Jazz = Sex = Good
** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Simon Vinkenoog was born in Amsterdam in 1928. After having worked for the Dutch publishing house Querido he moved to Paris in 1948, where he started working for the books and publications department of UNESCO. From Paris he launched the Dutch literary journal Blurb, which published Dutch and Flemish writers and poets, such as W.F. Hermans, Hugo Claus, Armando, Lucebert and Paul Rodenko. Vinkenoog’s own poetry saw its fir…
Words
** Limited edition of 70. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Clark Coolidge (1939) grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and attended Brown University before moving to New York in the early 1960s. In New York he befriended Ted Berrigan and saw his first book Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric published in 1966. Coolidge moved to San Francisco the next year, where he joined the psych-folk band The Serpent Power as a jazz drummer. His poetry has been published extensively since. Among his ma…
In conversation with Jaap van der Ben - Tape
** Limited edition of 80. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** American poet, playwright and novelist Michael McClure (1932-2020) left Wichita in the early 1950s to settle in San Francisco. There he soon found his feet and was one of the five poets – together with Allen Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen – who took part in the famous poetry reading at the Six Gallery in 1955; an event now generally considered to have been the launch of the Beat Generation. McClu…
Live at the Beat Museum & other recordings from the Archive- Tape
** Limited edition of 80. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Raised in Europe before World War 2, Ruth Weiss turned into a pioneering bohemian poet on the other side of the Atlantic after the war. weiss was born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1928 and much of her childhood was spent running from the spreading and intensifying Nazi persucation of those days. After having found a temporary refuge in The Netherlands, weiss and her parents escaped to safety in Chicago in 1939. Ther…
Reading at Buffalo, 1969 - Tape
** Limited edition of 80. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Jerome Rothenberg was born into a Polish-Jewish family in New York City in 1931. He studied at the City College of New York and received a Master’s Degree in Literature from the University of Michigan in 1953. After his return from military service in Germany, Rothenberg resumed his studies at Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1959. His publishing career began in the late 1950s when he translated Paul Celan …
Inhale
**100 copies** Artist book. "I met John Giorno, poet, innovator of the school of Found Poetry, founder of the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems, at Hall's Sprachsalz International Literary Festival in September 2015. John is a performing and visual artist, the star of Andy Warhol's early film Sleep and according to William S. Burroughs "an accomplished practitioner of wisdom-mind". We talked about our daily routine and while doing so mention was made of the inhaling of the…
You Are the Audience
This cassette tape is a document of two live performances by the Haffar/Mobarak duo. Their mutual pleasure in variable tunings, granular synthesis, and structured improvisations shaped their collaboration.
Ich und Sie - Ein Roman aus Dreibuchstabigen Wörtern
**250 copies** Ich Und Sie - Ein Roman aus Dreibuchstabigen Wörtern (Me and Her - A Novel of Three-letter-words) was a work Andrea Tippel started in 1993 and finished in 2009. As the title suggests, it consists entirely of three-letter-words. Two CDs in full-color, six-panel DVD-sized digipack; illustrated with pages of the manuscripts of Ich Und Sie, a biographical text, chronology of the work in English by Marc Schulz, and the text "The Speaking Art of Andrea Tippel" by Dorothy Iannone, writte…
Vaduz
This poem by Bernard Heidsieck starts with Vaduz, the capital of Lichtenstein, and from it, lists all the people and ethnic groups of the world: a great humanist work and an extreme experience of poetry-action. The publication features a recording of the poem, read by Bernard Heidsieck.
Biopsies
This publication gathers together all the texts and recordings of the Biopsies series (1965-1969).
Passe-partout
This publication gathers together all the texts and recordings of the Passe-partout series (1969-2004).
Poèmes-Partitions
This publication brings together the sound poet's first work, published in 1955, as well as the entire Poèmes-Partitions series (1955-1965). It also includes 2 CDs with all the Poèmes-Partitions recorded in their time by the author.
Phonetic Poems
Finally available fully on vinyl, here are the famous ‘Phonetic poems’ from Dadaist Raoul Hausmann – remastered from original tapes and for the first time with the correct track titles along with a 40 pages booklet including typescripts and texts. This LP is published on the occasion of the exhibition Raoul Hausmann and European Experimental Poetry (1945–1971). Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, château de Rochechouart.The ‘Phonetic poems” were conceived in 1918, simultaneously and wit…
Ionisation
**Edition of 250 copies, includes CD and 20-page color booklet** "Ionisation is the first LP by Italian poet Adriano Spatola. Born in Yugoslavia in 1941, by the age of 23 he became a major force in the Italian avant-garde. 'Towards Total Poetry,' Spatola's critical study on the state of modern poetry, spells out his position: 'to become a total medium, to escape all limitations to include theater, photography, music, painting, typography, cinematographic techniques, and every other aspect of cul…
Alphabet
Alphabet explores the combinatorics between signs on one side and signals on the other. The performance, inspired by the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville twisting the scientific rigor to privilege phonetic acquaintances, revisits the strategies of representation invented by the man to tell the world around him in the digital age. Alphabet invites the spectator to immerse themselves in the multiple relationships that, through language and its digital translations, maintain words and things.After…
Groundsound vol. I
**200 copies only** Put together by the Italian sound poet Enzo Minarelli, Groundsound vol. I is a snapshot of 1970s and 80s voice and soundworks by a special selection of practitioners, including the French sound poet Bernard Heidsieck, sound artist Terry Fox, legend Henri Chopin, bp Nichol (of Four Horsemen/Canadada fame) Peter Finch/ Bob Cobbing, Antonio Aragão and the phonetic poetry pioneed Ilse Garnier. "I like the idea of having the female voice of Ilse Garnier, whom I was lucky enough t…
Sense Sound / Sound Sense
** Expanded and revised edition, published on the occasion of the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition 2019-2020 ** "Keeping the rebellious nature of its wicked subject intact, Sense Sound Sound Sense nevertheless provides an impeccably researched, crystal-clear narrative of Fluxus's true revolutionary spirit." The Wire)Truly necessary catalogue accompanying an extensive exhibition dedicated to art works and musical scores and their relationship with Fluxus, an interdisciplinary movement of internatio…
Waldkonzerte
**200 copies** Second LP release by The Oval Language on Edition Telemark after Hibernation in 2017, this time showcaseing Klaus-Peter John's Waldkonzerte (woodland concerts), recorded in 2016.The Oval Language is an autonomous art project founded in 1987 in Leipzig, East Germany, by Klaus-Peter John and Frank Berendt. Since Berendt left in 1995, it has been continued by John, sometimes with collaborators, but recently mostly for solo activities. Its fields of activity have included sound-noise …
Intestinocephalo
**Limited edition of 80 copies** Coming from Italy by way of Berlin, Giorgio Dursi has fashioned an artistic practice where the familiarity of commonplace objects and voices fuse and contort into completely unexpected avenues of sound experience.In Intestinocephalo, his first release on Kraak, monologues languish into states of dormancy like an episode of intentional catathrenia and then expand, evolve and, finally, disengage.In order to project this tension within the amorphous, Dursi deploys e…
Towards A Total Poetry
**Edition of 250 copies** Recital label head Sean McCann on Towards A Total Poetry: "Culled from live performances in Los Angeles in 1980, Towards A Total Poetry holds radioplays and sound poems by Julien Blaine, Adriano Spatola, F. Tiziano, and Paul Vangelisti. Two concerts were organized by poet and professor Vangelisti and broadcast on his KPFK radio show. A rare gathering of extreme French and Italian sound poets in California, flown out on with an arts funding grant (my, how things have cha…