New arrival from Inkblot/LargerNovae:

Roger Knoebber – Hysteresis: A Profile of Brion Gysin

In the late 1950s in Paris, at the famed Beat Hotel – 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur – writer Roger Knoebber was living amongst a community of creative people, including the core of what became known as the Beat Generation – Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg, and others. In this bohemian center of exploration Roger became intimate friends with the artist, writer and mystic Brion Gysin.

From the time that Roger left the Beat Hotel in 1962, through his time raising a family in California, his return to Paris in 1984, and until Gysin’s death in 1986, Roger and Brion maintained a friendship captured in letters. in 1996, ten years after Brion’s death, Roger completed writing Hysteresis: A Profile of Brion Gysin, a painting-in-words to capture Gysin’s complex personality and history. Within this text are recollections solicited by Roger from many of Brion’s friends and associates including William S. Burroughs, Terry Wilson, Felicity Mason, Françoise Janicot, Ramuntcho Matta and others.

In 2004, Roger Knoebber also passed away, with the manuscript left unpublished. Finally, nearly thirty years after it was written, Hysteresis is here, summoning up the spirit of Brion for us.

(From the blurb of this edition)

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Two new tapetopia tapetopia cassettes:

A.F. Moebius – Eine Auswahl and Nontoxic – Intoxication

Frank Bretschneider (1956) was active in the subcultural scene of the GDR’s Karl-Marx-Stadt (nowadays Chemnitz). The Karl-Marx-Stadt area was a nucleus of non-conformist activities in the GDR. Away from a prescribed socialist realism, a countercultural approach unfolded here as openly as was possible within a closed-off society. Inspired by mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius, Bretschneider adopted the alias A.F. Moebius. The Möbius strip quintessentially epitomized his tinkering with tape loops and machines; the infinite loops thus created also echoed the self-referentiality of musical structures…

The East Berlin dark wave band Nontoxic was initially known as Mildernde Umstände. In 1988 the state-run artists’ agency issued an ultimatum: Name change, or no more gigs! The band continued as Nontoxic, in a squatted practice room right by the Berlin Mitte police station, which some goths had also been “introduced” to. Nontoxic gigged a lot, sharing the stage with bands such as Zorn, Herbst In Peking or the Fellini Prostitutes… In 1989, Nontoxic played at the East Berlin HdjT. Intoxication is based on a recording of this show…’

(from the tapetopia liner notes)

New in our Collectible catalog:

New: First collated copy of Ira Cohen’s ‘From the Divan of Petra Vogt’

From the Divan of Petra Vogt was published in 1976 in an edition of 250 by Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam. The handsome and sought-after edition contains poems and photographs from Kathmandu by Ira Cohen and artwork by Petra Vogt. During a stay in Rotterdam in the summer of 1976 Cohen put together his edition together with publisher Gerard Bellaart. This particular copy is the first collated one, the pages still uncut and some of them hand numbered. In Bellaart’s handwriting it says 17.VI.76 first collated above the colophon. Inside is one of the double-headed eagles (not the one that was printed in the book) that Evert Roos from Amsterdam cut for the title page of the edition that summer. This one-of-a-kind copy marks the moment when From the Divan of Petra Vogt came together and the order of the pages was decided upon: a rare document that offers a glimpse of the Divan’s genesis at Schietbaanlaan, Rotterdam, now almost half a century ago.

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