Nothing Here Now but the Recordings
*2023 Restored Edition* In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson (then of Throbbing Gristle renown) travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of famed beat writer and cultural pioneer William S. Burroughs and his executor James Grauerholz to starting the daunting task to compile the experimental sounds works of Burroughs, which, up until that point, had never been heard.
During those visits, Burroughs would play back his tape recor…
Sound Anthology (LP)
From the celebrated imprint, Recorthings & Zona Archives, comes “Sound Anthology”, the first ever full length dedicated to the output of Maurizio Nannucci. Gathering sixteen pieces created between 1966 and 2013, the collection is an absolute revelation, blurring the boundaries between musique concrète and noise and unveiling one of Italy’s great journeymen of experimental sound practice lingering in our midst.
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word (Book)
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word explores the emancipation of language through historical and contemporary positions, from the earliest typographic and sound works of concrete poets to poetic experiments in the digital era, revealing the porosity between art and poetry.Six years after the exhibition From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word, and after a disastrous pandemic, the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève presents the catalogue for this complex, ambitious proj…
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.
Margrethe Fjorden
*100 copies limited edition, hand-numbered in printed box* Recital presents its first ever video edition of "Margrethe Fjorden". Produced in 1996 by Fluxus artist Eric Andersen, the citywide Intermedia event included performances from Alice Damas, Willem de Ridder, Larry Miller, and other artists from around the world. Inspired by the mysterious tale of Queen Margrethe the First (1353-1412), the multi-sensory event was comprised of three major themes: UNION, WOMAN, and FAITH.
Over 4 hours of vid…
Stripsody
** Italian Edition. 384 pages ** Stripsody, riedizione del celebre volume pubblicato nel 1966 in occasione del felice incontro artistico tra Cathy Berberian, Eugenio Carmi e Umberto Eco. Si tratta di un libro che illustra pagina dopo pagina, nelle tavole di Eugenio Carmi, il percorso sonoro vocalizzato da Cathy Berberian, usando solo le onomatopee codificate dalla lingua dei fumetti. La voce inconfondibile di Cathy Berberian canta Stripsody – senza più bisogno di musica – fondendosi con le illus…
Skyscraper Martini Guitar
Limited edition of 50 Excellent tough poetry with music, think Charles Bukowski and Steve Richmond. Incudes, a map with broadsides.
COOP a-script (Book)
COOP a-script is an artist book based on two performance scripts by Fia Backström, extending her exploration of visual and spoken language, global community, bureaucratic jargon, and mood and communication disorders. The first section of the book, “Aphasia as a visual way of speaking, on A-production and other language syndromes,” consists of a text written in four parts. When this work was performed at The Poetry Project in New York City, the artist organized the script across the venue’s floor…
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…
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…
Phonetische Poesie
** 12-page booklet reproducing the original liner notes ** Reissue of the groundbreaking LP from 1971 of Phonetical Poetry / Sound Poetry pieces by the most relevant artists of the last century. Curated by Franz Mon.
Including pieces written by the fathers of Russian Futurism Velimir Chlebnikov, Alexej Krutschonych, and Kazimir Malevitc, followed by poems by Raoul Hausmann and Kurt Schwitters, the French school of Francois Dufrene, Henri Chopin, Maurice Lemaitre, to Bob Cobbing, Peter Greenham, …
La Blama Sparozzi
*2023 stock* "This sprawling double album is the last Embryo title to feature the great guitarist Roman Bunka. Here, as on many of the band's other recordings, the basis sextet led by Christian Burchard is augmented by dozens of other musicians to varying effect. For starters, Embryo's live recordings are always their best. That is testified to here, as well, since the album was recorded in studios all over Europe, and features a live performance from Munich. It's the sprawl that testifies simul…
Imperium Asinum Magnificum
"Oral painter and word carver », Michel Giroud aka Gerwulf El Coyote has been a major figure in action poetry since the 1970s. His work takes the fragmented form of books, readings, actions, interventions, meetings, circles and magazines. He thus realizes an old project that he named in 1990 Patata (patatology) or PTT (Totally Total Poetry) where all these activities are articulated in a sphere in permanent movement. In 1991, he founded the Nomadic University and in May 1997 the festival ‘Mille …
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…
La Materia Verbal (The Verbal Matter: An Anthology of Peruvian Sound Poetry)
** Edition of 300 ** This compilation brings together 22 sound poems, including both pioneering and current pieces, and constitutes itself as the first great overview of sound poetry from Peru. It continues a cycle that began in 2009 with the appearance of a CD called Inventar La Voz: Nuevas Tradiciones Orales [To Invent the Voice: New Oral Traditions] and was followed up in 2011 with another one called Irse De Lengua [To Let It Slip], both of which contributed to articulate diverse manifestatio…
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…
The Hands of Grace
* Edition of 250 CDs, with liner note essays by Ishmael Reed and Fred Moten. * A great pleasure to play with my favorite writer; he has transformed his literary genius to the piano in one lifetime, Bravo!" -David Murray Reading Group is thrilled to announce The Hands of Grace, a new album of original music by the legendary novelist, essayist, poet, critic, and playwright Ishmael Reed (b. Tennessee, 1938). The Hands of Grace presents for the first time the original music that Reed composed for hi…
The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival
*Last copies, almost sold out at the label. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies.* After years of preparation, Recital is proud to present The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival box set. Held in New York in 1980, this was the last festival of the pioneering sound poetry series started in Stockholm in the 1960s. This ambitious document holds nearly five hours of audio from 30 artists. A 240-page book with biographies, texts, and artwork from each artist supplements the edition…