In the early 1970s Electric Bill Robinson was a high school friend of Smegma’s Ace Farren Ford’s. No sooner had Ace suggested that Bill put his humorous poems to music than he started writing songs. Electric Bill sometimes played with Smegma and left behind a large number of recordings in Smegma’s archives after his death in 2001. Some of these recordings have now been compiled on cassette to pay tribute to the genius of the late Electric Bill…
New from Moloko Print and Sea Urchin: Yannis Livadas interviewed by Ben Schot (and five poems) In this slim edition, beautifully designed by Anneke Auer, publisher Ben Schot interviews poet Yannis Livadas about the position of poetry in general. Starting from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s violent notion of poetry, the discussion follows a precarious path of…
Paralyse is the German title of a novel that Gustav Sack conceived and started in 1913 but never had the chance to finish. The novel was to revolve around the delirious ideas and fantasies of a poet/philosopher who, like Sack’s inspiration Friedrich Nietzsche, suffers from dementia paralytica in the final stages of syphilis. In a…
New in our Moloko+ catalogue: William Levy – RAPE (with drawings by Scott Neary) William Levy’s controversial short story RAPE was refused by many a publisher in the past, but has now finally been published by Moloko+ from Germany. And how. Combined with drawings by Scott Neary and designed by Robert Schalinski, RAPE has turned…
Slowscan’s Henri Chopin double LP available again: Henri Chopin – OH audiopoems (2nd edition) Slowscan vol. 35 is a re-issue on vinyl of the cassette ‘OH Audiopoems’, which was released on Erik Vonna-Michell’s Balsam Flex label in 1978. The black vinyl double LP contains a powerful selection of pieces by one of the key…