Revue OU

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Release Date: 2002

Label: Alga Marghen

A collection of the music included on records accompanying Henri Chopin's magazine Revue OU [originally title Cinquième Saison when it started in 1958] between 1964 and 1974.

The LP-size boxset also includes:
30 black and white OU inserts (size 26x26 cm, 26x52 cm, or 52x52 cm; some folded; some not; one on vellum) reproducing the original scores of the audio works featured on the 4 CDs (by Chopin, Heidsieck, de Vree, Davies, Cobbing, Bekaert) as well as graphic works by John Cage, Tom Phillips, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Michel Seuphor, Ben Vautier, Stefan Themerson, Richard Orton, and Pierre Albert-Birot;
a 76-page square-bound book with notes and essays in French and English;
a 16-page stapled booklet with a critical text titled 'Il Faut Rire un Peu' = 'You've Got To Laugh' by Henri Chopin; and
a full-colour poster (52x52 cm) 'William Burroughs' by Henri Chopin.

First press of 1500 copies. Of these, 35 copies are signed and numbered by Henri Chopin and additionally contain a signed original typewriter poem.

Title taken from CDs.
Title on front of box: OU Sound Poetry: An Anthology.
Title on spine of box: Henri Chopin's Revue OU - Cinquième Saison.
Title on title page of book: OU - Cinquième Saison: Complete Recordings.

Individual catalogue numbers printed on the spines:

CD1 : plana-OU 15vocson045.1
CD2 : plana-OU 15vocson045.2
CD3 : plana-OU 15vocson045.3
CD4 : plana-OU 15vocson045.4