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  • The Heath Brothers – Marchin’ On!
    The Heath Brothers – Marchin’ On!
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    Released in 1976 on the pioneering Strata-East Records label, Marchin’ On! feat. Stanley Cowell by The Heath Brothers is a masterful blend of tradition and innovation that captured the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil McBee – Mutima
    Cecil McBee – Mutima
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    Cecil McBee’s debut album, Mutima, stands as a landmark achievement in 1970s jazz, blending the deeply introspective qualities of spiritual jazz with adventurous post-bop and avant-garde [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Let The Spirit Out, Live at “mu” London
    Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Let The Spirit Out, Live a…
    $39.00 | ,

    Spiritmuse Records and Kahil El’Zabar present Let The Spirit Out, Live at “mu” London, a unique concept of recording new material purposefully in a live audience environment, to capture the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kelly Moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors
    Kelly Moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors
    $30.00 | ,

    Don’t Trust Mirrors marks one of the most transformative chapters in New York-based composer and producer, Kelly Moran’s career. In 2019, fresh from touring her Warp debut Ultraviolet, she began [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nightmares On Wax – Echo 45 Soundsystem (Gold Vinyl)
    Nightmares On Wax – Echo 45 Soundsystem (Gold Vinyl)
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    Growing up in the sound system culture of Leeds in England, George spent a fiver, courtesy of his mum, on a battered old speaker box he named “Echo45”. That box […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Tony Molina – On This Day L.P.
    Tony Molina – On This Day L.P.
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    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
  • The Telephone Numbers – Scarecrow II
    The Telephone Numbers – Scarecrow II
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    The Telephone Numbers have established themselves as a crucial part of San Francisco’s fertile indie music scene, sharing members with The Reds, Pinks & Purples and The Umbrellas and a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jeanines – How Long Can It Last
    Jeanines – How Long Can It Last
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    Over the course of a decade playing together and making records as Jeanines, the duo of Alicia Jeanine and Jed Smith have charted a distinctive course through the history of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jeanines – How Long Can It Last (White Vinyl)
    Jeanines – How Long Can It Last (White Vinyl)
    $22.00 | ,

    Over the course of a decade playing together and making records as Jeanines, the duo of Alicia Jeanine and Jed Smith have charted a distinctive course through the history of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Emmylou Harris – Spyboy
    Emmylou Harris – Spyboy
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    “A good song can survive and shine in different ways in the hands of different musicians,” says Emmylou Harris. “It can have different meanings at different times in your life. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Danny Brown – Stardust (White Vinyl)
    Danny Brown – Stardust (White Vinyl)
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    Danny Brown’s last albums Quaranta and Scaring The Hoes bookended the end of the XXX era. Enter Stardust – Danny’s first album since entering sobriety sees him rediscover his [...]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • The Laughing Chimes – Whispers In The Speech Machine
    The Laughing Chimes – Whispers In The Speech Machine
    $10.00 | ,

    On their spellbinding sophomore album, “Whispers in the Speech Machine,” the young Ohio siblings from The Laughing Chimes fully embrace their Southern Gothic influences, cannily [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Neutrals – New Town Dream
    Neutrals – New Town Dream
    $11.00 | ,

    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
  • The Umbrellas – Fairweather Friend
    The Umbrellas – Fairweather Friend
    $12.00 | ,

    Channeling sold gold influences like The Pastels, Comet Gain, Orange Juice and The Aislers Set, The Umbrellas represent the fertile San Francisco Bay Area scene at its most pop-tastic. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Frankie Rose – Love As Projection
    Frankie Rose – Love As Projection
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    After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Frankie Rose – Love As Projection
    Frankie Rose – Love As Projection
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    After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chime School – Chime School (Magenta Vinyl)
    Chime School – Chime School (Magenta Vinyl)
    $20.00 | ,

