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Louise Landes Levi

Louise Landes Levi is a poet/performer-translator/traveler and composer. A contemporary of and collaborator with Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Terry Riley and others, a founder member of Daniel Moore’s Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company (America’s first fusion orchestra) and previously a student of both La Monte Young and Ali Akbar Khan

Louise Landes Levi is a poet/performer-translator/traveler and composer. A contemporary of and collaborator with Ira Cohen, Angus MacLise, Terry Riley and others, a founder member of Daniel Moore’s Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company (America’s first fusion orchestra) and previously a student of both La Monte Young and Ali Akbar Khan

The Lionel Ziprin Box (Book + Tape + Postcards Boxset)
The ultimate tribute to the great Lower Eastside sage, poet, mystic. A sturdy black box in an edition of 50 copies of which 20 copies are available for commercial sale. With: A chap by Robert Yarra, an interview with Lionel, an eulogy by Louise Lande…
Jack Kerouac Centennial reading
Louise Landes Levi - reissue of her Jack Kerouac Centennial reading that was part of her long out of print CCC boxset. The originally one-sided tape has new artwork and on the B side new material by LLL and Bombay Lunatic Asylum.
Behind The Buddha’s Mask
Lucky restock ** Limited edition of 60. Comes with two inserts ** Limited to 60 copies only and released by Counter Culture Chronicle, the “Behind the Buddha's Mask” cassette is a stunning effort, largely built around the unique recordings made by Ch…
Louise Landes Levi Box
**26 numbered and signed copies** A Fiery Tongues Literary Festival release. It has the Bombay Lunatic Asylum release + a cassette of Louise Landes Levi's performance reading and singing at the Jack Kerouac Centennial in Ruigoord last year. Several b…
Behind The Buddha’s Mask (Book + Tape Bundle)
** Tape + Artist book containing a cycle of mythical poems written while in covid-exile in Japan. A sumi-e drawing by Kawabata Makoto is included in the text. Gold on purple cover, including a full colour insert, pure beauty. **  Limited to 60 copies…
Behind The Buddha’s Mask (Book)
** Limited edition of 100 * Louise Landes Levi born in NYC, poet & musician, traveler & translator.  The chap is a cycle of mythical poems written while in covid-exile in Japan.  A sumi-e drawing by Kawabata Makoto is included in the text.  Gold on p…
In The Face Of Faceless Eye
**Numbered edition of 25 copies only** Spoken Word and Music by Raymond Dijkstra (Mellotron, Organ, Gong, Oscillator, Percussion, Mixage, Effects) and Louise Landes Levi (Voice, Sarangi), Somewhere in 2019, Somewhere. Text: Henri Michaux.
Mad Song
** Edition of 300** Oaken Palace Records is excited to present its 20th release, a sonic journey to the roots of drone music, performed by Bombay Lunatic Asylum. The musicians behind this name are no others than Louise Landes Levi and Bart De Paepe, …
Opacity and Oblivion
Yet another incredible offering from one of the most exciting artists working today, Sloowtapes’ latest cassette from Louise Landes Levi - "Opacity & Oblivion" - takes deep dive into her multifaceted world. Joined by Ash Martin and Dok Gregory on var…
From the Archives Vol. 1 and 2
** Limited edition of 80. The two cassettes comes with a laser printed insert** First in a series of compiled recordings dug up from CCC’s and other archives. Vol. 1 contains: Robert Graves discussing love, black arts and mushrooms + two tracks by An…
Ikiru Or The Wanderer
Samll repress finally available. We welcome Louise Landes Levi to the Oaken Palace Records family and invite you to join her on a musical journey through the life and fate of the Monarch butterfly. Ikiru, which is Japanese for "to grow", starts with …
Colloidal Love
**Available in an extremely limited pressing of 200 copies, it includes 4 inserts (offset printed)and liner notes with additional artwork by Harry Smith. Grab this one fast. We can’t recommend it enough, and it’s sure to be gone in a flash** The 1960…
In The Aura of The Other
Louise Landes Levi has translated & written books, published chap books, broadsides & cards, / played sarangi in concert halls, in radio stations in town squares & railroad stations for some decades & perhaps for some lives. Overland journeys to Indi…
From The Ming Oracle
Recording by Louise Landes Levi on traditional bowed harp or sarangi and Hilary Jeffery (who also plays with Catherine Christer Hennix) on trombone drone. Levi studied sarangi under the guidance of Annapurna Devi and Ali Akbar Khan. Levi & Jeffery…
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