In Steel Grey Armour - Genesis P-Orridge and Yves Adrien

In Steel Grey Armour - Genesis P-Orridge and Yves Adrien / English/French language edition / 96-page hardback, 8.66 x 11.8 inches / regular edition printed on Arena Extra White paper 170 gr / somewhat disturbing material so buyer beware / ISBN 9791096037162

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Timeless Edition is thrilled to present ‘In Steel Grey Armour’ consisting of the complete reproduction of an infamous and mysterious collage book created by Genesis P-Orridge in 1979 and entrusted to his friend Yves Adrien, a regular columnist of French music magazine ‘Rock’n’Folk’.

It also explores the friendship between the 2 individuals with reproductions of some letters, photos and other artworks that Gen and Yves used to exchange.

The book closes with a few words from the wise collector and current owner of the actual book, recounting his first encounter with the original Genesis collage book thanks to Jacques Noel, warden and smuggler-in-chief at Un Regard Moderne bookshop in Paris.

Artist, performer, musician and writer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020), leader of COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, was a major, pioneering, radical and subversive figure in British industrial and experimental music.

Yves Adrien (born 1951) is a French writer, best known for his articles in Rock & Folk magazine from the early 1970s onwards, for his subsequent theorization of post-punk, and for his first book Novövision.