I Telephoned God
*Edition of 50 copies* Gary Cummiskey is a poet, short story writer and publisher living in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and collections, the latest being Animal eyeball (with Paul Warren) (Dye Hard Press) and Somewhere else (Graffiti, Kolkata). In 2009 he published Who was Sinclair Beiles?, a compilation of writings about the South African Beat poet, co-edited with Eva Kowalska. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2014. His short fiction c…
Frivolous & Furious
A new tape from Counter Culture Chronicles! This time featuring Paul Ricketts, publisher of the English 80s' fanzine Unhinged.
This Embodiment
This Embodiment consists of work stemming from exhibitions and performances by Hanne Lippard over the past number of years. Including texts from her most recent exhibition entitled ‘Flesh’, at Berlin’s KW, that saw the artist use ‘her body and words to counterfeit perimeters given by established standards in art production and create a universe where the audience is physically as well as mentally brought outside of their confinements.’ The works collected display the various areas to which Lippa…
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.
New York City 1983 reading
Judith Malina & Julian Beck - NYC 1983 reading. A reissue of a recording that was part of CCC's Archives tapes, long OOP. With 2 facsimile press photos.
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.
Musings Of A Bahamian Son
Joe McPhee is one of the great multi-instrumentalists of contemporary improvised music. His instrumental battery has included saxophones, clarinets, valve trombone, pocket trumpet, sound-on-sound tape recorder, and space organ, but another arrow in his quiver is text. McPhee has been writing poems since the 1970s. He occasionally introduces one into performance, as an introduction or afterword to music, and in recent years he's been known to do full-on readings, text only, featuring his inimitab…
LLND (Book)
*Tiny Edge Wear* Very nice artists' book by Eric Lunde of poetry and wood-block prints.
The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label (Book)
This is the first full-length look at Zapple—the Beatles’ label for experimental music and spoken word recordings and the most ambitious expression of the group’s determination to be leading members of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. Barry Miles, the acclaimed author, was the Zapple label manager and has written an engaging and slightly gossipy you-arethere review of this fascinating period in Beatles history. The book provides insight into the lives and working methods of leading…
The Poet's Tongue
Ulises Carrión's audio works clearly reflect his passion for language, its structures, sounds and meanings. He greatly enjoyed grammatically dissecting languages and trying to understand and explore their structures. His many initiatives and projects bear witness to his boundless obsessions with communication and circulation of works and ideas as a cultural strategy. This LP includes “Hamlet for Two Voices” (1977) in which two voices read out the names of the characters in the Shakespearean play…