August 9th Newsletter

    No products in the cart.

Torn Light Records
1855 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60647
312.955.0614
Open Everyday
10AM-7PM

Showing 701–750 of 1812 resultsSorted by latest

FILTERS

Showing 701–750 of 1812 resultsSorted by latest

Filter by

Filter by

  • Andre Bazin – The Cinema Of Cruelty
    Andre Bazin – The Cinema Of Cruelty
    $50.00 | , ,

    Perhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development of the scholarship that we know now as film criticism. Bazin has […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lola Flores – Lola Flores
    Lola Flores – Lola Flores
    $30.00 | , ,

    Evocative and heartrending Flamenco & Bolero songs from the prolific Spanish singer & actress. Label: Columbia – C7193 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Spain Released: 1974 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: International, Latin
  • Howlin’ Wolf – The Chess Box
    Howlin’ Wolf – The Chess Box
    $35.00 | , ,

    “This three-CD box set currently rates as the best — and most digestible — overview of Howlin’ Wolf’s career. Disc one starts with the Memphis sides that eventually [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Bill Evans – The Complete Riverside Recordings
    Bill Evans – The Complete Riverside Recordings
    $90.00 | ,

    “This magnificent 12-CD set contains all of Bill Evans’ Riverside recordings as a leader, an extremely important period in the influential pianist’s development. The first [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sam Rivers – The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions
    Sam Rivers – The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions
    $90.00 | , ,

    “From the time of his first Blue Note recording in 1964 to his final session for the label in 1967, Sam Rivers made stunning progress as an avant-garde innovator. Starting […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism
    In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism
    $12.00 | , ,

    Looks at paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture by Arp, Dali, Ernst, Gorky, Grosz, and others This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
    Henry Corbin – The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism
    $12.00 | , ,

    Classic work on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist school of Persian Sufism by renowned philosopher and Iranologist Henry Corbin. In the Sufism of ancient Iran, the quest for the dawning of light in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    $8.00 | , ,

    One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jacques Derrida – Dissemination
    Jacques Derrida – Dissemination
    $7.00 | , ,

    “The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets
    Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, an…
    $7.00 | , ,

    In his classic study The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell conducted us on a fascinating global tour, showing how the seeds of myth grew in a similar fashion throughout the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Keay – The Spice Route: A History
    John Keay – The Spice Route: A History
    $16.00 | , ,

    An exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage, The Spice Route transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth.The Spice Route […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites
    From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites
    $7.00 | , ,

    From the Nile’s black land to the Aztec’s world of the Fifth Sun, from the shrines at Phylakopi to the Maya ceremonial center of Xunantunich, sophisticated scientific techniques have [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
    Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
    $6.00 | , ,

    For many ancient societies, the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets constituted an elaborate language, expressing the intentions of the spiritual forces they believed ruled the world. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes
    The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the …
    $18.00 | , ,

    An introductory overview by Ann Farkas and essays by Russian authorities explain the history and archaeology of the nomads of Eurasia, the Filippovka kurgans, cults and rituals of the steppe […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • George L. Hersey – Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque
    George L. Hersey – Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the B…
    $20.00 | , ,

    The age of the Baroque—a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics—witnessed the construction of some of the world’s most magnificent buildings. What did the work of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio Hopewell Sites
    Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley: A Guide to the Adena and Ohio…
    $8.00 | , ,

    Mounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric Native American culture to be found on the landscape of eastern North America. This book, now in its seventh printing, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual
    The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual
    $8.00 | , ,

    Though its roots are in Hinduism, tantra’s goals are the universal ones of self-knowledge and liberated joy. Its methods and effects transcend geography and era, and can be applied to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited
    The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited
    $8.00 | , ,

    In 1995, to honor the role of Central Europe in the spiritual history of the West, the New York Open Center invited students of Rosicrucianism and the Western Mystery traditions […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
    Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiri…
    $8.00 | , ,

