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  • The Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
    The Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
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    The 3CD version comes housed in a clamshell boxset. Alongside the full album is a disc of b-sides and session tracks and a live show from Mr Pickwick’s in Liverpool […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Fall – A-sides
    The Fall – A-sides
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    This is the first collection of all the Fall singles recorded across a multitude of labels and this edited 3-CD set (CRCDBOX 42) features all of the A-Sides. The discs […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Various Artists – C87
    Various Artists – C87
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    To celebrate the 30th anniversary of C86, we’re now proud to announce a sequel, in the shape of C87! Imagine if the NME had reconvened a year on from their […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Felt – Poem of the River
    Felt – Poem of the River
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    Felt’s seventh album, remastered and reissued.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Fall – The Real New Fall
    The Fall – The Real New Fall
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    Originally recorded at Lisa Stansfield’s Gracieland Studios in between December 2002 and January 2003 with producer Grant Showbiz. The subtitle is explained by the fact that the tracks were [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
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    In 1968, while he was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis, Salah Ragab formed the first jazz big band in Egypt, The Cairo Jazz Band. Some […]

    GENRE: International, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
    Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
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    Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, July 6th 1973 as part of the Newport Jazz Festival, broadcast on WBGO-FM

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra – The Solar-myth Approach
    Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra – The Solar-myth Approach
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    MONUMENTAL SESSIONS FROM THE SATURN LEGEND A double CD edition that showcases the unparalleled creative verve of Sun Ra, the man who created his own genre. Upgrading his celebrated band […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
    Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
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    SLICK! – Live at Oil Can Harry’s is a never-before-released recording from jazz guitar great Grant Green captured live on September 5, 1975 at a popular club in Vancouver, BC […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Roswell Rudd/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balazs Pandi – Strength & Power
    Roswell Rudd/Jamie Saft/Trevor Dunn/Balazs Pandi – Strength & Power
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    Recorded live in Jamie Saft‘s home studio near Woodstock, New York, this intergenerational offering features the 44-year-old pianist Saft, 47-year-old bassist Trevor Dunn, 32-year-old Hungarian [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sam Rivers – The Quest
    Sam Rivers – The Quest
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    «Improvising is sort of a real democracy kind of situation where everyone is performing in their own particular style or idiom of performing», stated Sam Rivers in December 1997 during […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
    Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
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    ICONIC MUSICIAN AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST MAKES A TYPICALLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING STATEMENT ON HISTORIC 1969 RECORDING Of all the African-American jazz musicians who arrived in Paris at the end of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Art Ensemble of Chicago – Message to Our Folks
    The Art Ensemble of Chicago – Message to Our Folks
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    Second of the Art Ensemble’s renowned trio of albums for BYG/Actuel, Message to Our Folks is a masterclass of improvisation, inspired by but also transcending established black music genres. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
    Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
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    HISTORIC 1969 PARIS SESSION BY THE AMERICAN SAXOPHONIST-VOCALIST-INTELLECTUAL WHO CONVEYS HIS DEEP ANGUISH AT THE LOSS OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ICON. In a long and distinguished career Archie Shepp has [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Art Ensemble of Chicago – A Jackson in Your House
    The Art Ensemble of Chicago – A Jackson in Your House
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    ‘A Jackson in Your House’ is the first of the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s renowned trio of albums for BYG’s Actuel series. This album is The Art Ensemble’s most celebrated […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Second Sun – Eländes Elände
    Second Sun – Eländes Elände
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    ‘Eländes Elände’ is the second album from Second Sun. The Swedish band fronted by Jakob Ljungberg (ex Tribulation) combines influences of space rock, progressive rock and hard rock [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
    The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
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    2023 collection from the psych rock icons. Each original source has been referenced to the earliest vinyl pressing and meticulously transferred at 96khz 24-bit resolution. Multitrack tapes of the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Daevid Allen – Banana Moon
    Daevid Allen – Banana Moon
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    DEBUT SOLO ALBUM BY THE LEGENDARY PURVEYOR OF MUSIC THAT DARINGLY BLURRED THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN PSYCHEDELIC ROCK AND RAUCOUS, RIOTOUS DADAISM. Australian vocalist-guitarist Daevid Allen was a part [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gong – Magick Brother
    Gong – Magick Brother
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    GONG’S MESMERIZING 1969 DEBUT ALBUM TRIPPY & SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK OF THE HIGHEST ORDER Having been part of the fabled ‘Canterbury scene’ along with luminaries such as Robert [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gong – Camembert Electrique
    Gong – Camembert Electrique
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    Formed in 1969 by Daevid Allen, one of the founder members of Soft Machine, Gong established itself as one of the most unique, innovative, and experimental rock groups of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Thank God for Mental Illness
    The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Thank God for Mental Illness
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    “At the risk of belaboring a rather obvious point, with Thank God for Mental Illness, their third collection of absolutely stunning music to be released in 1996, The Brian Jonestown […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Moebius & Plank – Material
    Moebius & Plank – Material
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    On their second album Material, originally released on Sky Records in 1981, Moebius & Plank ventured far, far away from the double coordinates of the Harmonia world and pop music […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
    Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
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    With Attack Time’ by sound tinkerer Zeus B. Held, Bureau B is re-releasing one of the most exciting records of the original experimental Kraut-pop period. After various stints, including prog [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
    The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
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    Die Kosmischen Kuriere reissue the legendary debut album of the krautrock all-star band from 1974. Produced at Dierks Studios with the collaboration of Dieter Dierks. What an amazing improvement [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
    Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
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    Stuck on common ground is the debut album of the Italian Power Trio hijss. With a mixture of heavy blues influenced riffs and synthesized Krautrock parts hijss tries to create […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
    Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
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    Compilation CD including tracks from Munic & Elsewear and The Last LP

