to foster their manifestation as a pattern integrity ‘for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship.’” – Jaime Lawrence Snyder, Lars Müller Fuller Series Editor
Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice (Book)
Over the last few decades the term ‘bootlegging’—a practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringers—has become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishing…
Good Night Good Morning (Book)
A comprehensive retrospective of work from one of the foremost performance artists to emerge from the 1970s. Since her earliest performances in the late 1960s, Joan Jonas has concerned herself with animation and moving images, asking what it means to move images, or to be moved by them. The artist constantly returns to her ever-expanding archive of images, sounds, gestures, ideas and places, reworking materials into new forms across the decades. Published in conjunction with the artist’s most co…
Auto Erotica (Book)
The first book of its kind – a car book like no other – offering a deeply nostalgic look at beautiful vintage cars through the superb literature, leaflets and pamphlets that sold them to us. Auto Erotica covers the gamut of motoring in Britain during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. These rare ephemeral booklets are full of unusual graphic ideas and concepts. Their fabulous photography, dazzling colour charts, daring typography, strange fold outs and inspiring styles symbolise the automobile aspirati…
Burnt Memories
Thelema is a dark goth/neofolk/post-punk band from Italy that was formed in Winter 1984 by Massimo Mantovani and Giorgio Parmigiani in Modena, Italy. The band was active between late 1980s and mid 1990s and had a comeback in 2005. This is Thelema's 4th album. It comes in a limited edition about 300 copies. The first 100 copies comes in white vinyl. 200 copies comes in black vinyl. It contains 4 non-CD bonus tracks.
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion - Volume 2/Issue 2 (Magazine)
New issue of Albion's premier wyrd journal! This issue contains some of the best writing you will find on psychogeography, horror cinema, dark literature and strategies for metaphysical resistance. Thirteen all new articles!
Contents:
The Deep Shadows that Light Can Cast: The Making of Night of the Demon, Cecil Williamson, and British Witchcraftby Judith Noble
‘One Day, Emily Found a Thing’: The Childhood Eco-Ephemera of 1970s Sunday Constitutionalsby Jez Conolly
Solvitur Ambulando: Arthur Mache…
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion - Volume 2/Issue 1 (Magazine)
More reflections on Albion's wyrd underbelly. This issue of Undefined Boundary is a special themed issue on the Daughters of Psychick Albion.
Contents:
‘Many Wonderous Revelations’: In the Footsteps of Three Daughters of Psychick Norfolkby Sally Huxtable
Theo Brown: Folklore, Dartmoor, and the Underworldby Stephen Canner
Ithell Colquhoun: Following the Ancient Scentby Lally Macbeth
The curious case of Gladys Mitchellby Hazel Smoczynska
Catherine Blakeby Linda Landers
“Two Steps On The Water” – …
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion - Volume 1/Issue 2 (Magazine)
Second issue of the new journal dedicated to the psychedelic, numinous, and wyrd underbelly of British culture. Considerably bigger than the first, coming in at 170 pages. A5 perfect bound book.
"A Britain where Tory aristocracy is not the norm, where the spirit of anarchic magic and rebellious art are the guiding principles – a Psychick Albion in place of a 'Great' Britain"
Contents
Halloween III: The Season of the Witchby Phil Smith
John Akomfrah’s Hauntology of the Archiveby Justin Hopper
Alb…
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion - Volume 1/Issue 1 (Magazine)
From William Blake to Julian Cope, there have been innumerable seers who have engaged with their British locales in modes of hallucinatory intensity. These visionaries reassert a radical potentiality to the question of Albion which remains perpetually relevant. Undefined Boundary will explore this psychedelic and numinous underbelly of British culture with a view to keeping the sacred flame alive.
Contents:
Gog, Magog and the Stubborn Illusion: The enduring resonance of Andrew Sinclair’s ‘Albion…
Waiting For You: A Detectorists Zine - Issue 4 (Magazine)
*2024 stock* "Waiting for You is an appropriate tribute to Detectorists: filled with simple pleasures, gleeful diversions and the occasional fleeting spectre." Fortean Times, August 2022.
Contents:
Mini Detectorists by Duncan Willis
Anatomy of a Scene by Ian Edwards
Hours Peaceful and Things Mundane: Detectorists and the Non-Violent Approach to Folkloric Storytelling by George Parr
Veronica's House by Tracy Hetherington & Phillip Brown
“All the minorities covered”: Landscapes, Englishnesses and …
Waiting for You: A Detectorists Zine - Issue 3 (Magazine)
*2024 stock* Issue 3 of the zine dedicated to Detectorists, the most charming and magical TV comedy of recent years. A5 zine, 60 pages perfect bound.
"Waiting for You is an appropriate tribute to Detectorists: filled with simple pleasures, gleeful diversions and the occasional fleeting spectre." Fortean Times, August 2022.
Waiting for You: A Detectorists Zine - Issue 1 (Magazine)
*2024 stock* A new zine looking at some of the hidden aspects of the TV series Detectorists from unique and unexpected angles. A5 zine, 56 pages.
"Waiting for You is an appropriate tribute to Detectorists: filled with simple pleasures, gleeful diversions and the occasional fleeting spectre." Fortean Times, August 2022.
Contents:
-Waiting for You by Cormac Pentecost-Phantom Signals by David Colohan-Towards a Psychogeography of Danebury by David Petts-The Call of all the Songbirds: Interviews with…
Dämonen (Book)
Demons are mutable, their existence dependent on context. So, too, this series of 170-odd pictures by Swiss artist Anton Bruhin, is wholly dependent on what the eye sees in them. They appeal to the imagination, the pre-existing mental images in which we range our visual impressions. They play on patterns and archetypes innate to the human mind. Bruhin’s demons betray a profound sense of the nature of suggestion. But what would a current-day demon look like? The free-floating ghosts of yore, pers…