The book details the history of The Legendary Pink Dots, the band well-known for combining melody and mood in beautiful, haunting songs and soundscapes. This book documents the band’s first decade in all its despair and glory. Based on their extensive discography, it combines facts and confabulation from various members of the Legendary Pink Dots and close associates. With unique images and an exclusive compact disc featuring Dots-songs from the 1980s (including two previously unreleased ones!) selected by band members, Close Your Eyes, You Can Be A Space Captain is an incentive to sing while you may!

Book containing all six issues of the Neumusik fanzine which David Elliott edited between 1979-82 while at university. The ‘zine focussed on European, electronic and experimental music which had come out of krautrock, French progressive rock and the more esoteric side of British post-punk. David travelled extensively meeting musicians in Germany and France, and for a year was based in Strasbourg. Interviews and articles range from Conrad Schnitzler and Richard Pinhas to Florian Fricke and Chris Carter. Most issues were 60-80 pages long so, together with new text and photos, this compendium weighs in at a chunky 425 pages. It also touches on the parallel YHR label.

Translated from the Italianby Cristina Viti Tenement Press, Dec 2022 170ppWritten in response to producer Gastone Ferranti’s request for his comments on a set of newsreel items, the poet would respond with a montage of his own. Via the unfolding of a chrysalis of images, in La rabbia (1963), Pasolini’s lens pans over Soviet repression in Hungary; the Cuban revolution; (the utopian object of) space exploration; political imprisonment in Algeria; the liberation of the former European colonies; the election of Pope John XXIII; the prospect of revolution in Africa and the Middle East; in Europe and in Latin America... Here, we’ve a panoply of photorealist intimations of Pasolini’s ‘poetic sense.’ The death of Marilyn Monroe crests as an idea in this tidal pooling of reflections, as the poet’s line lights out for conceptual rhymes and counterpoints.   Why is our life dominated by discontent, by anguish, by the fear of war, by war? In order to answer this question I have written La rabbia, not following a chronological or perhaps even a logical thread, but only my political reasons and my poetic sense.

Tenement Press, October 2021 408pp   An anthology publication,featuring contributions fromJohn Akomfrah;Chloe Aridjis;Dennis Cooper;Laura Mulvey;Chris Petit;Mania Akbari;Elena Gorfinkel;Juliet Jacques;Ben Rivers;Dan Fox;Sean Price Williams;Adam Christensen;Stewart Home;Stephen Watts;Tony Grisoni;Gideon Koppel;Astra Taylor;Miranda Pennell;Gareth Evans;Adam Roberts;Tai Shani;Anna Thew;Xiaolu Guo;Andrea Luka Zimmerman;William Fowler;Athina Tsangari;John Rogers;Shama Khanna;Shezad Dawood;Damien Sanville;& Stanley (& Winstanley) Schtinter.The Liberated Film Club—running from its birth to its death, 2016 to 2020—would guarantee a wide wing-span for critical conversation. Screening “Liberated film” (a loose category designed to scaffold the show), a guest would be invited to introduce a film; an audience seated to watch it through; but there’d be an interruption to that typical format. Neither the audience nor the guest would have any idea what film would be shown, and this anonymised format would invite broad and antagonistic perambulation on the what, the why and the how of film.An interrogation of what we do when we sit in a cinema; a reckoning with the kind of posture we should assume when we frame a film for further talk. Playing with the various ways we should consider and reproach the institutions built around all of our cultures of making and the manners and methods of all of our cultures of consumption, the Liberated Film Club was a rare reflection on the act of reflection itself.

(eds.) Sanja Perovic,Rosa Mucignat,Jacob McGuinn, & Cristina Viti, with Dominic J. Jaeckle& Benjamin PickfordTenement Press / No University Press #1978-1-7393851-3-2247pp March, 2024 English/ FrenchAssembled in the Playbook are the last words of Gracchus Babeuf, the leader of the conspiracy and a radical proponent of the abolition of private property, and of his fellow conspirator Augustin Darthé, as they faced the guillotine. We’ve a letter, written in the popular idiom of the sans-culottes, that urges the common soldier to rebel; the score and lyrics of a street song that names the new class enemy: the wealthy bourgeoisie who have profited from the revolution; a first-time English translation of ‘The Last Judgement of All Kings’—an extraordinary one-act play by Sylvain Maréchal, the unofficial poet of the Conspiracy, that was performed to considerable acclaim in Year II of the Revolution (and that the Workshop is in the process of adapting for contemporary audiences). Many of these texts were never published in their own time, and form a part of the testament left behind by Philippe Buonarroti, a leading conspirator who inspired new generations of revolutionaries across Europe over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the best known works included is the Manifesto of Equals, long considered a founding text of social, communist and anarchist revolutions. The Playbook presents a translation of the Manifesto alongside other key texts by the conspirators, reconstructing the richness and variety of revolutionary communication that informs the editorship, shape, and scope of this volume.

