Sea Urchin is thrilled to join forces with Jan van Toorn‘s great SLOWSCAN label. Dissatisfied with the limited availability on vinyl or tape of good artists’ recordings, Jan van Toorn founded his own cassette label Slowscan in 1983 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. In the first 10 years of its existence Slowscan produced 10 important releases,…
Liam O’Gallagher (1917-2007) was a painter, sound artist, writer, art teacher and spiritual seeker who was influenced by people as varied as Aldous Huxley, Hans Hofmann, Marcel Duchamp and Krishnamurti. O’Gallagher was a free-spirited and socially engaged artist, as much interested in crossing the borders between various art disciplines and art and life as in…
John Chick (1944-2013) was one of the members of the original Bardo Matrix crew, who started out as a psychedelic lightshow or ‘experimental cine’ group in Boulder, Colorado. After moving to San Francisco in 1967, Chick helped set up light shows at the Avalon Ballroom with The Family Dog, with whom he was staying that…
Al Hansen was born in Queens, NYC, in 1927. He joined the US Air Force as a teenager and served as a paratrooper in World War II, an experience which had a lasting impact on his life and art. While being stationed in Frankfurt am Main after the war, he pushed a…