April 11th Newsletter

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NEW ARRIVALS

  • CCNT – CCNT
    CCNT – CCNT
    $10.00 | ,

    Guttural, 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
    Nathan Taylor – Life is but a Dream
    $10.00 | ,

    Nathan 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
    Verity Den – IX XVI MMXXV Instrumentals: Live and Improvised
    $27.00 | ,

    IX 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
    Ul de Rico – Rainbow Goblins
    $20.00 | ,

    After 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
    Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, 1991-2002
    $18.00 | ,

    The 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
    Fields Of The Nephilim – Earth Inferno
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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
    Dan Graham – Rock/Music Writings
    $12.00 | , ,

    As 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
    Ascension: John Coltrane And His Quest
    $25.00 | , ,

    “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
    Shock Factory: The Visual Culture Of Industrial Music
    $50.00 | , ,

    An 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
    Cindytalk – The Crackle Of My Soul
    $15.00 | , ,

    Cindytalk 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
    Scald Hymn – Lilac Drain
    $8.00 | , ,

    Scald 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
    XAM Duo – Total Refreshment Centre, London, November 5, 2016
    $8.00 | , ,

    Recorded 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

  • Verity Den – IX XVI MMXXV Instrumentals: Live and Improvised
    Verity Den – IX XVI MMXXV Instrumentals: Live and Improvised
    $27.00 | ,

    IX 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
    Willie Wright ‎– Telling The Truth
    $18.00 | , ,

    “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
    MFG ‎– In Minnesota
    $30.00 | , ,

    Recorded 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
    The Burton Greene Trio ‎– On Tour
    $12.00 | , ,

    “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
    Grupo Um – Starting Point
    $24.00 | , ,

    “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
    Brandon López – vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile
    $17.00 | , ,

    “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
    Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra* – On Jupiter
    $25.00 | , ,

    “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
    Siegfried Kessler / Gus Nemeth / Stu Martin – Solaire
    $19.00 | , ,

    “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
    Antonello Salis ‎– Orange Juice / Nice Food
    $17.00 | , ,

    Recorded 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
    Plunky & Oneness – Made Through Ritual
    $24.00 | , ,

    “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
    Charles Tyler – Sixty Minute Man
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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
    L’Infonie – S/T
    $19.00 | , ,

    Beat 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

  • Fields Of The Nephilim – Earth Inferno
    Fields Of The Nephilim – Earth Inferno
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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
    Cindytalk – The Crackle Of My Soul
    $15.00 | , ,

    Cindytalk 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
    Psychophysicist – Psychophysicists
    $8.00 | , ,

    All 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’
    Paul Bley – Ramblin’
    $6.00 | , ,

    “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
    Xenakis – Xenakis
    $10.00 | , ,

    Career-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 Sections
    Steve Reich – Different Trains / Triple Quartet / The Four Secti…
    $10.00 | , ,

    Different 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
    Sleep Research Facility* – Nostromo
    $10.00 | , ,

    Ultra 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
    Æthenor ‎– Betimes Black Cloudmasses
    $7.00 | , ,

    “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
    John Zorn & Bobby Previte – Euclid’s Nightmare
    $6.00 | , ,

    “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
    Archie Shepp – Four For Trane
    $7.00 | , ,

    “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
    John Zorn ‎– IAO
    $10.00 | , ,

    The 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, Huddersfield
    John Zorn ‎– The Hermetic Organ Vol. 3 – St. Paul’s Hall, Hudder…
    $10.00 | , ,

    Zorn’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

  • Ul de Rico – Rainbow Goblins
    Ul de Rico – Rainbow Goblins
    $20.00 | ,

    After 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
    Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, 1991-2002
    $18.00 | ,

    The 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
    Dan Graham – Rock/Music Writings
    $12.00 | , ,

    As 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
    Ascension: John Coltrane And His Quest
    $25.00 | , ,

    “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
    Shock Factory: The Visual Culture Of Industrial Music
    $50.00 | , ,

    An 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
    Rosemarie Trockel/Paloma Varga Weisz – Maison De Plaisance
    $25.00 | , ,

    Maison 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces
    Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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
    Carl Andre : Sculpture As Place, 1958 – 2010
    $45.00 | , ,

    A 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
    Millennium: Tribal Wisdom And The Modern World
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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
    Joel-Peter Witkin: Gods of Earth and Heaven
    $40.00 | , ,

    “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, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
    Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
    $8.00 | , ,

    “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
    The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958
    $8.00 | , ,

    “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