Mantra's
* Mantra's Special Edition of 26 numbered copies * Beautiful edition housed in a handcarved Indian wooden box. With : a long article from Green Groceries magazine, a spiritual travelogue, a portrait by Dutch painter Paul Citroen, a prayer flag, an ad from Sotheby's, several reprints of Ginsberg mantra flyers and all the visuals of the original box the master came in.
From a one copy master; Allen Ginsberg, Maretta Greer and Peter Orlovsky sing mantras with bells and harmonium. Recorded at home i…
Lie: The Love And Terror Cult And A Taste Of Freedom
* Comes with a set of postcards * The infamous Charles Manson album “Lie“, plus a phone conversation regarding Charlie‘s philosophy. “Lie” was originally recorded at Spahn Ranch, California.
The Medium Is The Massage
Understanding the Marshall McLuhan’s quote: “the medium is the message” through sound collage. In 1967, Marshall McLuhan teamed up with graphic designer Quentin Fiore to write The Medium is the Massage, a short 160-page book that offers a condensed, effective presentation of his ideas on the nature of media, communication and technology. The book was soon accompanied by an album bearing the same name, which Wikipedia describes like this: An audio recording based on the book was made by Colu…
Jonestown Death Tape
* comes with a set of postcards * Recording of FBI tape Q 042 'Death Tape' recovered from Jonestown, Guyana, after the Peoples Temple mass suicide/murder of 1978.
OM: The Sound Of Hinduism / This Is It
Taken from Dr Timothy Leary 'How To Operate Your Brain': "The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos" Personnel on 'You Can Be Anyone This Time Around' Jimi Hendrix – bass guitar Buddy Miles – drums John Sebastia…
How To Operate Your Brain / You Can Be Anyone This Time Around
Taken from Dr Timothy Leary 'How To Operate Your Brain': "The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos" Personnel on 'You Can Be Anyone This Time Around' Jimi Hendrix – bass guitar Buddy Miles – drums John Sebastia…
Deep Throat (Tape)
“Deep Throat” is the soundtrack for the famous american pornographic film that was at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn, released by Kieh! Kieh!.
The Last French-Fried Potato and Other Poems (Book)
A short but potent collection of poems by Emmett Williams, a central player in Fluxus and the Concrete poetry movement and one of the editors of the Great Bear series. The titular work—subtitled “the ultimate poem”and improvised around the eating of french fries—was originally performed with Robert Filliou in 1964. The six poems herein are characterized on the whole by compulsive flows of language, with short, piston-like lines carrying out obsessive serial modulations to create a perpetually un…
The Cursive Scandinavian Salve (Book)
Poet and anthropologist Klintberg was one of the earliest Scandinavian participants in Happenings and Fluxus. The Cursive Scandinavian Salve collects a number of event scores and scenarios that maintain a lyrical dialogue with Sweden’s oral traditions and picturesque landscape’s subtle evocations are counterbalanced by a continual, prankish flirtation with danger and volatility. This book includes several collaborations with and dedications to Åke Hodell, Sten Hanson, and Henning Christiansen, a…
Injun & Other Histories -1960 (Book)
** 2021 Stock ** This breezy and acerbic collection of early writings and illustrations by Oldenburg presents gnomic visions of an earlier America. Claes Oldenburg’s hand shines through in the loose, vivid prose and in the overall presentation. The pamphlet includes “Two Scenarios from an Incomplete Pageant of America,” a pair of excerpts from the longer, unfinished narrative “Faustina,” and a postscript.
Originally published by Something Else Press between 1965 and 1967, the Great Bear Pamphlet…
The East Village Other
Originally released in 1966. The first North American release of the "electric newspaper," an archetypal '60s counterculture "happening" from August 6, 1966, this is also the first edition anywhere since the original vinyl to include the lengthy closing track, "Interview with Hairy." A legendary all-star cast of performers got together to make an anti-war collage of words and sounds that defies mere track listings -- one of the elements is "Silence" by Andy Warhol, which, contrary to at least on…