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  • 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
    $18.00 | ,

    “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
  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
    Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    “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
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    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
  • Charles Mingus – Mingus At Monterey
    Charles Mingus – Mingus At Monterey
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    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
  • Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
    Charles Mingus – Reincarnations
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    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
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    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
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    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)
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Yves Tumor – Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume  (Yellow Vinyl)
    Yves Tumor – Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Yell…
    $30.00 | ,

    Yves Tumor reveals a complex intimacy with each album: offering glimpses in familiarizing with Sean Lee Bowie, while simultaneously elevating the beautiful myths and fantasies that embolden our [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Charles Mingus – Presents Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus – Presents Charles Mingus
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    In 1960, celebrated jazz critic Nat Hentoff called Charles Mingus to record a number of sessions for the new Candid label. Mingus was given absolute freedom on these sessions, and […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wayne Shorter – Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival
    Wayne Shorter – Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival
    $36.00 | ,

    “In 2017, Wayne Shorter was artist-in-residence at the Detroit Jazz Festival. He was scheduled to perform three times during the weekend: Once with his longstanding quartet — pianist [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Stereolab – Pulse Of The Early Brain (Switched On Volume 5)
    Stereolab – Pulse Of The Early Brain (Switched On Volume 5)
    $49.00 | ,

    The fifth and final volume in the classic Switched On series which compiles non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the group Stereolab. This volume is unique in that […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Triston Palma – Show Case (In A Roots Radics Drum And Bass)
    Triston Palma – Show Case (In A Roots Radics Drum And Bass)
    $20.00 | ,

    “As a man who can see far, I know one day Triston Palma style is gonna reach far, so I — Man Jah Thomas, the music maker from Jamaica, take […]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Richard Youngs – Hidden
    Richard Youngs – Hidden
    $33.00 | ,

    The inimitable Richard Youngs returns to Black Truffle with this third full-length for the label, Hidden. Like CXXI (BT 081LP) and Modern Sorrow (BT 101LP, Hidden unfolds across two side-long [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Clocktower Classics Vol. 1
    V/A – Clocktower Classics Vol. 1
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    Originally released in 1990. Features Naggo Morris, Linval Thompson, Diamonds, J. Clarke, Upsetters, J. Riley, Tec Tracks, Horace Andy, Suzan Codogan, Silverstones, Carl Dawkins, and Rod Taylor.

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Johnny Osbourne Meets Roots Radics* – 1980 – 1981 “Vintage”
    Johnny Osbourne Meets Roots Radics* – 1980 – 1981 “Vintage…
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    Johnny Osbourne with Meets Roots Radics 1980-1981 “Vintage”. Osbourne is one of the most popular Jamaican reggae and dancehall singers of all time. His nickname is the [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Owen Gray – Hit After Hit After Hit
    Owen Gray – Hit After Hit After Hit
    $17.00 | ,

    Originally released in 1984. Personnel: Backing vocals – Owen Gray, Sidney Crooks, Winston Reid; bass – Franklyn Dunn; drums – Jah Bunny; guitar – Locksley Gichie; [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Cool Million Feat. Glenn Jones – Tonight
    Cool Million Feat. Glenn Jones – Tonight
    $16.00 | ,

    “Cool Million by now is a household name, when it comes to the boogie funk style. They are deeply rooted in this musical genre, that we lost by the end […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Gregory Isaacs – I.O.U.
    Gregory Isaacs – I.O.U.
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    “Tough personal choices, romantic frustrations, and ‘Jealousy’ are all explored, the latter with the able assistance of Jimmy Cliff. Gussie Clarke again takes the production [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Culture – Good Things
    Culture – Good Things
    $17.00 | ,

    Originally released in 1989. “Culture delivers a stellar album and reinvents the sound of reggae along the way under the guiding hand of member Joseph Hill’s phenomenal arrangements [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Delroy Wilson – Get Ready For Delroy
    Delroy Wilson – Get Ready For Delroy
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    Delroy Wilson (1948-1994), one of Jamaica’s best loved singers. This 1975 album has also been released under the title Sings For I & I. Recorded with the Aggravators; produced by […]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Project Undark – Radium Girls
    Project Undark – Radium Girls
    $27.00 | ,

    In the shadow of the nuclear accident in Fukushima in 2011, Japanese musician Phew, artist Erika Kobayashi, and German electronic music pioneer Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia) came together [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • Ranking Toyan – Ghetto Man Skank
    Ranking Toyan – Ghetto Man Skank
    $17.00 | ,

    Originally released by Jah Thomas’s Midnight Rock label from Jamaica, in 1982; now repressed by Clocktower. Ranking Toyan was already a seasoned veteran of Kingston’s soundclash [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • King Tubby & Friends – Rod Of Correction Showcase
    King Tubby & Friends – Rod Of Correction Showcase
    $20.00 | ,

    Track by King Tubby and Aggrovators, Tower Unlimited, Rod Taylor, Augustus Pablo, Ossie All Stars, Linval Thompson, Horace Andy, Johnny Clarke, and Johnny Lover. Track Listing: A1. Johnny Lover [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • U-Roy – Hold On Rasta
    U-Roy – Hold On Rasta
    $17.00 | ,

    U-Roy was the only artist to hold simultaneously the top three positions in the Jamaican charts with three consecutive singles. This collection features “Gorgon,” “Hold On [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Gershon Kingsley’s First Moog Quartet ‎– First Moog Quartet
    Gershon Kingsley’s First Moog Quartet ‎– First Moog Quartet
    $15.00 | , ,

    Gershom Kingsley had Robert Moog build three more synthesizers just so he could pull this thing off. The Moog Quartet played the first live performance of synthesized music at Carnegie […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jah Woosh – Ital Movement
    Jah Woosh – Ital Movement
    $17.00 | ,

    Collection of roots reggae from Neville Beckford aka Jah Woosh.

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Ken Boothe – Memories
    Ken Boothe – Memories
    $17.00 | ,

    Ken Boothe is by far one of the best roots and lovers reggae singers from Jamaica. In 1974, he came out with the massive hit “Everything I Own”. Clocktower present […]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub