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fraying, in one way or another, with the supernatural) and Music (monographs or books by artists, reissues of historical documents)—the two collections can sometimes host the same publication.
 
Daunik Lazro - Sales rectangles / Vieux Carré (+ CD)
2015
French edition
(last copies available!)
A literary text by Guillaume Belhomme combining metafiction and cut-up, with a CD on which Daunik Lazro performs Vieux Carré, a composition by Joe McPhee evoking the old French Quarter of New Orleans.
Luc Bouquet - Coltrane sur le vif
2015
French edition
currently out of stock
A study of John Coltrane's live recordings.
Guillaume Belhomme - Jackie McLean
2014
French edition
First publication in French dedicated to Jackie McLean (1931-2006).
Guillaume Tarche - Item
2014
French edition
(last copies available!)
A short retrospective of the blog Au grisli clandestin, a visual annex of the musical website Le son du grisli.
Guillaume Belhomme - L\'enveloppe
2013
French edition
Guillaume Belhomme's first fictional narrative.
Michael Esposito - L\'enveloppe (+ CD)
2013
French edition
(last copies available!)
Guillaume Belhomme's first fictional narrative (limited edition with a musical piece by Michael Esposito on a mini CD).
Henri Fauconnier - Vision
2013
French edition
A novella.
Renée Vivien - Le Christ (book + CD)
2023
French edition
sold out
The story of Jesus, or that of a fin-de-siècle anarchist, by the sapphic poet Renée Vivien (1877-1909), accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound on CD.
 Nurse With Wound - La Mandragore (book + CD)
2022
French edition
sold out
The most accomplished tale of Jean Lorrain (1855-1906), decadent dandy, ardent erotomaniac and corrosive pen, accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound.
Guigou Chenevier - Une histoire d\'Etron Fou Leloublan
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
sold out
The crazy story of the mythical avant-garde rock band Etron Fou Leloublan (1976-1985), pioneer of the European movement Rock in Opposition.
Michel Henritzi - Micro Japon
2021
French edition
sold out
Michel Henritzi's collection of interviews provides a rich portrait of the experimental music scene in Japan.
Maxine Gordon - Dexter Gordon - Sophisticated Giant
2021
French edition
sold out
Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present.
 Nurse With Wound - Un homme sensible / Pièce pour Un homme sensible (+ CD)
2021
French edition
sold out
In Un homme sensible, Octave Mirbeau tells the story of a murderer who, in the name of world harmony, is determined to rid the world of "all organisms unfit for a strong and harmonious life". This inspired Nurse With Wound, which, as an illustration, gives us here a new piece of unpublished music.
Tristan Tzara - Minuits pour géants / On the Edge of the Outside (+ CD)
2020
French edition
sold out
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the poet through whom Dada arrived. In Zurich, he animated the Cabaret Voltaire with Hugo Ball; in Paris, he then inspired some surrealists in the making. If he was a great lover of Villon and Rabelais, his poetry is as iconoclastic as the music of Nurse With Wound, who composed for this edition of Minuits pour géants an unpublished piece lasting about ten minutes: On the Edge of the Outside.
Jean-Marc Montera - Derek Bailey
2019
French edition
sold out
A portrait of Derek Bailey (1930-2015), by another great figure of sound experimentation.
Jacques Ponzio - Monk encore
2019
French edition
sold out
Jacques Ponzio re-questions the life and personality of legendary American jazz pianistThelonious Monk as much as his music.
Steve Potts - Bucket of Blood - Mémoire de jazz
2019
French edition
sold out
The memories of saxophonist Steve Potts, collected by his friend Michel Edelin.
 Nurse With Wound - Ci-gît / To Another Awareness (+ CD)
2018
French edition
sold out
A text by Antonin Artaud illustrated with a 15-minute unreleased sound piece by Nurse With Wound entitled To Another Awareness.
Philippe Robert - Agitation frite - Témoignages de l\'underground français – Vol. 3
2018
French edition
sold out
The third and last volume of the publication dedicated to the French underground musical scene.
