{"product_id":"derek-jarman-through-the-billboard-promised-land-without-ever-stopping-lp","title":"Derek Jarman “Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping” LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eDerek Jarman reads his only known work of narrative fiction, a surreal journey through a mythic America filled with chromatic landscapes and psychosexual symbols. Written in 1971, the piece anticipates imagery that would later surface throughout his film work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLimited to 500 copies on 180-gram black vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe first vinyl edition of a recording previously issued only on cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes facsimiles of Jarman’s handwritten drafts and photographs by Michael Ginsborg\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1971 and read here by the author himself \"Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping\" is Derek Jarman’s only known work of narrative fiction. Providing a prelude to some of the imagery Jarman would use later in his career, particularly\u003cbr\u003ethe alchemical dreamscapes in the film Blue, it is a surreal, hallucinatory fairytale, signposted with elements of modernity, that has much of the mythic and archetypal about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith tantalising autobiographical details and a panoply of chromatic landscapes and psychosexual symbols, this richly poetic story details a journey with no destination or purpose across a mythical America, undertaken by the young blind King Amethyst and his valet John.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreviously only ever released on cassette (2022, Purge.xxx), this vinyl edition features facsimile images of the story's handwritten drafts from Jarman's archive and photos by the artist Michael Ginsborg, a close friend of Jarman's throughout the period of the story's writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e0641871746750\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cold Spring","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42900001030224,"sku":"amsdrop","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/4838\/files\/a0461791657_5.jpg?v=1788793227","url":"https:\/\/deadtankrecords.com\/products\/derek-jarman-through-the-billboard-promised-land-without-ever-stopping-lp","provider":"Dead Tank Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}