Bardo Matrix started out as a psychedelic lightshow team in Boulder, Colorado in the second half of the 1960s. Of its original members (John Chick, Craig Love, Dana Young and Greg Sharits) Chick and Young followed the hippie trail to Kathmandu in 1969, where the former started his Spirit Catcher bookstore on “Freak Street”. It was from that bookstore that Chick continued Bardo Matrix as a printing press for Western travellers and American expats. When Angus…
The Sea Urchin pamphlet The Fifth Day is a passage lifted from Edgar Allan Poe’s tale Manuscript Found in a Bottle. The tale was first published in 1833 after it had won an award of $50 in a contest organised by the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. The version published by Sea Urchin is how it later appeared in Poe’s own Broadway Journal in 1845.Manuscript Found in a Bottle is a tale in which a drifting narrator describes how his ship sets sail from Batavia to the Sunda islands in the Malay Archipelago…
American 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 in the mid-1960s…
Bardo Matrix started out as a psychedelic lightshow team in Boulder, Colorado in the second half of the 1960s. Of its original members (John Chick, Craig Love, Dana Young and Greg Sharits) Chick and Young followed the hippie trail to Kathmandu in 1969, where the former started his Spirit Catcher bookstore on “Freak Street”. It was from that bookstore that Chick continued Bardo Matrix as a printing press for Western travellers and American expats. When Angus…