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  • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru* – Church of Kidane Mehret
    Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru* – Church of Kidane Mehret
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    Deeply resonant spiritual music transmitted via piano, organ, and harmonium by beloved composer and Ethiopian Orthodox nun Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. Church of Kidane Mehret collects all the [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Alick Nkhata – Radio Lusaka
    Alick Nkhata – Radio Lusaka
    $23.00 | ,

    Country, township jazz, and pop hits from the height of Zambia’s freedom movement. Vocalist, guitarist, and bandleader Alick Nkhata moved effortlessly between lonesome country slide, big band [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Crushed – No Scope
    Crushed – No Scope
    $24.00 | ,

    As crushed, musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan make maximalist dream pop music for themselves. Recording out of various homes, not fixed to any single location (Morell from Texas, now […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Crushed – No Scope
    Crushed – No Scope
    $14.00 | ,

    As crushed, musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan make maximalist dream pop music for themselves. Recording out of various homes, not fixed to any single location (Morell from Texas, now […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • JJulius* – Vol III
    JJulius* – Vol III
    $25.00 | ,

    In the discourse around new albums from singular, world-building artists, the phrase “a big step forward” can often be a blinking red warning sign. You know you’re about to be […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • François J. Bonnet* / Sarah Davachi – Banshee / Basse Brevis
    François J. Bonnet* / Sarah Davachi – Banshee / Basse Brevis
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    François J. Bonnet – Banshee Banshee is an ear directed towards the edges of the old world, where these infinite fines terrae cut and fractalize into coasts, harbours, fjords, peninsulas […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sissy Spacek – Entrance
    Sissy Spacek – Entrance
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    Entering its 26th year of activity, the morphing, Los Angeles based experimental outfit, Sissy Spacek, joins Shelter Press with Entrance, among the project’s most captivating outings to date. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – A Todas Las Imágenes Del Mundo: Antología Del Canto A Lo Divino
    V/A – A Todas Las Imágenes Del Mundo: Antología Del Canto A Lo Divino
    $28.00 | ,

    Canto A Lo Divino is the unique musical expression of the Chilean peasant world – a conversation with the divine nourished by Biblical and other sacred texts. It is communal […]

    GENRE: International
  • Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
    Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
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    A reimagined version of Michael Hurley’s 2002 masterpiece! Some of the most beautiful recordings of his catalog available on vinyl for the first time. Sweetkorn was originally released on [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Rail Band – Rail Band
    Rail Band – Rail Band
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    One of the greatest, heaviest, and hardest-to-find guitar records from 1970s West Africa, available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade!!! A product of Mali’s golden age, […]

    GENRE: International
  • Pierced Arrows – Straight To The Heart
    Pierced Arrows – Straight To The Heart
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    Pierced Arrow’s first record! Fred And Toody Cole’s post Dead Moon band with Legendary rocker Kelly Haliburton on drums. Most musicians get softer with age, but Fred and Toody brought [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
    Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
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    A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
    John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
    $19.00 | ,

    In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
    Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
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    Hero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Louys – Pybrac
    Pierre Louys – Pybrac
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    A manuscript of obscenely erotic poetry from Pierre Louÿs, written in secret and published after his death By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
    Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
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    “Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.” In a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
    Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
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    When published in 1928, Vulturnus represented a new direction in Léon-Paul Fargue’s writing: a shift from the lyrical post-Symbolist melancholy of his early poetry to something more grandiose, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
    Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
    $19.00 | ,

    An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age—and still resonates today. It’s 1924, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
    Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
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    Equal parts dark, destructive and brilliant, Maldoror blazed the way for the 20th century’s boldest adventures in art, music and literature André Breton described Maldoror as “the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
    Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
    $18.00 | ,

    How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
    Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
    $17.00 | ,

    The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez A masterpiece of the surreal [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
    Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
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    The hallucinatory English-language debut of an overlooked German Expressionist poet Bess Brenck Kalischer’s only work of prose was first published in German in 1922. Narrated by a woman being [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
    Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
    $12.00 | ,

    A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
    Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
    $23.00 | ,

    In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
    Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
    $18.00 | ,

    Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
    Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
    $20.00 | ,

    Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children
    Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children
    $18.00 | ,

    Nobodaddy’s Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
    Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
    $18.00 | ,

    The Oppermann brothers consider themselves exemplary German citizens: cultured, liberal, proud contributors to society. One runs the trusted Oppermann furniture chain. One is an eminent surgeon. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
    Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
    $19.00 | ,

    The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy. Hendry Jones isn’t quite Billy […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lutz Seiler – Star 111
    Lutz Seiler – Star 111
    $20.00 | ,

    Star 111 (the name of a popular East German transistor radio) begins with the world turned upside down. It is the fall of 1989. The communist government of the GDR […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Thomas Pynchon – V.
    Thomas Pynchon – V.
    $20.00 | ,

    Acclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon’s wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Harald Voetmann – Visions And Temptations
    Harald Voetmann – Visions And Temptations
    $16.00 | ,

