Recordings 1955-91 Vol. 1
Henri Chopin (1922-2008) was one of the most significant and influential avant-garde, sound and concrete poets of the second half of the 20th century. In his work as a sound poet, he was an early practitioner of a complex vocal art which he described…
Recordings 1975-1979
Larry Wendt (b. 1946, Napa California) began creating artistic text-sound compositions in San Jose, California in the mid 70’s and was a proponent of the use of "low-tech" and "repurposed" electronics. He was also among the early designers and users …
The Notebooks
In the archive of the Janacek memorial in Brno, lies a somehow odd treasure: a series of very tiny notebooks where composer Leoš Janáček used to annotate scraps of spoken language he would hear during his daily life in musical notation. Each one o…
WordWorks 1975-1982
**7xtapes in wooden box, comes with several zines + poster, limited to 80 copies - no repress** No words can capture the seminal importance of Stefan Weisser later known as Z’EV. He is an artist without equivalent or parallel - entirely singular wi…
Slowscan Vol. 3: Electroacoustic Applications in Electronic Mus
Original copies, few in stock, long out of print. Larry Wendt is an extraordinary but very little known pioneer of live computer electronics and text-sound, while Nicolas Collins is here with the legendary 'Devil Music'. Devil’s Music is a performanc…
Poems and Metapoems
Recital present a reissue of Dick Higgins's Poems And Metapoems, originally released on cassette by New Wilderness Audiographics in 1982. Label head Sean McCann on the reissue: "Since the beginning of Recital, I have been trying to publish the work …
Slowscan Vol. 5
Original copies, few in stock, long out of print. This anthology of Canadian and Swedish soundpoetry is a numbered editon of 300 copies. Packed in a paperboard case with attached 4-page booklet (side 4 is glued to the box). It features contribution b…
A Farewell Performance
Extracts from the Farewell performance at Kings College, London 1978. Jgjgjgjg formed at the London Sound Poetry Festival in June 1976. Reissue of tape on Balsam Flex. 200 copiesIn those days a number of British poets were producing works influence…
Untitled
Another crucial excavatio from the elusive The Balsam Flex legendary catalog is now available again thanks to Jan Van Toorn Slowscan imprint. Balsam Flex was a cassette label run by the artist Erik Vonna-Michell in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a…
Sodorome
Some of you may have discovered Jean-Marie Massou in the film from Antoine Boutet, “Le Plein Pays”. We can see him gathering big stones, trying to clean the earth, and building an incredible cave. We also can see him working with different tape re…
Audiopoems
Right here is a Creelproduction of Henri Chopin’s first - and, inarguably, best - album, initially readied by the UK-based Tangent imprint - alongside canonic sides by the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Ann(e)a Lockwood’s “The Glass World” - in 1971,…
Das Tränenmeer
The actor and director Martin Engler has appeared on many stages in Germany and abroad, most recently in the Theater Basel. In addition to acting, he lectures at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin (The Ernst Busch Acting Academy) a…
Revue OU
few copies, factory sealed 1st edition, long out of print, legendary LP edition!! A hen’s teeth rare and long out of print set of historic recordings by Bernard Heidsieck, Brion Gysin, Henri Chopin, François Dufrêne, Mimmo Rotella, Raoul Hausmann, P…
Text-sound compositions 11
Volume 11 (from the serie of 11). During the years from 1968-70, Fylkingen Records released series of 7 LPs in collaboration with the Swedish Radio, all of which contained material that was presented during the yearly festivals for Text-Sound Composi…
Text-sound compositions 9
**Volume 9 (from the serie of 11)** During the years from 1968-70, Fylkingen Records released series of 7 LPs in collaboration with the Swedish Radio, all of which contained material that was presented during the yearly festivals for Text-Sound Compo…
Théâtre de Bouche
** Edition of 250 copies on black vinyl, embossed lettering on cover** Ghérasim Luca (Bucarest, 1913 – Paris, 1994) was a Romanian-Jewish poet, co-founder and theorist of the Romanian Surrealist artists group. Harassed in his country, after World War…
Epigenetic Poetry
“Epigenetic Poetry is an anthology documenting the sound works by the Italian sound poet Giovanni Fontana (b. 1946). These pieces, dating from 1968 to 2014, are scarcely available; culled from cassette magazines and art-book compendiums, along with t…
Trio Prosodico
** Edition of 250 copies, includes gatefold 12" insert with score, and printed inner sleeve. ** Sound Poem in six movements, recorded in Torino, 1976. Arrigo Lora-Totino (Torino, Italia, 1928) is a poet, a performer, a writer, an artist and a publish…
Abart von Kunstlern
Reissue of tape from 1972. Edition of 200 copies. "a re-issue of a tape originally published by albrecht.d in 1972 through his Reflection Press, Stuttgart. The artists on the recording are supporting Wolf Vostell because Frankfurter gale…
Mutantra Prophecies and Spells
Mid-eighties recordings by Dutch poet and writer Hans Plomp together with musicians and friends. Hans was involved in the Provo movement of the sixties and later on he squatted a village near Amsterdam with friends called Ruigoord, which still exists…