3 new Torn Light LPs up for pre-order.
Equipment Pointed Ankh - Downtown! LP
Zach Rowden - No Middle Without The Beginning LP
Fruit LoOops - You're Somebody's World LP

    No products in the cart.

Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 8:00PM

Sunday
11:00AM - 5:00PM

Showing 1–60 of 402 results

FILTERS

LIST

SEARCH

record-label

Filter by

Filter by

Showing 1–60 of 402 results

  • Bill Nace/Diagram A Duo Tape
    Bill Nace/Diagram A Duo Tape
    $11.00 | Add to cart

    Bill Nace and Diagram A duo tape, picked up directly from Bill Nace at the Cincinnati stop of the 2023 Sissy Spacek Tour

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky – Allen Klein Presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (Original Soundtrack) (Cloud & Blue Sky Vinyl)
    Alejandro Jodorowsky – Allen Klein Presents Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (Original Soundtrack) (Cloud & Blue Sky Vinyl)
    $52.00 | , Add to cart

    The Holy Mountain score is every bit hallucinatory as the visual imagery in the film. Musical styles that range from deep, primordial chants, to sitar folk melodies, to blaring orchestral […]

  • Sult – Always I Gnaw
    Sult – Always I Gnaw
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Over the past decade Sult has created a thrillingly dynamic and visceral sound world, forging a musical unity while also asserting the radically unique languages of its three core members, […]

  • Esplendor Geometrico – Kosmos Kino
    Esplendor Geometrico – Kosmos Kino
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    Reissue of Kosmos Kino, originally released in 1988. A Spanish industrial classic album by Esplendor Geométrico, has been unavailable on vinyl for more than 12 years, now out on limited, […]

  • Richard Ramirez – Trick
    Richard Ramirez – Trick
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Hospital Productions announces Trick on double LP. Trick is deeply important to the Hospital history as it was the first time working with the icon Richard Ramirez in 1999. Five […]

  • Kali Malone – Living Torch
    Kali Malone – Living Torch
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Another needed reissue in from GRM. One of the best Kali Malone releases IMO. Dive into some minimalism here. It’s dark and psyched out.” […]

  • Bill Orcutt – Jump On It
    Bill Orcutt – Jump On It
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Been on a real Orcutt kick lately. Beauty in guitar. Amazing addition to his extensive discography.” – Dan “Digging the new Orcutt album. [...]

  • Coil – The Ape Of Naples
    Coil – The Ape Of Naples
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Their true final studio LP is a creative and meek electronic album that feels like chamber music for purgatory.” – Alex “Really glad to […]

  • Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
    Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Definitely my favorite Nurse With Wound release and probably one of my favorite pieces of experimental music. Frightening, funny, surreal and everything in [...]

  • Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
    Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Recital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (New […]

  • Ernest Hood – Back to the Woodlands
    Ernest Hood – Back to the Woodlands
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Such an odd, charming album bringing together field recordings of the forest and kind of ambient, acid?, folk. This previously lost album continues on […]

  • The Cat & Bells Club – S/T
    The Cat & Bells Club – S/T
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    In 1992, under the guise of the Cat & Bells Club, eighteen-year-old Cheriton residents Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris self-released three tapes—two yellow cassettes and one pink—documenting [...]

  • Liam Grant – Amoskeag
    Liam Grant – Amoskeag
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Every song on this album taps into raw, rich veins of sound that are simultaneously dense but easy to enjoy; vintage and modern; new yet timeless. The album kicks off […]

  • Dead C – Operation Of The Sonne
    Dead C – Operation Of The Sonne
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “The weird, undersung cousin of Tusk & The White House. Operation Of The Sonne is the closest Dead C’s gotten to touching on the […]

  • Dead C – The White House
    Dead C – The White House
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “The pinnacle of rock n roll / noise rock – THE DEAD C. Thankfully Ba Da Bing! have brought these back around. Remastered by […]

  • Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt – Play At Duke
    Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt – Play At Duke
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Such a great duo, the perfect match!” – Jon Few sounds in music are as instantly recognizable as the searching sting of guitarist Bill […]

  • S*Glass – Cesspool Of The Angels
    S*Glass – Cesspool Of The Angels
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    First solo LP of 2023 by S. Glass of Glands of External Secretion, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, This Is Yvonne Lovejoy and Bananafish Magazine. Numerous practices make up the electro-acoustic sound [...]