    In the eleventh century, in the city of Regensburg, Othlo of St. Emmeram lies on his sickbed and takes a journey through Heaven and Hell. Spurning carnal desire and earthly […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
    Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
    $14.00 | ,

    Marcel Bénabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention Of Morel
    Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention Of Morel
    $15.00 | ,

    Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jan Kerouac – Baby Driver
    Jan Kerouac – Baby Driver
    $18.00 | ,

    “Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue.” Fifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jackie-O Motherfucker – Flags Of The Sacred Harp
    Jackie-O Motherfucker – Flags Of The Sacred Harp
    $40.00 | ,

    20th anniversary 2xLP reissue of Flags Of The Sacred Harp, a transcendent masterpiece of free-folk, gospel-drone, and psychedelic Americana. A re-imagining of traditional hymns and anthems from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • The Bevis Frond – Miasma
    The Bevis Frond – Miasma
    $15.00 | ,

    After experience in a couple of Post Punk Psychedelic Bands, Nick Saloman was involved in a horrendous Motorbike smash, courtesy of Camden Council. Eventually they paid compensation, and Nick [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Good Flying Birds – Talulah’s Tape
    Good Flying Birds – Talulah’s Tape
    $16.00 | ,

    Good Flying Birds is a jangly, noisy guitar-pop group from the Midwest, USA. The project began in December 2023 with a string of 4-track cassette recordings and stop-motion videos uploaded […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Good Flying Birds – Talulah’s Tape (Yellow Vinyl)
    Good Flying Birds – Talulah’s Tape (Yellow Vinyl)
    $25.00 | ,

    Good Flying Birds is a jangly, noisy guitar-pop group from the Midwest, USA. The project began in December 2023 with a string of 4-track cassette recordings and stop-motion videos uploaded […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Charles Mingus – Mingus At Monterey
    Charles Mingus – Mingus At Monterey
    $16.00 | ,

    Any list of the greatest jazz artists of all time includes the legendary Charles Mingus. Bassist, composer, outspoken jazz pioneer, Mingus was an innovator whose legacy continues to inspire us. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chick Corea, Brian Blade, Christian McBride – Trilogy 3
    Chick Corea, Brian Blade, Christian McBride – Trilogy 3
    $16.00 | ,

    In 2020, Chick Corea—27-time GRAMMY® winner, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, and one of the most iconic figures in jazz—hit the road with his powerhouse trio of Christian […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
    Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
    $25.00 | ,

    Rare Mingus tracks unavailable on vinyl for decades, reassembled as a stand-alone album. The companion album to Incarnations.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
    Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
    $16.00 | ,

    Rare Mingus tracks unavailable on vinyl for decades, reassembled as a stand-alone album. The companion album to Incarnations.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Beasley, Frankfurt Radio Big Band – Returning To Forever
    John Beasley, Frankfurt Radio Big Band – Returning To Forever
    $16.00 | ,

    THE MUSIC OF CHICK COREA’S LEGENDARY GROUP, RETURN TO FOREVER . . . REIMAGINED THE LATEST COLLABORATION BETWEEN MULTIPLE GRAMMY®- WINNER BEASLEY & THE TWICE-NOMINATED FRANKFURT RADIO BIG BAND [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chick Corea Elektric Band – Beneath The Mask
    Chick Corea Elektric Band – Beneath The Mask
    $17.00 | ,

    Beneath the Mask marks a return to the more commercially viable jazz-funk of the Chick Corea Elektric Band’s earlier albums, and marks the end of the first stage in the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Oneohtrix Point Never – Again (Blue Vinyl)
    Oneohtrix Point Never – Again (Blue Vinyl)
    $40.00 | ,

    Oneohtrix Point Never, AKA Daniel Lopatin, has announced his new album Again, set for release September 29 via Warp. In Lopatin’s words the album is in part “a speculative autobiography,” […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Charles Mingus – Mingus
    Charles Mingus – Mingus
    $27.00 | ,

    At the time of this recording, Mingus had been working regularly with the piano-less quartet of Eric Dolphy, Ted Curson and Dannie Richmond. The same group featured on the 1960 […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thelonious Monk – The Classic Quartet
    Thelonious Monk – The Classic Quartet
    $27.00 | ,

    At the time of this recording, Thelonious Monk was at both a creative and critical peak. He had recently signed with Columbia Records, notably one of the biggest jazz labels […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thelonious Monk – The Classic Quartet
    Thelonious Monk – The Classic Quartet
    $16.00 | ,

    At the time of this recording, Thelonious Monk was at both a creative and critical peak. He had recently signed with Columbia Records, notably one of the biggest jazz labels […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Clark Terry – Color Changes
    Clark Terry – Color Changes
    $27.00 | ,

    Color Changes is considered by many to be one of the finest albums by trumpeter and pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, Clark Terry. Rather than have the usual jam […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz