Qualche difficoltà a reperire gli album di Bing Selfish c'è sempre stata, anche prima di Brexit e ora di PPWR: alcune copie su supporto fisico tuttavia si possono trovare ancora, in particolare di The Art Of Selfishness (2004) e Last of the Bohemians (2007), ripescate in questi giorni da Bandcamp.

To level a charge of Bitterness against Bing Selfish would be essentially to miss the life affirming point of the man's work, so filled is it with love and unadulterated joy. It would also be asking for a stream of bile to be directed against one of such a strength as to require an unexpectedly long stay at a Belgian sanatorium. So let's not go there. After bumping into Brian Wilson in a self-help bookshop, Bing was lifted from a trough of despond to new heights of Selfishness. Pondering the state of the Artist in this Overweight Society, Bing opened the Door to the Future in an almost Psycho-Cyberkinetic kind of way and now everyone can freely share in the Art of Selfishness. 

https://bingselfish.bandcamp.com/the-art-of-selfishness

Grizzled, desperate and hoarse from decades of abuse, but with his shirts still washed and ironed, Bing is back with a dubiously legal version of his legendary MTV 'unplugged' debacle. Confounding the critics who said his sybaritic lifestyle would see him under the ground by the age of 35, Bing manages here to get through 12 new songs that make Huysman's Des Esseintes look like a brickie. The iniquities of modern life are not shirked, weary good advice is given, obscure topics are pointlessly aired as if they mattered. A national treasure (and therefore resident in Spain) Bing just won't give up. 

https://bingselfish.bandcamp.com/last-of-the-bohemians

L'austriaca Klanggalerie pubblica l'ultimo album in assoluto del compianto Hardy Fox (1945-2018), una quarantina di minuti suddivisi in quattro brani (Four One, Two Four, Threw For Four, Four Is Four) accompagnati da un apparato grafico che Hardy stesso ha fatto in tempo a ultimare prima della scomparsa. Scrive Walter Robotka, produttore dell'etichetta: "A few days before his untimely passing, Hardy sent this album to us - his last ever full album (we have more material left that needs to see the light of day), Dead Creature. An absolutely essential item for all Residents and Hardy Fox fans with artwork that Hardy himself made for the CD." Peccato che al momento Klanggalerie non possa distribuire direttamente il disco negli stati europei della UE, non essendosi ancora adeguata - e quando lo farà, chissà a quali costi - al nuovissimo quadro normativo dell'Unione Europea che disciplina il ciclo di vita degli imballaggi (Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, Regolamento UE 2025/40) e che tocca direttamente le spedizioni da parte anche dei piccoli e piccolissimi distributori. L'album lo si ottiene per ora solo in formato digitale tramite Bandcamp.

Hardy Winfred Fox Jr. (also known as H., among various other aliases) was an American composer, sound engineer, A&R manager, writer, and artist, who was best known for his role as a composer, keyboardist, and producer for the avant-garde group The Residents. Fox was also a founding member of The Residents' management company, The Cryptic Corporation, of which he was President from 1982 to 2016. He began a characteristically prolific solo recording career in 2011, initially under the guise of Charles Bobuck but later as Hardy Fox. Fox continued to record and release music through his own Hacienda Bridge imprint, until shortly before his death on October 30th 2018, following a short battle with brain cancer. A number of posthumous releases credited to Fox (and his Bobuck persona) have since been issued, including his final recording, 25 Minus Minutes, and now his last album proper, Dead Creature, intriguingly described as an "Original Soundtrack".

https://klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/dead-creature-original-soundtrack

 

Evan Parker e John Zorn dialogano a distanza (e in differita) per la realizzazione del loro primo album da contitolari: inizia Zorn al contralto registrandosi all'EastSide Sound a New York il 6 giugno 2025, lo segue poi Parker al soprano in tre distinte riprese tra gennaio e febbraio di quest'anno all'Arcobarco di Ramsgate. Il titolo è ora nell'Archival Series della Tzadik: Those Landings.

https://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=9331