NEW ARRIVALS
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CCNT – CCNT
$10.00 | Cassette, CSGuttural, coarse, and unprecious. Twisted Arp Odyssey and heavily-processed Saprano saxophone improvisations form a labyrinthine album of synth drone, occasional scronk, and composed noise. [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Nathan Taylor – Life is but a Dream
$10.00 | Cassette, CSNathan Taylor’s debut under his given name, 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, presents a hypnagogic atmosphere unfurling within the space spanning crepuscular phantoms to late-night reveries. Though the [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Verity Den – IX XVI MMXXV Instrumentals: Live and Improvised
$27.00 | LP, VinylIX XVI MMXXV recorded live and mixed at Mangum Street Grocery by Reed Benjamin. I, ETYWD & III mixed live by Kelcy Dial and recorded by Colin Swanson-White at King’s. […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative -
Ul de Rico – Rainbow Goblins
$20.00 | Book, PrintAfter seven goblins try to steal it, the Rainbow is careful never again to touch the earth. Since its original publication in 1978, the fantastic colors, amazing detail, and sweeping […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, 1991-2002
$18.00 | Book, PrintThe chilling autobiography of Aileen Wuornos, the notorious female serial killer who was the subject of an Investigation Discovery special and the Oscar-winning film starring Charlize Theron, [...]
GENRE: Memoir -
Fields Of The Nephilim – Earth Inferno
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“One reason the Fields of the Nephilim were so successful at what they did was their live performance sense. If McCoy especially wasn’t really believing he was carrying out religious [...]
GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk -
Dan Graham – Rock/Music Writings
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAs admired for his writing as for his work in art, photography and architecture, Dan Graham was one of the first contemporary artists to embrace Punk, Postpunk and No Wave, […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Ascension: John Coltrane And His Quest
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Ascension is as spellbinding as Coltrane’s music.”–The New Review of Records “This remarkable book traces the development of Coltrane’s music as it moved from [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Shock Factory: The Visual Culture Of Industrial Music
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn exploration of the multidisciplinary creative culture encapsulated by the term industrial art, which spans musical, visual, multimedia, and performance arts. Industrial music appeared in the [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction -
Cindytalk – The Crackle Of My Soul
$15.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsCindytalk have been active since 1982, which we won’t go into here (a quick Google search will satisfy that need). During the 80s and 90s their sound was defined by […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Scald Hymn – Lilac Drain
$8.00 | Cassette, CS, Used ItemsScald Hymn is a pure representation of American noise. The distilled sound of sweaty house shows, post-industrial refuse, and an artist brave enough to inject moments of beauty into the […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
XAM Duo – Total Refreshment Centre, London, November 5, 2016
$8.00 | Cassette, CS, Used ItemsRecorded live at the Total Refreshment Centre, London, November 5, 2016 Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.
GENRE: Experimental / Noise
VINYL
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Verity Den – IX XVI MMXXV Instrumentals: Live and Improvised
$27.00 | LP, VinylIX XVI MMXXV recorded live and mixed at Mangum Street Grocery by Reed Benjamin. I, ETYWD & III mixed live by Kelcy Dial and recorded by Colin Swanson-White at King’s. […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative -
Willie Wright – Telling The Truth
$18.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Born of Harlem doo-wop roots and refined by Boston’s counterculture scene, Willie Wright arrived in Nantucket in 1976 well worn by two decades of street corner and club performing, eager [...]
GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco -
MFG – In Minnesota
$30.00 | 2xLP, Used Items, VinylRecorded Live at Walker Church, Sunday, June 4, 1978. Label: Hat Hut Records – S/T Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1978 VG+/VG+
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
The Burton Greene Trio – On Tour
$12.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“The Chicago-born pianist Burton Greene first made his way to NY in 1962, just as the New Music movement was beginning to gain momentum. The following year he and bassist […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Grupo Um – Starting Point
$24.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“In 1975, under the oppressive air of military dictatorship in Brazil, brothers Lelo and Zé Eduardo Nazario invited bassist Zeca Assumpção to join their musical experiments in a basement [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Brandon López – vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile
$17.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“On moving to NYC a little over a decade ago, López began making himself indispensable within many creative music scenes, from the New York Philharmonic to the DIY basements of […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra* – On Jupiter
$25.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“On Jupiter is a great album recorded in 1979, about a year after Lanquidity. After easing in with the fairly brief title cut, a fairly mellow affair featuring June Tyson […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Siegfried Kessler / Gus Nemeth / Stu Martin – Solaire
$19.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Solaire, Siegfried Kessler, that is the least we can say! Aged 4: learns piano. Aged 6: his first concert. After this: studies classical music like everyone else… until the jazz […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Antonello Salis – Orange Juice / Nice Food
$17.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylRecorded Live on Monday February 4, 1980 at Untere Mensa der Universität Zürich. Label: Hat Hut Records – hat Hut TEN (1R10) Format: Vinyl, LP, Gatefold Country: Switzerland Released: 1980 […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Plunky & Oneness – Made Through Ritual
$24.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“In 1975, the late DJ / producer and jazz distributor Jimmy Gray and James “Plunky” Branch joined a musical revolution, founding Black Fire Records and releasing the label’s debut album, [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Charles Tyler – Sixty Minute Man
$10.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Charles Tyler spent the mid-’60s playing for the legendary Albert Ayler, with whom he shares his burly tone and wide vibrato. Tyler’s 1980 LP Sixty Minute Man is a reasonably [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
L’Infonie – S/T
$19.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylBeat poetry influence free form jazz collective, formed in Montreal in 1967, L’Infonie existed officially until 1974. Lead by composer Walter Boudreau (aka retlaW uaerduoB) and poet, [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
CDs
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Fields Of The Nephilim – Earth Inferno
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“One reason the Fields of the Nephilim were so successful at what they did was their live performance sense. If McCoy especially wasn’t really believing he was carrying out religious [...]
GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk -
Cindytalk – The Crackle Of My Soul
$15.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsCindytalk have been active since 1982, which we won’t go into here (a quick Google search will satisfy that need). During the 80s and 90s their sound was defined by […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Psychophysicist – Psychophysicists
$8.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsAll recordings made at the Electroacoustic Music Studios, Stockholm, utilizing anechoic chambers and Ircam linked computer systems Label: Side Effects – DFX 18 Format: CD, Album Country: US [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Paul Bley – Ramblin’
$6.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Recorded at Studio RCA in the Eternal City on July 1, 1966, Ramblin’ captures Paul Bley alongside the formidable rhythm section of double bassist Mark Levinson and drummer Barry Altschul. [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Xenakis – Xenakis
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsCareer-spanning compilation of Xenakis’s best compositions. Label: Erato – 8573-84254-2 Format: 2 x CD, Compilation Country: France Released: 2000 VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Steve Reich – Different Trains / Triple Quartet / The Four Secti…
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsDifferent Trains (2000) for string orchestra and pre-recorded performance tape Triple Quartet (1999) for string orquestra The Four Sections (1986) for orchestra Label: Montaigne – MO 782167 [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Sleep Research Facility* – Nostromo
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsUltra deep ambience, based on the first 8 minutes of the movie ‘Alien’ which depicts the deep space haulage vessel slowly moving through the void. The disc takes you through […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Æthenor – Betimes Black Cloudmasses
$7.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Highly-anticipated second album from the trio of Vincent De Roguin (Shora), Stephen O’Malley (Sunn0))), KTL) and Daniel O’Sullivan (Guapo). Like their genre and [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
John Zorn & Bobby Previte – Euclid’s Nightmare
$6.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“This 1997 duet recording between drumming ace Bobby Previte and saxophonist John Zorn is indicative — pretty much — of what Zorn’s music was like at the time: There are [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Archie Shepp – Four For Trane
$7.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“From 1964, Archie Shepp’s first date as a leader featured — as one would expect from the title — four tunes by John Coltrane, his mentor, his major influence, and […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
John Zorn – IAO
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsThe name IAO is Kabbalistically identical to the Beast and his number 666. In the tradition of Zorn’s longform studio compositions Godard, Spillane, Elegy, Kristallnacht and Duras, yet [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
John Zorn – The Hermetic Organ Vol. 3 – St. Paul’s Hall, Hudder…
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsZorn’s organ improvisations are transcendent, inspiring, outrageous and ecstatic experiences, offering a direct line to the workings of his rich compositional imagination. In this performance, [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise
BOOKS
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Ul de Rico – Rainbow Goblins
$20.00 | Book, PrintAfter seven goblins try to steal it, the Rainbow is careful never again to touch the earth. Since its original publication in 1978, the fantastic colors, amazing detail, and sweeping […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, 1991-2002
$18.00 | Book, PrintThe chilling autobiography of Aileen Wuornos, the notorious female serial killer who was the subject of an Investigation Discovery special and the Oscar-winning film starring Charlize Theron, [...]
GENRE: Memoir -
Dan Graham – Rock/Music Writings
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAs admired for his writing as for his work in art, photography and architecture, Dan Graham was one of the first contemporary artists to embrace Punk, Postpunk and No Wave, […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Ascension: John Coltrane And His Quest
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Ascension is as spellbinding as Coltrane’s music.”–The New Review of Records “This remarkable book traces the development of Coltrane’s music as it moved from [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Shock Factory: The Visual Culture Of Industrial Music
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn exploration of the multidisciplinary creative culture encapsulated by the term industrial art, which spans musical, visual, multimedia, and performance arts. Industrial music appeared in the [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction -
Rosemarie Trockel/Paloma Varga Weisz – Maison De Plaisance
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMaison de Plaisance is a collaboration between German artists Rosemarie Trockel (born 1952) and Paloma Varga Weisz (born 1966), who have created an installation at the Museum Morsbroich, near [...]
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Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore -
Carl Andre : Sculpture As Place, 1958 – 2010
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA major retrospective catalogue on the career of minimalist sculptor and poet Carl Andre. Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom And The Modern World
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Harvard anthropologist Maybury-Lewis argues that the ancient wisdom, communal sharing and closeness to nature found in tribal societies hold survival lessons for our modern industrial [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Joel-Peter Witkin: Gods of Earth and Heaven
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Once you have witnessed the dark, sensational visions of Joel-Peter Witkin, you will never be the same again. Witkin gets to you. Here you will encounter hermaphrodites, malformed bodies, [...]
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Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This book is the result of a unique collaboration. ‘The Way We Live Now’ was first published as a short story in the New Yorker in 1986. It concerns the […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Ornette Coleman’s discovery some thirty years ago that his band’s music was indeed a “free thing” marked the beginning of a revolution in jazz. From the early [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
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