March 21st Newsletter

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Torn Light Records
1855 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60647
312.955.0614
Open Everyday
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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Music from the Hearts of Space Guide – Anna Turner & Stephen Hill
    Music from the Hearts of Space Guide – Anna Turner & Stephe…
    $30.00 | ,

    The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music by Anna Turner and Stephen Hill 8 x 8.75 in. 116pp 1 color PMS offset with 4 color offset […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction, Synthwave / Electronic
  • Roe Enney ‎– Glare
    Roe Enney ‎– Glare
    $12.00 | , ,

    “A somnambulant journey through psychedelic bedroom fantasy-scapes, Glare is Roe Enney’s first proper LP after only a few under-the-radar cassette releases on Phaserprone, Discriminate and [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Maggi Payne ‎– Crystal
    Maggi Payne ‎– Crystal
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Aguirre Records present a reissue of Maggi Payne’s challenging electronic album Crystal, originally released in 1986. Maggi Payne is an American composer, flutist, video artist, and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Charlemagne Palestine ‎– Strumming Music
    Charlemagne Palestine ‎– Strumming Music
    $28.00 | , ,

    “Primed with a glass of cognac Charlemagne Palestine sits at the keyboard of a Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano. One foot firmly holds down the sustain pedal while both hands perform […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Marc Barreca ‎– Twilight
    Marc Barreca ‎– Twilight
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Marc Barreca has been creating and performing electronic music since the mid 1970s. Following recent vinyl reissues of Barreca’s 1983 cassette Music Works for Industry via the RVNG [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Laurie Spiegel & Don Christensen ‎– Donnie And Laurie / Patchwork
    Laurie Spiegel & Don Christensen ‎– Donnie And Laurie / Patchwork
    $25.00 | , ,

    “Limited-edition 12” single featuring an unearthed, late-‘70s collaboration between Laurie Spiegel, ElectroComp 101 synthesizer, and Don Christensen (ImpLOG, The Contortions), drums, on the [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Synthwave / Electronic
  • Rebound X & Flava D – Rhythm & Gash
    Rebound X & Flava D – Rhythm & Gash
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Flava D’s remix of Rebound X’s 2006 grime classic “Rhythm & Gash” took the clubs by storm in 2016 and amassed millions of plays across SoundCloud and YouTube, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Z.Ø. VØIĐÈR* – Tranz-Portal-Emissions
    Z.Ø. VØIĐÈR* – Tranz-Portal-Emissions
    $9.00 | , ,

    “Edition of 200 hand stamped one sided records. “It all started, like most good things, in the late 70s. Peter Z.O. formed the American Industrial outfit Z.O. VOIDER just along […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jordan De La Sierra ‎– Gymnosphere: Song Of The Rose
    Jordan De La Sierra ‎– Gymnosphere: Song Of The Rose
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Before new age hit terra firma at the dawn of the 1980s, the classically-trained Bay Area composer Jordan De La Sierra’s consciousness soared with cosmic concepts. A student of Terry [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Devo ‎– New Traditionalists
    Devo ‎– New Traditionalists
    $16.00 | , ,

    “Devo followed up their platinum-selling pop breakthrough in typically perverse fashion: New Traditionalists presents a band seemingly aghast at being pegged as a novelty act by some of [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Greg Fox ‎– The Gradual Progression
    Greg Fox ‎– The Gradual Progression
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Greg Fox’s The Gradual Progression offers a new strain of spiritual jazz compelled by virtuosic playing and responsive music technology. Energetic and gestural, akin to an action painting, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mark ‎– Integrier Dich Du Yuppie
    Mark ‎– Integrier Dich Du Yuppie
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Black mirror malevolence from the darkside. Three dread epics, unmistakably Mark: impossibly stealthy yet cunningly ruthless. Junglist noir for the malaise in us all. Proper rollage; [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic

VINYL

  • Roe Enney ‎– Glare
    Roe Enney ‎– Glare
    $12.00 | , ,

    “A somnambulant journey through psychedelic bedroom fantasy-scapes, Glare is Roe Enney’s first proper LP after only a few under-the-radar cassette releases on Phaserprone, Discriminate and [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Maggi Payne ‎– Crystal
    Maggi Payne ‎– Crystal
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Aguirre Records present a reissue of Maggi Payne’s challenging electronic album Crystal, originally released in 1986. Maggi Payne is an American composer, flutist, video artist, and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Charlemagne Palestine ‎– Strumming Music
    Charlemagne Palestine ‎– Strumming Music
    $28.00 | , ,