  • Steve Gunn, John Truscinski, & Bill Nace –  Glass Band
    Steve Gunn, John Truscinski, & Bill Nace – Glass Band
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    We have here three musicians with such a rich shared history that they might as well share the same blood. Each an accomplished solo artist in their own right, there’s […]

  • Body/Dilloway/Head – S/T
    Body/Dilloway/Head – S/T
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Second pressing (first sold out prior to street date) of this debut studio collaboration between Kim Gordon, Bill Nace and Aaron Dilloway. It meets and exceeds all expectations fans of […]

  • Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings – Resolve
    Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings – Resolve
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Resolve acts in dialogue with the minimalist inspirations of the first Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings release, 1982’s Nodal Excitation – in effect, looking beneath the [...]

  • Jim O’Rourke – Hands That Bind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Jim O’Rourke – Hands That Bind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    O’Rourke’s process — sourcing resonant sounds to be enmeshed together into a music that supersedes their resident parts — makes a fitting soundtrack for Kyle Armstrong’s “prairie gothic” tale of [...]

  • Bill Nace – Through A Room
    Bill Nace – Through A Room
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Fever dream experimental guitar with an array of other instruments that are all completely abstracted. Uneasy listening.” – Hannah Using the [...]

  • Bill Nace – Both
    Bill Nace – Both
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    Free guitar for the new age: improv with intention, construction and destruction, all with the grain and air of performance captured and telescoped in a sonic particle collider. Makes sense, […]

  • Will Oldham & Lori Damiano – Shorty’s Ark
    Will Oldham & Lori Damiano – Shorty’s Ark
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Shorty’s Ark is a book for young readers, a collaborative effort between Will Oldham and graphic artist Lori Damiano, based on the song from the album Superwolves by Matt Sweeney […]

  • Scott Walker – Tilt
    Scott Walker – Tilt
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    “It’s been 25 years since Scott Walker released his dark masterpiece Tilt (8 May 1995). The album was met with positive reviews despite or maybe because of its arcane, unpleasant, […]

  • Michel Leiris – Aurora and Cardinal Point
    Michel Leiris – Aurora and Cardinal Point
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    This volume collects two classics of Surrealist fiction, both long out of print, by the writer and ethnographer Michel Leiris (1901–1990). Close to Georges Bataille, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre and [...]

  • Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho
    Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō offers in English a […]

  • Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold Commitment
    Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold Commitment
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    At once an artist’s book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), The Twofold Commitment centers on [...]

  • John O’Brien – Leaving Las Vegas
    John O’Brien – Leaving Las Vegas
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Forget the wack and overly sentimental movie, John O’Brien’s first novel is both a disturbing descent into hell and the best thing to come […]

  • Mariana Dimópulos -Imminence
    Mariana Dimópulos -Imminence
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her with an absence of feeling. Disoriented, she wanders with her partner around their plant-filled […]

  • Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
    Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    An anthology of Abu Hamdan’s disquieting audio-essay monologues on the soundscape of political life This volume compiles transcripts from performances and films by Beirut-based Lawrence Abu [...]

  • Louis Aragon – Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel
    Louis Aragon – Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    This novel, much of it written amidst the horror of the trenches when Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a medical orderly during the First World War, demonstrates the chasm that separates […]

  • Leonard Cohen – A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
    Leonard Cohen – A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard Cohen Before Leonard Cohen’s worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy [...]

  • Robert Desnos – Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning
    Robert Desnos – Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    A literary masterpiece of early Surrealism from the virtuoso of automatic writing, Robert Desnos Mystery, the marvelous, the city of Paris transmuted by love, and Sanglot the Corsair’s pursuit of [...]

  • Léon Genonceaux – The Tutu: Morals of the Fin de Siècle
    Léon Genonceaux – The Tutu: Morals of the Fin de Siècle
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    The nineteenth-century French writer and publisher Léon Genonceaux (1856―?) is as much of an enigma as those two legendary enfants terribles whom he was the first to publish: Arthur Rimbaud […]

  • Count Stenbock – The Shadow Of Death
    Count Stenbock – The Shadow Of Death
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    Here, presented for the first time in paperback format, and limited edition hardcover, is an unabridged edition of Count Eric Stenbock’s third and last collection of poetry, which was originally [...]

  • Élémir Bourges – The Twilight of the Gods
    Élémir Bourges – The Twilight of the Gods
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Long out of print in English, and here offered for the first time in a restored format, The Twilight of the Gods, Élémir Bourges’ acknowledged masterpiece, was originally published in […]

  • Max Blecher – The Illuminated Burrow: A Sanatorium Journal
    Max Blecher – The Illuminated Burrow: A Sanatorium Journal
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Max Blecher began writing The Illuminated Burrow in 1937 and continued working on it until his death the following spring, but its full version was only published posthumously in 1971. […]

  • Bruno Schulz – Collected Stories
    Bruno Schulz – Collected Stories
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Collected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, [...]