    Chime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by 80s indie and its 60s forbearers (and any record with a 12-string guitar), Andy cut his […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas
    The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas
    $19.00 | ,

    The San Francisco bay area has long been an important outpost of the International Pop Underground, from the 90s heyday of The Aislers Set, #Poundsign# and The Fairways to the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chime School – Chime School
    Chime School – Chime School
    $10.00 | ,

    Chime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by 80s indie and its 60s forbearers (and any record with a 12-string guitar), Andy cut his […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas
    The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas
    $11.00 | ,

    The San Francisco bay area has long been an important outpost of the International Pop Underground, from the 90s heyday of The Aislers Set, #Poundsign# and The Fairways to the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Peel Dream Magazine – Moral Panics (Yellow Vinyl)
    Peel Dream Magazine – Moral Panics (Yellow Vinyl)
    $15.00 | ,

    NYC’s Peel Dream Magazine dazzled listeners with their recent release “Agitprop Alterna,” a smart album that draws from a wide set of post-punk, shoegaze and indiepop influences [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jeanines – Jeanines
    Jeanines – Jeanines
    $11.00 | ,

    Brooklyn’s Jeanines specialize in short bursts of energetic but melancholy minor-key pop. With influences that run deep into the most crucial tributaries of DIY pop — Television [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic
    Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic
    $11.00 | ,

    Joe Stevens’ Peel Dream Magazine project has been turning heads and catching ears since late 2017. Stevens is a brilliant writer and arranger and something of a pop scholar; steeped […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Aphex Twin – Syro
    Aphex Twin – Syro
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    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
    Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
    $25.00 | ,

    Structured around a single moment in time ― 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 ― Perec’s spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Maria Tatar – The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    Maria Tatar – The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: E…
    $23.00 | ,

    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excursion
    Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excurs…
    $20.00 | ,

    In translation at last, a delightfully delirious novel in which absurdity gives way to nightmare This novel by French writer Fernand Combet is at long last available in English. A […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
    Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
    $29.00 | ,

    The internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
    Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
    $13.00 | ,

    A Rimbaudesque novella of wayward wanderlust and liberty from the cofounder of Surrealism Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
    James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
    $24.00 | ,

    Available for the first time since 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead showcases James Van Der Zee’s unflinching creative vision Originally published in 1978, The Harlem Book of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
    Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
    $17.00 | ,

    Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
    Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
    $17.00 | ,

    In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
    Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
    $32.00 | ,

    Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Joanne Kyger – There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
    Joanne Kyger – There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
    $25.00 | ,

    The inaugural book of Wave’s new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather’s House
    Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
    $18.00 | ,

    A tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Anniversary Edition
    Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Ann…
    $28.00 | ,

    Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    $35.00 | ,

    In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
    $27.00 | ,

    Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    $35.00 | ,

    First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: Excerpts from an Intimate Diary
    Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: E…
    $25.00 | ,

    Meditations on cinema and method from the acclaimed Chilean director of City of Pirates and Life Is a Dream This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
    Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
    $15.00 | ,

    Written in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy’s ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
    Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
    $23.00 | ,

    Mademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932 and 1966. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and other ports of call in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
    Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
    $24.00 | ,

    This combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922–90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alfred Jarry – Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
    Alfred Jarry – Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphy…
    $14.00 | ,

    The founding text of pataphysics (“the science of imaginary solutions”), and one of the most quietly influential novels of the 20th century Alfred Jarry is best known as the author [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • George Berger – Story Of Crass
    George Berger – Story Of Crass
    $22.00 | ,

    Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
    BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
    $18.00 | ,

    ‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
    Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
    $30.00 | ,

    An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
    Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
    $22.00 | ,

    Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the Sands of North Africa
    Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the…
    $18.00 | ,

    The Process by Brion Gysin is a groundbreaking novel that takes readers on a hallucinatory journey across the Sahara Desert. The story follows Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
    Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
    $16.00 | ,

    In these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive