Lucifer Was an Angel Once
** Limited edition of 60. Comes with several inserts ** A performance in an old church by one of Belgium's original Fluxus artist Ludo Mich with live accompaniment by The Nestels (formerly The Joyous Cosmology).
Ludo Mich is a Belgian based artist rooted in the fluxus movement. Known for his holography know-how, his visual art pieces and surprising performances. Ludo Mich is a painter, sculptor, holographer, musician, performance artist and fluxus associate best known for the series of hyster…
Fluxus Anthology 60 Years Anniversary, 1962-2022
** Last copies ** In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 80 copies, hand numbered. Ten audiotapes with interviews/statements, tape collages, electronic music, interview, live events with new and some old material. By Charlotte Moorman, David Tudor, Fernad Kriwet, Joe Jones, Robert Filliou, Carolee Schneemann, Allan Kaprow, Richard Maxfield, Emmett Williams, and many more.
What is Fluxus? Fluxus was launched in 1962 as an interdisciplinary, neo-avant-garde artist collective, whose organized act…
Debauched: Witchery and Devilry Vol. 1 (1st Spell) (Book)
During the height of the turned-on 1960s and '70s Occult explosion, even the under-the-counter men's magazines got in on the act and began a surreal exploration of the haunting netherworld of Witchcraft and Satanism. This monumental art book reveals a world of diabolical smut that was so compelling and obscure that many people today would actually question whether or not the magazines were real or just an elaborate and detailed modern photo editing invention. A few salacious titles and images on…
From Scratch – Albanian Summer Picaresque (Book)
An account of an album about Albania by British experimental musicians made in the eighties. Also involving stories about the Albanian Society, William Bland, A. L. lloyd, RCPB ML, and Cornelius Cardew.
NYC 2/20/68
** Limited edition of 60 * Comes with a small insert. Replica of a talk about Ted Berrigan's poetry in Detroit 1992
Pause for the Cause: London Rave Adverts 1991-1996, Vol. 2
Tip! Back in the early '90s, whenever the pirate radio MC announced "a pause for the cause", I usually pressed pause on my cassette recorder. That's something I would regret years later, when ad breaks had become cherished mementos of the hardcore rave era. Luckily, back in the day I often left the tape running while I went off to do something else. So a fair number of ad breaks got captured accidentally for my later delectation. Not nearly enough, though. So in recent years I started combing t…
Pause for the Cause: London Rave Adverts 1991-1996, Vol. 1
Tip! *In process of stocking* "Back in the early ‘90s, whenever the pirate radio MC announced “a pause for the cause”, I usually pressed pause on my cassette recorder. That’s something I would regret years later, when ad breaks had become cherished mementos of the hardcore rave era. Luckily, back in the day I often left the tape running while I went off to do something else. So a fair number of ad breaks got captured accidentally for my later delectation. Not nearly enough, though. So in recent …
Drag Marks
In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 40 handnumbered copies. Includes one handnumbered insert. 10 audiotqps with interviews/statements, experimental and electronic music by William Burroughs, Henri Chopin, Terry Fox, John Giorno, Glenn Blanca, Gruppo 70, Vito Acconci, Richard Friedman, Michael McLure and many more
1. Sarenco / Ori / Marcucci. Gruppo 70Side A: - Sarenco, "Hommage To Lin Piao"- Luciano Ori, "Situazione Blanca"Side B:- Sarenco, "Kein Gott"- Lucia Marcucci, "Poesia Auditiva" (Exc…
Musical Erratum + In Conversation
*2022 stock* This 74 minute album offers four spoken word extracts by Marcel Duchamp (in the English language), including The Creative Act, a fascinating lecture delivered in Houston in 1957, as well as a lengthy interview recorded in 1959.
The remainder of the album explores Duchamp's unique musical experiments. Devised in 1913, the Musical Erratum for piano forms part of the sequence of notes and projects which led to his celebrated artwork, La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même (The …
Blue Iris, Black Rose by Burroughs and Ira expert Ian MacFadyen
Ira Cohen (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011) was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker. Ira Cohen was born to deaf parents and instead of just developing speech, began developing his vision early, learning to spell with his fingers. In 1961 he took a Yugoslavian freighter to Tangiers where he lived for four years and published Gnaoua, a magazine devoted to exorcism, introducing the work of Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs and other members of the Interzone mob.
In 1970 he wen…
Live New Departures 1960-1967 (Ephemera Map)
*A numbered edition of 26 copies* Live New Departures featured some of the UK’s finest modern jazz musicians together with poets Pete Brown (co-writer/Cream) and Michael Horovitz (Britain’s Beat Laureate). Live New Departures 1960-1967 ephemera map. An A 5 envelope filled with Live New Departures ephemera. Facsimile prints of programs, selections of letters, press sheets, flyers and much more.
Live New Departures was a series of poetry, folk and jazz happenings - where interaction between artis…
Antechamber
Michael McClure’s mysticism is vigorously scientific. Even the familiar patterned shapes of his poems remind us of the stars in the night sky and those we see when we shut our eyes. In the dancing lines of his newest work—the title poem “Antechamber” most especially—are the whirl of galaxies, the radiance of molecules, the energy lines of the double helix coiling around its core. — New Directions, 1978
Songs
Foamola is an underground musical group from New York City, consisting of Sparrow and his wife, who went by the cyber alias Violet Snow. Also in the group is artist Lawrence Fishberg and Sparrow's daughter, poet Sylvia Gorelick. Their music has been described as "folk-minimalist", and as "anti-Plutarch pop"
“Foamola is the only anti-rock band named after an herbal arthritis remedy. All our music is original, with tunes by Lawrence Fishberg (keyboard, vocals) and lyrics by Sparrow (ocarina, item…
Sehr Selten Gehörte Tanzmusik
*350 copies limited edition* Previously unpublished performance of the internationally renowned dance band Selten Gehörte Musik (on this occasion: Christian Attersee, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener) at the closing event of the "Literanover" Festival at the Kunstmuseum Hannover, on November 16th, 1980. Close to two hours of very rarely heard dance music, indeed.
NYC 11/20/02 (Tape)
** Limited edition of 60. It comes with a nice insert * A 90 minute very spirited and informal reading at the Tagine Restaurant, NYC by Ira with musical accompinament, sitars and the like. Ira Cohen (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011) was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker. Ira Cohen was born to deaf parents and instead of just developing speech, began developing his vision early, learning to spell with his fingers. In 1961 he took a Yugoslavian freighter to Tangiers where h…
Robert Filliou En Conversation Avec Georg Jappe (Tape)
Robert Filliou (17 January 1926 – 2 December 1987) was a French artist associated with Fluxus, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro. A 45 minute conversation by these two icons of the Fluxus movement, in French language. This tape was made for a gallery show in The Hague, few copies available
The Poet's Poet (Tape)
** Limited edition of 60 * Excellent readings, live and in the studio by this grandmaster of American poetry. Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.
Santa Monica Poems (Tape + Inserts and Ephemera)
** Limited edition of 50. A special issue housed in a plastic map with: a 14 minute tape by Richmond reading his poetry. This must be the total spokenword output by him, one of the Meat Poets (Doug Blazek, Charles Bukowski)
Not for the fainthearted! Included are sheets of unpublished poetry and ephemera.
* Steve Richmond (1941 − October 21, 2009) was an American poet from Southern California whose notoriety comes primarily from his association with the mid-career of poet Charles Bukowski in the…
Teach Yourself Fucking (Tape)
* Edition of 60 * 95 minutes of songs, demos, rants and poetry. Recordings meant for his third album on Kramer's Shimmy Disc, it was never released. Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg (September 28, 1923 – July 12, 2010) was an American counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher, and co-founder of the band The Fugs.
Lucifer
Taken from the archive of the Process Church of the Final Judgment, Gods on War is a text about war from the perspective of Lucifer. Written in the '60s, read by Genesis P-Orridge in 2011.