  • Paul Leppin – Blaugast: A Novel of Decline
    Paul Leppin – Blaugast: A Novel of Decline
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Blaugast is a tale of ruin. A bored clerk, Klaudius Blaugast, pursues his desires down a path spiraling into complete degradation. Homeless and destitute, having lost everything at the hands […]

  • Johannes Urzidil – House of the Nine Devils: Selected Bohemian Tales
    Johannes Urzidil – House of the Nine Devils: Selected Bohemian Tales
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Collected here and translated into English for the first time are some of most renowned Bohemian stories by Prague native Johannes Urzidil, an author who has long been unjustifiably neglected. [...]

  • Gherasim Luca – The Passive Vampire
    Gherasim Luca – The Passive Vampire
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally published in 1945 in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 in the magazine La part du sable. Luca, […]

  • Jean Lorrain – The Blood Of The Gods
    Jean Lorrain – The Blood Of The Gods
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Jean Lorrain, later famous as the author of such Decadent masterpieces as Nightmares of an Ether Drinker and Errant Vice, began his literary career in 1882 with the book of […]

  • Jules Janin – The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman
    Jules Janin – The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Jules Janin (1804-1874) was one of the major exponents of the frénétique school of literature, which reveled in excesses, dark themes, and ghoulish situations, and The Dead Donkey and the […]

  • Davis Grubb – The Night Of The Hunter
    Davis Grubb – The Night Of The Hunter
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Two young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap’s Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in […]

  • The William H. Gass Reader
    The William H. Gass Reader
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most […]

  • Islamic Mystical Poetry
    Islamic Mystical Poetry
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and [...]

  • A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
    A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    With the death in 2020 of long-standing occasional third member Peter Stapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped as the core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, [...]

  • Takehisa Kosugi – S/T
    Takehisa Kosugi – S/T
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Slowscan’s latest, a stunning, remastered vinyl edition of Takehisa Kosugi’s New York, August 14, 1991 – expanded to include an entire second LP of recordings made by the [...]

  • Amateur Hour – Amateur Hour
    Amateur Hour – Amateur Hour
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    The highly sought after debut album originally released through Förlag För Fri Musik, finally reissued! Pressed in 500 copies with updated cover art & contains an insert with liner notes […]

  • Blod – Där Ska Barnet Vara
    Blod – Där Ska Barnet Vara
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Great record from Discreet Music. Has that wobbly sound that pervades most if not all of the albums they put out. Fits many moods […]

  • Leda – Neuter
    Leda – Neuter
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Sofie Herner (Enhet För Fri Musik, Neutral) returns with Neuter, the first proper album since the Gitarrmusik III-X LP released on Förlag För Fri Musik back in 2017. Neuter was […]

  • Sofia Carbonara – On Names
    Sofia Carbonara – On Names
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    ON “ON NAMES:” I recorded the voices of my parents (Joaquin & Daniela) reading off phonemes (the sounds in words) from Spanish, Italian, and German in search of what my […]

  • V/A – Space, Energy & Light: Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88 (YELLOW VINYL)
    V/A – Space, Energy & Light: Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88 (YELLOW VINYL)
    $50.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Constant listen here in the shop. Great mix of Berlin school type music. One thing about Soul Jazz comps, the track selection always beats […]

  • Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
    Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Ships by 7/28/23. Writing about Mazozma aka Ma Turner’s work is like trying to frame a river. Throughout the course of their prolific career and many projects, the Lexington, KY […]

  • Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
    Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Ships by or around 7/21/223 “Do you wanna hear it? Do you want to hear me screeeaaaaammmm!?” Fruit LoOops vocalist Jackie Switzer opened their 2020 LP, Orangina, with these words. […]

  • Kate Rissiek – Wave Expanse
    Kate Rissiek – Wave Expanse
    $26.00 | Add to cart

    Wave Expanse is the new LP by Kate Rissiek (Eastern Shore, NS). Continuing after 2022’s release Decayed Signals on Virtues, we see Kate’s sonic armament has not depleted. Wave Expanse […]

  • Juma – Selected Works 2LP
    Juma – Selected Works 2LP
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Unearthed a few copies while moving Fantastique out of here. Incredible gamut of K. Yoshimatsu material from 81-82. Varied from industrial to new wave, […]

  • Maggot Brain #12
    Maggot Brain #12
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Crazy Doberman ? Erick’s Bradshaw delivers an epic, well-illustrated tour diary of a brief jaunt with these noise greats. Composer TAYONDAI BRAXTON by Katy Henricksen! A meaty, beautiful [...]

  • Reynols – Peloto Cabras Mulusa Olve
    Reynols – Peloto Cabras Mulusa Olve
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Many things have been said about REYNOLS over the past 30 years but altogether seem not yet enough to poroperly describe the unclassifiable Argentine group formed by MIGUEL TOMASIN, ROBERTO […]