Revue OU
2002 4x CD, Box Set
Musique Concrète
Spoken Word
Experimental
Poetry

Main image
Alga Marghen
artwork Bob Cobbing
artwork Brion Gysin
artwork Gianni Bertini
artwork Henri Chopin
artwork Jean Degottex
artwork Mimmo Rotella
artwork Paul de Vree
artwork Raoul Hausmann
artwork Åke Hodell
coordinator [project coordination], liner notes Nicholas Zurbrugg
edited by, producer Emanuele Carcano
photography by A. Ferlin
photography by André Morain
photography by Lütfi Özkök
producer Henri Chopin
Copyright (c) Alga Marghen
Copyright (c) OU
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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

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