Evan Parker - De Motu
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
sold out
Text transcript of the speech given by Evan Parker in May 1992 in Rotterdam as part of a series of concerts on the theme “Man & Machine.” Dedicated to Buschi Niebergall, De Motu brings a fascinating insight into the art of the British saxophonist.
Le son du grisli
2017
French edition
sold out
The second issue of the French magazine dedicated to jazz and experimental music. Featuring: John Stevens, Bertrand Denzler, Piero Manzoni, Michel Henritzi, Ignaz Schick, Arthur Doyle's Nature Boy, contributions by David Toop, Luc Bouquet, Pierre Cécile, Philippe Robert, Guillaume Tarche, Guillaume Belhomme, and more than 60 reviews.
Philippe Robert - Agitation frite - Témoignages de l\'underground français
2017
French edition
sold out
A unique firsthand account of the French underground musical scene since 1968 (with Christian Vander, Richard Pinhas, Daunik Lazro, Albert Marcoeur, Pascal Comelade, Pierre Bastien, Jac Berrocal, Jean-Louis Costes...).
Le son du grisli - Jedna
2016
French edition
sold out
French musical website Le son du grisli now in print version. First issue includes: Jason Kahn, Sven-Åke Johansson, La Monte Young, Nurse With Wound, Zbigniew Karkowski, 1910's Manifesto of the Futurist Painters…
Martin Küchen - Bagatellen / Cifra 01-08 (Box Set + CD)
2016
texts in Swedish
sold out
Limited edition box set with 43 instrumental tracks recorded with an alto saxophone, a radio and an electric toothbrush by Mart Küchen. The musical pieces are accompanied by four poems written by the Swedish musician and eight plates by Austrian plastic artist Johannes Heuer.
Guillaume Belhomme - Morton Feldman - For Bunita Marcus / Une minute, une seule
2016
French edition
sold out
For Bunita Marcus is a piano piece recorded in 1986 by contemporary composer Morton Feldman. Guillaume Belhomme revisits the singular relationship he shares with this track and gives a sharp analysis of it. This reeissue is completed with a fictitious letter from Feldman to American painter Philip Guston entitled Une minute, une seule.
 Jacques Demierre, Urs Leimgruber, Barre Phillips - Listening - Carnet de route LDP 2015
2016
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
sold out
In 2015, musicians Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre and Barre Phillips gave a series of concerts on both sides of the Atlantic with their band LDP as part of the “Listening” Tour. Listening is their tour's logbook and gathers memories, anecdotes, thoughts and pictures.
Garrison Fewell - De l\'esprit dans la musique créative
2016
French edition
sold out
This volume gathers interviews with 25 prominent musicians focusing on the influence of spirituality in their works.
 Moondog - 50 Couplets
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
sold out
Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog.
Charles Plymell - Apocalypse Rose (+ CD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
sold out
An electrical poem by Charles Plymell first published in 1966 in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Journal, with a CD on which Bill Nace plays a music inspired by his own reading of Apocalypse Rose.
Alfredo Costa Monteiro - Anima (Box Set + CD)
2015
French edition
sold out
André Salmon - Léon Léhautier, anarchiste pur / Close to you (+ CD)
2015
French edition
sold out
A text by André Salmon on French anarchist Léon Léhautier, accompanied by a mini-CD containing a piece by Nurse With Wound, Close to You.
Guillaume Tarche - Time
2014
French edition
sold out
Second (and last) volume of the short retrospective of the blog Au grisli clandestin, a visual annex of the musical website Le son du grisli.
Adolf Wölfli - Courte autobiographie / Lea Tanttaaria + Great-God-Father-Nieces (+ CD)
2014
French edition
sold out
A seminal text (and introduction to some 25000 pages of drawings, collages, autobiographical writings and compositions by Adolf Wölfli), this “short autobiography” of a major figure in the history of art brut is accompanied by a mini-CD containing the two interpretations of Wölfli's graphic scores by Nurse With Wound, first published in 1986.
Francesco Balilla Pratella - Manifeste des Musiciens futuristes
2014
French edition
sold out
The reissue of the Manifesto of Futurist Musicians (written in 1911), in which the Italian composer, musicologist and ethnographer Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880-1955) explains the "violent and absolute principles" of a futuristic music which inspired Luigi Russolo's The Art of Noises.
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