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  • Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    $30.00 | ,

    With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
    Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
    $25.00 | ,

    The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Severo Sarduy – Cobra
    Severo Sarduy – Cobra
    $17.00 | ,

    The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Originally […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
    Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
    $16.00 | ,

    Altered State–now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Techno / House / Electronic
  • The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
    The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Sièc…
    $38.00 | ,

    In fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chenille – Riffing On The Loaf
    Chenille – Riffing On The Loaf
    $10.00 | ,

    Off-kilter and lo-fi slowcore. Think Raincoats fronting a band on Darla.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Hawkwind – Live 1972
    Hawkwind – Live 1972
    $10.00 | ,

    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Recorded live by the BBC on 28th September 1972 at the famed Paris Theatre in London, this is the classic Space Ritual-era Hawkwind, featuring […]

  • Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
    Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
    $10.00 | ,

    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. This work is a masterpiece compilation released from Ethiopia’s in 1972 on the eve of the release of Mulatu Astatke’s masterpiece [...]

  • I Want To Die. I Want To Live. – An Acid Mixtape – Radio Topo #19
    I Want To Die. I Want To Live. – An Acid Mixtape – Radio T…
    $10.00 |

    Deep in the bad places in your mind, you have to fight to get out. C50 of acid bummers.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    $10.00 | ,

    Nowhere is the richness of Balinese art more evident than in the glitteringly brilliant music and dance of gamelan gong kebjar, which uses a 25-piece orchestra of xylophone-like bronze-keyed [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Primitive Impulse – Piss It Away
    Primitive Impulse – Piss It Away
    $20.00 | ,

    Like a roar, or a belch, in the face of late-stage capitalism Cincinnati’s Primitive Impulse comes blasting through your speakers with thirteen tracks of head-pounding drums, face-shredding [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion
    Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion
    $20.00 | ,

    After some turbulent late teen years in her former pop punk band, Mixtapes, Maura Weaver needed a break. Months became years and the songs still weren’t coming. It wasn’t until […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Self Improvement – Syndrome
    Self Improvement – Syndrome
    $20.00 | ,

    Perhaps in the contemporary simulacra wherein copies are all copies of other copies, the sense of the fraught sophomore effort is accentuated even more so. In a world of endless […]

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

    Radical Documents is amped to announce the debut LP from LA, CA’s PHOBOPHLYPTIX. In 10 songs, clocking just over 9 minutes, ZZ, JJ, Paully, and Sammy thrash, grind, chug, and […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Martin Franklin & Michael O’Dempsey – Kolbe
    Martin Franklin & Michael O’Dempsey – Kolbe
    $13.00 | ,

    Live recordings taken from the theatrical performance at St Edwards Church, Windsor, UK September 1986. Michael O’Dempsey: Yamaha CX5M, modified violin, piano, voice Martin Franklin: Korg MS10, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Michael Atherton – Windshift
    Michael Atherton – Windshift
    $27.00 | , ,

    Michael Atherton is a writer, composer and educator from Sydney, Australia. Originally born in Liverpool, England, to Welsh-Irish and German parents, his family later migrated to Australia in [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • L – Marilyn Monroe – All of Us
    L – Marilyn Monroe – All of Us
    $18.00 | , ,

    L are a disassociated non-music trio based around the writings of card magician Jack Paton. Jack is joined by Laurie Pitt (Golden Teacher, The Modern Institute) and Jack Mellin (Smack Wizards, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jaroslav Kořán – Zahrada
    Jaroslav Kořán – Zahrada
    $27.00 | , ,

    A pivotal document of the early 90s Czech alternative music scene, Zahrada – the deeply immersive 1992 album by Prague-based composer and sound artist Jaroslav Kořán – finally makes its […]

    GENRE: Ambient
  • Fruit LoOops – Everything Is Clear To Me Now
    Fruit LoOops – Everything Is Clear To Me Now
    $12.00 | ,

    Torn Light Records recording artists Fruit Looops lastest EP released via Orange Milk Records. Mental & fried 4 track CD of their stripped down vocal/synth/drum line up of art punk/electronic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Rob Mohan – A Sign of Things to Come
    Rob Mohan – A Sign of Things to Come
    $23.00 | ,

    Excellent American primitive guitar from Cincinnati Ohio’s Rob Mohan. Recorded on both 6 & 12 string guitar, crispy clear recording of beautiful original compositions by Rob.

