Gunslinger Books 1 & 2
Tape comes with two inserts. One reproduction of a Ed Dorn Poetry Reading Flyer and one with a quote of Ed Dorn. Edition of 80 copies. Edward Merton Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. He grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression. He attended a one-room schoolhouse for his first eight grades. He later studied at the University of Illinois and at Black Mountain College (1950-55). At Black Mountain he came into contact with Charles Olson, who greatly influenced his literary worldvie…
Process - Complete Collection, vol 2
** Limited edition of 140 numbered copies ** Oversize (cm. 32x25) heavy hardcover book collecting the last four issues of Process magazine. The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times. Hundreds of black-cloaked devotees, often wearing a satanic “Goat of Mendes” and a swastika-like mandala, swept the streets of London, New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Toronto, selling magazines a…
Process - Complete Collection, vol 1
** Limited edition of 140 numbered copies ** Oversize softcover book collecting the first four issues of Process magazine. The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times. Hundreds of black-cloaked devotees, often wearing a satanic “Goat of Mendes” and a swastika-like mandala, swept the streets of London, New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Toronto, selling magazines and books with tit…
The Process: Archives, Documents, Reflections, and Revelations (Book)
2024 Stock. 208 pages, Paperback. Profusely illustrated book about The Process - Church of the Final Judgement, based on The Process Archives. 18 Chapters, illustrated with 140 rare photos and documents. "Papa’s book makes good use of his extensive collection of Process memorabilia. As the shadowy cult’s narrative history unfolds, he is able to refer to, quote from extensively and even reproduce from the vast amount of literature they produced. In doing so, Papa is able to give his readers an a…
Poems & Documents (Book)
Rarities and ephemera from the life and work of Piero Heliczer—poet, filmmaker, publisher, the Apollinaire of the international ’60s avant-garde
Angus Maclise
Edition of 35 copies, with two inserts. A reissue of Angus MacLise's Kathmandu Cycle with added material from other, long out of print, CCC releases. Angus MacLise is something of a legend within the realms of avant-garde sound. A central figure of the 1960s New York underground, the percussionist, composer, poet, occultist and calligrapher contributed to the early Fluxus newspaper, VTre, was an early member of the Theatre of Eternal Music, alongside La Monte Young, John Cale, Tony Conrad, and …
Out of the Grid – Italian Zine 1978-2006
Huge Tip! Large format, 400 pages Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.
Widely mapping Italian society, particularly youth culture—over an extended period that can be symbolically defined as the "post-movement" and "pre-internet3.0"—, this outpouring of creativity gave v…
Trad, Gras Och Stener: A Collective History (Book)
Huge Tip! 400 pages, 387 Images. The story of the legendary Swedish psych rock band Träd, Gräs och Stenar is also a defining story of alternative culture. Across multiple incarnations, the musicians of this iconic group (whose name translates to “Trees, Grass and Stones”) have drawn on their roots in jazz and the avant-garde, the iconoclastic art and theater of the 1960s, and the back-to-the-land “green wave” movement to blaze a pioneering trail across fifty years of endlessly improvisational, r…
Ronnie Burk Box
Ronnie Burk was a poet, collagist, surrealist, activist. A fraction of his work is collected in this unmissable boxset.
Louise Landes Levi Box
**26 numbered and signed copies** A Fiery Tongues Literary Festival release. It has the Bombay Lunatic Asylum release + a cassette of Louise Landes Levi's performance reading and singing at the Jack Kerouac Centennial in Ruigoord last year. Several bilingual broadsides from her book Water Mirror are included.
Into the Mylar Chamber (Book)
Between 1968 and 1971, in a loft on New York's Jefferson Street, the poet, photographer and filmmaker Ira Cohen created some of the most mythic images of the late 1960s. Inspired by his friends Jack Smith and Bill Devore, Cohen’s initial experiments with black light developed into an experimental ritual space he termed the Mylar Chamber―a simple room of hinged boards hung with reflective Mylar film. Through his extended network, and with the support of artist and set designer Robert LaVigne, Coh…
Art's 1.000.060th Birthday (Tape)
** Limited edition of 50 ** Art's 1.000.060th Birthday. HOK Gallery in The Hague, The Netherlands held a one-hour only Flux Shop event on January 17th, the noise of which was broadcasted worldwide and is contained in this cassette tape.
Liner notes: You wouldn't give it to him, seeing how alive and kicking ART still is but yessirree, according to FLUXUS's accurately tracked calender tuesday January the 17th, 2023 ART became 1.000.060 years pld. All over the world art projects burst forth, as…
Howl at the Beat Museum (Tape)
** Limited edition of 50 ** An excellent extended reading by Tim Buckley's lyricist Larry Beckett of and about Allen Ginsberg's Howl.
Heads Together – Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate, 1965–73 (Book)
A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s.
Skyscraper Martini Guitar
Limited edition of 50 Excellent tough poetry with music, think Charles Bukowski and Steve Richmond. Incudes, a map with broadsides.
Contraction
'Contraction' was released in 1974 and is considered a cult classic among fans of psychedelic rock and spiritual jazz. It is known for its experimental approach to music and its incorporation of spiritual and mystical themes. The album features a blend of blues, funk, and avant-garde music, creating a trippy and hypnotic soundscape. The music on 'Contraction' is characterized by its extended jams, improvisational solos, and spiritual lyrics, making it a truly unique listening experience.
The Cogitate Tape
John C. Lilly (1915-2001) was a respected American physician, neuroscientist, psychonaut, philosopher, writer, and inventor. He was a prominent member of the counterculture community, which included figures such as Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Werner Erhard, who were frequent guests at his home. Lilly gained fame in the 1950s for developing the Isolation Tank, a device that allowed users to experience complete sensory deprivation. He combined this work with his efforts to communicate with dolphi…
An afternoon of Poetry & Music
** Limited edition of 60 ** Tape recording of a London gig from last summer featuring US poet and lyricist Larry Beckett and his British singer-guitarist collaborator Stuart Anthony. Beckett, today an Oregon-based wordsmith who initially made his name when he worked with late LA legend Tim Buckley, has focused in more recent decades on his poetry, a project that reached an apogee with his extraordinary epic American Cycle, published in 2021 and the subject of ringing acclaim within the wider ve…
Zen Garden (Tape)
** Limited edition of 60 ** Bill Wyatt (1942-2015) was one of the foremost Zen monk, Beat, translator, and influenced haiku poets from the UK. With musical accompaniment
All That Would Ever After Not Be Said (Tape)
** Limited edition of 60 ** Cut-up poems from NY collaborator of Carl Weissner and Jurgen Ploog. These collected poems of Jan Herman, which he refers to as "deformed sonnets", are creations whose genesis and influence lie in the created forms of others; texts which Herman knowingly and skilfully divines and mines for unexpected alliances and echoes, and the harmonious confluences of thought and subject matter. A kind of midwifery performed through the gifts of his own original poetic sensibilit…