The Incredible B-Side of Roxy Music Singles

Roxy Music's "The Pride and the Pain"


Roxy Music's "The Numberer"


Andy MacKay's "Ride of the Valkyries"

Tribute to Krzysztof Komeda

Krzysztof Komeda Quintet - "Roman ll/Dwojka Rzymska


Lulaby


"Radio One"

ATLAS Press announce "Boris Vian Letters to Stanley Chapman"

Boris Vian, Letters to Stanley Chapman.

Facsimile edition of Vian's letters to Stanley Chapman, all but the first written in English.

SPECIAL PRICE for direct orders from the website: £8, until the end of October 2009.

The occasion of this publication is a sad one: the recent death of Stanley Chapman, President of the London Institute of 'Pataphysics, Regent of the Collège de 'Pataphysique, founder-member of the Oulipo, translator extraordinaire, and good friend...
The Times Literary Supplement also reviewed this title, albeit a little inaccurately, publication was jointly by Bookartbookshop and Atlas Press for the London Institute:

Inspired by our commemoration of Boris Vian (NB, luly 17 and August 21 & 28), Alastair Brotchie sends us a fascinating booklet which he has published himself, under the imprint bookartbookshop, Letters to Stanley Chapman contains a brief correspondence with the English writer responsible for transtatlng Vian's novels L'Écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) and L'Arrache-coeur (Heartsnatcher). Brotchie reproduces the letters in facsimile — only seven in all, but some run to several pages. The majority are in fluent English, "which I don't speak", Vian explains. "neither do I write it, you know". They are typically full of puns, many of them obscene: in one letter alone (October, 1955), we remarked "arse-stonishingly", "inside aunt Ally" (incidentally), "French vocal bullery" and "cuntemporary".
The better part of the correspondence concerns "some crazy and atrocious lyrics for French 'Rock and Roll' things" by Vian, which he invites Chapman to translate. "Enclosed are three of the worst", he writes in September 1956, at the height of his involvement in the music business (Vian worked for Philips, where his boss was Jacques Canetti, brother of Elias). It would be "nothing" for him to write his own English words "on the horrible music", but he thought "nice little Stanley" might do "an adaptation. We could co-sign and share the income".
The results lack the sprightly idiocy of the original. "Rock and Roll-Mops" is the story of a couple who work up a good appetite by rocking all night. When they ask a local bar- owner what`s on the menu, he offers a variety of dishes — liver of lion, kangaroo escalope, horse's eggs — which the grateful lovers consume before "on va r'toumer s'coucher!"
In his letter to us, Mr Brotchie remarks that there are "not so many Vian enthusiasts this side of the water". There are a few, though. and all will wish to read Letters to Stanley Chapman, available at £13 from 17 Pitfield Street. London Nl 6HB.

Serge Gainsbourg related...

Via April March, on another site, this video came to my attention. Jean Yanne, Sacha Distel and Serge Gainsbourg are the eye candy, and Marie Laforet performs.

An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri

The original "Something Else Press" edition of a 20th Century classic. I have the Atlas edition, but this is something to behold. A beautiful book and i am going outside in the yard to read it (completely). Special thanks to my friend who gave this to me.

Lun*na Menoh's "HEADDRESS" Fashion show

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Thanks to the Kawai Kakkoii Sugoi website: http://kawaiikakkoiisugoi.com/?p=952

Very Early David Bowie

Thanks to Christy for exposing this video to me. I think it's the most important cultural find in the 21st Century.


An early David Bowie Folk-rock band, The Feathers


When David Bowie was five

Tosh is listening to vintage Mod music while writing.

Graham Bond Organization


Steampacket


The Artwoods "Art Gallery"

The God Like Genius of Alex Chilton

The God Like Genius of Scott Walker

My Mod Life

Silent Essential Gaumont films

I think it is safe to say that it's essential that one owns this set. Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade, etc. It's too good!

Tosh Talks - Andre Breton, Peter Blake, Futurism

Books I have been reading lately

TamTam Books will publish Jacques Mesrine's "The Death Instinct"

Wallace Berman at Art Basel

June 8, 2009

Michael Kohn Gallery at Art Basel
Michael Kohn Gallery





Art Basel 40
Hall 2.0
Booth W7

http://www.kohngallery.com/

Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present never before seen works by Wallace Berman (1949-1976). Wallace Berman was born in 1926 in Staten Island, New York, and was widely considered to be the father of the assemblage movement. He began his career making sculptures from unused scraps and reject materials while working in an antique furniture factory. By the early 1950s, Berman had become an artist and active figure in the beat community in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Moving between the two cities, Berman devoted himself to his mail art publication, Semina, which contained a sampling of beat poetry and images selected by the artist. In 1963, Berman moved to Topanga Canyon in the Los Angeles area, and began work on verifax collages (printed images, often from magazines and newspapers, mounted in collage fashion onto a flat surface, sometimes with solid bright areas of acrylic paint). He continued creating these works, as well as rock assemblages, until his death in 1976.

In 2008 Wallace Berman was featured in a number of shows in Europe, including his first retrospective at the Camden Arts Centre in London as well as group shows at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. In 2009, Michael Kohn Gallery hosted a well-received two-person show that focused on the work of Wallace Berman and Richard Prince and the way in which the artists portrayed women in their art. Berman’s work is included in public collections at numerous institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

For further inquiry please contact Laura Sumser at 323.658.8088, or info@kohngallery.com

Boris Vian's RED GRASS (L'Herbe Rouge)

Photo by Azoulay

TamTam Books is proud to announce that we have purchased the world English rights to Boris Vian's novel RED GRASS (L'Herbe Rouge). Paul knobloch who is currently working on the translation of the Gainsbourg biography, will do the translation for RED GRASS.

Boris Vian is a great among the greats, and we are thrilled to have another Boris Vian masterpiece under the TamTam Books banner. RED GRASS is scheduled to come out in 2011. Keep checking here for updates and info!

Issei Sagawa: "Excuse Me For Living"

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