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V/A – Nigeria 70
$38.00 | Box Set, Vinyl Add to cartStrut repress one of the all-time classic compilations of Afro-funk and Afrobeat for 2016, the first volume of the mighty Nigeria 70 series. Originally released in 2001, the album followed […]
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We Jazz Issue 09: Oisters
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cartThe ninth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Oisters. Featuring: Jason Moran, Carlos Garnett, Oren Ambarchi, Darius Jones, Black Fire Records, Robyn Steward, columnist Mats Gustafsson, reviews, and more. [...]
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We Jazz Issue 05: Amaryllis
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. The fifth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Amaryllis for Mary Halvorson. All articles presented in English. Stories include Mary Halvorson by Peter Margasak, Pi Recordings by Will Layman, [...]
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We Jazz Issue 04: The Call
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. The fourth issue of We Jazz Magazine, The Call for Horace Tapscott. All articles presented in English. Stories include Horace Tapscott by Andy Thomas, Tigran Hamasyan by Rui […]
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We Jazz Issue 03: Tetragon
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. This is the third issue of the new We Jazz Magazine, Tetragon for Joe Henderson. All articles presented in English. Stories include Joe Henderson by Daniel Spicer, International [...]
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Os Mutantes – A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (White Vinyl)
$28.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart2023 repress. Originally released in 1970 this was the third album from Os Mutantes, the geniuses of wacked out Brazilian psychedelic rock. They may have been trying to pay homage […]
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Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret – Beauties
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartA lost classic of the Ethiopian Golden Age, reissued in full for the first time! On this 1976 gem of a record, Aselefech Ashine and Getenesh Kebret’s voices intertwine in […]
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Tinariwen – Kel Tinariwen
$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartA revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on […]
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V/A – Radio Familia Volume 1 (Compiled By Arp Frique)
$22.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartFour essential cuts from Ghana & Cape Verde, compiled by Arp Frique… Music is a great connector, bringing people together in many ways. On his journey in music so far, […]
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We Jazz Issue 02: Pursuance
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cartWe Jazz follows the success of the sold out debut issue of their new magazine with issue number 2 (Fall 2021), entitled “Pursuance”. The cover story by Ashley Kahn features […]
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V/A – Afro Exotique 2: Further Adventures In The Leftfield Africa 1975-87
$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartAfter “Afro Exotique – Adventures In The Leftfield, Africa 1972-88” was enthusiastically embraced by heads, collectors and core Africa Seven enthusiasts alike, we dived back [...]
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We Jazz Issue 08 Summer 2023: Shadow Shapes
$26.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartThe eighth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Shadow Shapes for Dorothy Ashby. All articles presented in English. Dorothy Ashby by David Mittleman, Don Cherry by Magnus Nygren, Peter Evans by […]
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We Jazz Issue 06 Winter 2022: Revelation
$26.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. The sixth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Revelation for Black Jazz Records. All articles presented in English. Stories include Black Jazz Records by Daniel Spicer, As-Shams by Andy […]
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Nelson Algren – A Walk On The Wild Side
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, Nelson Algren’s A Walk in the Wild Side […]
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Fernanda Melchor – Paradais
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartInside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor—an [...]
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Will Oldham & Lori Damiano – Shorty’s Ark
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartShorty’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 […]
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Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold Commitment
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAt 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 [...]
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John O’Brien – Leaving Las Vegas
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat 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 […]
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Mariana Dimópulos -Imminence
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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 […]
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn 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 [...]
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Louis Aragon – Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis 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 […]
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Leonard Cohen – A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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 [...]
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Robert Desnos – Liberty or Love! and Mourning for Mourning
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA 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 [...]
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Léon Genonceaux – The Tutu: Morals of the Fin de Siècle
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe 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 […]
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Count Stenbock – The Shadow Of Death
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHere, 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 [...]