    First published in 1911, Mysticism remains the classic in its field and was lauded by The Princeton Theological Review as “brilliantly written [and] illuminated with numerous well-chosen [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534
    Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Co…
    $8.00 | , ,

    “The various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness offered medieval writers a remarkably elastic medium with which to construct national identity…. Above all, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Daniel Pinchbeck – Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
    Daniel Pinchbeck – Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey…
    $8.00 | , ,

    A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination
    The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagin…
    $12.00 | , ,

    Ibn al-‘Arabi is still known as “the Great Sheik” among the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest mystical thinker […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Josef Albers – Interaction of Color: Revised Edition
    Josef Albers – Interaction of Color: Revised Edition
    $15.00 | , ,

    The masterworks of one of the most influential teacher-artists of the twentieth century, originally published as a limited, boxed edition in 1963, was conceived as a guide and teaching aid […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
    Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
    $12.00 | , ,

    Despite the long and well-known history of conflict between Christians and Muslims, their mystical traditions especially in the Christian East and in Sufism, have shared for centuries many of the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis
    The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through Jung’s Mysterium Coniu…
    $10.00 | , ,

    This book is a section by section commentary on Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis. Alchemy is a confusing topic by itself. Jung’s interpretation of it is highly nuanced and can easily be [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Carl E. Schorske – Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
    Carl E. Schorske – Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
    $10.00 | , ,

    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Forests of The Vampire
    Forests of The Vampire
    $9.00 | , ,

    Of all the peoples who fought for supremacy on the vast eastern European plains, the Slavs have proved the most enduring. They spread out from homelands beyond the Carpathian Mountains, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Art of the Sepik River
    The Art of the Sepik River
    $8.00 | , ,

    Detailed and illustrated overview of the art found in the communities on the Sepik River in New Guinea This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • John F. Michell – The New View Over Atlantis
    John F. Michell – The New View Over Atlantis
    $8.00 | , ,

    The View Over Atlantis, John Michell’s unrivaled introduction to megalithic science, earth mysteries, and the inner meaning of number and measure, was described by Colin Wilson as [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Annemarie Schimmel – Mystical Dimensions of Islam
    Annemarie Schimmel – Mystical Dimensions of Islam
    $8.00 | , ,

    Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism — Islamic mysticism — from its beginnings through the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arthur Szyk: Drawing Against National Socialism and Terror
    Arthur Szyk: Drawing Against National Socialism and Terror
    $40.00 | , ,

    Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was considered one of the 20th century’s most important creators of political illustrations and caricatures. While largely unknown in Europe, his work is highly [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Andy Goldsworthy: Varia, Refuges d’art
    Andy Goldsworthy: Varia, Refuges d’art
    $30.00 | , ,

    Refuges d’Art* is a hiking route spanning roughly ten days, conceived by Andy Goldsworthy in the Digne region, within the protected territory of the Haute-Provence Geological Reserve. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North By Midwest
    The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North By Midwest
    $25.00 | , ,

    The art of renowned American watercolorist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) has been described as “one of the most original phenomena in American art.” This interdisciplinary study of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
    Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
    $15.00 | , ,

    The great national epic of Persia—the most complete English-language edition and definitive translation by Dick Davis, available in a deluxe edition by Penguin Classics. Wherever Persian [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joe McCaffree – Bible and I Ching Relationships
    Joe McCaffree – Bible and I Ching Relationships
    $15.00 | , ,

    Examines the symbiotic relationship between Christianity and eastern thought This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Judas Priest ‎– Rocka Rolla
    Judas Priest ‎– Rocka Rolla
    $18.00 | , ,

    “A sketchy and underfocused debut, Rocka Rolla nonetheless begins to delineate the musical territory Judas Priest would explore over the remainder of the decade: frighteningly dark in its [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • The Delfonics ‎– Tell Me This Is A Dream
    The Delfonics ‎– Tell Me This Is A Dream
    $25.00 | , ,

