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  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
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    Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
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    Over the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Inte…
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    Reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
    Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
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    Althea Gyles (1867-1949), Irish artist and mystic, though primarily remembered today for the book covers she did for the poet William Butler Yeats and her association with the author and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
    Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
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    The Red Sorcerer, originally published as a 64-part feuilleton serial in Le Journal  between 31 July 1910 and 3 October 1910, and here appearing in English for the first time […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
    Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
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    Technicolor Band is a revolving-cast, cross-genre improv unit based in Bloomington, IN. The group, initially instigated by multi-instrumentalists David Brown and Caleb Hickman as a regular [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Michael Vallera – The Other World
    Michael Vallera – The Other World
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    Released in an edition of 300 CDs by Torn Light Records — The Other World was recorded in the spring of 2023 by Greg Norman at his home studio in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
    Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
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    Pre-order ships on or around April 1st, 2025. Church Shuttle “ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle” is an 8 track LP of alien abducted industrial music. Specifically Pure Michigan soundscapes Chris […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • V/A – Gespenterland
    V/A – Gespenterland
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    Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany’s sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the copse of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Supersempfft – Roboterwerke
    Supersempfft – Roboterwerke
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    LP version. After introducing listeners to the techno-tropical pop of Supersempfft via an essential reissue of their stargazing sophomore LP Metaluna, those surefooted folks at Bureau B beam back [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Toluse Low Trax – Kiosique Versions
    Toluse Low Trax – Kiosique Versions
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    Parisian-by-choice Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax turns the page again. Always willing for a new episode, notion, impulse, idea, ideal. Searching for some light out there. Now Kiosque [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Nate Powell – Aggregates of Subjective Desire
    Nate Powell – Aggregates of Subjective Desire
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    After 13 years doing HN under various monikers, Nate Powell gives us his nominative debut. Layers stack seamlessly while never operating from a blur. Each sound is deliberate, laid out […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Midnight Minds – Echo Poems
    Midnight Minds – Echo Poems
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    Fantastic duo of new age / ambient tunes from Midnight Minds. Room recording for extra haze. 10/10 highest recommendation.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Various Artists – Percussive Resistance
    Various Artists – Percussive Resistance
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    A compilation of 29 percussionists making rhythm, texture & noise to raise funds for the National Network of Abortion Funds. Percussive Resistance is our heeding a call to action. Each […]

