Jointly released in March 2023 by German labels Fragment Factory and 90% Wasser, the double-disc set Die Versuche des Naum Kotik / Mädchen in schmutzigen Schürzen is a multimedia production masterminded by Column One. Officially the Berlin collective, with its core members Robert Schalinski, Jürgen Eckloff and René Lamp, disbanded in 2016 but this film and accompanying soundtrack…
A limited number of mint copies of the promotional poster for William Levy’s Jeremiad Chants, silkscreened in 1979. Jeremiad Chants, subtitled An Absolute Polemic, was published independently by William Levy and illustrator Peter Pontiac in 1979. With a print run of only 500 copies and Fluxus artist Willem de Ridder for a designer, this little book is a…
Dimitrie Stelaru’s poem Verlaine was first published in România literară in 1940, when he was 23 years old. The short tribute to Stelaru’s odd god and friend Verlaine not only addresses the French Decadent and Symbolist poet but also practises the symbolist principles of repeated sounds, cadence of verse and references to intoxicated states of mind…
Nachtflug was recorded, mixed and produced by Herbst In Peking members Helmar von Brünn and Rex Joswig in 2022 and 2023. Consisting of eight tracks and only 28 minutes in duration, this album is a short but intense flight into the night with the maverick musicians of Herbst In Peking behind the wheel. Guided by inspirations such as Edgar Allan Poe…
“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…