Lenka lente

The Lenka lente publishing house was created in 2004 in Paris, by Guillaume Belhomme. After having published a handful of records (Gypsophile, ECFA Quartet), they have dedicated themselves since 2013 to the publishing of books and books-records. Two collections provide the publishing catalog: Vision (works of literature, poetry or testimony, fraying, in one way or another, with the supernatural) and Music (monographs or books by artists, reissues of historical documents)—the two collections can sometimes host the same publication.
 
Victor Segalen - Dans un monde sonore (book + CD)
2026
French edition
forthcoming
A short story by Victor Segalen (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
Jacques Ponzio - Le legs Lacy
2025
French edition
forthcoming
Jacques Ponzio continues his tribute to Thelonious Monk by exploring the intense yet fleeting relationship between the pianist and saxophonist Steve Lacy.
 Nurse With Wound - Le diamant de l\'herbe (book + CD)
2025
French edition
forthcoming
A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.
Guillaume Belhomme - Music Boxe
2025
no text
18 collages which pit boxers against musicians (Morton Feldman, Luciano Berio, Bill Evans... and countless other instrumentalists whom years of conservatory training had not prepared for the confrontation).
Laurent Briffaux - Bill Evans Trio - Le cercle de trois
2025
French edition
currently out of stock
Bill Evans / Scott LaFaro / Paul Motian (1959-1961): the story of one of the most original, dazzling and influential trios in jazz history, and of the recording of three legendary albums.
Ross Bolleter - Suivez ma Trace / Track Me Down
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Ross Bolleter's latest collection of poems draws on his experience as a musician/composer especially in the field of ruined piano, and includes tributes to Thelonious Monk and other luminaries who have inspired him over a lifetime of musical and poetic creation. This new book explores the themes of childhood, eros, love, death—and football.
Alain Gunst - Pourquoi peindre
2025
French edition
Without ever giving a lesson in painting, Alain Gunst lists 32 reasons for painting that, “bad” or “not so bad”, take malicious pleasure in mocking an art world.
Christian Laurella - Détours - Sur les routes d\'Europe avec Chet Baker, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Archie Shepp, McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams, James Carter...
2024
French edition
Christian Laurella, writer and tour manager ("orchestra conductor", as Ahmad Jamal puts it), recalls his European tours with the greatest figures in American jazz—Chet Baker, Archie Shepp, Tony Williams, Jaco Pastorius, etc.
 Nurse With Wound - Revenantes (book + CD)
2024
French edition
Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.
Jacques Ponzio - Monk sur Seine
2024
French edition
Jacques Ponzio recounts in text and images Thelonious Monk's 10-day stay in Paris in the spring of 1954.
Philippe Robert - Free Fight
2024
French edition
The complete texts and photographs published in the fanzine dedicated to free jazz.
Jacques Ponzio - Monk ABC
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
A collection of quotations from Thelonious Monk, organized as an alphabet book (new revised and augmented edition). More than a hundred entries based on the testimonies of musicians (Steve Lacy, Sahib Shihab, Henri Renaud) and journalists (Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Val Wilmer…).
Philippe Robert - Guitare Conversation
2023
French edition
(last copies available!)
In a long conversation about the guitar(s), Philippe Robert and Noël Akchoté sift through the history of the instrument and its practice, from the Renaissance lute to the 12-string, from the Stratocaster to the tabletop guitar surrounded by utensils and effects, from the blues to free improvisation.
Harutaka Mochizuki - Eugène (book + mini CD)
2022
French edition
An essay by Guillaume Belhomme on the singularly modern work of the painter Eugène Carrière (1849-1906), accompanied by a piece by Japanese saxophonist Harutaka Mochizuki, inspired by the master's paintings.
Ross Bolleter - Average Human Heart
2022
English edition
In Average Human Heart, inspired by Eduardo Galeano's The Book of Embraces and Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones, Ross Bolleter offers more than 100 vignettes (or "left hand stories") primarily on music and musical experience.
Le son du grisli - Rétrospective
2022
French edition
The retrospective of the website and the magazine Le son du grisli (2004-2021): 16 portraits and 38 interviews of musicians, 842 record and concert reviews.
