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Divided By One
*50 copies limited edition* David Erdos's work has been published and performed around the world and he has collaborated with Harold Pinter, Heathcote Williams, Alan Moore, Malcolm Ritchie, Jan Herman and Iain Sinclair among others. Also active in music Erdos worked with Pete Brown, David Tibet, Joy Payne, Steve Hackett etc. He is also a contributing editor for The International Times. As Heathcote Williams writes 'David Erdos assiduously pulls together each thread in the Great Chain of Being. H…
After The Promise
*50 copies limited edition* According to family legend Mia Kirsi Stageberg's name in Norway’s Trøndelag dialect means “stepmountain,” for steps cut into rocks at their home Stågeberget, since even goats found it hard to climb. Stageberg has lived in Israel, Canada and several US cities, from New Mexico to San Francisco. She was a regular contributor to periodicals artscanada, New Directions and Caracol in the 1960s and 1970s, published poetry and novels Candles and Landlords, and edited Book of …
umlautmachine
*2026 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Experimental label hearsay unveils umlautmachine, a captivating new tape from renowned sound poet and conceptual artist Chistian Bök. Available now via Bandcamp, this limited-edition release pushes the boundaries of phonetics, noise, and textual abstraction, transforming the written word into an auditory machine of umlauts, glitches, and rhythmic eruptions.
Chistian Bök, celebrated for his genre-defying works like the bestselling Eunoia – a lipogrammatic …
trocabolário
*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* hearsay records proudly announces the release of trocabolário, a captivating new cassette by Portuguese sound artist Fernando Aguiar. This limited-edition tape pushes the boundaries of experimental audio, transforming words, syllables, and phonemes into a mesmerizing tapestry of sonic invention.
Fernando Aguiar, known for his innovative explorations in granular synthesis, field recordings, and conceptual sound design, delivers trocabolário as a playful y…
babas - letras (Tape)
*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* Underground tape label hearsay proudly releases "babas - letras", a mesmerizing new cassette from enigmatic artist babas. Dropping into the world of lo-fi experimentation and poetic soundscapes, this release captures the raw essence of whispered words dissolving into sonic haze—perfect for fans of avant-garde audio poetry and tape-loop reverie.
"babas - letras" weaves fragmented lyrics ("letras") with drooling, dreamlike textures ("babas"), evoking a bilin…
Spectre Code - The Art of Sound and Poetry in Algorithms (Book)
Spectre Code – The Art of Sound and Poetry in Algorithms is a collection of code-driven poems, composed in the Python programming language. Each poem functions as both an executable script and a standalone work of poetic expression, generating rich soundscapes and algorithmic visuals. Whether read on the page or run through a compiler, Spectre Code Invites an experimental and innovative interaction with poetry.
The author, who works under the name C:\VEhF\, is a sound artist and experimental ele…
After Words (Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960–2025) (Book)
A revolutionary anthology of visual poetry contextualizing works within their original small-press publications, from authors such as Wallace Berman and Marian Zazeela to titles such as Ginger Snaps and Futura.
By the 1960s, visual and experimental poetry was widely acknowledged as the first truly international poetry movement, occurring on several continents. The simultaneous “mimeograph revolution”—an emerging name for the proliferation of small, poet- and artist-operated presses and little ma…
Le tre opere (Book)
*Bilingual English-Italian* "Put your music group together. Paint your own picture. Write your own book, your own poem."
These are original English texts and Italian translations by American Mike Watt, born in 1957. You should already know the author, or at least I hope you do: he is one of those who were there in California to light the fuse under the ass of rock in the late 1970s and the early 1980s. He played bass with the Minutemen, and it was partly because of him and his band that the punk…
The Mundus
The Mundus is Norman Pritchard’s magnum opus, a mysterious work that is both visual and poetic, literary and mystical. The work was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971, a six-year period during which the author refined and reworked its pages, seeking out new literary forms alongside personal transcendence. As Pritchard mentions in a letter to Ishmael Reed in 1968, “Literature in and of itself doesn’t seem to have a broad enough scope for me anymore.” Despite its ambitions and grand sc…
"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.