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SNDTRK1 By Chaze 2025

SNDTRK1 is my first book, i have been working on it for a few years now and it's finally coming out, I wanted to make it a true object, thoughtfully designed down to the smallest detail: design, layout, choice of images, and paper quality.

For over 35 years, I've lived and practiced an art form as fascinating as it is marginal: graffiti. A forbidden, sometimes misunderstood art form, which grabbed me very early on... and which I've never really left behind. A few years ago, while moving, I found an envelope filled with forgotten negatives. Out of curiosity, I had them scanned, without really knowing what I would discover. And then, everything came back to me at once: the images, the places, the faces, the atmospheres. Memories I thought were lost. Pieces of my life. It was at that precise moment that the idea for this book was born.

To bring this project to fruition, I called upon Stéphane (Func88) and Marie-Anne (Bloody Mary) for the graphics and layout. In addition, Marc-Aurèle Vecchione (Orel), INXS (Dirty handz), Jay One, Turs (Func88), Teach, and Ven (AOK) enrich the book with their words: memories, emotions, personal perspectives... sometimes in the form of metaphors, sometimes in spontaneous conversation. These testimonies form an authentic narrative, without posturing or artifice.

The book begins in the late 1980s and ends in 2001, when I left Paris
for New York.

• 26 cm x 26 cm Hardcover
• texts in French and English
• 336 pages
  
• Edition of 500
• Each book is hand signed and comes with stickers.

UK postage only. 

For international orders : Contemporaryrat