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Monk ABC (Book)
*Text in English and French* A collection of quotations from Thelonious Monk, organized as an alphabet book. More than a hundred entries based on the testimonies of musicians (Steve Lacy, Sahib Shihab, Henri Renaud) and journalists (Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Val Wilmer…). “I never have dreamed. I would like to, but how?” New revised and augmented edition of the book first published in 2017. Jacques Ponzio is a French writer and musician, and a leading specialist on the works of Thelonious Mo…
Escalier Sous La Pluie (Book + Mini CD)
*Text in French* A staircase drips, not with water but with sound: book / CD dedicated to Fritz Hauser's impressive "sound drawing" for the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in Arles.
L'Enveloppe (Book+MiniCD)
If you have read his Well Weathered Piano, you know Ross Bolleter's poetry. In Average Human Heart, inspired by Eduardo Galeano’s The Book of Embraces and Jorge Luis Borges’s Ficciones, Bolleter offers more than 100 vignettes (or "left hand stories") primarily on music and musical experience.
Born in 1946 in Subiaco, Western Australia, Ross Bolleter is an avantgarde composer and improviser notable for his experimentation on old pianos that have been found after having been left exposed to the ac…
La Mandragore (Book+CD)
"When it became known that the Queen had given birth to a frog, there was consternation at court; the ladies of the palace remained mute, and only sewn mouths and heartbroken looks were exchanged in the high halls... If the tale does not give much for our frog, the queen will not be able to mourn him, which will lead her to imagine and then live terrible experiences.
The only disciple of Barbey d'Aurevilly wrote Rémy de Gourmont by Jean Lorrain (1855-1906). A decadent dandy, an ardent erotomania…
Avarage Human Heart (Book)
If you have read his Well Weathered Piano, you know Ross Bolleter's poetry. In Average Human Heart, inspired by Eduardo Galeano’s The Book of Embraces and Jorge Luis Borges’s Ficciones, Bolleter offers more than 100 vignettes (or "left hand stories") primarily on music and musical experience.
Born in 1946 in Subiaco, Western Australia, Ross Bolleter is an avantgarde composer and improviser notable for his experimentation on old pianos that have been found after having been left exposed to the ac…
Du Suicide / The Hovels Of The Rich Or The Rigid Digit
What suicidal man has ever called on his readers to 'rush out of the circus' better than Alphonse Rabbe? It took the writer that he was - historian and journalist, too - to end his life before his only "real" book, Album d'un pessimiste, was published, thanks to the efforts of his nephew Lucien.The exaltation and licentiousness of the excerpt reprinted here were made for Nurse With Wound. The CD included in Du Suicide is thus the tenth collaboration of Steven Stapleton and Lenka lente's project.
Steve Lacy (Unfinished)
**478 page! Texts in English and French ** A polyphonic evocation of the American saxophonist through the testimonies of some forty international musicians. And you, how do you hear him? As we approach the twentieth anniversary of Steve Lacy' death (or the ninetieth anniversary of his birth), Guillaume Tarche asked the question, in English, in French, in Italian, to Steve Adams, Irene Aebi, Guillaume Belhomme, Etienne Brunet, Frank Carlberg, Kent Carter, Andrea Centazzo, Allan Chase, Alvin Curra…
Free Jazz Manifesto
** Texts in English and French ** 169 fundamental free jazzrecords recommended in 180 pages by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Philippe Robert, from must-have classics to indispensable curiosities. Free Jazz Manifesto is not simply a list of 169 recommended records, but a poetic vision, a parallel universe based on a personal aesthetics of perception and an in-nite love for the most creative, incendiary, spiritual music. If Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman or Anthony Braxton are well p…
Le Martien / Allo maman
Charles Pennequin is an unconventional poet who tells us here the sidereal aggression of a Martian who has not yet cut the cord. On the CD contained in the book, he interprets his text three times: twice in the company of the guitarist Jean-François Pauvros, and another time alone, but with a megaphone.
Charles Pennequin (born 1965 in Cambrai, France) is a writer and performer, an essential figure in French contemporary poetry.
Jean-François Pauvros (born 1947 in Hautmont, France) is a French mu…
Minuits Pour Géants / On The Edge Of The Outside
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the poet through whom Dada arrived. In Zurich, he animated the Cabaret Voltaire with Hugo Ball; in Paris, he then inspired some surrealists in the making. If he was a great lover of Villon and Rabelais, his poetry is as iconoclastic as the music of Nurse With Wound, who composed for this edition of Minuits pour géants an unpublished piece lasting about ten minutes: On the Edge of the Outside. Writer, poet and essayist of Romanian origin, Tristan Tzara (Samuel Rosenst…
Sorcière, Ma Mère / The Top of the Left Ear
A more than strange novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers, accompanied by a new musical piece by Nurse With Wound on a 3" MiniCD.Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943) is a German writer and director. Author of short stories, novels and plays, he has developed a literature of the strange close to fantasy and terror. A British music project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak, Nurse With Wound is an essential figure of experimental and industrial music.
Abécédaire
Foreword by Guillaume Belhomme. Bilingual edition (English / French), 15 x 19,5 cm (softcover), 256 pages + CD. An ABC book with which the pianist, composer and improviser recounts his experience of sound (with the score and recording on CD of an unpublished piece).
Ci-gît - To Another Awareness
A text by Antonin Artaud illustrated with a 15-minute, Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton & Brian Conniffe) wrote "To Another Awareness", an unreleased mini CD included in the book.
Du piano-épave – The Well Weathered Piano
In Western Australia, musician Ross Bolleter collects ruined pianos that he parks into open cemeteries and from which he draws his inspiration for his compositions. In this publication, Bolleter explains his musical practice and tells the unique story of these ruined pianos scattered in the heart of the Australian territory. “A piano is said to be Ruined (rather than Neglected or Devastated) when it has been abandoned to all weathers and has become a decaying box of unpredictable dongs, clicks a…
Rapport à une Académie Kafka's Parachute
A “man” tells his fabulous past as an ape, from his capture to his adaptation to the world of men, to the members of an Academy of Sciences. This edition of A Report to an Academy, a short story by the great Kafka, is accompanied by a musical piece especially written by Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron, Quentin Rollet, and It could be Worse).
Mother Dearest / Très Chère Mère
Mother dearest is a story of childhood suffering which poses the questions: is the young narrator a girl or a boy? Is his brother human? Is his father a busy scientist or an idiot hermit? Is his mother a simple (and happy) narcissistic pervert? Très Chère Mère / Mother Dearest is illustrated throughout and the text is in both English and French. The book comes with a 13 minute CD also titled Mother Dearest.
"Guilliaume Belhomme, label boss at Lenka Lente in France, has been producing these quite…
Faits Divers / Musique Pour Faits Divers: A Piece Of The Sky Is
On the occasion of the republication of eight texts by Charles-Louis Philippe (1874-1909), Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton & Brian Conniffe) wrote "Music for Miscellaneous: A Piece of the Sky Is Missing", an unreleased mini CD included in the book.
Lea Tanttaaria / Great-God-Father-Nieces
Another Lenka Lente book/CD combo where you get to discover that ‘Les Ventres et Autre Contes’ translates as ‘The Bellies and Other Stories’ and that Félix Fénéon was an Italian anarchist, art critic and literary stylist with a tremendous goatee beard who didn’t like the portrait that Paul Signac painted of him because he painted it in profile, not face on as requested, but he hung it on his wall anyway. Five short stories here that first saw the light of day in various French literary magazine…