The Influence of Transcription
Edition of 50 copies with 12-page booklet including a full transcription of the audio contents and texts by Rasmus Östling and early Fluxus member Ken Friedman. Translated by Hugo Strandberg, designed by Tom Backström and mastered by Sean McCann. Pentiments is happy to offer a uniquely modest document of contemporary Fluxus homage by Finnish artist Rasmus Östling. For this work, Östling paid visits to early Swedish Fluxus member Bengt af Klintberg (best known for his booklet The Cursive Scandina…
Extravagant Circus Of The Mouth
*Edition of 200 copies, comes with insert* Christian Poitevin, artistically known as Julien Blaine, is a poet, visual artist, performer, and editor who has dedicated himself to sound poetry, visual poetry, and mail art. He began to be interested in the relationship between word and image in the early 1960s when he created his first magazine, Les Carnets de l’Octéor. During this time, he also made his first performances, such as Reps elephant 306 where he interviewed a circus elephant. From 1975 …
L'Infonie
Beat poetry influence free form jazz collective, formed in Montreal in 1967, L'Infonie existed officially until 1974. Lead by composer Walter Boudreau (aka retlaW uaerduoB) and poet, singer, trumpeter Raôul Duguay (aka luôaR yauguD) this very loose collective featured up to 33 artists from various backgrounds ranging from free jazz, classical, contemporary, rock, visual arts and poetry
No Soy un Robot
For countertenor (Miguel Quiñones), parrots (Charro Cadena, Pistaccio Lopez), different voices & dead electronics (Kurzweil, Moog and smartphone apps performed by Frédéric Acquaviva).
Cinemas
"The recording of a literary interpretation of a performance by the artist Pablo Pijnappel. The record is a spoken-word, audio rendering of two accounts included in the publication Beyond Imagination/Zona de Crepúsculo—itself a literary interpretation of a performance of the same title presented in the Pijnappel's solo exhibition at the Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2018. Manipulating the notions of translation, interpretation and memory, the two texts are interwoven into a b…
Livre d'images sans images
Tip! *25 copies limited release* Xing presents the new LP Livre d'images sans images by Mette Edvardsen & Iben Edvardsen, tenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited numbered edition of 300 copies. The collector's edition consists of 25 copies accompanied by a unique poster, hand drawn with black marker by the two artists, mother and daughter, folded like a map, echoing the activity of the performance.
Livre d'images sans images by Mette Edvards…
Interview with Charlie Morrow
Recital presents a newly unearthed recording of an interview between Sun Ra and composer Charlie Morrow recorded at his New York studio in 1989. This voice-only recording develops more like a kaleidoscopic sermon than any standard interview.
Enginn Gleypir Sólina
In February 1993, at artist Hannes Lárusson’s Gallerí 11 in Reykjavik, Magnús Pálsson exhibited two installations, one in each of the gallery’s two rooms. In the first was Enginn Gleypir Sólina (No One Swallows The Sun). In the adjacent room was its companion work Herra Túrpur Jónsson (Mister Túrpur Jónsson). Each room featured four wall-mounted loudspeakers, one in each corner emanating vocalized grunts, sighs, and syllables in between extensive passages of Icelandic and nonsensical language. O…
Break through in grey room
Inspired by the original Industrial Records release of William S. Burroughs’s Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, Belgian record label Sub Rosa worked with Burroughs to release another album: Break Through In Grey Room. Originally compiled in 1986 by producer Bill Rich, the album features Burroughs's experimental recordings from 1961 to 1976, featuring field recordings by Burroughs of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, experimental collaborations with mathematician Ian Sommerville and painter/cut…
Supernauczanie
* Edition of 50* “I can say about myself that I was programmed in my childhood, and then in my early youth. Like some artificial intelligence from a science-fiction novel.Through the programming process, Lech Emfazy Stefański described a breakthrough moment in his youth. This led him to his most significant achievements, establishing in 1955 the famous Theater on Tarczyńska Street in Warsaw. It also contributed to the involvement in psychotronics - camouflage for occult and psychic activities, w…
Skyscraper Martini Guitar
Limited edition of 50 Excellent tough poetry with music, think Charles Bukowski and Steve Richmond. Incudes, a map with broadsides.
Game Room - A Tribute To The Great American Loser
*Edition of 200 copies* Les Levine is a naturalized American Irish artist, born October 6, 1935, in Dublin, Ireland. Known as a pioneer of video art and as a conceptual artist working with mass communication. In 1967, he won first prize for sculpture in the Canadian Sculpture Biennial. He designed the cover of the beat poets like John Giorno (founder of Giorno Poetry System). Levine was one of the first artists to work with video and television. His work was to become a precursor to the new gene…
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.
Breakthrough
Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian writer and intellectual (1909-1974). Throughout his life, he held a strong interest in the field of parapsychology and was particularly intrigued by the possibility of an afterlife. Raudive devoted much of his research to investigating Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and in 1971 published a book on the subject entitled "Breakthrough". EVP refers to instances of audible voices on electronic recordings, which are often interpreted as originating from a paranormal sou…
Recordings On Sex Instruction
Take a step back in time to 1951 with these 4 charming dramatizations. Their purpose is to offer guidance to grown-ups on how to have important conversations with children about sexuality, including masturbation, menstruation, the miracle of new life, and the wonders of marriage. With a playful and engaging tone, where the young ones are full of questions and the grown-ups are warm and understanding, it presents an idyllic world in which adults and children are wonderful.
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…
Kozmik Zigzag
Edition of 200 copies. Jean-Jacques Lebel lives and works mainly in Paris. The artist and political activist was chief editor as early as 1955 for the Florence-based art, politics, and poetry magazine Front Unique. In 1960, he staged the first Happening in Europe with "L'Enterrement de la Chose" and published one of the first French essays on the genre of Happenings. He personally continues to create Happenings, performances, and actions on all continents and simultaneously remains active in the…
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 …
Filzengraben Boulevard
*300 copies limited edition* Conjuring Gloria Swanson’s role as former-silent film actress Norma Desmond in the 1950 Hollywood classic "Sunset Boulevard," Julia Scher’s "Filzengraben Boulevard" weaves autobiography with melodramatic fiction. Delivered over Zoom from her bed in Cologne, Germany, Scher recalls pivotal memories that have influenced her work. Recollections of her father as a mattress salesman in Burbank, California. Casualties of the film industry. Encounters with art. Warhol’s Bril…
Neon Hieroglyph
*In process of stocking* A collaboration between Turner-Prize winner Tai Shani, The state51 Conspiracy and Strange Attractor Press: a beautiful collection of music, image and text presented across a fabulous cherry marble 12" vinyl wrapped in an arresting gloss sleeve. The album features a reading of the Shani's text by Molly Moody, backed with a captivating, hypnotic score for double bass and electronics by Maxwell Sterling.