    GENRE: Percussion, Beats, Rhythm
  • Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
    Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
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    “Saturday Night is the debut LP by old friends and collaborators Alex Twomey, Matthew Sullivan, and Sean McCann. Recorded over numerous evenings at the artists’ homes, and completed just [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
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    In Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
    Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mall…
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    At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
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    Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Non-Fiction
  • Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789
    Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in…
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    This captivating history exposes a clandestine world of family and community secrets―incest, abortion, and infanticide―in the early modern Venetian republic. With the keen eye of a detective, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
    Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
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    A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
    Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
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    A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
    Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
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    Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
    Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
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    “For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply.”–Francis BaconScratches is the first volume in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
    Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema…
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    Egyptian lobby cards combined a film’s poster art, still photographs from the set, and a credit list that usually included the production company, cast and crew, director, screenwriter, and music [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
    Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
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    From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey—and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentieth Century.
    Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentie…
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    This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
    Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
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    In the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Star Club – The Very Best Of The Star Club
    The Star Club – The Very Best Of The Star Club
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    A compilation of the best of the early material from the first era of The Star Club, a long running and heavily influential Japanese punk band. Label: Club The Star […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
    Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
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    Wheezing Maniac was a mysterious, short-lived band with enigmatic lyrics that was active in Southern California in the late eighties. Due to their off-kilter originality, high energy, and thanks [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Cameron Knowler – CRK
    Cameron Knowler – CRK
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    ***Ships On Or Around 04/04/25 “Pure musical expression pulling from over a hundred years of American folk history but still feels unburdened by the past and looks sharply towards the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
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    ***Pre-Order Item – Ships on or around 3/21 Nice to hear the first solo LP in a good while by this most excellent guitarist who also runs the superb Scissor […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
    Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
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    “A fabulous album, done when Pickett was in the midst of his best period at Atlantic. It had everything — great songs, wonderful production and arrangements, and a hungry, galvanizing [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Ted Curson Quintet – Live At La’Tete De L’Art: The Canadian Concert Of Ted Curson
    The Ted Curson Quintet – Live At La’Tete De L’Art: The Can…
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    A smoking modal set from the trumpeter’s legendary quintet. Label: Can-Am Records – CA 1700 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Canada Released: 1985 VG+/VG+. Jacket in shrink.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Steve Roach, VidnaObmana* – Spirit Dome – Live Archive
    Steve Roach, VidnaObmana* – Spirit Dome – Live Archive
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    “Spirit Dome returns with a perfect companion, Live Archive. Two out-of-print releases from this acclaimed ambient duo are brought together in this value-priced 2-CD release. Living proof [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Andrew Liles – Miscellany Deluxe (Souvenirs Perdus D’antan)
    Andrew Liles – Miscellany Deluxe (Souvenirs Perdus D’antan)
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    “Miscellany Deluxe was originally released as a 13 CDR box set in 2003. Eleven of the albums included in the box were later made available as individual downloads in 2011. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Patrick Andy – Vivian Jackson Presents Patrick Andy
    Patrick Andy – Vivian Jackson Presents Patrick Andy
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    The seed for this album comes from a tape compiled but never released by Vivian “Yabby You” Jackson, labelled “The Best Of Patrick Andy”. On the tape were three unreleased […]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Charles Lloyd New Quartet – Passin’ Thru
    Charles Lloyd New Quartet – Passin’ Thru
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    Though the Charles Lloyd New Quartet has been together for a decade, they haven’t recorded as a group since 2011’s Athens Concert, when the saxophonist was still signed to ECM. […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nduduzo Makhathini – Modes Of Communication: Letters From The Underworlds
    Nduduzo Makhathini – Modes Of Communication: Letters From The Underwor…
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    After collaborations with Wynton Marsalis and Shabaka Hutchings, the visionary South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini is set to release his Blue Note debut Modes of Communication: [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Steve Kuhn Trio – Live At Birdland
    Steve Kuhn Trio – Live At Birdland
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    Steve Kuhn has been recording professionally for close to five decades, most of which time he’s operated stealthily, rarely achieving the level of recognition he so richly deserves for [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Lorez Alexandria – The Band Swings – Lorez Sings
    Lorez Alexandria – The Band Swings – Lorez Sings
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    Decent set featuring the highly stylized, often erratic vocalist Lorez Alexandria doing conventional jazz and jazz-centered pop tunes and standards. She’s backed by a capable band, and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House – At Montreux
    Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House – At Montreux
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    The Eleventh House, lead by Larry Coryell, were arguably the best Jazz-rock-fusion band of the time when they appeared on July 4th, 1974 at Montreux. The band effectively existed only […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Lou Bennett – Dansez Et Rêvez
    Lou Bennett – Dansez Et Rêvez
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    This release contains Bennett’s second LP as a leader in its entirety: Dansez et Rêvez avec le trio Lou Bennett (RCA Victor 430.051). Presented here for the first time ever […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Les McCann Ltd. • Stanley Turrentine • Blue Mitchell with Frank Haines*, Herbie Lewis, Ron Jefferson – Les McCann Ltd. In New York (Recorded “Live” At The Village Gate)
    Les McCann Ltd. • Stanley Turrentine • Blue Mitchell with Frank Haines…
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    *Japanese Import CD* “A thoroughly satisfying live date. The good-time pianist forgets singing on this Village Gate outing, and the band just cooks. Silky saxman Stanley Turrentine and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Caetano Veloso – Livro
    Caetano Veloso – Livro
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    *Japanese Import CD* “Caetano Veloso continues his free-thinking explorations of tropicalismo on this ambitiously arranged, elaborately packaged suite of songs devoted to whatever happens [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
    Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
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    A selection of Philip Pearlstein’s illustrations from 1978-1980 Staple-bound zine with dustjacket. Moisture damage/staining along upper edge

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    Gallery Of Photography: Vision
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    A pamphlet featuring work from the Vision Gallery, based out of Boston, circa 1980s Staple-bound zine with some discoloration

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
    D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
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    “A collaborative work “featuring a fictional encounter between a businessman and a Portuguese girl on holiday in London” (from the front flap). The authors take turns writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius
    Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius
    $10.00 |

    It’s impossible to hear Jaco Pastorious’ debut album today as it sounded when it was first released in 1976. The opening track — his transcription for fretless electric bass of [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jean Genet – May Day Speech
    Jean Genet – May Day Speech
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    Transcript of Jean Genet’s May Day Speech, given in support of Bobby Seale after his imprisonment. City Lights, 1970 staple-bound zine. Some light wear and discoloration.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monk’s Dream
    The Thelonious Monk Quartet – Monk’s Dream
    $10.00 |

    Monk’s Dream is the Columbia Records debut release featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet: Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), John Ore (bass), and Frankie Dunlop (drums). Jazz scholars [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz