* 50 copies, Silk-screened hand printed cover, numbered. To celebrate the release of Gil J. Wolman's essential Mégapneumes, we're delighted to offer it bundled with the composer's other Alga Marghen release, Wolman Et Son Double, at a very special discounted price. * Gil J. Wolman stands as one of the most criminally undervalued pioneers of sound poetry, whose revolutionary mégapneumes preceded the work of Henri Chopin and Brion Gysin by a full decade. Alga Marghen's definitive documentation of Wolman's radical practice spans two essential releases that capture the complete scope of his visionary exploration of voice as pure physical material. Mégapneumes presents seven works from the 1960s, including three recorded at Radio Canada in 1965 and the astonishing "Les Callas" - a Lettrist choir recycling Rimbaldian vowels that culminates in polyphony worthy of some tribe resistant to domestication. The organic infra-language captured here establishes a direct lineage from Lettrist extremity through the body-centered investigations of Viennese Actionism, the transgressive vocal explorations of Schimpfluch Gruppe, and ultimately to the visceral physicality of Japanese noise music. Wolman's prescient understanding of the body-as-instrument approach predates and influences the work of Merzbow and Hijokaidan by decades.  Wolman Et Son Double explores the doubled consciousness that runs through his practice, offering complementary insights into an artist who chose, like Duchamp or Arman, to work outside the mainstream while fundamentally altering the landscape for everyone who followed. Together, these releases establish Wolman as a crucial missing link between European avant-garde poetry and the extreme performance territories that would emerge across multiple generations of underground practitioners.

Unlike Isidore Isou, Wolman was not one to proclaim his achievements, yet as François Dufrêne declared in 1973: "Gil J Wolman is one of the most important phonetic poets." This collection represents the inevitable rediscovery of that prescient assessment - two essential documents of one of the 20th century's most radical poetic voices, brief like Rimbaud's output but no less significant for its concentrated intensity.