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Élémir Bourges – The Twilight of the Gods
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLong 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 […]
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Jean Lorrain – The Blood Of The Gods
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJean 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 […]
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The William H. Gass Reader
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThroughout 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 […]
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Islamic Mystical Poetry
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten 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 [...]
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V/A – Nigeria Soul Power 70 – Afro-Funk, Afro-Rock, Afro-Disco
$40.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartSoul Jazz Records’ Nigeria Soul Power 70 album showcases the influence of funk, rock and disco on Nigerian music during the 1970s. Originally released as a now-long-out-of-print collectors’ 7” [...]
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V/A – YORUBA! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria
$37.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartSoul Jazz Records latest album Yoruba! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria is newly recorded in Lagos, Nigeria. The album is co-produced by Soul Jazz Records label […]
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Maggot Brain #12
$12.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartCrazy 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 [...]
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William S. Burroughs – Break Through In Grey Room
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartInspired by the original Industrial Records release of William S. Burroughs’s Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, Belgian record label Sub Rosa worked with Burroughs to release another [...]
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William S. Burroughs – Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartIn 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson of (then-)Throbbing Gristle travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of [...]
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Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of […]
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Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that “would be a bit more sober & more spacious” than his poems. And yet, in his […]
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Steven Cline – Amok!
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn this collection of recent texts, American surrealist artist Steven Cline has opened the floodgates to his inner worlds, demanding that we take a look. When we do, we are […]
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Ishmael Reed – Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIshmael Reed’s classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.
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Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAnselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo [...]
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Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart“Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]
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Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart“Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]
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Ahl Nana* – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
$40.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartLost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara. This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that […]
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Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThree New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
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Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but […]
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Gerard De Nerval – Aurelia & Other Writings
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA harrowing document of a descent into madness, by France’s defining poet of bohemian romanticism Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval’s account of his descent into [...]
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Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOriginally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra […]
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Renata Adler – Pitch Dark
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe second novel by Renata Adler, Pitch Dark is a personal love story, in Adler’s distinctive, fragmentary prose.
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Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cart1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His […]
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Ann Quin – Tripticks
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A joyful & experimental deathtrip of a science fiction novel” – Cleo First published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and final novel was a […]
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Constance DeJong – Reader
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first anthology of the multivocal, narrational, performative writings of the intermedia pioneer, who has quietly influenced generations of New York artists and writers from Kathy Acker to [...]
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Herta Muller – Nadirs
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Müller’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The [...]
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John Ondolo – Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartJohn Ondolo spent his life traveling between Tanzania, where he was born, and Kenya, where he recorded a string of singles for independent labels in the late 1950s and early […]
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The Wire – #463 September 2022
$10.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartOn the cover… Neu! + 50 Years Of Motorik A special cover feature on the motorik rock originators Neu! to mark half a century since their game-changing debut album. This […]
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Maggie Nelson – Bluets
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSuppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and […]
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Violette Leduc – Thérèse and Isabelle
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir’s protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force” (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc’s [...]
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The Wire – #460 June 2022
$10.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cart“On the cover: Phew. The Japanese punk survivor and intrepid vocalist/composer continues to build an impressive catalogue of collaborations, solo projects and band work in a career now [...]
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Maggot Brain – Issue #9
$12.00 | Magazine, Print Add to cartWELCOME TO MAGGOT BRAIN #9 – RAYMOND PETTIBON ON THE COVER! RAYMOND PETTIBON: IN CONVERSATION WITH ADAM WOODHEAD JOHN BRANNON: NEGATIVE APPROACH HONCHO UNLOADS JOHN WATERS: THE RETURN OF THE […]
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Bret Easton Ellis – The Informers
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard […]
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Cecilia Pavón – Little Joy
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe best of contemporary Argentine author Cecilia Pavón’s short stories. Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures [...]
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Baad John Cross – New Revolution Chapter 1
$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartBaad John Cross’s New Revolution is a Afro-electro-funk-boogie-disco banger that could only come from 1980s Nigeria. Bright, optimistic, with an unrelenting eye on the dance floor, it is regarded [...]