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 Landes Levi, a letter by Lionel, a postcard (with Ira Cohen), a short tape with Lionel reciting his poetry and three high quality photoprints (numbered and signed) by Dutch top photographer Marco Bakker. For the Harry Smith, Fugs, Bruce Conner fan.
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 Christophe Albertijn at the Middelheim Museum in May 2021. While the pandemic forced poet, writer, sarangi player and global wanderer Louise Landes Levi to reside in Japan, her voice – reciting poems from the “Behind the Buddha’s Mask” poem – was trans…
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 bilingual broadsides from her book Water Mirror are included.
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 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 Christophe Albertijn at the Middelheim Museum in May 2021. While the pandemic forced poe…
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 purple cover, pure beauty! An edition of 100 # copies, including a full color insert.
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, who already played together on Ikiru (OAK-013), our fastest selling release so far. On Mad Song, they are joined by Koen Vandenhoudt, who also recorded the album. De Paepe’s harmonium and Vandenhoudt’s shruti box form the perfect backdrop for Levi’s …
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 various acoustic and percussion instruments, as well as Kelvin Daly on a number of his own custom made instruments, Levi’s poetic utterances and Hindustani tinged vocals weave the etherial, mysterious, and ritualistic into a delicate, droning and percus…
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 Angus MacLise, previously released in ‘Green Groceries’ magazine, 2000, then a J.G. Ballard interview and reading. Also, Louise Bourgeois in her studio in Brooklyn, ‘Doodlings’ by Angus MacLise, previously released in 2006, and Harry Hoogstraten readin…
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 "Butterfly Graveyard", a musical assessment of the current state of the Monarch butterfly, whose population has declined by over 80% over the past 20 years. On "Butterfly Brain", this worrying development is contrasted with the bravery and wonder of …
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’s presented remarkable possibilities for freedom, particularly within the creative fields. Countless individuals crossed the threshold, making the radical arts their home. One such figure was the musician, poet, and performer Louise Landes Levi. Dur…
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 India produced several interpretive translations/ one of Rene Daumal ( the great Sanskrit autodidact & author of well known Mt. Analogue) RASA originally printed by New Directions (1982), now available through Shivastan, the other, of the legendary poet …
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 interpret the perennial tradition of Indian raga - informed by the deep dream of the 20th century & the visionary ensembles of the mid century: The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company (Daniel Moore) & The Theatre of Eternal Music (La Monte Young &…