LOUIS JUCKER – A Pharmacy of Songs- BOOK

Name: LOUIS JUCKER - A Pharmacy of Songs- BOOK
SKU: 28651
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Published Nov. 28th 2025 on Humus Records

186 pages handmade book (19×12.5×1.5 cm), featuring full songs lyrics and infos, colored pictures.
Includes a QR code link to access the online jukebox to listen to the 50 songs – limited to 400 copies
Printed in Nyon by Ripopée.

access the online jukebox HERE

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LOUIS JUCKER  A PHARMACY OF SONGS   Swiss artist Louis Jucker produced 50 songs in 2024 during two residencies in Lausanne (La Pharmacie, March 2024) and Fribourg (O.V.N.I., September 2024). He set up an analog recording studio in these galleries and invited the public to come and order songs in the form of musical “consultations.”

During a private and anonymous interview, interested individuals could describe to him the symptoms, ailments, and problems in their emotional lives that they imagined could be alleviated with the help of a song-remedy. He wrote, recorded, and pressed the music onto vinyl records on site during his lab hours.

A total of 50 remedy songs accumulated in the pharmacy’s jukebox, providing musical treatment for all kinds of problems, both minor and profound.   PUBLICATION OF A BOOK  In November 2025, Louis Jucker publishes the book “A Pharmacy of Songs,” a complete collection of these songs. The book will be published jointly by Ripopée (Nyon, Switzerland) and Humus Records (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland).

It is a paperback book of around 200 pages, containing all of the pharmaceutical “notes” describing the remedies offered, classified by a thematic table of contents (according to the ailments targeted, the parts of the body concerned, the type of recommended dosage, etc.), song lyrics, and a set of photographs documenting the two installations created in 2024, in order to reflect the conditions under which these songs were produced.

Online Jukebox  This book is linked to an online platform that works like a jukebox: a digital keypad allows you to call up each song in the collection, which appears on the screen in the form of a VHS video clip, as well as a scan of the original notes from the pharmacist’s file. The songs can be purchased digitally via the Humus Records webshop, or you can order a custom-made single 45 rpm vinyl record if you want to enjoy the remedy at home.

read the book in digital HERE

access the online jukebox HERE