Back catalogue: Leftfield

Notes: A La Becque is a semi-digital sonorous publication documenting the meeting of three musicians during their brief stay at La Becque, an artist residency in La Tour-de-Peilz (Switzerland).

Both a digital album and artist book, the publication comprises 12 pages printed on a risograph, and includes a hyperlink to download seven improvisations (keyboards, voice, synthesizers and objects; 38 minutes).

Limited to 150 copies.

Notes: During the late 1960s and early 1970s, as members of the performance art group EXIT, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher turned to creating outside of the gallery system and artistic conventions. Taking inspiration from eastern philosophy, particularly Buddhism and Taoism, they searched for ways to push beyond the boundaries of Western art practices and rationalities. This resonates with Redza Piyadasa and Suleiman Esa's 1974 manifesto and exhibition Towards a Mystical Reality, which likewise sought to find a way out of the limitations of modernist art practices and rationalities. Entry Points takes up Piyadasa's statement that art does not exist in time but only has entry points. What entry points might we find in the resonances between different attempts to utilize conceptual and performative gestures as a way to escape from the constraints one is faced with, aesthetically and politically?

Contains an essay by Stevphen Shukaitis, a dialogue between Shukaitis and Penny Rimbaud, and a recording of an improvised performance by Dharma and Awk Wah, "There is no authority but yourself... and there is no self", responding to footage of the Stop the City Protests.
52pp risograph printed artist book with CD. Edition of 200.

Bios: Stevphen Shukaitis is a cultural theorist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex. Penny Rimbaud, is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT co-founded the seminal anarchist punk band Crass. Dharma was the guitarist of The Observatory for the first 7 albums. In 2013, he released his solo debut, Intergranular Space.Awk Wah is the solo project of Shark Fung, a prolific Mandopop songwriter in his youth who later spent time playing drums in band like Engineered Beautiful Blood, Amino Acid Orchestra and I\D.

CD TRACKLISTING: 1. Dharma & Awk Wah - There is no authority but yourself... and there is no self (35:30)

Notes: ERR: A photographic essay by David Sylvian.

The photographs in this series were taken between Oct 2019-April 2020, a period encompassing the outbreak of the pandemic in the US.

Outside of tonal adjustments, none of the photographs in this collection have been altered in post production.

Art direction: David Sylvian.
Assistant art direction: Yuka Fujii.
Graphic design and typography: Giles Dunn for Punkt, London.

Size: 235 × 300 mm landscape.
Extent: 216 pages.
Cover: Full dust jacket over foil blocked case cover.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Binding: Thread sewn book block, case bound.

Notes: *** B-STOCK: Very small wear on outer sleeve, product otherwise in excellent condition ***

ERR: A photographic essay by David Sylvian.

The photographs in this series were taken between Oct 2019-April 2020, a period encompassing the outbreak of the pandemic in the US.

Outside of tonal adjustments, none of the photographs in this collection have been altered in post production.

Art direction: David Sylvian.
Assistant art direction: Yuka Fujii.
Graphic design and typography: Giles Dunn for Punkt, London.

Size: 235 × 300 mm landscape.
Extent: 216 pages.
Cover: Full dust jacket over foil blocked case cover.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Binding: Thread sewn book block, case bound.

Notes: 84 pages, 30cm x 28cm, 47 photos

Printed on Munken Print White 115g/m2

Logo, slot and circle embossed

Silkscreen printing cover

Hand-numbered, hand-stamped

Notes: Chronicling the first 10 years of Sloow Tapes, Mellow My Mind gives an overview of all the tapes, broadsides, lp's and booklets published so far. From Keijo's desolate avant/acid folk moves to Fursaxa's spiked organ drones with a short detour by way of Ira Cohen's Akashic Records. Fully annotated with detailed information about the tapes, promo texts, reviews and a few texts written especially for this publication by Bart De Paepe, Matthew Parry and Louise Landes Levi.

Notes: In addition to the musical objects she creates, Sarah Davachi is also immersed in the theoretical issues that surround her practice. Papers positions historical and technological conclusions to face their philosophical underpinnings.

Two of the essays dissect sympathetic compositions: Natura Morta by Walter Marchetti and In A Large, Open Space by James Tenney.

The book concludes with six artifact studies: an Italian virginal, a Bosendorfer piano, the Novachord, the Mellotron, the modern harp, and the OSCar synthesizer. Comprehensive details of their development, mechanisms, and cultural significance.

Notes: Weeds Change The Colour Of Water is a speculative effort, one dreamt to collect ideas, interpretations, and interactions. By listening patiently, we may come to recognise some pattern in the tangle that surrounds and involves us - a spot to sense that, like a weed, we are insecurely tethered amid choppy and changing waters, which now, more than usual, have us flailing and adrift.

Features:

Hearing Australian Identity: Sites as Acoustic Spaces, an Audible Polyphony, Ros Bandt; Ephemeral Tears: Interview with Kazumichi Grime and Nick Wilson of Clan Analogue; "underneath a pile of rags": A playlist by friends of related "Australian" artists; that from which can be told is divided into two sections, Wound Without A Tear.

76 pp.

Perfect bound softcover

110 x 180 mm

First edition 200

Language: English