Hebraic symbols of Wallace Berman: a sound of the beat generation

American underground cinema: Jack Smith

Astro-Black Mythology

SPACE IS THE PLACE: Sun Ra's spaceship with the Intergalactic Solar Arkestra sets course from Egypt to the US. Sun Ra has to come to our planet with a mission: the salvation of the Afro-Americans. His ship offers them the possibility to leave the Earth and to build a new life on Saturn without the interference of whites. The Earth is doomed, the arrival of the musician is an omen of the Apocalypse. 'We work on the other side of time', Sun Ra explains.

The Written Woman in The Holy Mountain

This African woman is called The Written Woman evidently because of the Hebraic inscriptions and other symbols—some of which look like Akan forgeries—tattooed on her body.

The Holy Mountain

This 1973 film continues the strange and surreal tradition that cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky began in his FANDO Y LIS and EL TOPO. Marrying mysticism with religious imagery, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN centers on the Thief, a man who is messianic in both appearance and ideals. He meets the Alchemist (Jodorowsky), a man who wishes to rid people of all the trappings of modern living and take them on a spiritual quest. Like Jodorowsky's other work, the plot is secondary to the visuals, which are at once bizarre and beautiful.

A Christ-like figure (the Thief) wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.

The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators

Song Titles:

You're Gonna Miss Me
Roller Coaster
Splash 1
Reverberation (Doubt)
Don't Fall Down
Fire Engine
Thru The Rhythm
You Don't Know
Kingdom Of Heaven
Monkey Island
Tried To Hide

Mike Kelley/Paul McCarthy/Violent Onsen Geisha

Sod and Sodie Sock and Studio C
This 2CD pair features performances in Tokyo in 1996. Sod and Sodie Sock documents a performance at the P-House gallery, where the three musicians performed together and separately. The action extended beyond the gallery, into the street in front, and down the block to a local hair salon. Recordings documenting the simultaneous activities of Kelley, McCarthy and Violent Onsen Geisha have been combined to allow the listener to experience the entire group of, spatially separated, performances at once. Studio C features improvisations recorded in a sound studio environment. East meets West in this collaboration between renowned American West Coast and Japanese noise giants. A must for fans of Japanese noise music, and fans of the Los Angeles Free Music Society.


Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Violent Onsen Geisha reunite in a concert recorded at the Secession in Vienna in 1998. Performed on a stage built in Kelley and McCarthy's full-scale military tent encampment - you've never heard a USO show like this!

Geisha This

A magazine-sized compilation of pages and imagery from the six issues of Cary Loren's Destroy All Monsters Magazine a zine produced between 1975 and 1979. Features: photos, collages, texts, reviews and period artwork by Loren, Kelley, Shaw, and Niagara. Printed in colored inks on colored paper stocks, this is a feast for the eyes a masterpiece of punk graphic style. Hundreds of pages!