June 6th Newsletter

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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Kelan Phil Cohran – African Skies
    Kelan Phil Cohran – African Skies
    $45.00 | ,

    Stones Throw Records debuts new imprint Listening Position with the long-awaited reissue of Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy’s spiritual jazz masterpiece African Skies. A holy grail for jazz [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tony Molina – On This Day L.P.
    Tony Molina – On This Day L.P.
    $11.00 | ,

    Tony Molina has been putting out records with marked consistency for well over twenty years. Underpinned by an unwavering ethos of independence and an unrelenting devotion to songcraft, his music [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Nala Sinephro – The Smashing Machine
    Nala Sinephro – The Smashing Machine
    $29.00 | ,

    Composer Nala Sinephro presents The Smashing Machine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). The film, directed and written by Benny Safdie, tells the story of prolific UFC fighter Mark Kerr.

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Radiohead – In Rainbows
    Radiohead – In Rainbows
    $34.00 | ,

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tara Clerkin Trio – Somewhere Good
    Tara Clerkin Trio – Somewhere Good
    $16.00 | ,

    With two extraordinary mini-albums making a splash on London’s World of Echo label in wake of their self-titled 2020 debut, Somewhere Good is, in many ways, the Tara Clerkin Trio’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tara Clerkin Trio – Somewhere Good
    Tara Clerkin Trio – Somewhere Good
    $33.00 | ,

    With two extraordinary mini-albums making a splash on London’s World of Echo label in wake of their self-titled 2020 debut, Somewhere Good is, in many ways, the Tara Clerkin Trio’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Os Mutantes – Everything Is Possible: The Best Of Os Mutantes (Blue Vinyl)
    Os Mutantes – Everything Is Possible: The Best Of Os Mutantes (Blue Vi…
    $29.00 | ,

    The mutants are back! Now in Crystal Blue Persuasion. “The late 60s in Brasil produced an explosion of creativity that is still reverberating throughout the world… and Os Mutantes (The […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International
  • Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    $32.00 | ,

    Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Haylie Davis presents Wandering Star, a coming-of-age debut that unfolds like a Townes Van Zandt tale set in a deserted diner off a re-routed interchange: [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    $16.00 | ,

    Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Haylie Davis presents Wandering Star, a coming-of-age debut that unfolds like a Townes Van Zandt tale set in a deserted diner off a re-routed interchange: [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Boards Of Canada – Inferno
    Boards Of Canada – Inferno
    $16.00 | ,

    After thirteen years of silence from the compound, during which anticipation has grown day by day, Boards of Canada finally return. Inferno retains their signature melodies and atmospheres, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Boards Of Canada – Inferno
    Boards Of Canada – Inferno
    $33.00 | ,

    After thirteen years of silence from the compound, during which anticipation has grown day by day, Boards of Canada finally return. Inferno retains their signature melodies and atmospheres, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Iris DeMent – The Way I Should (30th Anniversary)
    Iris DeMent – The Way I Should (30th Anniversary)
    $25.00 | ,

    With The Way I Should, Iris DeMent stepped boldly into new territory, delivering a collection that balanced her fierce lyrical conviction with tender vulnerability. Released in 1996, this third [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country

VINYL

  • Kelan Phil Cohran – African Skies
    Kelan Phil Cohran – African Skies
    $45.00 | ,

    Stones Throw Records debuts new imprint Listening Position with the long-awaited reissue of Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy’s spiritual jazz masterpiece African Skies. A holy grail for jazz [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nala Sinephro – The Smashing Machine
    Nala Sinephro – The Smashing Machine
    $29.00 | ,

    Composer Nala Sinephro presents The Smashing Machine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). The film, directed and written by Benny Safdie, tells the story of prolific UFC fighter Mark Kerr.

