Christina Vantzou’s “The Reintegration of The Ear” is out now. Two exquisite side-long suites, mercurial movements of strange, soft, and enchanting music and soundscapes evolved over three years of performance and listening. This is Christina at her freest and most uncompromising, working with an esteemed group of generous collaborators to create a work of beauty for eager and caring ears. Digital available on Bandcamp, @ninaprotocol and streaming on select DSPs. Limited LPs remaining from Bandcamp, @boomkatonline , @anostanost , @soundohm , @meditations , @objectsandsounds , @tobirarecords and more. Link in bio. “Composed by Christina Vantzou between 2023 and 2025 after being commissioned by INA GRM, The Reintegration of the Ear defines listening as a radical, embodied act of attention: a slower kind of presence rooted in care, intimacy, and reflection. Performed with John Also Bennett, Oliver Coates, Roman Hiele, and Irene Kurka, the work moves through intuition, breath, and resonance, forming an acoustic ecology between perception and expression. Paired with Observations, Edits, a Cure for Restlessness, a companion suite of domestic fragments and temporal drift featuring harp by Sissi Rada, Ben Bertrand’s bass clarinet, and others, time here is embodied, a porous medium where sound floats, reforms, and reveals itself as both instrument and witness.” Mastered by Simon Scott @spsmastering Mixed by @christinavantzou and @johnalsobennett Artwork by @evalhoest Design @jay_willah “The Reintegration of the Ear” Synthesizers, virtual instruments, field recordings, singing bowl: @christinavantzou Cello: @ollycoates Flute and synthesizer: @johnalsobennett johnalsobennett Voice: Irene Kurka Double Bass: @hielehiele “Observations, Edits, a Cure for Restlessness” Piano, virtual instruments, field recordings: @christinavantzou Harp: @sissirada Flutes: @johnalsobennett Bass clarinet: @ben.bertrand.music Strings: @magikminna Photo: @meganbruinen 🌿

Christina Vantzou - The Reintegration of the Ear Out February 20th Composed by @christinavantzou between 2023 and 2025 after being commissioned by INA GRM, The Reintegration of the Ear defines listening as a radical, embodied act of attention: a slower kind of presence rooted in care, intimacy, and reflection. Performed with John Also Bennett, Oliver Coates, Roman Hiele, and Irene Kurka, the work moves through intuition, breath, and resonance, forming an acoustic ecology between perception and expression. Paired with Observations, Edits, a Cure for Restlessness, a companion suite of domestic fragments and temporal drift featuring harp by Sissi Rada, Ben Bertrand’s bass clarinet, and others, time here is embodied, a porous medium where sound floats, reforms, and reveals itself as both instrument and witness. Limited edition LP and digital available to preorder on bandcamp now 👂 @ollycoates @johnalsobennett @hielehiele @sissirada @ben.bertrand.music @magikminna @_simonscott @inagrm

‘Death, Reverb and Decay’ OUT TODAY 2 new pieces composed, performed and recorded by @johnalsobennett @ollycoates and me A voyage across ancient mournful waters to a place of replenishment and repair Bass flute: @johnalsobennett Cello: @ollycoates Mastered by @studioschwebung Cover: Stone carving 3100 BC, Egypt Ka hieroglyph ~ 2 bent arms = SPIRIT Ankh ~ loop amulet = LIFE Find it on all digital platforms / link in profile 🤍 Death, Reverb and Decay (Dreaming) audio in the post

Great review of John M. Bennett’s BLANKSMANSHIP in @hhvrecords mag courtesy of @m_stique 🫡 Fun fact - John Giorno was in attendance at the premiere performance of BLANKSMANSHIP in Cleveland, Ohio back in 1994, and was a correspondent of JMB!

The original 1994 cassette and booklet of John M. Bennett’s BLANKSMANSHIP, alongside our remastered LP edition. Get yr spring fix of surrealist avant-garde poetry & shakuhachi flute - out now on Editions Basilic and available from Bandcamp in an edition of 200 copies (link in bio). Shipping from Philadelphia and Athens, Greece. #johnmbennett

CV & JAB (Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett) - Κλιμα (Klima) EBS2005 - LP / Digital 2023 Artwork by @zintaylor Mastered by @studioschwebung

John M. Bennett’s 1994 surrealist poetry tour de force BLANKSMANSHIP is out today. First released as a very limited edition cassette and chapbook, we are proud to reintroduce this work to the world, which in our eyes stands as a seminal point of evolution in John’s writing. As my brother @bnbnntt describes: “I remember many years ago asking JMB about the evolution of his poetry, and him describing it as surrealist, perhaps formerly in the usual sense of evoking surreal imagery, but gradually becoming more surreal in the syntax and sensuality of the words themselves. I think both of these modes are present in BLANKSMANSHIP, but especially the latter, where images and narrative are entangled in “impossible” thought formations.” This is a record that needs time and space to digest, and might linger on your palate after listening. As such it is not available on streaming services, but only LP or digital download on Bandcamp. Take your time with it, listen closely, or just let the words wash over you, and new details will reveal themselves. The work is dedicated to @cmehrlbennett . All LPs were hand stamped and include a booklet with the full text of the work. Limited to 200 copies, designed by @jay_willah . Link in @editionsbasilic bio 🌿

John M. Bennett’s BLANKSMANSHIP, a masterwork of American avant-garde writing performed by the author with minimal shakuhachi and bell, is available to preorder on @bandcamp on digital and LP formats. Out in full on April 25th, 2025 from editions basilic and Luna Bisonte Prods. Blank in bio.

Editions Basilic and Luna Bisonte Prods are happy to announce BLANKSMANSHIP, a landmark work by John M. Bennett remastered and redesigned as a limited edition LP & poetry booklet. John M. Bennett’s BLANKSMANSHIP is a totemic representation of something impossible: a linguistic object containing a totality. Written and recorded in the early 1990s and released as a sound poetry cassette and chapbook, BLANKSMANSHIP begins and ends with a ten word mantra, distilling the poem’s ten cantos that act as phases of an extended meditation. Performed by the author accompanied only by minimalist shakuhachi flute and bell, a narrative emerges from a mythic place, spoken by a single voice that eventually multiplies into a horde of selves. The author states that BLANKSMANSHIP refers to a state of mind, the “empty yet swarming void from which the poem’s voice arises, as if it were the voice of completeness itself”. An unheralded masterpiece of American avant-garde writing, this is a poetry that has its roots in the most ancient and enduring forms of poesis. Remastered from original tapes, the LP includes a 24 page poetry booklet containing the full text of BLANKSMANSHIP. Edition of 200 copies, out April 25th, 2025 on Editions Basilic and Luna Bisonte Prods. Mastered by @johnalsobennett Design by @jay_willah Preorder via link in bio - LPs shipping from Philadelphia and Athens, Greece (and Brussels if you order very soon).

Giovanni di Domenico, Pak Yan Lau and John Also Bennett - Tidal Perspectives EBS2008 - LP / Digital 2024

John M. Bennett - A Flattened Face Fogs Through EBS2003 - CD + Booklet / LP + Booklet / Digital 2022 Design by @jay_willah Mastered by @loudnesswarveteran Compiled and produced by @johnalsobennett

CV & JAB (Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett) - Landscape Architecture EBS2002 - Cassette / LP / Digital 2020 / 2021 Artwork by @zintaylor Mastered by Stephan Mathieu