New in our catalogue: two great new Slowscan releases: Dennis Oppenheim – Theme For A Major Hit and Audio Trans Art, vol. 1. Theme For A Major Hit is the title of a piece that Dennis Oppenheim produced in 1974. It consists of a motor driven marionette on a circular stage, a spotlight and a…
Sloow Tapes’ Sinclair Beiles release is a rare recording of the South African poet reading his one-man play ‘Chopin in Majorca’. The play was published in print by Nugget Press, Johannesburg in 1996, but can now also be heard in Beiles’ own voice thanks to Bart De Paepe’s Sloow Tapes and Beiles researcher Fred de Vries.
Sinclair Beiles was born in Kampala, Uganda in…
The Birth & Decay issue is the last in a series of Keen Zines that was initiated by Djuna (Keen) Michielsen at the age of 18. Over the years a total of ten zines was published. With this final issue Djuna Keen decided to ‘close the circle’. Keen Zine #10 is ‘an ode to life…
My Tailor Is Rich is an underground film by Ludo Mich after a one-act play by Werner Verstraeten. The film – now on DVD – was originally shot on 16mm in 1971. ‘My tailor is rich, but my English is poor’ is the first phrase of ‘L’Anglais sans peine’, an English method for French-speaking people…
The fourth in the series of Sea Urchin chapbooks is the first publication of William Levy’s poem Alien Bread. William Levy (Baltimore, 1939) attended the University of Maryland and Temple University and taught in the literature department at Shippensburg State College, Pennsylvania, during which period he co-founded the ‘Insect Trust Gazette’, a poetry magazine which…