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Radiohead – In Rainbows
    Radiohead – In Rainbows
    $34.00 | ,

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tara Clerkin Trio – Somewhere Good
    Tara Clerkin Trio – Somewhere Good
    $33.00 | ,

    With two extraordinary mini-albums making a splash on London’s World of Echo label in wake of their self-titled 2020 debut, Somewhere Good is, in many ways, the Tara Clerkin Trio’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Os Mutantes – Everything Is Possible: The Best Of Os Mutantes (Blue Vinyl)
    Os Mutantes – Everything Is Possible: The Best Of Os Mutantes (Blue Vi…
    $29.00 | ,

    The mutants are back! Now in Crystal Blue Persuasion. “The late 60s in Brasil produced an explosion of creativity that is still reverberating throughout the world… and Os Mutantes (The […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International
  • Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    $32.00 | ,

    Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Haylie Davis presents Wandering Star, a coming-of-age debut that unfolds like a Townes Van Zandt tale set in a deserted diner off a re-routed interchange: [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Boards Of Canada – Inferno
    Boards Of Canada – Inferno
    $33.00 | ,

    After thirteen years of silence from the compound, during which anticipation has grown day by day, Boards of Canada finally return. Inferno retains their signature melodies and atmospheres, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Iris DeMent – The Way I Should (30th Anniversary)
    Iris DeMent – The Way I Should (30th Anniversary)
    $25.00 | ,

    With The Way I Should, Iris DeMent stepped boldly into new territory, delivering a collection that balanced her fierce lyrical conviction with tender vulnerability. Released in 1996, this third [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • V/A – Kaiso Power – Sound Revolution In Trinidad 1970 – 1980
    V/A – Kaiso Power – Sound Revolution In Trinidad 1970 – 19…
    $31.00 | ,

    At the dawn of the 70s a shift was taking place all around the world. The streets of Port of Spain thronged with Black Power marches, trade union demonstrations and […]

    GENRE: International
  • Toro Y Moi – Anything In Return (Eco-Mix Vinyl)
    Toro Y Moi – Anything In Return (Eco-Mix Vinyl)
    $32.00 | ,

    Since his earliest recordings began circulating online in 2009, Toro y Moi has stood out not only for his prolific output but for his fearless evolution. Across each release, Chaz […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A – London Jazz Classics (Orange Vinyl)
    V/A – London Jazz Classics (Orange Vinyl)
    $35.00 | ,

    London Jazz Classics originally came out in 1993 – the first album ever to be released on Soul Jazz Records. The album brought together rare and obscure dance tracks in […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Fire-Toolz – Lavender Networks
    Fire-Toolz – Lavender Networks
    $30.00 | ,

    Lavender Networks is the debut album on Warp Records by Nu Age pioneer Fire-Toolz. The Maryland-born, Chicago-based artist also producers and engineers for other artists including New Joy’s [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise

CDs

  • Tony Molina – On This Day L.P.
    Tony Molina – On This Day L.P.
    $11.00 | ,

    Tony Molina has been putting out records with marked consistency for well over twenty years. Underpinned by an unwavering ethos of independence and an unrelenting devotion to songcraft, his music [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tara Clerkin Trio – Somewhere Good
    Tara Clerkin Trio – Somewhere Good
    $16.00 | ,

    With two extraordinary mini-albums making a splash on London’s World of Echo label in wake of their self-titled 2020 debut, Somewhere Good is, in many ways, the Tara Clerkin Trio’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    $16.00 | ,

    Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Haylie Davis presents Wandering Star, a coming-of-age debut that unfolds like a Townes Van Zandt tale set in a deserted diner off a re-routed interchange: [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Boards Of Canada – Inferno
    Boards Of Canada – Inferno
    $16.00 | ,

    After thirteen years of silence from the compound, during which anticipation has grown day by day, Boards of Canada finally return. Inferno retains their signature melodies and atmospheres, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • V/A – London Jazz Classics
    V/A – London Jazz Classics
    $23.00 | ,

    London Jazz Classics originally came out in 1993 – the first album ever to be released on Soul Jazz Records. The album brought together rare and obscure dance tracks in […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Why? – Elephant Eyelash
    Why? – Elephant Eyelash
    $13.00 | ,

