SMART GALS PRODUCTIONS: The Speakeasy

This month's bookmark by:
Tom Recchion

Sunday, January 25th 8:00pm

Mesdames et Monsieurs, keepers of the hush-hush Speakeasy flame, we will kick off the New Year with a certain je ne sais what…French flair as we welcome Tosh Berman of Tam Tam Books. Tam Tam will be celebrating the publication of their latest literary gem, Foam of the Daze (Le’Ecume des Jours) by Boris Vian. Please scroll down for the skinny on Tam Tam. Our bookmark has been designed by the multi-talented Tom Recchion. Our drink will be called Chloe, and is a playful punch, quite intoxicating, served with candy. What else could we ask for? A complex game and, of course, your company. Voulez vous rendezvous?

Tosh Berman is the founder and publisher of
TamTam Books, which is a press that specializes in contemporary French literature from 1946 to the 80's. The press has published two novels by Boris Vian, which are "I Spit on Your Graves" and 'Foam of the Daze.' The other titles are Serge Gainsbourg's 'Evguenie Sokolov' and Guy Debord's 'Considerations on the Assassination of Gerard Lebovici.' Tosh is currently working on Vian's 'Autumn in Peking' (which will be out by Summer 2004) and 'Manuel de Saint-Germain des-Pres' for Rizzoli/Universe Books.

http://www.tamtambooks.com/

Sunday, January 25th
(& the last Sunday of Every Month)
8:00 until 10:00 in the evening

Mt. Hollywood Underground
4607 Prospect Avenue
(Underneath Mt. Hollywood Church in Silverlake, corner of Prospect and Rodney, one block North of Hollywood and one block east of Vermont. Enter on Rodney)

Gents and Dames welcomed with equal regard!
Admission $5.00
Bookmarks $10.00*

Passwords & such
310.572.7347
www.smartgals.org

Mix, mingle, swoon, shine, speakeasy!

*Keeping this all on the QT, we
don't sell booze, but we do sell
bookmarks. Do I make myself
mysterious enough here? We
don't sell booze, but we do sell
bookmarks. Pack $15.00 for a full
night. And hush!

Tom Recchion has been an artist/composer/experimental musician in Southern California since the 1970s as co-creator of the legendary L.A. Free Music Society. His early explorations in low-tech sonic exploration presaged many of the genres exciting developments of the last quarter century: record manipulation, live tape loops, free improvisation, found and invented instruments, and more. He currently plays with his group Extended Organ (Paul McCarthy, Joe Potts, Fredrik Nilsen and Mike Kelley) and has collaborated with musician/writer David Toop, musicians Mark Trayle, Oren Ambarchi, Keiji Haino, Carl Stone, Jad Fair and Christian Marclay to name a few. He also occasionally writes for WIRE magazine and has many recordings released. The most recent solo CD I Love My Organ has just been released. He has recordings on Birdman, Touch, Barooni, Sub Rosa, Idea, Staubgold, Tigerbeat6 and the Cortical Foundation. Most recently he was one of the 2004 COLA grant recipients in the visual artist category and has just been commissioned to compose works for the Kronos Quartet. In development is a collaboration with monologist David Greenberger, and another with sound artist John Duncan. As a four-time Grammy-nominated art director/graphic designer Recchion has designed for Lou Reed/John Cale, Robert Wyatt, Terry Riley, David Lynch, MOCA, REM, Prince, Los Lobos, Jimmy Scott, Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks, Warner Bros. Records, Virgin Records, Hermann Nitsch, Captain Beefheart and of course, TamTam Books.

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