German sound artist and filmmaker Jürgen Eckloff (East Berlin, 1978) used to be a core member of the Column One collective until they disbanded in 2016. Eckloff’s audio works often deal with the deconstruction of language and the mechanisms of communication. Since the early 2000s he has released numerous short films, works for radio and records…
Although associated with the Beat Generation, Ferlinghetti did not think of himself as a Beat poet, rather as a San Francisco Renaisssance poet and philosophical anarchist, like his friend and example Kenneth Rexroth. Besides being a poet and publisher, Ferlinghetti was a painter and much of his poetry evokes colourful images of everyday urban America as well as its natural…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born to European immigrants in 1919 in Yonkers, New York. His father having died shortly before he was born and his mother having been committed to a mental hospital soon after, Ferlinghetti was first raised by an aunt and then by foster parents. After having earned a B.A. in journalism in 1941 he published his first short stories while making a living as a sports journalist. He served in US Navy during World War II and after the war earned a degree…
Newly arrived from Moloko PLus is the Kiev Stingl CD ‘X R I Nuit’. Moloko’s CD was published as a companion to the EP of the same name that was released by Klangbad in 2022. On their website Klangbad announces this trove of Kiev Stingl recordings from 1982 as follows: … Never-before-heard songs from Germany’s underground legend Kiev Stingl. Released on Klangbad, record label…