The story of Jesus, or that of a fin-de-siècle anarchist, by the sapphic poet Renée Vivien, accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound on CD.
Renée Vivien (born Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909), alias "Sapho 1900", is a British poetess of French language. Prolific despite her short life, she is the author of more than five hundred poems of autobiographical nature singing lesbian love, translations of Greek poetesses including Sappho, several volumes of prose and a dozen novels, and correspondence with Colette, Natalie Clifford Barney, Kérimé Turkhan Pacha, Amédée Moullé and Jean Charles-Brun.
A British music project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak, Nurse With Wound (now Stapleton's variable geometry project) is an essential figure of English experimental and industrial music since the early 80's. With more than 150 releases, alone or with other musicians, Stapleton has swept widely different musical styles, from industrial music to mambo, through electronics, improvisation, electroacoustics, with a lot of humor.
The most accomplished tale of Jean Lorrain (1855-1906), decadent dandy, ardent erotomaniac and corrosive pen, accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound.
Jean Lorrain (Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, 1855-1906) was a French writer, parnassian poet and art critic, a flamboyant and scandalous figure of the Belle Époque and of "decadent" literature.
A British music project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak, Nurse With Wound (now Stapleton's variable geometry project) is an essential figure of English experimental and industrial music since the early 80's. With more than 150 releases, alone or with other musicians, Stapleton has swept widely different musical styles, from industrial music to mambo, through electronics, improvisation, electroacoustics, with a lot of humor.
An excerpt from the Album of a Pessimist by the suicidal writer Alphonse Rabbe, whose exaltation and licentiousness were made for Nurse With Wound, who musically accompanies the text.
Alphonse Rabbe (1784-1829) was a French journalist, historian, biographer, romantic writer and poet.
A British music project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak, Nurse With Wound (now Stapleton's variable geometry project) is an essential figure of English experimental and industrial music since the early 80's. With more than 150 releases, alone or with other musicians, Stapleton has swept widely different musical styles, from industrial music to mambo, through electronics, improvisation, electroacoustics, with a lot of humor.
Preface by Guillaume Belhomme. French edition, 15 x 19,5 cm (softcover), 400 pages (b/w ill.).The second volume of the publication dedicated to the French underground musical scene.This volume documents the practice of bands and solo musicians (Fille qui Mousse, Ilitch, Ruth, Étant Donnés, Toupidek Limonade, Sister Iodine, Henri Chopin, Isidore Isou, Look de Bouk, Hellebore, Tonton Macoute, Prohibition, Etron Fou Leloublan, Ferdinand et Les Philosophes, Heldon, Schizotrope, Dustbreeders, Orbes, Sleaze Art, Ankh…), music labels (Rectangle, Sonoris, Bisou, À Bruit Secret, In-Poly-Sons, Tago Mago, Saravah), one free press magazine (Le Parapluie), and of an art collective (Bazooka).It features interviews with Gilles Yéprémian, Henri-Jean Enu, Ferdinand Richard, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Thierry Müller, Raymond Boni, Pascal Bussy, Pierre Barouh, Fabrice Baty, Denis Tagu, Véronique Vilhet, Pascal Comelade, Henri Roger, Romain Slocombe, Richard Pinhas, Maurice G. Dantec, Lucien Suel, Michel Doneda, Marc Hurtado, Michel Henritzi, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Frédéric Le Junter, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Frank Laplaine, Noël Akchoté, Lionel Fernandez, Emmanuel Holterbach, eRikm, Frédéric Acquaviva, David Fenech, Quentin Rollet, Didier Lasserre, François Ibanez, Grégory Henrion, and Arnaud Maguet.
Foreword by Guillaume Belhomme. Bilingual edition (English / French), 15 x 19,5 cm (softcover), 256 pages + CD.
An ABC book with which the pianist, composer and improviser recounts his experience of sound (with the score and recording on CD of an unpublished piece).
Published in February 2017, French edition, 10 x 15,5 cm (softcover), 78 pages + mini CD.
Mastered by Andrew Liles.
The words of Guillaume Belhomme inspired American musician Daniel Menche to create a 20-minute composition (mastered by Andrew Liles) which recalls the atmosphere of the French writer's text: a train on the move, a glass, the color of blood...
Born 1976, writer and musician Guillaume Belhomme lives and works in Paris. He runs Lenka lente editions.
American musician Daniel Menche (born 1969, Portland, Oregon) developed an impressive discography, both in solo or in collaboration with Kiyoshi Mizutani, KK Null, Kevin Drumm, Zbigniew Karkowski, and Mamiffer.
Published in April 2015. French edition. 10 x 15,5 cm (softcover). 48 pages + mini CD.
A literary text by Guillaume Belhomme combining metafiction and cut-up, with a CD on which Daunik Lazro performs Vieux Carré, a composition by Joe McPhee evoking the old French Quarter of New Orleans.
Published in December 2016. French edition. 19 x 21 cm (softcover), 96 pages + 1 tracing paper (b/w ill.). Texts by Guillaume Belhomme, Luc Bouquet, Thomas Millroth, Philippe Robert, Guillaume Tarche, Kasper Toeplitz.
French musical website Le son du grisli now in print version. First issue includes: Jason Kahn, Sven-Åke Johansson, La Monte Young, Nurse With Wound, Zbigniew Karkowski, 1910’s Manifesto of the Futurist Painters…