Alphonse Rabbe - Du suicide (book + CD)
2022
French edition
An excerpt from the Album of a Pessimist by the suicidal writer Alphonse Rabbe, whose exaltation and licentiousness were made for Nurse With Wound, who musically accompanies the text.
Fritz Hauser - Escalier sous la pluie (book + CD)
2022
French edition
A staircase drips, not with water but with sound: book / CD dedicated to Fritz Hauser's impressive "sound drawing" for the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in Arles.
Benjamin Mouliets - Mikami Kan (book + CD)
2021
French edition
The biography of the singer and performer Mikami Kan, figure of the Japanese underground scene, with two unreleased concerts on CD.
 Lee Ranaldo - En herbe / In Virus Times (livre + CD)
2021
French edition
Two short stories by Lucien Jean (1870-1908), accompanied by a mini CD slipped into the book: an unpublished atmospheric piece, recorded for the occasion, by Lee Ranaldo.
Charles Pennequin - Le Martien / Allo maman (+ CD)
2020
French edition
Charles Pennequin is an unconventional poet who tells us here the sidereal aggression of a Martian who has not yet cut the cord. On the CD contained in the book, he interprets his text three times: twice in the company of the guitarist Jean-François Pauvros, and another time alone, but with a megaphone.
Le son du grisli
2020
French edition
Featuring: Jacques Delamain, Ghédalia Tazartès, Paul Sérusier, John Butcher, Keith Rowe & Cornelius Cardew, Kaoru Abe... and 130 chronicles.
Claude Pélieu - Jukeboxes
2020
French edition
A collection of poems first published in 1972 by the French companion of the Beat Generation.
 Vomir - La chanson des vieux époux (+ CD)
2019
French edition
A short story by Pierre Loti (1850-1923), which tells the irremediable separation of a couple of beggars who have lived together for a long time, illustrated by a sound piece by Quentin Rollet and Romain Perrot (Vomir).
Le son du grisli
2018
French edition
Edgar Varese, Francois Tusques, Tristan Tzara, Thomas Bonvalet, Nick Cave, interview with saxophonist Harutaka Mochizuki by Guillaume Belhomme, 90 book and music reviews.
Jacques Demierre - ABC-Book (+ CD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
(last copies available!)
An ABC book with which the pianist, composer and improviser recounts his experience of sound (with the score and recording on CD of an unpublished piece).
Guillaume Belhomme - Eric Dolphy
2018
French edition
The life and times of jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, free-jazz precursor and collaborator of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman.
Philippe Robert - Agitation frite - Témoignages de l\'underground français – Vol. 2
2018
French edition
The second volume of the publication dedicated to the French underground musical scene.
Oskar Panizza - Le jardin de Vréneli (+ CD)
2018
French edition
A story of love and drunkenness with Venus in Zurich's forest, by German writer Oskar Panizza. This edition comes with a musical piece and illustrations by experimental intermedia duo My Cat Is An Alien.
Le son du grisli
2018
French edition
Kurt Schwitters' Merz Manifesto; AMM by David Grubbs; Daunik Lazro's discography reviewed by Luc Bouquet and... Daunik Lazro; interviews with Anna Tjan from the label Dancing Wayang and Dave Phillips; on Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman. Plus: some sixty book and record reviews.
Frank Kofsky - Conversation
2017
French edition
First French translation of the famous 1966 interview with the American saxophonist by writer and jazz specialist Frank Kofsky.
Ross Bolleter - Du piano-épave - The Well Weathered Piano
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
In Western Australia, musician Ross Bolleter collects ruined pianos that he parks into open cemeteries and from which he draws his inspiration for his compositions. In this publication, Bolleter explains his musical practice and tells the unique story of these ruined pianos scattered in the heart of the Australian territory.
Twiggs Jameson - Billy & Betty
2017
French edition
Billy and her sister Betty live in a futuristic American suburban society obsessed with sex. A series of “disturbing” events will change their lives into a grotesque comic novel… Published in 1968 by Grove Press, Billy & Betty is a biting satire of the American way of life, somewhere between Burgess, Calaferte or the Monty Pythons, and a cult object that inspired Nurse with Wound.
Andrew Liles - Très Chère Mère / Mother Dearest (+ CD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Influential musician Andrew Liles releases a dark and fantastic literary work relating to childhood and sufferings, illustrated with six images and a sound piece.
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