Panic. The Golden Years.

Title on front sleeve: Panic The Golden Years Title on labels (2x): Panic. The Golden Years. Text spoken in Dutch and French. Issued in gatefold sleeve. Release (record, cover and all inserts) served as catalogue for the exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1975-12-04 > 1976-01-18). Inserts: 1. b/w (black & white) photo xerox of Topor by Alina Szapocznikow 2. b/w photo xerox of Topor by? 3. b/w photo xerox of Arrabal by? 4. b/w photo xerox of a lesbian couple by? 5. b/w xerox of a Topor woodcut "Vieille Légende Slave" (1975) 6. b/w xerox of a Christmas card with Topor as Santa Claus flanked by Daniel Spoerri and Robert Filliou 7. b/w photo xerox of a fat man by Roman Cieslewicz (?) 8. photo of the decaying corpse of a dog by Ad Petersen 9. b/w xerox of Topor's passport 10. oblong sheet with a song or poem titled "La Java d'Eric" (duration: 2h10) 11. card with a collage by Olivier Olivier 12. b/w photo xerox of a woman in stockings lying on a piano 13. 10x10 inch double sheet with a bibliography in Dutch and French 14. oblong brochure listing Topor's drawings on display at the exhibition 15. A4 sheet with a list of Topor exhibitions 1967-1975. According to (page 5 of the book), the recordings were made by Freddy de Vree and the humming is by Ad Pedersen. Apart from Topor's voice we can also hear Freddy de Vree and Topor's partner Fabienne. The album does not feature a regular interview. The first side is a series of zany audio sketches. The last two tracks and the album's title refer to the Panic Movement (Mouvement Panique), a collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Olivier O. Olivier, Jacques Sternberg, Christian Zeimert, Abel Ogier and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962. Inspired by and named after the god Pan, and influenced by Luis Buñuel and Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty, the group concentrated on chaotic and surreal performance art, as a response to surrealism becoming mainstream. Jodorowsky dissolved the Panic Movement in 1973, after the release of Arrabal's book Le Panique.