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – Leaving Meaning
    Swans – Leaving Meaning
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    leaving meaning. is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the line up of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017. Swans is now comprised of […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Throbbing Gristle – Mission of Dead Souls
    Throbbing Gristle – Mission of Dead Souls
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    Mission of Dead Souls is a recording of the final performance of Throbbing Gristle before their initial breakup. The concert took place at the Kezar Pavilion in Golden Gate Park […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Can – Soundtracks
    Can – Soundtracks
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    First released in 1970, Soundtracks consists of songs written for various films. The album marks the departure of the band’s original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
    Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
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    After years of pursuing Angels of Light and recording and producing a diverse roster of artists for his Young God label, Michael Gira has decided to reconvene his legendary group […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • This Heat – Out of Cold Storage
    This Heat – Out of Cold Storage
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    6 CD Box Set including the band’s entire discography, giant full color booklet and extensive liner notes not available anywhere else, all in a sturdy and beautifully printed box. Box […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • This Heat – Deceit
    This Heat – Deceit
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    One of the foundational records of the post-punk era Deceit is This Heat’s second and final studio album. With greater emphasis on drive and song structure than their debut and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • This Heat – This Heat
    This Heat – This Heat
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    “All possible processes. All channels open. Twenty-four hour alert.” This Heat’s eponymous debut album, also known by fans as the ‘blue and yellow’, is a masterpiece of [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Can – Live in Brighton 1975
    Can – Live in Brighton 1975
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    Can Live Series Vol II.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nico – The End…
    Nico – The End…
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    Nico’s 1974 album was her third collaboration with producer and Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale. The album, highlighted by her definitive interpretation of the Doors’ [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Velvet Underground – Loaded
    The Velvet Underground – Loaded
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    While John Cale certainly gave the first couple of Velvet Underground albums a signature sound, his departure enabled Lou Reed to do exactly what he does best: write kick-ass, stripped-down […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Velvet Underground – The Best of the Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground – The Best of the Velvet Underground
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    The best tracks from their entire career.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nico – Chelsea Girl
    Nico – Chelsea Girl
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    Beautiful dark folk influenced debut featuring songs by Lou Reed & John Cale pre-Velvet Underground & Jackson Browne

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • John Cale & Terry Riley – Church of Anthrax
    John Cale & Terry Riley – Church of Anthrax
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    This unique collaboration was originally released in 1971 and saw John Cale (fresh from his ground-breaking work as a member of the Velvet Underground and now finding his feet as […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Faust IV
    Faust – Faust IV
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    Faust’s fourth studio album, featuring two of their greatest tracks, Krautrock & Jennifer.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Björk – Vulnicura Strings
    Björk – Vulnicura Strings
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    Vulnicura Strings is the acoustic version of Björk’s Vulnicura, featuring strings, voice and viola organista only – out on CD and vinyl. The original version of Vulnicura layered the boom […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joni Île – Semaphore CS
    Joni Île – Semaphore CS
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    In the age of boredom-less nights I sometimes yearn for times I sat on my bedroom floor listening to the same albums over and over. The first time I heard […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Indian Cinema In The Time Of Celluloid
    Indian Cinema In The Time Of Celluloid
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    In Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
    Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
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    Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
    Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
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    Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos.This is a book about art—and a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
    Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
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    Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
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    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
    Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
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    Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Thompson – Beeswing
    Richard Thompson – Beeswing
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    In this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
    Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
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    “I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
    Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
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    The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it’s a history […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
    October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
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    Critical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s.From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • A Social History Of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era 1897-1941
    A Social History Of Iranian Cinema Volume 1: The Artisanal Era 1897-1941
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    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joy Williams – Honored Guest
    Joy Williams – Honored Guest
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    In short stories “so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race” (Vanity Fair), a masseuse breaks her rich client’s wrist [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Emmett Williams – A Flexible History Of Fluxus Facts & Fictions
    Emmett Williams – A Flexible History Of Fluxus Facts & Fictions
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    Here Emmett Williams turns cartoonist, in the footsteps of Lyonel Feininger, Rube Goldberg, and Ad Reinhardt. His pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered by Ann Noel for this [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • New York Is Now: The New Wave Of Free Jazz
    New York Is Now: The New Wave Of Free Jazz
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    For nearly 20 years, a group of musicians has been making music in the tradition of pioneers such as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and John Coltrane, but which is uniquely […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
    Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
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    From the early seventies until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: Akenaten, Jubilee, Bob-Up-A-Down, B Movie: Little [...]

    GENRE:
  • Derek Jarman – At Your Own Risk
    Derek Jarman – At Your Own Risk
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    In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
    Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
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    Marjorie Perloff’s stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kazuki Tomokawa – Try Saying You’re Alive
    Kazuki Tomokawa – Try Saying You’re Alive
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    A vivid account of life on the margins and Tokyo’s 1970s underground culture from a Japanese folk legend Tokyo in the 1970s was a magnet for young musicians, poets and […]

    GENRE: Memoir