This is a book about records considered ‘in themselves’.  It is not about musicians, or music, or design, or music history — though all those things are considered at various points.  This book tries to cast light on the unique role played by records in western culture in the late twentieth century.  Records deeply penetrated everyday life and encompassed entire worldviews through their combination of sound, design and modern mythology.  In this book a diverse group of people reflect on their relationship to a specific vinyl record, and in the process reflect the diversity of human connections, needs and aspirations that records can represent.    In addition thematic essays by contributors look at specific kinds of records and their significance to popular culture, providing a broader context in which to consider the personal stories that form the core of the book.

528 pages, softback, Omnibus Press, 2024Listening To The Music The Machines Make tells the story of a single generation of post-punk musicians, mavericks, visionaries and opportunists tinkering with primitive synthesisers in bedrooms, bedsits and basements around Britain, who assembled a potent cocktail of ideas and influences, took them apart, mixed them up, and reassembled them in entirely new ways to create a genuine golden age of British pop, and along the way creating some of the most enduring, iconic and influential records in pop history. It sets out to examine the multitude of influences that led to the synthpop revolution that spanned 1978 to 1983; tell the definitive story of a true golden age of British pop through the careers, releases and stories of the movement’s pioneers, mavericks and superstars; and explores the era’s lasting musical impact and enduring influence, including it’s role in the development of hip-hop, house, techno and beyond.

240pp, Duke, 2024, softback In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people's conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes music's economic and noneconomic forms of value both ethnographically and historically. He covers the creation and exchange of value in a wide range of contexts: indie rock scenes, an Irish traditional music session, the work of music managers, how supply chains function to create various forms of value, how trendspotters seek out and create value, and how musical performances act as media of value. Taylor shows that to focus on value is to attend to what is meaningful to people as they move through their worlds. Ultimately, Taylor demonstrates that theorizing value aids us in moving beyond the music itself toward understanding how musicians, workers in the music business, and audiences struggle to make and maintain what they value.

Music | English Heretic (bandcamp.com)    The English heretic project began in 2003 as a kind of shadowy twin and dark antidote to the sterility of English Heritage. The English Heretic Collection is a visionary field report based on fifteen years of deep-vein travel to England's strangest landscapes – with a host of tragic players.  From its inaugural Black Plaque in honour of Witchfinder General director Michael Reeves, this unique collection follows a veridical trajectory to the frontiers of belief. Reeves' film becomes a conspiratorial cauldron drawing in a host of tragic players in the end game of the Sixties. The Cornwall of Du Maurier's The Birds is ploughed to reveal the hidden psychic codes of our Blitz spirit. In a powerfully relevant occult rendering of a bruised Island, the myth of Churchill is dissected and re-animalised. New maps of hell are drawn by colliding the forensic vision of JG Ballard and Lovecraftian magic. Actors, witches and psychopaths maraud across a nightmare terrain of murderous henges and abandoned military bases; conflating creative research into a surreal documentary, history as hallucination. Geography becomes an alchemical alembic, a vale of soul-making distilled by the lysergic psychobiology of Stanislav Grof, the alcoholic lyricism of Malcolm Lowry, and the convulsive travelogues of the Marquis de Sade. If history is revealed as paranoid ritual, how do we escape its time traps to wild new imaginative geographies? The English Heretic collection is a darkly comical, urgently lyrical, mental escape hatch from the hells of our own making. Part countercultural history of England, part ghost story, and part magickal psychogeography, The English Heretic Collection is a darkly comical, urgently lyrical, mental escape hatch from the hells of our own making. Comprising 14 magazine type sections within the book, imagine living the gaudy occult reality of Man, Myth and Magic. Somewhere in that fetid, yellow smell awaits your favourite nightmare of culture...

Distillation of Sound traces the beginnings of dub music in Jamaica and how the culture is distilled throughout the world. It focuses on the analysis of some of the most famous full-length albums of dub music and how the engineers, producers, and musicians created a new sound that changed the way that people heard music. Distillation of Sound focuses on the original music of Jamaica and how, through dub reggae, Jamaican culture was expanded and shifted.  It will further the discussion on dub music, its importance to Jamaican culture, and its influence on the rest of the world. Dub music in Jamaica started in the early 1970s and by the end of the decade had influenced an entire population.  The music began to use the rhythm track of a song as a song itself and spread quickly throughout the sound systems of the island.  The importance of dub music and its influence on the music world frames the discussions in this new book. How dub travelled and distilled to three places in the world is covered in chapters focussing on the rise and spread of dub in New York City, in England and in Japan. Abbey discusses the separation between dub as a product and dub as an act of the engineer.  Codifying these two elements, and tracing them, will allow for a more definitive approach to the culture and music of dub. To define it, and its surrounding elements, five of the first albums produced in the genre are discussed in three parameters that help to define and set up the culture of dub music.  The albums discussed are Java, Java, Java, Java (Impact All Stars), Aquarius Dub (Herman Chin Loy), Blackboard Jungle Dub (Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry), The Message Dubwise (Prince Buster), King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown (Augustus Pablo).

