Crazy about Italo
Fieldnote publishes small-run editions on paper, print and the quiet discipline of making things by hand — essays, field guides and photographic studies, bound in short print runs and never reprinted the same way twice.
Gek van Italo
Fieldnote publishes small-run editions on paper, print and the quiet discipline of making things by hand — essays, field guides and photographic studies, bound in short print runs and never reprinted the same way twice.
Crazy about Italo
A field guide to the mills, fibres and textures behind our editions.
€30
Hier komt stront van
A photographic study of coastal towns shot across four winters.
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Synopsis
In the early eighties Michael Halve (1966) falls in love with the Italo genre. The passion for collecting has gripped him and the promotion of the music becomes a mission.
Crazy about Italo is about experiencing a passion. About the goosebumps you get when someone plays a crazy record that you don’t know yet. About the joy of finding that copy that was still missing from your collection and about the disappointment of finding a record store that turns out to be closed. How the obsessive hunt for records puts pressure on family life or the ambiance of a holiday. Simply because you must have that one record. That one record, which probably can be found in that one record store. Or not.
This limitless urge is typical for every collector and not reserved exclusively for Italo fans. Therefore, the jazz collector and philatelist will also recognize themselves. Still, the book is the most interesting for lovers of Italo, because only they know who Albert One, Fred Ventura and Mauro Farina are.
Synopsis
Het leven van Axel Faase verandert in hoog tempo wanneer hij een andere functie krijgt in het bedrijf waar hij werkt. Tussen zijn nieuwe collega (Vera) en hem ontstaat een affaire, die beiden verstandelijk niet willen. Emotie blijkt sterker dan ratio. Hierdoor ontstaan dubbellevens met aaneenschakelingen van leugens. Er worden dagjes zeilen met collega’s en conferenties verzonnen om samen te kunnen zijn. Dit gaat een hele zomer goed, totdat Vera zwanger raakt en niet weet of dit van Axel of van haar man is.
Wanneer duidelijk wordt dat er geen terugweg is, weten zij het zeker; hier komt stront van.
On the object
Paper, thread, cloth
Every title is printed on uncoated stock and sewn by hand in small batches at a bindery two streets from our studio. We choose weight and texture before a single word is typeset — the book is an object first, a text second.
Specification
- Paper: 120gsm uncoated offset
- Binding: Smyth-sewn, exposed spine
- Cover: Debossed cloth or soft touch
- Print run: 300–800 copies
- Printed and bound in-house
I’ve read it twice now, slowly, and both times set it down just to hold the cover.
— Reader, on The Quiet Hour
