Sur l’onde calme et noire où dorment les étoiles La blanche Ophélia flotte comme un grand lys, Flotte très lentement, couchée en ses longs voiles… – On entend dans les bois lointains des hallalis. Voici plus de mille ans que la triste Ophélie Passe, fantôme blanc, sur le long fleuve noir Voici plus de mille ans que sa douce folie Murmure sa romance à la brise du soir Le vent baise ses seins et déploie en corolle Ses grands voiles bercés mollement par les eaux ; Les saules frissonnants pleurent sur son épaule, Sur son grand front rêveur s’inclinent les roseaux. Les nénuphars froissés soupirent autour d’elle ; Elle éveille parfois, dans un aune qui dort, Quelque nid, d’où s’échappe un petit frisson d’aile : – Un chant mystérieux tombe des astres d’or
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Original Artwork by Bart de Paepe
Numbered edition of 40 ex.
d’or031
Date of Release: April 2019
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Original Artwork by Lauren O’Connor
Numbered edition of 25 ex.
d’or025
Date of Release: 4 March 2019
Musicworks by Bombay Lunatic Asylum
Bombay Lunatic Asylum:
Louise Landes Levi: Sarangi, Voice
Koen Vandenhoudt: Sarangi, Shruti Box
Bart de Paepe: Indian Harmonium
Produced by Raymond Dijkstra
Artwork is from the highly talented Artist Lauren O’Connor, who has previously collaborated with Louise Landes Levi; handstamped Paperscrolls for ‘Love Cantos 1-5’ (Jack in your Box, 2012) and handstamped booklets for ‘From the Ming Oracle’ (Sloowax, 2014)
An Interview between Lauren O’Connor and Louise Landes Levi https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2018/02/lauren-oconnor.html
| Side A Lunar Act I | 26:09 |
| Side B Lunar Act II | 27:42 |
| Bombay Lunatic Asylum | |
| LP Original Lauren O’Connor | 120 euro ex. postage SOLD OUT But may still be availlable at the Artists… Contact Des Astres d’Or for Information. |
Artwork Description: Original Artwork. Indian Ink and stamped Forms in red Ink on transparent Ricepaper by Lauren O’Connor
LP
Original Artwork by Wendingen 1918
Numbered edition of 40 ex.
d’or022
Date of Release: 22 November 2018
WENDINGEN 1918
Bart de Paepe
Raymond Dijkstra
Frédérique Bruyas : Voice
WENDINGEN 1918.
“Little by little, the mass turned like a slimy and forceful nausea, a kind of immense influx of vegetable and thundering blood. And the small fibers trembling at the edge of my mental eye, broke off with a vertiginous speed of the tense mass of the wind. And all the space trembled like a sex organ which the globe of the burning sky was battering.”
Raymond Dijkstra is an autodidact Artist from Indonesian / Dutch / English / Belgian / Portuguese descent. He has developed a highly personal acoustic-experimental and expressionist style, using his body as a tool for ‘automatic writing’. His explorations in this area are carefully documented by his own imprint Le Souffleur, especially in the series “Catalogue du Bruit”. Since about 2009 he also started working on a different, more ‘musical’ type of music, hereby incorporating electronic sources and a more eleborate use of effects. Since 2003 he’s been combining most of his limited publications with original exclusive handmade artworks of himself.
Bart de Paepe is a Belgian Musician and Artist who has worked in many diverse directions, leading to an eclectic array of experimental and underground escavations of his innerworld. His solo music is portrayed by a compact electronic, yet psychedelic style. He’s the Art Direcor for the labels Sloow Tapes and Sloowax and has collaborated with Louise Landes Levi, Timo van Luijk and members of Embryo.
Frédérique Bruyas is a Native French Reciter of (mainly) French Literature. Approaching the texts almost as an actor, she’s showcasing her superb sensitivity for atmosphere and her excellent ability to translate written word in spoken word with great respect to the original texts. The texts used on “Tremblaient à la lisière de mon œil mental” are part of L’Ombilic des Limbes by Antonin Artaud, a text written in 1918 during his stay in a mental asylum and published only a decade later.
Wendingen 1918 is dedicated to the Dutch Architectural Magazine ‘Wendingen’ from 1918 and the Work and Life of Antonin Artaud.
Artwork Description:
Cover tied with rope; Innercover with wooden Dowel (Design RD)
Original Artwork by BdP, RD
Coverdesign & Artwork by RD
Artwork Bart de Paepe
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Face A
Les sous-vêtements de l’irréel |
21:00 |
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Face B
Tremblaient à la lisière de mon œil mental |
21:00 |
Excerpt from ‘Les sous-vêtements de l’irréel’:
Excerpt from ‘Tremblaient à la lisière de mon œil mental’:
| WENDINGEN 1918 |
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| Muzikë Muusika |
LP Original Artwork by Wendingen 1918 |
€ 120,00 ex postage ALSO AVAILABLE FROM BART DE PAEPE. CONTACT DES ASTRES D’OR FOR ADDRESS DETAILS… |
LP
Original Artwork by Ilta Hämärä
Numbered edition of 40 ex.
d’or020
Date of Release: 29 October 2018
The Duo of Timo van Luijk & Bart De Paepe, tickling that great Pudarkus in the Sky…
(Photo on top Page Mark Rietveld)
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Side A
1. Tyhjyyden Meri |
20:33 |
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Side B
1. Käärmeenmaidon Aarre |
19:55 |
| ILTA HÄMÄRÄ | ||
| Himmeä Kaihoisa Sininen | LP Original Artwork by Ilta Hämärä |
SOLD OUT
STILL AVAILABLE FROM BART DE PAEPE. CONTACT DES ASTRES D’OR FOR ADDRESS DETAILS… |
Artwork Description: Ecoline Paintings, Handcut Sleeves, Stamps
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Photography & Artwork by Mark Rietveld.
Edition of 25 ex.
d’or017
Date of Release: 14 July 2018.
For over 10 years, Bart De Paepe has sated the appetites of psychedelic searchers with his label Sloow Tapes. A peerless curator, De Paepe has unleashed crucial underground transmissions ranging from paint-peeling Japanese rock over bedroom poetry readings to laid-back cosmic Euro-prog in microscopic editions.
‘Verdronken Land’ was partly inspired by the drowned land of Saefthinge, the mythology of the elusive goddess Nehalennia, local history and nightly travels through the empty surroundings of the polder region. It’s lysergic texture channels early Tangerine Dream, K(C)luster, Taj Mahal Travellers and other space explorers into nebulous clouds leaving behind vague smoke patterns and faded shadows.
Bart De Paepe Homepage
Mark Rietveld is a Dutch photographer (Bergen Op Zoom (NL) august 1969) currently residing in Antwerp, Belgium. His interests lie in the field of street photography, portraits, events and the subcultural life in Antwerp. His work has been published in international newspapers, magazines and on several vinyl / CD publications.
Mark Rietveld Homepage
| A1 Geesten van Spinola |
09:00 |
| A2 Rost Zand |
05:14 |
| A3 Nehalennia |
05:46 |
| B1 Trillende Zon van Ether |
06:00 |
| B2 Zwarte Ruiter |
04:44 |
| B3 Buizerd over de Koningsdijk |
05:33 |
| B4 De Leegte |
03:43 |
All Music by Bart De Paepe
| Bart De Paepe ~ Verdronken Land |
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| Verdronken Land |
LP Original Artwork by Mark Rietveld |
Artwork Description:
Analogue photography by Mark Rietveld, printed on baryte paper. Hand stamped info sheet on lokta paper.
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(Backside of each Cover)