    Elephant Eyelash is the second studio album from WHY?. Originally released by anticon. in 2005, this reissue is in celebration of it’s 20th anniversary. Pressed on 2xLP custom lavendar and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Esquires – Get Away With The Esquires
    The Esquires – Get Away With The Esquires
    $18.00 | ,

    Get Away With The Esquires. The most complete collection ever assembled of this Chicago/Milwaukee area R&B group. 26 Remastered Tracks so funky they turn sidewalks into dance floors! [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • John Zorn – Seven Sonnets
    John Zorn – Seven Sonnets
    $19.00 | ,

    Originally brought together in September 2015 to perform the Zorn Bagatelles, Julian Lage and Gyan Riley have become two of Zorn’s most trusted and soulful musical collaborators, having recorded [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Khun Narin – III
    Khun Narin – III
    $14.00 | ,

    Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band are a multi-generational psychedelic powerhouse from rural Thailand whose ecstatic, amplifier-blown folk music has quietly become one of the most unlikely global [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Suss – Counting Sunsets
    Suss – Counting Sunsets
    $16.00 | ,

    Counting Sunsets is a quietly expansive continuation of SUSS’s slow-motion Americana, tracing new lines through the terrain they’ve been mapping across their run of albums for [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Marisa Anderson – The Anthology Of Unamerican Folk Music Vol. 1
    Marisa Anderson – The Anthology Of Unamerican Folk Music Vol. 1
    $16.00 | ,

    Marisa Anderson’s music transcends borders. The topography of her work interrogates the intersections of artistry and expression with form and tradition. Anderson crafts pieces bursting with [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Deslondes – Don’t Let It Die Vol. 1
    The Deslondes – Don’t Let It Die Vol. 1
    $15.00 | ,

    The Deslondes are a five-piece group from New Orleans, Louisiana The band splits up songwriting and lead vocal duties among its five members, continuing its democratic ethos and musical [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country

BOOKS

  • In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism
    In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism
    $12.00 | , ,

    Looks at paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture by Arp, Dali, Ernst, Gorky, Grosz, and others This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
    Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
    $12.00 | , ,

    Classic work on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist school of Persian Sufism by renowned philosopher and Iranologist Henry Corbin. In the Sufism of ancient Iran, the quest for the dawning of light in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
    Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
    $8.00 | , ,

    Gnosticism developed alongside Judeo-Christianity over two thousand years ago, but with an important difference: It emphasizes, not faith, but direct perception of God–Gnosticism being [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    $8.00 | , ,

    One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Walter Burkert – Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece
    Walter Burkert – Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in …
    $7.00 | , ,

    We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Still Point: Reflections on Zen and Christian Mysticism
    The Still Point: Reflections on Zen and Christian Mysticism
    $7.00 | , ,

    It is surely a significant manifestation of the permanence of the soul’s quest for God that the Western world, at a time when human values, principles, and ideals are being […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jacques Derrida – Dissemination
    Jacques Derrida – Dissemination
    $7.00 | , ,

    “The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Idries Shah – The Sufis
    Idries Shah – The Sufis
    $7.00 | , ,

    Idries Shah’s The Sufis is the most authoritative book about Sufism ever produced for a modern audience. This definitive work explores an immemorial wisdom tradition best-known for its [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Colin Wilson – Poetry and Mysticism
    Colin Wilson – Poetry and Mysticism
    $7.00 | , ,

    The mystic’s moment of illumination shares with great poetry the liberating power of the deepest levels of consciousness. In the words of William Blake, “If the doors of perception [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets
    Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, an…
    $7.00 | , ,

    In his classic study The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell conducted us on a fascinating global tour, showing how the seeds of myth grew in a similar fashion throughout the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Zen Physics: The Science of Death, the Logic of Reincarnation
    Zen Physics: The Science of Death, the Logic of Reincarnation
    $7.00 | , ,

    A scientific approach to the mysteries of human death combines scientific logic and Buddhist principles in order to prove the existence of an afterlife and to explain the Zen view […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Keay – The Spice Route: A History
    John Keay – The Spice Route: A History
    $16.00 | , ,

    An exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage, The Spice Route transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth.The Spice Route […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction