Tiny books, the size of a pack of cigarettes. But I love their design, their embossed covers, and they show that the most ground-breaking ideas can be held in the hand. Founded in 2020, ISOLARII revives an extinct literary genre: the Renaissance “island book,” or isolario – to map the world’s most defiant and unruly […]
As you can see above, I have a number of new titles from Silver Press, including the long out-of-print Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros! Plus (also from the sound studies department) a new title: Bodies of Sound, edited by Irene Revell and Sarah Shin. Space Crone, collected writings on science fiction by Ursula K. Le […]
It is unbelievable but true. A legend in their own time, The Ex have, for 45 years, played more than 2000 concerts in 45 countries, and today they sound as urgent, willful, adventurous, open hearted and joyfully obstinate as they have always done. Look here for all Ex titles AND related items in my collection.
She and her companion Hermen Maat have, for years, created public intimate settings, provoking a shared, critical reflection on experience of embodiment in merging realities. The sublimation of this work is now to be found in Karen’s dissertation. Fresh from the press, and in stock here.
The wonderful publishers Re:voir in Paris keep bringing back avant-garde films to the front, highlighting lesser known experimental film makers, as well as maintaining the representation of the more famous artists. See the new arrivals here.
Award Winning designs from the Hybrid Publishing department at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam: now easily available at Underbelly! They resulted from innovative research projects by bachelor and master students across various art and design disciplines (interior, fashion, product, industrial..). Varying from soap to fake fashion bags and experimental book designs. Look here and […]
I happened to stumble on one of those countless independent artist-run labels, relying on Bandcamp, touring musicians and their own high standards, keeping up the good works out of pure love for music. In this case it’s José Guerrero from Valencia. Many of his physical releases are tapes, some of them are on vinyl. A […]
A new title in the magazines section: Positionen – Texte zur aktuellen Musik. Specially for German speaking customers living outside of Germany, I will be dragging these around in the future to all serious music festivals that will have me. Warten Sie aber nicht darauf, bestellen Sie Positionen einfach hier! Eine schöne Zeitschrift.
This one-of-a-kind collective from Japan finallly made it to WORM, where they played a long and lovely set with several guests for a dedicated audience. I was lucky enough to talk to their spiritual “father” Tori Kudo, and he told me the story behind their album ガラ刑 Galakei. It definitely is highly enjoyable. Click here!
A fascinating soundworld is the world of Cusp Editions, a new imprint from Manchester, run by Sam Weaver. He champions experimental music from the hinterlands. Each of his releases aims to forage new sonic territories in electronics, improvisation and beyond. See the full list here.
