wyndham lewis
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LTM are proud to present the first CD audiobook of readings by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the influential British modernist writer, artist and self-styled 'Enemy' feted both by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Mark E. Smith.

Lewis remains best known as the founder in 1914 of the celebrated Vorticist art movement, an English variant of Italian Futurism. Publication of their journal Blast was interrupted by the First World War, after which Lewis the artist pursued a parallel career as a writer of fiction, satire and criticism. Lewis spent the war years 1939-45 in self-imposed exile in America, yet carried on writing even after going blind in 1951. To read a more complete Lewis biography click here. To purchase CDs click here.


THE ENEMY SPEAKS (LTMCD 2411) £10
This 70 minute audiobook CD gathers together a selection of rare broadcast recordings made by Lewis in 1938, 1947 and 1951 on various subjects in art and politics, as well as readings of three poems from One-Way Song, recorded at Harvard in 1940. The CD also includes a dramatized extract from his Bloomsbury-baiting satire The Apes of God, recorded in 1951 with an introduction by the renowned critic V.S. Pritchett, and closes with a 1917 recording of Sympathy, the popular song which so vexed Lewis in his Great War dugout. The deluxe booklet features archive Lewis images as well as historical notes by James Hayward. The CD has been prepared with the full co-operation of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust. Full tracklist: When John Bull Laughs (1938), If So The Man You Are, End of Enemy Interlude, Song of the Militant Romance (all 1940), A Crisis of Thought (1947), The Essential Purposes of Art (1951), The Apes of God (1951), Sympathy (1917). ISBN 978-0-9554335-5-9

Reviews: "Amazing recordings. The Enemy Speaks is the exact opposite of the phrase 'dumbed-down' - if only we could let him loose on the majority culture of our time. And the last track, Sympathy, is a brilliantly ironic twist" (PopMatters, 07/2007)


FUTURISM & DADA REVIEWED 1912-1959 (LTMCD 2301) £10
This acclaimed 70 minute archive audio CD represents the definitive collection of original sound recordings by key artists from the Futurist and Dada art movements. The booklet features detailed historical notes (in English) on the artists featured, as well as full recording information. To read sleevenotes click here. Dates in brackets in the following tracklist indicate the year in which the artist made the original recording. Full tracklist: Luigi Russolo Risveglio di una Cita, Antonio Russolo Corale (1921), F.T. Marinetti Sintesi Musicali Futuriste (1931), Antonio Russolo Serenata (1921), F.T. Marinetti La Battaglia di Adrianopoli (1924), F.T. Marinetti Definizione di Futurismo (1924), Luigi Grandi Cavalli + Acciaio (1935), Wyndham Lewis End of Enemy Interlude (1940), Guillaume Apollinaire Le Pont Mirabeau (1912), Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck L'amiral cherche une maison a louer, Marcel Duchamp La mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires meme (musical erratum), Richard Huelsenbeck Inventing Dada (1959 interview), Tristan Tzara Dada into Surrealism (1959 interview), Kurt Schwitters Die Sonata un Urlauten (1932), Jean Cocteau La Toison d'Or and Le Voleurs d'Enfants (both 1929). ISBN 0-9540549-3-8

Reviews: "Of huge interest to anyone interested in art and music history, and offers a glimpse at groundbreaking compositions that opened up the possibilities still being explored by contemporary composers and performers" (Brainwashed, 08/04); "Fantastic" (The Wire, 09/04)

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