In the late 1960s a group of young artists and students from Seattle started a commune in an abandoned farmhouse in the Snoqualmie River valley, Washington. Among them were Conrad Uno, Mark Wheaton, Mike Freeman, Mark Sargent and Carl Smool. They named the former…
Todd Tamanend Clark (1952) is a Native American outsider musician and composer from Pennsylvania who started to record music in 1975. Clark formed the band ‘The Eyes’ a couple of years later and released their psychedelic album ‘New Gods: Aardvark Through Zymurgy’ in 1977. The Eyes evolved into The Todd Clark Group, who released the album ‘We’re Not…
No Basement Is Deep Enough is a Serbo-Belgian cassette label run by Ignace de Bruyn and Milja Radovanovic. The label explores the fringes of music, art and poetry and focuses on obscure recordings of what they call ‘the semantic prisoners of the false prophets of the cultural hegemony’. No Basement Is Deep Enough packages their…
Yannis Livadas (1969) is a Greek experimental poet, writer, jazz scholar and translator who lives in Paris, France. His translations from English into Greek include works by Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Harold Norse, Gregory Corso, Frank O’Hara and Ezra Pound. Livadas’s highly individual poetry incorporates an idea of experimentalism that is based on ‘organic antimetathesis’:…