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ténèbres / Mound Of Glass – Split
    Ténèbres / Mound Of Glass – Split
    $7.00 | ,

    Gracious Host is proud to present a split offering of prime material from two projects sharing a singular cinematic obsession. Ténèbres and Mound of Glass provide their audience with one […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lace – Reclamation
    Lace – Reclamation
    $7.00 | ,

    Limited to 60 “RECORDED 2017. ALL SOUND MADE BY lace USING TAPE, MICROPHONES, COPICAT & MS-20. lace : WC & VS

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter – Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
    Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter – Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
    $12.00 | , ,

    In the summer of 2023 Shredded Nerve and Form Hunter embarked on an east coast tour that culminated at the Initial Shock festival in Montreal. This CD is a reissue […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Concept Horse – Tod Durch Museen
    The Concept Horse – Tod Durch Museen
    $7.00 | ,

    Recorded 2021 – 2022 with Trevor’s broken Uher 4000, a small silver bell, high walled white pots, soft-boiled eggs, unused birds & hand-slowed piano.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • High Grove – A Year Of Winter
    High Grove – A Year Of Winter
    $7.00 | ,

    High Grove is the experimental tape duo of Montreal’s Heather Ross and Sara Delecorte. Originally recorded and released on Sloane Distro in 2019, Gracious Host is proud to re-issue this [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Franciska – Afvikling
    Franciska – Afvikling
    $7.00 |

    The latest in the prolific output of Copenhagen’s talented Jonas Torstensen, better known as Franciska. Those already familiar with Franciska’s output from the past couple years on [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Aquilla Sadalla Ft. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Inner City Bluze
    Aquilla Sadalla Ft. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Inner City Bluze
    $25.00 | , ,

    Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is an eight-piece, Chicago-based brass ensemble consisting of eight sons of the jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran. Their musical style ranges from hip hop to jazz to funk […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Whirlywirld – Complete Discography 1978-80
    Whirlywirld – Complete Discography 1978-80
    $18.00 | ,

    Whirlywirld was an Australian Post-Punk band led by Ollie Olsen (Reals, Young Charlatans), and the first of his musical collaborations with drummer John Murphy (News). The band formed Whirlwirld [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • V/A – We Were Living In Cincinnati (Vol 2)
    V/A – We Were Living In Cincinnati (Vol 2)
    $25.00 | ,

    WE WERE LIVING IN CINCINNATI Vol. 2 covers a vast swath of biodiverse underground noise from all corners of the brain. Compiled by Peter Aaron as with the first volume […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • ESG – Keep On Moving (Neon Orange Vinyl)
    ESG – Keep On Moving (Neon Orange Vinyl)
    $32.00 | ,

    It feels like someone left the light on in the studio and it all just ran itself, there had been a funky human input earlier in the day but, by […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Eli Winter – A Trick Of The Light (Transparent Red Vinyl)
    Eli Winter – A Trick Of The Light (Transparent Red Vinyl)
    $22.00 | ,

    “A Trick of the Light” is the new album by Chicago-based guitarist Eli Winter, an elegantly crafted and vibrant collection that finds the composer and bandleader at the height of […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Macie Stewart – When The Distance Is Blue
    Macie Stewart – When The Distance Is Blue
    $23.00 | , ,

    When the Distance is Blue is Macie Stewart’s International Anthem debut. The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser describes the collection as “a love letter to the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band – Roi De L’Agbadja Moderne
    Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band – Roi De L’Agbadja Moderne
    $36.00 | ,

    Analog Africa has the huge honour to present a full and deserved project about Gnonnas Pedro, a musician that changed the trajectory of the label for ever. Hailing from Benin, […]

    GENRE: African
  • Tropical Fuck Storm – Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard
    Tropical Fuck Storm – Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard
    $30.00 | ,

