Softcover, 244 pages, 21x21 cm.
Korm Plastics proudly announces The Fourth Annual, as massive as last year’s instalment. This fourth edition brings together new and returning contributors and offers a wider spectrum of musical exploration than ever.
The Fourth Annual dives into the unexpected corners of sound, memory, and culture. It’s everything you never realized you were interested in, until now.
What’s inside? Michel Faber on the music he recorded, Nick Soulsby on Etant Donnes’ Marc Hurtado, Marthy Coumans visits European record fairs, Robert Ovetz interviews Josh McPhee, Klaus Maeck interviews Einstürzende Neubauten in 1981, Robin Rimbaud loves badly recorded bootlegs, Benjamin Duester on today’s music in Taiwan, Elodie A. Roy writes about feminist record labels, Joy Arpots about Diogenes in the 1970s, David Elliott offers the history of Heldon, Erik Quint on field recordings, Richard Johnson on record collection, Fred de Vries introduces US Hardcore, Jerry Kranitz visits the Fuse Factory, Deb Zuroski tries to understand lyrics, Truus de Groot once again delves into her own past, Frans de Waard interviews Erik Vloeberghs, Wouter Jaspers asks: Who owns the air?, Quinten Dierick on growing from a hometaper to a one-man punk band, Dolf Mulders explores the Norwegian connection of Popol Vuh, Liam Weikart visited the No Fun Fest, Richard Foster on the end of SUB 071, Audrey Golden about Texas’ Meat Joy and Peter van Vliet continues the history of The Sound of Music (not the movie).
Frits Jonker and Freek Kinkelaar occupy their corners of curiosity and Miss.Printed handles scissors with expertise and creates the perfect visual backdrop for The Fourth Annual. Designed as always by Alfred Boland.
The Fourth Annual celebrates curiosity, sound, and storytelling, a must-read for anyone who listens deeply and thinks widely.
