purge.xxx #25 - Twenty​-​Four Hours by Stephen Watts

purge.xxx releases music. It has been celebrated by The Wire magazine for its ‘disregard for the music industry, self-promotion and prevailing cultural norms,’ and an ‘ability to elevate distinct works and the obscure artists behind them.’ purge.xxx only releases music physically, unless a digital alternative has specifically been requested by a collaborating artist. It considers even the recording a compromise, but advocates things.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Twenty​-​Four Hours by Stephen Watts.

Twenty-Four Hours is one of Stephen Watts’ earliest works, written in the mid-1970s but unpublished until 2022 (via Monitor & Prototype). A prose poem meditating on time, memory, and childhood, this live recording of Watts’ reading (35m) was made at the Steamship, Poplar (London), in September 2022.

numbered + handmade in an edition of 24 copies; no digital