Rock and counterculture: an interview with Benoît Delaune

The latest issue of The Odd Magazine contains an interview with French musician, teacher and writer Benoît Delaune, conducted by Gary Cummiskey. 

Born in 1973, Delaune wrote his PhD about William Burroughs and the use of the cut-up technique in the ‘Nova Trilogy’. He also wrote a short biography of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, as well as theoretical texts and articles about the collage/montage aesthetics in literature, cinema and music. Between 1998 and 2003, he led a micro-publishing structure, Les éditions de la Notonecte, which released books by Claude Pélieu, Mary Beach, FJ Ossang and others. As a musician, he played in many avant-garde bands, close to free-rock and  improvisation. Nowadays he plays guitar, composes and creates artworks for his new band, Orgöne. He's also working on books by Claude Pélieu and Alain Jégou.

You can read the interview here, in both English and French.

The Odd Magazine #20 is out!

Great news - a stunning issue of The Odd Magazine has landed in cyberspace!

Do have a wonderful time going through this stellar issue, curated in a time when the world needs to fight the odds, more than ever before:

Odd Poetry: Adrian Manning, Arja Salafranca, Brian Rihlmann and Wayn F.Burke

Odd Shorts: Charlei Swailes, Gary Cummiskey, Kari Gillespie, Robert Keith and Yrik-Max Valentonis

Odd Art: Collaborations: Don Yorty-Md Akram, Jan Theuninck-Herman Van Rompuy, Margarita Serafimova-Milen Neykov , Neeti Banerji (Text and Art)

Odd Video: ‘Round Around’ – a film by Yogi Rajput

Odd Interview of Benoit Delaune by Gary Cummiskey (in English and French)