Name: Acts of Love / Songs to Our Other Selves
Brand: Penny Rimbaud, Mikado Koko

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CAL007

Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Double 180 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with 32 Page Booklet and Insert

Format Music GB

Limited edition

1000

Release date

2023-09-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5016958102555

Total Cap

Black LP

Artist

Penny Rimbaud

Mikado Koko

Genre GB

Punk / Hardcore

Label GB

Caliban Records

Penny Rimbaud is an English artist known for his diverse talents and activism. Born on June 8, 1943, he has made significant contributions as a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician, and activist. He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion before co-founding the Stonehenge Free Festival in 1972 alongside Phil Russell (Wally Hope). In 1977, Rimbaud co-founded the influential anarchist punk band *Crass* with Steve Ignorant. Their music challenged societal norms and they disbanded in 1984.

Rimbaud's work resonates with fans of various genres due to its thought-provoking nature. His artistic endeavors have influenced numerous artists including *Peter Vukmirovic Stevens*, *Poison Girls*, *Youth*, *Dirt*, *Flux of Pink Indians*, and many more. With his wide range of talents and dedication to activism, Penny Rimbaud continues to inspire generations of artists and activists alike.

Discover the powerful impact of Penny Rimbaud's creativity by exploring his collection today.

Newest Listed Items

Caliban Sounds in association with One Little Independent Records are delighted to present a 180g heavy weight double vinyl, in a gatefold sleeve; Penny Rimbaud’s Acts of Love (1984) accompanied by Mikado Koko’s Songs To Our Other Selves (2022). It’s presented with the ‘Acts of Love’ 32-page booklet and ‘Songs To Our Other Selves’ insert. The latter available on vinyl for the first time, these collector’s items are limited to only 1000 copies.

Having in 1977 co-founded the anarchist band Crass, by 1984 Rimbaud felt he needed to explain both the political and personal roots of what increasingly was being seen by press and public alike as the band’s “violent anger”. However, in this respect Rimbaud had always concurred with Che Guevara who had stated that “the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love”. What better, then, than to return to Acts of Love, to be presented this time as a 12” vinyl. Rimbaud would compose the music to feature Eve Libertine on vocals and Paul Ellis on keyboards. Meanwhile, Vaucher set about creating a new set of illustrations to accompany the poems.

In 2021, avant-garde musician and artist, Mikado Koko, being a keen admirer of Libertine’s vocals, and having a great fondness for Acts of Love, contacted Rimbaud with the idea of creating cut-ups of twenty tracks from the album to create a sister release entitled Songs To Our Other Selves. When finally he heard the result, he was overjoyed and the album was released in 2022 on Caliban Sounds. Sean Worrall wrote in The Organ, “Mikado Koko has taken Penny Rimbaud’s album ‘Acts of Love’, originally a fifty track album of short poems on love, and cut it up, deconstructed it, reconstructed it, pulled it apart and put it all back together (a lot more than just remixed it) to make a twenty track album of her own. ‘Songs To Our Other Selves’ is an entirely new album, that we’re told that, and rightly so, we should view as a continuation of the original. What we have here are bites, stabs, thrusts of Crass-like noise, art, the art of noise. It is hard-boiled, it is challenging, it might be madness or maybe maddening, the whole thing is glorious actually. Those bites of words, the cut and paste deconstruction, the thrust, words caught, the art of collage, the real art of glorious noise, painting with sound”

Acts of Love / Songs to Our Other Selves

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Discover Acts of Love / Songs to Our Other Selves by Penny Rimbaud. Limited edition 180g double vinyl with booklet and insert. An avant-garde masterpiece on Caliban Sounds.