the hafler trio
Just Because a Cat has her Kittens in the Oven Doesn't Make them Biscuits.
("I know these are only words, but all the same..." [lost reference)
A set of situations to be entered into,
a how-to book to end all of them in perpetuity and an unprecedented opportunity to carry out deep work on the Self (and all that might mean!)
read about it:
web.archive.org/web/20230203104426/https://simplysuperior.org/JBaChHKitODMtB/
SOLD OUT.
TRUE ENOUGH
("I know there's a greenhouse in here somewhere" [supermarket TV advertisement ca. 1972])
The appalling and tragic-comedy that is the emanation of the spirit of "truth" (whatever THAT is) named "BANG! - An Open Letter" and the reasons, applications and bedtime stories behind it. First released in 1984, the record, which cannot officially be heard due to infinite regress of intelligence on the part of one of those involved, has been influential and instructive for many, as well as misunderstood by perhaps many more. as time drags on, the relevance of the record becomes ever more evident and pertinent. say many people.
the book features never-before seen graphics, interviews, texts and other documents setting some things straight and further bending others; the ultimate "meaning" being both revealed and obscured with pretty much the same strokes. hats in air. trebles all round.
due 2025/2026. Limited edition of 432 copies. first 27 with extra material.
A Haze of Chiaroscuro Prefiguring Sharper Lines Still Undrawn:
confabulations from the anechoic chamber and what we might yet find there
("grasping the wrong end of the stick and beating about the bush with it" [The Rutles])
A never-ending stream of "misexplanationism" (new word, dear reader) concering all matters Hafler Trio, but MUCH more importantly, the concepts, philosophy and motivation behind the manifold workies no longer on offer for the most part. Listening without having to hear, you might say. Conducted over a few years of babbling in response to provocations in the verbal domain, the extension of many of the h3o recordings is here to peruse, reflect upon, digest, assimilate and act upon. a philosophy for action, rather than of. Dealing with a VAST range of topics, somehow, mystifyingly woven together, signposts to other ways of perception and ultimately, being are given for the taking. The second volume in the 9-symbol series begun with "kittens..." (see above).
due 2026. Hardback limited edition of 27 copies, first 7 with additions.
Punctuating a Stream of Events:
making the wrong mistakes to be consummated in assimilation
("If the eye were not Sun-like, it could never see the Sun." [Goethe])
Collected writings over 50 years of thumping away at various keyboards in the hope that some of the unthinkable might wend its way onto a surface or two: heavily annotated texts from the Hafler Trio's history, the present version arguing and objecting as well as clarifying and blurring alongside the originals. The expansion of thought smeared with experience and rear-view mirror gazing to delight for a lifetime, an eminently "put-downable" book of epic proportions. you definitely won't want to turn the page, but reel and faint with the enormity of each section. Guaranteed. The third volume in the 9-symbol series begun with "kittens..." (see above).
due 2026. Hardback limited edition of 27 copies, first 7 with additions.