    “Primed with a glass of cognac Charlemagne Palestine sits at the keyboard of a Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano. One foot firmly holds down the sustain pedal while both hands perform […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Marc Barreca ‎– Twilight
    Marc Barreca ‎– Twilight
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Marc Barreca has been creating and performing electronic music since the mid 1970s. Following recent vinyl reissues of Barreca’s 1983 cassette Music Works for Industry via the RVNG [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Laurie Spiegel & Don Christensen ‎– Donnie And Laurie / Patchwork
    Laurie Spiegel & Don Christensen ‎– Donnie And Laurie / Patchwork
    $25.00 | , ,

    “Limited-edition 12” single featuring an unearthed, late-‘70s collaboration between Laurie Spiegel, ElectroComp 101 synthesizer, and Don Christensen (ImpLOG, The Contortions), drums, on the [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Synthwave / Electronic
  • Rebound X & Flava D – Rhythm & Gash
    Rebound X & Flava D – Rhythm & Gash
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Flava D’s remix of Rebound X’s 2006 grime classic “Rhythm & Gash” took the clubs by storm in 2016 and amassed millions of plays across SoundCloud and YouTube, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Z.Ø. VØIĐÈR* – Tranz-Portal-Emissions
    Z.Ø. VØIĐÈR* – Tranz-Portal-Emissions
    $9.00 | , ,

    “Edition of 200 hand stamped one sided records. “It all started, like most good things, in the late 70s. Peter Z.O. formed the American Industrial outfit Z.O. VOIDER just along […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jordan De La Sierra ‎– Gymnosphere: Song Of The Rose
    Jordan De La Sierra ‎– Gymnosphere: Song Of The Rose
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Before new age hit terra firma at the dawn of the 1980s, the classically-trained Bay Area composer Jordan De La Sierra’s consciousness soared with cosmic concepts. A student of Terry [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Devo ‎– New Traditionalists
    Devo ‎– New Traditionalists
    $16.00 | , ,

    “Devo followed up their platinum-selling pop breakthrough in typically perverse fashion: New Traditionalists presents a band seemingly aghast at being pegged as a novelty act by some of [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Greg Fox ‎– The Gradual Progression
    Greg Fox ‎– The Gradual Progression
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Greg Fox’s The Gradual Progression offers a new strain of spiritual jazz compelled by virtuosic playing and responsive music technology. Energetic and gestural, akin to an action painting, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mark ‎– Integrier Dich Du Yuppie
    Mark ‎– Integrier Dich Du Yuppie
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Black mirror malevolence from the darkside. Three dread epics, unmistakably Mark: impossibly stealthy yet cunningly ruthless. Junglist noir for the malaise in us all. Proper rollage; [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • V/A – Miracle Steps: Music From The Fourth World 1983-2017
    V/A – Miracle Steps: Music From The Fourth World 1983-2017
    $25.00 | , ,

    “This compilation had been on the label’s to do list for ages but it was only when Twitch and Glasgow’s Fergus Clark started crossing swords over what actually constituted Fourth […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise

CDs

BOOKS

  • Music from the Hearts of Space Guide – Anna Turner & Stephen Hill
    Music from the Hearts of Space Guide – Anna Turner & Stephe…
    $30.00 | ,

    The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music by Anna Turner and Stephen Hill 8 x 8.75 in. 116pp 1 color PMS offset with 4 color offset […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction, Synthwave / Electronic
  • Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
    Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
    $17.00 | ,

    Beauty, in László Krasznahorkai’s new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred – even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Tiptree Jr. – Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
    James Tiptree Jr. – Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
    $13.00 | ,

    ‘Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction’ The New York Times. Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Andreas Eschbach – The Hair Carpet Weavers
    Andreas Eschbach – The Hair Carpet Weavers
    $14.00 | ,

    In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach’s mysterious, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura
    Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura
    $14.00 | ,

    ‘One of Japan’s most venerated writers’ David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan’s greatest novelists, a recluse known as ‘Mole’ retreats to a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hubert Selby Jr – Last Exit to Brooklyn
    Hubert Selby Jr – Last Exit to Brooklyn
    $14.00 | ,

    Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.’s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
    Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
    $14.00 | ,

    ‘The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect’ Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940’s. A serial killer stalks the foggy [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Walter Benjamin – One-Way Street and Other Writings
    Walter Benjamin – One-Way Street and Other Writings
    $16.00 | ,

    Walter Benjamin – philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist – was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Davis Grubb – The Night of the Hunter
    Davis Grubb – The Night of the Hunter
    $16.00 | ,

    Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money – and a relentless psychopath is on their trail… Harry ‘Preacher’ Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
    Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
    $14.00 | ,

    Part detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
    Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
    $14.00 | ,

    Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
    Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
    $16.00 | ,

    Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive