Yellow Book

16-part audio work by Jens-Uwe Beyer, accompanied by 15 paintings by Albert Oehlen (lacquer and oil on aluminium.) Each track is titled "[song name / [painting name]". For example, side A plays "Juliet" and is accompanied by the painting "Zungguzungguzungguzeng" printed on the record's sleeve and side label. All paintings by Oehlen appeared in an exhibit titled "SEXE, RELIGION, POLITIQUE" that ran at the Gagosian, a gallery in Los Angeles, in Q4 of 2018. More info: https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2018/albert-oehlen-sexe-religion-politique/ On back cover of record 8: "Things are as they are Plastic thoughts Perpetual In nature we are all the same And everything has its own sound In its own time. An owl calls Dawn breaks I sleep the dream Walk on the beach to listen And listen to the crackling of the fire I spin around Until a thought strikes Hitting a nerve I howl like the wind All grows quiet The worms form sentences They spring to life I wake up Let us be outstanding in our world full of plastic! And Blake writes The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white. "The Yellow Book is the second part of the Rainbow Series Books referring to the standard formats of CDs Written and recorded by Jens-Uwe Beyer on Fehmarn in the Fembria Studios Mixed and produced in the Magazine Studios, Cologne. Mastered by Matt Karmil. Drums on Burning by Til Kuhlemann-Lages. Photography by Simon Vogel ©Albert Oehlen. Design by Graphic Thought Facility. Limited edition of 300 copies. Distributed by Kompakt. Magazine 1/2019. Made in the EU"