Necessary Animals

Necessary Animals
The Songs That Brought Us Home
Sloow Tapes - CS 50

Sapphire wine spilling over from the cup of Hastings' Necessary Animals. Multicoloured drops dissolve in multi-refractions of 23 Skidoo, New Jazz Experience, Alabama 3 and Good Missionaries. Crystal stars reflecting on blue-green liquids of origin growing myths of psychedelia from the primordial abyss of inner time. Edition of 70.

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David Erdos

David Erdos
Divided By One
Sloow Tapes - CS 60

David Erdos's work has been published and performed around the world and he has collaborated with Harold Pinter, Heathcote Williams, Alan Moore, Malcolm Ritchie, Jan Herman and Iain Sinclair among others. Also active in music Erdos worked with Pete Brown, David Tibet, Joy Payne, Steve Hackett etc. He is also a contributing editor for The International Times. As Heathcote Williams writes 'David Erdos assiduously pulls together each thread in the Great Chain of Being. His poems are terrific, atmospheric and far reaching and the reader soon learns that the writer is well informed on very many levels and that he's in safe hands for what proves to be a rewarding, penetrating and often breath-taking ride.' Edition of 50 copies.

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Mia Kirsi Stageberg

Mia Kirsi Stageberg
After The Promise
Sloow Tapes - CS 45

According to family legend Mia Kirsi Stageberg's name in Norway’s Trøndelag dialect means “stepmountain,” for steps cut into rocks at their home Stågeberget, since even goats found it hard to climb. Stageberg lived in Israel, Canada and several places in America like New Mexico. She was a regular contributer to periodicals like artscanada, New Directions and Caracol in the 1960's and 1970's, published several books of poetry and prose and edited Book of Itzolin: Life and Works of Itzolin Valdemar García and Ronnie Burk's collection of poetry Sky Boat. Edition of 50 copies.

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Niko Karlsson

Niko Karlsson
Two Moons for Eyes
Sloow Tapes - CS 50

The sweet night thickens like boiling jam. Two muted moons transmute into silent eyes, its rays glowing through different stages of reality. A path through haze unfolds as Niko Karlsson's gentle guitar unfolds like a twisted flower and recedes back into invisibility under a shower of fern's seeds. Edition of 70 copies.

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