Sea Urchin is happy to join forces with Ace Farren Ford from Los Angeles. Ace Farren Ford (1957) began writing poetry at the age of 10 and started playing music around the same time. Since the early 1970s Ace has explored free improvisational music, at first with his group Ace & Duce (originally a duo,…
Roel van Duijn, one of the spearheads of the Dutch countercultural Provo movement wrote this manifesto in 1967, six months after Provo had been carried to its grave. The contents of this handsome little book are still very much in the vein of Provo: subversive, provocative, creative, and humorous. In a playful manner and packaged…
The summer of 1975 was hot. A heatwave of eighteen consecutive days singed Western Europe and turned its capitals into seething cauldrons. Ira Cohen landed on the soft tarmac of Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, in August — his mind still filled with the opiate clouds over Kathmandu, where he had lived since 1972 —…
Cold Turkey Press has put together a beautiful collection of collages by the elusive artist Norman O. Mustill, who is known for his collaborations with Mary Beach, Claude Pélieu and Jan Herman. All 11 collages date from 1975 but only some of them were actually published at the time. The rest of the powerful…
7 improvisational pieces by Michael Morley (The Dead C, Gate, Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos). Intense and disruptive pieces varying from throbbing psychedelia to harsh industrial soundscapes to roughly cut field recordings, all beautifully mixed. The CD comes in a nice b/w fold-out sleeve. The Pavilion Of Fools was released by Gallery Dessford Vogel,…