The Casino and The Royal Peacock

building hypnotic momentum through slyly mutating repetition and dense complexity

The fine-toothed editing and micro adjustments that every modern record relies on are not available

Private Sector finds them confronting the grim realities of the present

Of course Be With can’t be seen to be playing favourites

ALISON KNOWLES - Sounds from the Book of Bean LP Dark Ambient The Casino and The RoyalThe first vinyl LP release from Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles (b. 1933). Sounds from the Book of Bean is an assemblage of noises and texts related to The Book of Bean (1982), Knowles 8 foot tall walk in book constructed at Franklin Furnace in New York. This recording, the sounds of making the big book, was continually played back inside of the installation. Echoes of Yoshi Wada hammering together the circular spine of the book, other collaborators