    Walk Right Up To The Sun is worth it, alone. Label: Philly Groove Records Incorporated – PG 1154 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Stereo Country: US Released: 1972 VG+/VG. […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Trendees ‎– We Are Sonic Art
    The Trendees ‎– We Are Sonic Art
    $12.00 | , ,

    “If their fantastic new EP We Are Sonic Art is any indication, expect a fine squall of garage-noise-pop somewhere between the pre-punk isolation of Mid-west 70s isolates like Half Japanese [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Rob Noyes ‎– The Feudal Spirit
    Rob Noyes ‎– The Feudal Spirit
    $18.00 | , ,

    “Rob Noyes has been on the Eastern Massachusetts scene for a while, but what we’ve heard him play is music from within the context of electric bands, most of whom […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Rainbow – Down To Earth
    Rainbow – Down To Earth
    $15.00 | , ,

    “The departure of Ronnie James Dio gave Ritchie Blackmore a chance to reinvent Rainbow, which he does to a certain extent on Down to Earth. Adding former Deep Purple colleague […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Nathan Bowles Trio ‎– Are Possible
    Nathan Bowles Trio ‎– Are Possible
    $22.00 | , ,

    “Are Possible is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums, made possible by the individual perspectives of Nathan, double-bassist Casey [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Wiese – Inescapable Conclusion
    John Wiese – Inescapable Conclusion
    $15.00 | , ,

    Recorded on tour with Sunn O))) in Europe and Scandinavia, March and April 2005. Label: Troniks – tro-255 Format: Vinyl, LP, Single Sided, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 2007 VG+/VG+. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh ‎– Live In Nottingham
    John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh ‎– Live In Nottingham
    $10.00 | , ,

    Recorded May 4, 2007 at Arts Org Gallery, Nottingham, England. Label: What The…? Records – WHAT004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 2007 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Zosha Warpeha – I Grow Accustomed To The Dark
    Zosha Warpeha – I Grow Accustomed To The Dark
    $20.00 | , ,

    “The first resonant space Zosha Warpeha played in was the Emanuel Vigeland Museum in Oslo, Norway. Built as a mausoleum, its walls reach up into a gradual archway, creating an […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jeff Dahl ‎– French Cough Syrup
    Jeff Dahl ‎– French Cough Syrup
    $15.00 | , ,

    Solo release by ex-Angry Samoans and Mentors member. Label: Triple X Records – 51209-1 Format: Vinyl, 10″ Country: US Released: 1996 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gerycz*, Powers*, Rolin* – Lamplighter (Clear Vinyl)
    Gerycz*, Powers*, Rolin* – Lamplighter (Clear Vinyl)
    $12.00 | , ,

    “It was almost entirely improvised,” explains Columbus-based guitarist Matthew Rolin. He’s talking about Lamplighter, the new album from Gerycz/Powers/Rolin, a trio featuring himself, Columbus [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Josetxo Grieta – The Art Of Distraction
    Josetxo Grieta – The Art Of Distraction
    $15.00 | , ,

    Josetxo Anitua: voice, electronics & post-production Mattin: guitar, computer & voice Iñigo Eguillor: drums Label: Ozonokids – OZKDS 013 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Red Vinyl [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Now – Now Does The Trick
    Now – Now Does The Trick
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Now Does the Trick” all too well With balance, harmony, and simplicity, Now slips their hand into the pocketbook of modfathers without being nicked by nostalgia Harmony on every [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Rake Kash – Rake Kash
    Rake Kash – Rake Kash
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Omaha multi-instrumentalist L. Eugene Methe’s Rake Kash ensemble have become a favorite this winter, thanks to their varied and amiable self-titled LP on his increasingly active Gertrude [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dan Melchior ‎– CB Odyssey
    Dan Melchior ‎– CB Odyssey
    $10.00 | , ,

    “One of the great joys of the ever-evolving catalog of Dan Melchior is hearing where in the spectrum of styles that he has mastered each record falls. From studio recordings […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative