Author: Anneke

New arrival from Moloko+: Udo Breger – Extraterritorial

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Carl Laszlo, Auschwitz survivor, art collector and art dealer with Hungarian roots, and German author and translator Udo Breger, born during World War II with close ties to key figures of the Beat Generation, meet in Basel in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One hopes to establish personal contact with William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Allen Ginsberg, while the other turns out to be a mediator who, against the backdrop of…

Oliver Harris/Farid Ghadami – Two Assassins: Hassan Sabbah/William Burroughs

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“Two Assassins is a unique collaborative work, part detective story, part literary scholarship, part historical research, and part personal memoir that seeks to unravel a mystery: what the 11th-century Persian master of the Assassins, Hassan Sabbah, really meant for William Burroughs. Oliver Harris sheds light on the many untold backstories and dark textual secrets behind Burroughs’ invocations of Hassan Sabbah…
€ 24.00

Aufruhr zur Liebe – 3×3 = NEIN

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Starting in 1983, Aufruhr zur Liebe consisted of musicians from bands such as Rosa Extra, Feeling B, Antifaschistischer Schutzwall (later Planlos) or Ornament & Verbrechen. The band’s sound and lyrics contextualized the reality of the GDR and left behind idiosyncratic signatures: melodic arcs of failure merged into an alloy of post punk, art rock, T. Rex, Virgin Prunes, industrials shamanism, and a refusal to conform…
€ 12.00

Ira Cohen – From the Divan of Petra Vogt (first collated copy)

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sold outAmerican photographer, poet and publisher Ira Cohen was born to deaf parents in the Bronx in 1935. After having dropped out of Cornell University, having married and having had two children with his wife Arlene Bond, Cohen sailed to Tangier in 1961, where he stayed for four years. In those years Cohen published his seminal Gnaoua journal with contributions by Jack Smith, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Harold Norse a.o. Cohen returned to the US…

Roger Knoebber – Hysteresis: A Profile of Brion Gysin

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In the late 1950s in Paris, at the famed Beat Hotel – 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur – writer Roger Knoebber was living amongst a community of creative people, including the core of what became known as the Beat Generation – Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg, and others. In this bohemian center of exploration Roger became intimate friends with the artist, writer and mystic Brion Gysin…
€ 47.50

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