    The first ever live album from this fiery and popular Melbourne punk quartet. On this the band run through a raging live set to reveal the full extent of their […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Neutrals – New Town Dream (Blue Vinyl)
    Neutrals – New Town Dream (Blue Vinyl)
    $21.00 | ,

    Neutrals are a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area, channeling a wide range of ’70s and ’80s punk, post-punk, and DIY indiepop influences. Their spare, angular songs don’t [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Nimbus
    Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Nimbus
    $24.00 | ,

    If the setting is right, magic will happen. And so, this record came into being. Sunburned Hand of the Man, three decades into their one of a kind run, still […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • The Donnas – Turn 21 (Blue Vinyl)
    The Donnas – Turn 21 (Blue Vinyl)
    $30.00 | ,

    Blessed with a formidable front woman in Brett Anderson, a guitar heroine in Allison Robertson, and a pummeling rhythm section in bassist Maya Ford and drummer Torry Castellano, The Donnas […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Donnas – The Donnas (Natural With Black Swirl Vinyl)
    The Donnas – The Donnas (Natural With Black Swirl Vinyl)
    $32.00 | ,

    Recorded when they were still in high school, The Donnas’ 1997 debut was and will forever be one of the most infectious, sing-along slabs of punk ever waxed. Owing no […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jody Stecher, Krishna Bhatt – Rasa
    Jody Stecher, Krishna Bhatt – Rasa
    $27.00 | ,

    Originally released in 1981, Rasa has long been admired and studied by musicians as a model for how to do a cross-cultural recording project where the musicians actually understand something […]

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Headdress
    Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Headdress
    $25.00 | ,

    20 years ago Sunburned Hand of the Man released “Headdress” and it cracked there world open. This is not hyperbole. The album resulted in the band becoming the cover children […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Eli Winter – Eli Winter
    Eli Winter – Eli Winter
    $20.00 | ,

    Chicago-based guitarist / composer Eli Winter’s new self-titled album finds him building on the promise of his recent records – like 2020’s Unbecoming and his 2021 collaboration [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Irreversible Entanglements – Open The Gates
    Irreversible Entanglements – Open The Gates
    $15.00 | ,

    Ethereal, dynamic & expansive free jazz meditations manifest coruscating portals of aqueous regeneration; a collectivist ultra-sonic healing conveyance.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kurt Vile / Steve Gunn – Gunn Vile (Purple Vinyl)
    Kurt Vile / Steve Gunn – Gunn Vile (Purple Vinyl)
    $20.00 | ,

    Kurt Vile and Steve Gunn, two artists originally connected by mutual friends and geographic proximity, have long pushed the other’s continued artistic development. Despite sharing many live [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga
    Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga
    $27.00 | ,

    Jupiter & Okwess returns with the explosive ‘ Na Kozonga’ album, a blast of energy that bewitches the body and feeds the spirit . From the samba of carioca Rogê […]

    GENRE: International
  • Stenhjarta – 2
    Stenhjarta – 2
    $27.00 | , ,

    The second album from Stenhjärta follows up Gryning Kommer Röd (Grapefruit Records, 2024) and very much continues in the same vein while approaching a rather damn catchy pop song format […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Christopher Alan Durham – Basement Debris
    Christopher Alan Durham – Basement Debris
    $10.00 | ,

    Shelved recordings that have been collecting basement dust sense 2021? with the exception of Walk In The Park & Minutes Collect & those were recorded in early spring 2025, Sinking […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • P.G. Six – The Well of Memory (2025)
    P.G. Six – The Well of Memory (2025)
    $30.00 | ,

    Amish Records is happy to announce an expanded, gatefold 2XLP version of P.G. Six’s second album, ‘The Well of Memory, originally released in 2004. This 2025 expanded edition has [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • John Di Stefano – For The Moment
    John Di Stefano – For The Moment
    $10.00 | ,

    American-born, Japan-based composer John Di Stefano self-released a number of cassettes as part of the 80s DIY underground on his own imprint Oktron Produktions, including Klang’s Drift, a [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
    Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
    $19.00 | ,

    Self-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing Melodies
    Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing …
    $40.00 | ,

    As the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction