Iodine Pilz #1

24.02.2013

First issue of art zine Iodine Pilz. 32 pages of “Good Hot Stuff” were brought together and edited by Cary Loren and published in a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies by Omeggkkamann Press in 2012. Photos, writings, and artwork by Cary Loren, James Hoff, Elizabeth Sporleder and guest artist Cameron Jamie were photocopied in colour and b/w and staple bound. The images and text of this compiled lunacy are from conversations, travel journals and ephemera collected by the artists from 2009-2011. This collectible zine measures 207 x 135 x 2 mm and comes in a heavy acrylic photo protector.

New Cold Turkey Press edition: Bone Hebrew

17.02.2013

Bone Hebrew contains poems, letters, and drawings by Sinclair Beiles, tributes to and memories of Beiles by Heathcote Williams, Lilliane Lijn, and Yannis Livadas, photographs and artwork, all lovingly compiled and edited by Beiles’s friend Gerard Bellaart.

Bone Hebrew is a beautiful tribute to the mad and lost poet from South Africa.

“But, despite all this, the sad, mad and bruised old mind that was Sinclair Beiles was at root the mind of a natural ecstatic, a luftmensch, of the kind that society is always inclined to punish for one reason or another, which is why unreason is sometimes such an attractive escape route…” (Heathcote Williams)

Also available from Cold Turkey Press: the new Heathcote Williams poems Dylan and An Iraqi Child.

Box #1 – Afro-futurism

26.12.2012

Now available from Sea Urchin: Box #1 – published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) in a limited edition of 200, of which 150 are for sale. Each handmade box contains at least 30 works by local and national artists, musicians and writers whose work has a relationship to the Afro-futurist themes present in the MOCAD exhibition Vision in a Cornfield (2012).

Compiled by Cary Loren the box includes a 12″ vinyl LP of unreleased works by Sun Ra and Aaron Ibn Pori Pitts, a 16 track CD of other unreleased tracks by Sun Ra and Ibn, plus strange local music along with a reprint of Toward a ‘Ratio’nal Aesthetic, a deep and dense music manifesto with Sun Ra-like equations called Faruquisms by Faruq Z. Bey, who revised and worked on the book just shortly before his death.

Each Box has a unique cover designed by Afro-futurist musician and artist Efe Bes and is signed and numbered by the artist.

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Mole’s Milk

26.12.2012

Mole’s Milk & Other Pieces documents a number of improvised collaborations of members of Dutch electro-acoustic ensemble Kapotte Muziek (Frans de Waard, Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks) and Dutch artist Ben Schot.

The audio CD contains four recordings of memorable and intense performances under the monikers “Wieman” (2010 & 2012), “Kapotte Muziek” (2003), “The Whi” (with Puck Schot, 2010), and “Death Pact” (with vocalist Sjak van Bussel, 1999). Great stuff.

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John Sinclair – Beatnik Youth

26.12.2012

John’s best album so far; to quote Kris Needs in a review for The Record Collector:

“Sinclair’s core cohorts are producer-bassist Youth and The Dirty Strangers’ singer-guitarist Alan Clayton (plus engineer-keyboardist Michael Rendall). Different tracks also feature Howard Marks, Zodiac Mindwarp, Mark Stewart, Primal Scream, singer Angie Brown and one Beef Pilchards. Between insidious soul choruses over diverse backdrops, Sinclair barks, growls, rails, coos and guffaws with a roaring animated passion undimmed by his 70-plus years…A rare delight all round.”

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