October 5th Newsletter

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NEW ARRIVALS

  • The Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
    The Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    The 3CD version comes housed in a clamshell boxset. Alongside the full album is a disc of b-sides and session tracks and a live show from Mr Pickwick’s in Liverpool […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Fall – A-sides
    The Fall – A-sides
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    This is the first collection of all the Fall singles recorded across a multitude of labels and this edited 3-CD set (CRCDBOX 42) features all of the A-Sides. The discs […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Various Artists – C87
    Various Artists – C87
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    To celebrate the 30th anniversary of C86, we’re now proud to announce a sequel, in the shape of C87! Imagine if the NME had reconvened a year on from their […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Felt – Poem of the River
    Felt – Poem of the River
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Felt’s seventh album, remastered and reissued.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Fall – The Real New Fall
    The Fall – The Real New Fall
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally recorded at Lisa Stansfield’s Gracieland Studios in between December 2002 and January 2003 with producer Grant Showbiz. The subtitle is explained by the fact that the tracks were [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    In 1968, while he was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis, Salah Ragab formed the first jazz big band in Egypt, The Cairo Jazz Band. Some […]

    GENRE: International, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
    Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, July 6th 1973 as part of the Newport Jazz Festival, broadcast on WBGO-FM

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from George Russell, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details ‘Jazz In The [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
    Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Space Is The Place – highlighted by the rousing 21-minute title track – is both an essential album and a great onramp for new listeners to travel the spaceways of […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Joe Chambers – Samba De Maracatu
    Joe Chambers – Samba De Maracatu
    $8.00 | Add to cart

    The great drummer Joe Chambers was a stalwart presence on many of the most progressive Blue Note albums of the mid-1960s. But it wasn’t until 1998 that Chambers made his […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra – The Solar-myth Approach
    Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra – The Solar-myth Approach
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    MONUMENTAL SESSIONS FROM THE SATURN LEGEND A double CD edition that showcases the unparalleled creative verve of Sun Ra, the man who created his own genre. Upgrading his celebrated band […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
    Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    SLICK! – Live at Oil Can Harry’s is a never-before-released recording from jazz guitar great Grant Green captured live on September 5, 1975 at a popular club in Vancouver, BC […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz

VINYL

  • This Heat – Out of Cold Storage
    This Heat – Out of Cold Storage
    $60.00 | , Add to cart

    6 CD Box Set including the band’s entire discography, giant full color booklet and extensive liner notes not available anywhere else, all in a sturdy and beautifully printed box. Box […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Coffin Prick – Side Splits
    Coffin Prick – Side Splits
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    The collection of music you’re about to squeeze through your temporal lobe is not comprised of your standard 4/4 dance remixes. Unlike traditional remix records, these thirteen pieces are [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Home Blitz – All Through The Year
    Home Blitz – All Through The Year
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    “Mercer County is in central New Jersey, main city is Trenton (they make pork roll) but the more known town is Princeton (they have the college where Einstein spent time […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
    Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Using an idiosyncratic compass and thinly disguised as Broken Telepathy, the Bronx-based duo of Kaori Nakamura (Soft Gang) and Darin Mickey (Dichroics/Soft Gang) navigate a range of emotional [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ned Collette – Our Other History
    Ned Collette – Our Other History
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “Our Other History is a wonderful new LP by this wandering Berlin-based Melbourne expat. Ned’s last album, Afternoon Dusk was an avant instrumental trio outing with James Rushford and Joe [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bilders* – Dustbin Of Empathy
    Bilders* – Dustbin Of Empathy
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Co-Released by Sophomore Lounge and Grapefruit Records. The NZ-American *Bilders* brings *Matt Swanson (Lambchop,* *My Dad Is Dead*) and *Alex McManus (Vic Chesnutt, Lambchop)* into the fold, all [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Styrofoam Winos – Real Time
    Styrofoam Winos – Real Time
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “The Styrofoam Winos are that band that we love to have in our lives because they transcend the language of music, not by their individual parts, but by their oneness. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “One of my favorite bands making music in the world today. All star cast of Kentucky HEADS – members of Flanger Magazine (Torn Light), […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band – Dancing On The Edge (2nd Pressing)
    Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band – Dancing On The Edge (2nd Pressing)
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana – just a moderate bike ride north of LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – multi-instrumentalist, artist and songwriter RYAN DAVIS’ Americana-noir soundwaves have [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Vijaya Anand – Asia Classics 1: South Indian Film Music
    Vijaya Anand – Asia Classics 1: South Indian Film Music
    $23.00 | Add to cart

    You won’t hear Vijaya Anand sing on this record. Nor will you hear him play any of the instruments. He is the invisible presence behind each of these songs. He’s […]

    GENRE: Indian, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
    Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
    $21.00 | Add to cart

    With his 2021 self-titled debut, Andy Pastalaniec’s Chime School became one of the defining acts of the seemingly never-ending, prolific and multifaceted Bay Area pop scene. Slumberland Records [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
    Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
    $20.00 | Add to cart

    A solo double bass LP from Zach Rowden. A minimal and  drone album that requires you to let go, and hear Zach’s discipline and from that – patience. Immediately intimate, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise

CDs

  • The Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
    The Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    The 3CD version comes housed in a clamshell boxset. Alongside the full album is a disc of b-sides and session tracks and a live show from Mr Pickwick’s in Liverpool […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Fall – A-sides
    The Fall – A-sides
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    This is the first collection of all the Fall singles recorded across a multitude of labels and this edited 3-CD set (CRCDBOX 42) features all of the A-Sides. The discs […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Various Artists – C87
    Various Artists – C87
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    To celebrate the 30th anniversary of C86, we’re now proud to announce a sequel, in the shape of C87! Imagine if the NME had reconvened a year on from their […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Felt – Poem of the River
    Felt – Poem of the River
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Felt’s seventh album, remastered and reissued.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    In 1968, while he was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis, Salah Ragab formed the first jazz big band in Egypt, The Cairo Jazz Band. Some […]

    GENRE: International, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Fall – The Real New Fall
    The Fall – The Real New Fall
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally recorded at Lisa Stansfield’s Gracieland Studios in between December 2002 and January 2003 with producer Grant Showbiz. The subtitle is explained by the fact that the tracks were [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
    Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, July 6th 1973 as part of the Newport Jazz Festival, broadcast on WBGO-FM

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from George Russell, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details ‘Jazz In The [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
    Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Space Is The Place – highlighted by the rousing 21-minute title track – is both an essential album and a great onramp for new listeners to travel the spaceways of […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Joe Chambers – Samba De Maracatu
    Joe Chambers – Samba De Maracatu
    $8.00 | Add to cart

    The great drummer Joe Chambers was a stalwart presence on many of the most progressive Blue Note albums of the mid-1960s. But it wasn’t until 1998 that Chambers made his […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra – The Solar-myth Approach
    Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra – The Solar-myth Approach
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    MONUMENTAL SESSIONS FROM THE SATURN LEGEND A double CD edition that showcases the unparalleled creative verve of Sun Ra, the man who created his own genre. Upgrading his celebrated band […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
    Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    SLICK! – Live at Oil Can Harry’s is a never-before-released recording from jazz guitar great Grant Green captured live on September 5, 1975 at a popular club in Vancouver, BC […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz

BOOKS

  • Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
    Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Indian Cinema In The Time Of Celluloid
    Indian Cinema In The Time Of Celluloid
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    In Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
    Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
    Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos.This is a book about art—and a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
    Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Thompson – Beeswing
    Richard Thompson – Beeswing
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    In this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
    Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
    October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Critical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s.From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
    Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it’s a history […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Social History Of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era 1897-1941
    A Social History Of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era 1897-1941
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joy Williams – Honored Guest
    Joy Williams – Honored Guest
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    In short stories “so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race” (Vanity Fair), a masseuse breaks her rich client’s wrist [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive