MARITIME NOIR is a poetic effort to meditate on Freedom, knowing that Freedom will never come… The 5-track CD opens with Bert Papenfuß’s poem ‘Es gibt keine Freiheit’ read in Rex Joswig’s dark and mesmerising voice and set to music by Joswig’s band Herbst In Peking. Once the hawsers of this Moloko Plus release have…
Slowscan’s Vol. 40 is a silkscreened wooden box containing seven 7” records with compositions by Fluxus related artists – each record hand numbered – plus an information sheet. Sea Urchin sells the remaining copies of this exquisite edition with recordings of: Albert Fine’s ‘Fear No Forks’ (1965, performed and recorded in 2017) George Brecht’s ‘Drip…
Czech band ‘Sweet Positive’ was founded in 2014 by singer, songwriter and bass guitarist Azalea So Sweet, a former S&M performer in a Viennese club. She was joined by renowned musicians Chris Hughes on drums and Phil Shoenfelt on guitar, who fuel her dark and bittersweet lyrics with a heavy Central European sound somewhere between…
New Sea Urchin chapbook: August Stramm – Early Spring August Stramm (1874-1915) is now mainly remembered for the poems that he wrote during WWI and were published posthumously as ‘Tropfblut’ by Herwarth Walden in 1919. Stramm’s poem ‘Vorfrühling’, however, was written in 1913-14 and published in Walden’s expressionist magazine ‘Der Sturm’ in April 1914, on…