Amateur Doubles
Taped largely in a Honda Civic, Amateur Doubles (Kye, 2011) is a portrait of an oft-overlooked domestic stage: the car. Graham Lambkin captures the sounds of a family in-motion as they fiddle with windows, play with toys, bicker, pass traffic, and listen, as the song titles note, to French prog artists Besombes/Rizet and Philippe Grancher. While the set-up at first appears simple -- a car ride taken by the artist and his family through upstate New York -- Lambkin subtly and slyly manipulates the…
Poem (For Voice & Tape)
"I made the basic recordings of Tim Goss's voice during a recent return trip to England. Despite some initial reservations Tim ended up giving an animated and robust reading, drawn exclusively from work of his own creation. These tapes were then transported back to Poughkeepsie, NY, where the project was teased to completion." (Original LP sleeve notes)
Softly Softly Copy Copy
A study in anticipation, Softly Softly Copy Copy (Kye, 2009) repurposes the expectant rumblings of an audience-in-waiting, lifted by Graham Lambkin from various concert recordings of the German kosmische band Tangerine Dream. These bootlegged clips provide a skeleton for various sonic scraps and interludes—including distorted and abandoned fragments from Lambkin’s archive, new recordings on guitar and violin by Austin Argentieri and Samara Lubelski, respectively—that, together, form a compositio…
Irreal
* Glossy heavy cardboard mini-gatefold, with 16 page booklet * Irreal definition is -- not real. "In order to imagine, a consciousness must be able to posit an object as irreal' -- nonexistent, absent -- Jean Paul Sartre Irreal is a selection of recordings from different situations encountered in Austria, Russia, South Korea and The Benelux. The range of sound is as wide as is the emotional impact which slides from the unnerving to the shimmering and gorgeous. Doors, bells, birds, wet snow falli…
Poetry Reading Sunyab 1976 (Tape)
** Limited edition of 50 * Recorded by Allen De Loach. A reading by Armand Schwerner, writer of The Tablets
From Ginsberg to Hopi (Tape)
** Limited edition of 40 * From the Allen de Loach archives; a spirited discussion between the two literary masters, Delaware Park Road 7/29/84
Readings From Chimera at Knox Gallery, 1972 (Tape)
** Limited edition of 50 * Recorded by Allen De Loach. A joint cassette tape relesase from Counter Culture Chronicles and Ragged Lion Press
Lie: The Love And Terror Cult And A Taste Of Freedom
* Comes with a set of postcards * The infamous Charles Manson album “Lie“, plus a phone conversation regarding Charlie‘s philosophy. “Lie” was originally recorded at Spahn Ranch, California.
The Medium Is The Massage
Understanding the Marshall McLuhan’s quote: “the medium is the message” through sound collage. In 1967, Marshall McLuhan teamed up with graphic designer Quentin Fiore to write The Medium is the Massage, a short 160-page book that offers a condensed, effective presentation of his ideas on the nature of media, communication and technology. The book was soon accompanied by an album bearing the same name, which Wikipedia describes like this: An audio recording based on the book was made by Colu…
Jonestown Death Tape
* comes with a set of postcards * Recording of FBI tape Q 042 'Death Tape' recovered from Jonestown, Guyana, after the Peoples Temple mass suicide/murder of 1978.
OM: The Sound Of Hinduism / This Is It
Taken from Dr Timothy Leary 'How To Operate Your Brain': "The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos" Personnel on 'You Can Be Anyone This Time Around' Jimi Hendrix – bass guitar Buddy Miles – drums John Sebastia…
How To Operate Your Brain / You Can Be Anyone This Time Around
Taken from Dr Timothy Leary 'How To Operate Your Brain': "The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos" Personnel on 'You Can Be Anyone This Time Around' Jimi Hendrix – bass guitar Buddy Miles – drums John Sebastia…
Deep Throat (Tape)
“Deep Throat” is the soundtrack for the famous american pornographic film that was at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn, released by Kieh! Kieh!.
Confessions (Lp)
* In process of stocking * Fascinating, historically important and previously publicly unheard recordings of the great Irish author and playwright Brendan Behan.These tapes became the source for his book Confessions of an Irish Rebel, posthumously published in 1965 following his tragic death the year before. They were recorded by his friend and confidante Rae Jeffs in the Chelsea Hotel, NYC in 1960. Tranferred for the first time from the original 1/4” tapes, with a sleeve made from another unsee…
Breathing Spirit Forms (Book + CD)
* Matt laminate and embossed sleeve, insert card, CD and24-page book with text by David Toop, drawings by Akio Suzuki and photography by Lawrence English * In August 2013, David Toop and Akio Suzuki visited Australia. During a residency on Tamborine Mountain (an anglicized version of the Yugambeh word Jambreen), the pair were joined by Lawrence English for a series of site specific, environment-led improvisations created around the fringes of the Tamborine plateau. Embedded in place, these reco…
A Mirror Holds The Sky (Book + CD)
* Matt laminate and embossed sleeve, insert card, CD and 48 page perfect bound book featuring photographs by Lawrence English, taken on location in the Amazon * From Lawrence English: "In late months of 2008, I had the great fortune to spend some weeks in the Amazon. The visit, facilitated through Francisco Lopez's Mamori Artlab residency, remains one of the most deeply affecting experiences I have had . . . Living in Australia, tropical rainforests are not foreign to me. I would even say I am …
A Droll
Edition of 11 “art” versions of the LP housed in impasto style oil painted wood panels with unique polaroid affixed to center, three 5×7” postcards and a clear full-color-labeled 5” lathe cut record that contains two supplementary audio pieces.
Stunning new LP by Chicago-based artist Guido Gamboa, who describes this album with: "Leoncavallo’s Pagliaccio and Busoni’s Arlecchino find themselves living together in a small studio apartment in the city. After some time, they become as one. Between th…
Berlin Project 2020
* Hand numbered and signed edition by the artist. * Berlin Project, a mystically autobiographical work for radio, was commissioned by BBC Radio 3, to Tacita Dean and broadcast as a “Between the Ears’ programme on BBC Radio 3 in 2002. Dean's audio artwork Berlin Project is constructed out of a variety of sound recordings and created sound artefacts including street sounds recorded live in Berlin and in Portugal specially created sound effects, some spoken word, and brass band music, all combinin…
Kamana
* Vinyl LP with printed inners and special CD only mix* Kamana is a multiformat release inspired by and channeling the culture and traditions of the Aeta, an indigenous group from the Zambales region in the Philippines. One of the oldest inhabitants of the region the Aetas are also some of the most fascinating and ancient nomadic and hunter gathering cultures. The release goes from the realms of the real to the imaginary, from transcription to syncretism, from concrete to abstract. An (un)real S…
South Pacific Migration Party
* Edition of 200 copies. 140g clear vinyl with printed inner sleeve + extensive booklet * Peter Zinovieff (b. 1933, d. 2021) founded the revolutionary Electronic Music Studios in 1969, and devoted much of his earlier life to the art of sound. The studio developed many synthesisers including the famed VCS3, AKS and the Synthi100, and financed the world's first computer controlled electronic music studio in Putney, London. It is difficult to overstate the effect that Zinovieff's work has had on co…