Edited by: Alejandra Luciana Cárdenas. published, 2020 Contributions by: Agustín Genoud, Aleyda Rocha Sepulveda, Carlos Colmenares Gil, Daniela Medina Poch, Donovan Adrián, Hernández Castellanos José, Cláudio S. Castanheira, Louise M. Hisayasu, Luis Alvarado, Pedro J S Vieira de Oliveira, Rodrigo Toro, Susan Campos Fonseca. This book was published within the framework of the second edition of the festival Radical Sounds Latin America. English / Spanish 170 pages12,5 X 19,0 cmSoftcoverA timely new book of ten essays stemming from the second edition of the Radical Sounds Latin America festival, which took place virtually in October 2020. Writers, academics and musicians discuss new perspectives on Latin American music, with essays tackling case studies and research in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Guajira peninsula.

Including interviews with Tame Impala, Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO, Roger O'Donnell of The Cure, Gregg Araki, Slowdive, Labrinth, Nancy Whang, Teenage Engineering, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Geneva Jacuzzi, Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco, Tim Gane of Stereolab, Avey Tare, TV Girl, Jessy Lanza, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Nation of Language, Bibio, The Blaze, Sg Lewis, Bob Baker Music Archives.  The third compilation of Synth History interviews in tangible 'zine form! A 200+ page high quality 'zine featuring a curated compilation of interviews with legendary and modern day pioneers.

ed. Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Andrej Mircev 352 pages | 50 color plates | 5.51 x 9.06 | © 2023, DIAPHANESA collection of essays that offer an understanding of how performance art can be a tool for dissent against power structures and a means to reach a broad audience outside informed art circles.

Translated by Donaldo Macedo and Alexandre Oliveira. Bloomsbury, 2021Dimensions: 216 x 138 mmPedagogy of the Heart represents some of the last writings by Paulo Freire. In this work, perhaps more so than any other, Freire presents a coherent set of principles for education and politics.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 176 • Trim: 5½ x 8¾   978-0-8476-9047-3 • Paperback • December 2000 •In Pedagogy of Freedom Paulo Freire travels ever more deeply into the territory where learning and activism are the essence of human life. Freire finds in today's emerging global society a new context in which education cannot be indifferent to the reproduction of dominant ideologies and the interrogation of them. He argues against 'progressive' liberalism and its passive acceptance of a world where unemployment and hunger must inevitably co-exist with opulence. In so doing, he shows why an acceptance of fatalism leads to loss of personal and societal freedom_and how those individuals who think without optimism have lost their place in history.

Dec, 2017, routledgeNow re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre’s most charismatic innovators. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo combines: • an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno, extending to the larger story of butoh’s international assimilation • an exploration of the impact of the social and political issues of post-World War II Japan on the aesthetic development of butoh • metamorphic dance experiences that students of butoh can explore

paperback, faber, 2009Samuel Beckett’s Selected Poems 1930-1988, in a new edition of the classic work, edited by David Wheatley, and with notes and an introduction.

Sternberg Press, April 2024, English17×24 cm, 320 pages, 120 color ill., softcoverISBN 978-1-915609-51-9 Foreword by MARKUS REYMANN Contributions by JESÚS ALCAIDE, GRACIA LÓPEZ ANGUITA, SALLY FENAUX BARLEYCORN, LOURDES CABRERA, EDGAR CALEL, FEDERICO CAMPAGNA, CAROLINA CAYCEDO, CARMEN PÉREZ CUELLO, ELIZABETH GALLÓN DROSTE, ÖVÜL Ö. DURMUŞOĞLU, VICTORIA GARCÍA GÓMEZ, BROOKE HOLMES, JUAN LOPÉZ INTZÍN, LAFAWNDAH, SOFIA LEMOS, ISABEL LEWIS, GABRIELLE MANGERI, MICHAEL MARDER, ANA MARÍA MILLÁN, EDUARDO NAVARRO, LORENZO SANDOVAL, CHAVELI SIFRE, EMILIJA ŠKARNULYTĖ, ROSA THARRATS, CAIQUE TIZZI, FRANCISCO GODOY VEGA, MEDINA TENOUR WHITEMAN, SILVIA WYNTER Inspired by how rivers bend and curve, connecting entire ecosystems, Meandering: Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics unfolds the cultural, historical, spiritual, and ecological trajectories of waterways, reflecting the vitality of water, from source to sea. A diverse group of artists and writers set out to trace river systems from the sierras and forests of southern Spain, to the heartlands of the Americas and the undersurface of the Mediterranean, proposing new routes for collaborative research and knowledge-production. In newly commissioned texts and a selection of influential essays—including a transhistorical dialogue between the twelfth-century mystic, Ibn ‘Arabī  and the renowned essayist, Sylvia Wynter—as well as lyrics, scent, recipes, critical-contemplative writing, and guided meditations, Meandering combines rich visual documentation with insights from the fields of art, visual culture, environmental humanities, ecotheosophy, mysticism, critical theory, and decolonial studies. This volume offers a practical and poetic toolset for a dynamic reconciliation between action and imagination to address the pressing social and environmental challenges of our time. This publication is part of an art and ecology research program of the same name curated by Sofia Lemos at TBA21–Academy. By exploring social and environmental justice through the lens of community-oriented practice, it presents a case for the role of artistic research and public programs in revealing our interbeing, and shapes new convergences between interdisciplinary and interfaith studies.