Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was a short story writer and novelist who is generally regarded as one of the leading representatives of American ‘Dark Romanticism’. Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts and descended from a family of Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the earliest and largest New England colonies. His ancestor John Hathorne was a harsh and unrepentant…
Richard Maxfield (1927-1969) was an American composer of electro-acoustic and electronic music. Maxfield was born in Seattle and wrote his first symphony when he was still in high school. After having served in the US Navy for a year he…
After having put together the influential 8-cassette box ‘Fluxus Anthology 30th Anniversary 1962-1992 Sound Events’ in 1994, Slowscan released the follow-up ‘Fluxus Anthology Vol 1’ ten years later as a limited edition double LP. Some of the recordings of the…
Order American Porn at Sea Urchin
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,…