Two cassettes have been added to our choice of Pigface Records releases: Lee Rockey – Sonic Explorer BRASS RING (Pigface 017) Lee Rockey (1926-2002) was a swinging jazz drummer in the 1940s and 50s, who played with Herbie Mann and Neal Hefti among others. In the late 1960s – after he had moved from New…
Textural Sounds is a label run from Portland, Oregon by Cody Brant. Among its LAFMS related releases on cassette and on SoundCloud are pieces and collaborations by John Wiese, Sissy Spacek, Smegma, and Cody’s own band Dead Channel.
Textural 002 is a cassette capturing a radical performance of Joe & Joe (Joe Potts & Joseph Hammer) at The Smell, Los Angeles, 14 February…
This bilingual edition contains the transcript of an interview of Mike Kelley by Thomas Kellein, then director of Kunsthalle Basel, before an audience at Centre d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, 1992. The English conversation is printed in black, its German translation in red. Several landmark works and installations that Kelley put together in the late 1980s/early 1990s…
Dick Raaijmakers (1930-2013) was a Dutch composer, theatremaker, theorist and teacher. Raaijmakers studied the piano at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the early 1950s before doing research at Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in Eindhoven. There Raaijmakers had the liberty to experiment with popular electronic music and became one of the pioneers in that field under the pseudonym of Kid Baltan. Raaijmakers worked as a…
The late artist Mike Kelley and writers John Sinclair and Amiri Baraka recommended this long sold-out book as follows:
I smell bacon
As a teenager, I discovered the work of Emory Douglas in the pages of the…