Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs

Book published in 1986 by Meterverlag

Contents

Gorki & Co

An essay by Mayo Thompson on the soviet writer Maxim Gorky.

33 Songs

33 songs written by Mayo Thompson, Albert Oehlen, and Werner Büttner supposedly in one night.

They recorded a number of them for Malefactor, Ade.

Some were later (re-?)recorded for The Red Krayola.

Retrospectives

Mayo Thompson, 2010

I don’t know [if the Gorki & Co. book is ever going to be republished]. I have the idea of publishing some writing, but I don’t know. [...] Art for me is out of my domain; I have some associations, productive history, along those lines, but I am not myself a visual artist. I studied art history in school, so I have some interest in it, and so I talk to get to think out loud about things like that, by looking at those things. I’ve written some fiction in my day. I’ve written one or two comments that have gone into the front of art catalogs, I don’t do that anymore, but I’ve done a few of those things. I wrote that one book that was a crazy, messed-up book, it’s not your usual presentation of history, and a little bit mad, with the funny lyrics and so on, but that was for some funny German guys I know who had a publishing company. That was a while ago.

Interpretations

• The CD booklet for Amor and Language has a photo of model Rachel Williams holding a copy of the book