January 11th Newsletter

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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Mac Blackout – Revelation on the Beach
    Mac Blackout – Revelation on the Beach
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Micro pressing of 100 copies on “Crystal Mist” vinyl available from Torn Light: Avant-Garde soundscapes envelop the listener in sonic waves of emotion. A synesthetic journey and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Steve Reid Ensemble ‎– Daxaar (Recorded In Africa)
    Steve Reid Ensemble ‎– Daxaar (Recorded In Africa)
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    A collaboration between Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and jazz legend Steven Reid, Daxaar contains a brand new collection of rhythmic ideas captured during Reid’s first visit to Africa in over [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Leyland Kirby – Intrigue & Stuff (Vol. 4)
    Leyland Kirby – Intrigue & Stuff (Vol. 4)
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “What is ”Intrigue & Stuff” ? The title may refer to a Martin Hannett quote regarding Factory Records – “There’s an awful lot of incest that goes on” [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bülent Arel ‎– Electronic Music 1960-1973
    Bülent Arel ‎– Electronic Music 1960-1973
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Bülent Arel’s (1919 Turkey – 1990 USA) work occupies a special place in the history of electronic music because one thing is certain: Arel’s work is still fresh, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sham 69 ‎– The Game
    Sham 69 ‎– The Game
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Sham 69’s last & most underrated album Label: Polydor – POLD 5033 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nancy Priddy – You’ve Come This Way Before
    Nancy Priddy – You’ve Come This Way Before
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Released just a year after her vocals graced Leonard Cohen’s debut, Nancy Priddy’s lone album is a sweeping odyssey across avant garde arrangements rife with experimental pop [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Nucleus With Leon Thomas – Live 1970
    Nucleus With Leon Thomas – Live 1970
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    “First official release of June 1970 Montreux Jazz Festival concert featuring US vocalist Leon Thomas with trumpeter Ian Carr’s pioneering Nucleus featuring Karl Jenkins – oboe & [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Shadow – S/T (w/lbl promo)
    Shadow – S/T (w/lbl promo)
    $36.00 | , , Add to cart

    Underrated soulful funk album by Ohio Players alumni Label: Elektra – 6E-293 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Light shelf wear. Edge wear along all of […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Tangerine Dream ‎– Alpha Centauri / Atem [UK pressing]
    Tangerine Dream ‎– Alpha Centauri / Atem [UK pressing]
    $26.00 | , , Add to cart

    Compilation containing both Alpha Centauri & Atem. Tangerine Dream at their zoned out peak! Label: Virgin – VD 2504 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1976 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nico – The Marble Index (2004 Sundazed Reissue)
    Nico – The Marble Index (2004 Sundazed Reissue)
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    Released in 1968 on America’s coolest label Elektra Records, Nico’s sophomore solo release The Marble Index was an instant avant-garde masterpiece. Nico’s haunting voice and droning harmonium [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Møb* – Let The Tribe Increase
    The Møb* – Let The Tribe Increase
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “One of the seminal anarcho-punk albums, includes the bonus tracks from the Mirror Breaks 7” and a previously unheard version of Stay.” Label: Overground Records – OVER 122LP Format: [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nekropolis, Peter Frohmader – Cultes Des Goules (Ballett Of Death)
    Nekropolis, Peter Frohmader – Cultes Des Goules (Ballett Of Death)
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A strange album this, one I’ve found very hard to come to terms with. Very fragmented, diverse; an amalgam of a whole range of styles from ECM style classical-jazz (i.e. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise

VINYL

  • Mac Blackout – Revelation on the Beach
    Mac Blackout – Revelation on the Beach
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Micro pressing of 100 copies on “Crystal Mist” vinyl available from Torn Light: Avant-Garde soundscapes envelop the listener in sonic waves of emotion. A synesthetic journey and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Steve Reid Ensemble ‎– Daxaar (Recorded In Africa)
    Steve Reid Ensemble ‎– Daxaar (Recorded In Africa)
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    A collaboration between Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and jazz legend Steven Reid, Daxaar contains a brand new collection of rhythmic ideas captured during Reid’s first visit to Africa in over [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Leyland Kirby – Intrigue & Stuff (Vol. 4)
    Leyland Kirby – Intrigue & Stuff (Vol. 4)
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “What is ”Intrigue & Stuff” ? The title may refer to a Martin Hannett quote regarding Factory Records – “There’s an awful lot of incest that goes on” [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bülent Arel ‎– Electronic Music 1960-1973
    Bülent Arel ‎– Electronic Music 1960-1973
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Bülent Arel’s (1919 Turkey – 1990 USA) work occupies a special place in the history of electronic music because one thing is certain: Arel’s work is still fresh, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sham 69 ‎– The Game
    Sham 69 ‎– The Game
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Sham 69’s last & most underrated album Label: Polydor – POLD 5033 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nancy Priddy – You’ve Come This Way Before
    Nancy Priddy – You’ve Come This Way Before
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Released just a year after her vocals graced Leonard Cohen’s debut, Nancy Priddy’s lone album is a sweeping odyssey across avant garde arrangements rife with experimental pop [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Nucleus With Leon Thomas – Live 1970
    Nucleus With Leon Thomas – Live 1970
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    “First official release of June 1970 Montreux Jazz Festival concert featuring US vocalist Leon Thomas with trumpeter Ian Carr’s pioneering Nucleus featuring Karl Jenkins – oboe & [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Shadow – S/T (w/lbl promo)
    Shadow – S/T (w/lbl promo)
    $36.00 | , , Add to cart

    Underrated soulful funk album by Ohio Players alumni Label: Elektra – 6E-293 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Light shelf wear. Edge wear along all of […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Tangerine Dream ‎– Alpha Centauri / Atem [UK pressing]
    Tangerine Dream ‎– Alpha Centauri / Atem [UK pressing]
    $26.00 | , , Add to cart

    Compilation containing both Alpha Centauri & Atem. Tangerine Dream at their zoned out peak! Label: Virgin – VD 2504 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1976 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nico – The Marble Index (2004 Sundazed Reissue)
    Nico – The Marble Index (2004 Sundazed Reissue)
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    Released in 1968 on America’s coolest label Elektra Records, Nico’s sophomore solo release The Marble Index was an instant avant-garde masterpiece. Nico’s haunting voice and droning harmonium [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Møb* – Let The Tribe Increase
    The Møb* – Let The Tribe Increase
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “One of the seminal anarcho-punk albums, includes the bonus tracks from the Mirror Breaks 7” and a previously unheard version of Stay.” Label: Overground Records – OVER 122LP Format: [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nekropolis, Peter Frohmader – Cultes Des Goules (Ballett Of Death)
    Nekropolis, Peter Frohmader – Cultes Des Goules (Ballett Of Death)
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A strange album this, one I’ve found very hard to come to terms with. Very fragmented, diverse; an amalgam of a whole range of styles from ECM style classical-jazz (i.e. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise

CDs

  • Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
    Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
    $19.00 | Add to cart

    CD The Exploding Star Orchestra is Rob Mazurek’s vehicle for blowing minds and reshaping worlds. For more than a decade and a half, the multi-instrumentalist has guided the variably configured [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
    Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    CD Tomin’s debut full-length work, A Willed and Conscious Balance, answers a set of questions left unasked in recent years, as a new generation of artists re-energizes the tradition often […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Broken Hope – The Bowels Of Repugnance
    Broken Hope – The Bowels Of Repugnance
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    The Chicago death metal band’s second album. Label: Metal Blade – 3984-14018-2 Format: CD, Album, Repress Country: US Released: VG+/VG+ with light marks & wear  

    GENRE: Metal
  • Intrinsic Action ‎– Five
    Intrinsic Action ‎– Five
    $5.00 | , Add to cart

    Reissue of Intrinsic Action’s 1988 cassette on AWB Label:BloodLust! – B!048 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2004 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Sewer Election – Sex / Death
    Sewer Election – Sex / Death
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Reissue of a two cassette set, originally released on Harsh Head Rituals. Recorded 2006 in Harsh Head Studios. Label: PACrec – PACrec126 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2007 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    The Iceland Symphony Orchestra is widely praised for its performances and recordings and concerts devoted to modern music. Since 2011, the orchestra’s home has been Harpa Concert Hall in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
    $20.00 | Add to cart

    At the risk of getting doxxed by my musician colleagues, I’m going to divulge a dark truth about classical music: it’s never as captivating or molecule-altering for anyone as it […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
    Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    SILVA is a work for processed double bass built on the idea of a downward growing forest, living its own secret life of underground raves and meditative cohesiveness. I like […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
    Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
    $18.00 | Add to cart

    Kristin Anna (Múm) and Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros) have created one of the most painfully beautiful albums I’ve heard in years. Kristin’s voice is as gorgeous as it is unique […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
    Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Icelandic cellist, singer, and composer Gyda Valtysdottir, a founder of the band múm and 2019 winner of the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize, releases Epicycle II on her label DiaMond in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
    Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen is an opera in four acts conceived by Kjartan Sveinsson and artist Ragnar Kjartansson, which was commissioned by and originally performed in Volksbühne am [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
    Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Alex Sopp, the flutist, composer, vocalist, and visual artist releases the title track ‘The Hem & The Haw’ from her upcoming debut album The Hem […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative

BOOKS

  • Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
    Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    In 1994, in the company of Italian anarchist & photographer “Dekaro,” the author travelled across Morocco & the disputed Western Sahara. The notebooks from that journey [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kenji Siratori – Blood Electric
    Kenji Siratori – Blood Electric
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    2024 redux edition of the long out-of-print 2002 cyberpunk cult classic «A Finnegans Wake for the postdigital millennium, Kenji Siratori’s Blood Electric is probably the foundational text of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Symbionese Liberation Army – Death to the Fascist Insect
    Symbionese Liberation Army – Death to the Fascist Insect
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Death to the Fascist Insect is a compilation of the writings and transcribed recordings of the Symbionese Liberation Army (1973–75), a radical left-wing group based in the Bay Area of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
    Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    In 1676, a century before the British colonized Australia, a defrocked French monk named Gabriel de Foigny published a novel imagining what the land was like. The work is told […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael Salu – Red Earth
    Michael Salu – Red Earth
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Conversing with Dante, Yoruba metaphysics and probabilistic computation, Red Earth is an expansive text and the source material for Michael Salu’s broader interdisciplinary artistic study, where [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Derek Jarman – Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
    Derek Jarman – Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    Published here for the very first time through our House Sparrow Press imprint, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
    Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Garden of Ashes, Cookie Mueller’s second entry into the Hanuman Books canon (following 1988’s Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls) brings together ten stories, autobiographical [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ruggero Vasari – Raun
    Ruggero Vasari – Raun
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Raun, certainly one of the great works of Futurist drama, if not the greatest, was written by Ruggero Vasari from 1926 to 1927 before being published in 1932. Here, presented […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
    Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Guiding readers across the desiccated landscape of twenty-first century America in The Frontier Index is the cult duo of Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, two of contemporary art and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cookie Mueller – Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls
    Cookie Mueller – Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Following the publication of Cookie Mueller’s Garden of Ashes in our first series, we are thrilled to reissue her first contribution to the Hanuman canon: Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive