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  • Tashi Dorji – We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit
    Tashi Dorji – We Will Be Wherever The Fires Are Lit
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    begin form here… begin from here…our world lives when their world ceases to exist begin from here…with hopes, between silent skies, while world breathes again and the fever [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor – Silent Tongues: Live At Montreux ’74
    Cecil Taylor – Silent Tongues: Live At Montreux ’74
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    Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, July 2, 1974. Label: Arista – AL 1005 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1975 VG+/VG. WOS. Noticeable sleevewear. Upper [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Larry Kramer – Faggots
    Larry Kramer – Faggots
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    “Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, Faggots is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Nightwatches Of Bonaventura
    The Nightwatches Of Bonaventura
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    “First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume “Bonaventura,” The Nightwatches of Bonaventura is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ben Ratliff – Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound
    Ben Ratliff – Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound
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    “John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
    Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker’s most notorious work of textual appropriation and literary homage, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
    Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
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    “Through essays, poetry, stories, and images, writers and artists offer their perceptions of how we fit into the world and where we might be headed. The theory of evolution connects […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lorrain – Masks In The Tapestry
    Jean Lorrain – Masks In The Tapestry
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    “Jean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here, for the first time in English, are ten such tales: […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Lorrain – The Soul-Drinker
    Jean Lorrain – The Soul-Drinker
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    “No other writer of the fin-de-siècle period undertook a more elaborate exploration of perversities and abnormalities than Jean Lorrain, and no one else went as far afield in the search [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Snuggly Satanicon
    The Snuggly Satanicon
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    “The current volume, edited and translated from the French by Brian Stableford, brings together fourteen stories composed in the thriving tradition of “literary Satanism” that was pioneered [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Kloss – The Genocide House
    Robert Kloss – The Genocide House
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    The Genocide House by Robert Kloss In The Genocide House—the American—maelstrom—The world—delirium— Villages—slaughtered and burned—Cities eradicated—in atomic flame— Young women lie—yearning—in [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Thomas Bernhard – Correction
    Thomas Bernhard – Correction
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    “The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
    Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
    $120.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This 1978 recording finds the estimable British guitarist in the musical company of several members of the cutting edge of the Japanese jazz avant-garde of the time. These musicians, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kathy Acker – Literal Madness
    Kathy Acker – Literal Madness
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na’veté that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
    Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Tones for Joan’s Bones, Chick Corea’s first session as a leader, is a blazing, advanced hard bop set from late 1966, with writing that reveals an affinity with McCoy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
    Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
    $48.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The most significant dividing line in Ornette’s chronology might be Charlie Haden’s leaving the group in the mid-’70s. This set of duos from a few years later highlights the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
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    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Samuel R. Delany – Dhalgren
    Samuel R. Delany – Dhalgren
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    “Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there … The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kafka’s Ibiki – Shiminkai
    Kafka’s Ibiki – Shiminkai
    $35.00 | , Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

    New album “Shiminkai” by Kafka’s Ibiki, a three-piece band comprised of Jim O’Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. Recorded live performance in Tokyo in 2023 by [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Collected Voices in the Expanded Field
    Collected Voices in the Expanded Field
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Collected Voices in the Expanded Field is a collectively written novel composed of 34 unique voices from the expanded field.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joyce Mansour – In the Glittering Maw
    Joyce Mansour – In the Glittering Maw
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    The first English-language collection focused on the later works of Joyce Mansour, an Arab-Jewish Surrealist poet who was exiled from Egypt in the 1950s and settled in Paris. Mansour’s late […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
    Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    This anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • M.S Coe – The Formation of Calcium
    M.S Coe – The Formation of Calcium
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Middle-aged Mary Ellen Washie has finally freed herself of her stultified past life in western New York state and moved to Florida. With the husband she’s grown to hate firmly […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lynne Tillman – Weird Fucks
    Lynne Tillman – Weird Fucks
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    A brilliant novella from a legendary figure in American fiction A young woman drifts through dimly lit bars and rented rooms, reporting from the erogenous zones of New York and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mike Corrao – Leopold’s Labyrinth
    Mike Corrao – Leopold’s Labyrinth
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Leopold’s Labyrinth puts the reader at the center of a story where they take shape as a recluse residing in the digitally-constructed environments of the future—the cybergothic landscape of the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy
    Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Bruno K. Öijer, bestselling author and fierce social critic, has reached an iconic status in Sweden. He broke through as a rebellious young poet in the early 1970s with a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pedro Almodóvar – The Last Dream
    Pedro Almodóvar – The Last Dream
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bo Huston – Horse And Other Stories
    Bo Huston – Horse And Other Stories
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Bo Huston’s sensitive, stately prose translates gay underclass experience with such authenticity yet acumen that it seems the work of a first rate double agent. Horse brings to the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Breakthrough Fictioneers
    Breakthrough Fictioneers
    $36.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This massive anthology of works compiled by Kostelanetz, features artists from a range of disciplines who use both text and images to experiment with the formal and conceptual qualities of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kenneth Patchen – But Even So
    Kenneth Patchen – But Even So
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    A collection of Patchen’s “picture-poems”, which combine surreal childlike doodles and concrete poetry into a synthesized art form. New Directions Publishing, 1968 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jackie Mclean – Let Freedom Ring LP Tone Poets Series
    Jackie Mclean – Let Freedom Ring LP Tone Poets Series
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Jackie McLean’s Let Freedom Ring: Blue Note Tone Poet Reissue Mastered From the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray and Pressed at RTI Jackie McLean’s 1962 [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Modest Jazz Trio – Good Friday Blues LP
    Modest Jazz Trio – Good Friday Blues LP
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of The Modest Jazz Trio’s Good Friday Blues: Blue Note Tone Poet Reissue Mastered From the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray and Pressed at RTI. Featuring Jim [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
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    Prince Lasha Quintet – The Cry LP
    Prince Lasha Quintet – The Cry LP
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    Contemporary Records Series 180g Vinyl LP Reissue of Prince Lasha Quintet’s The Cry!. All-Analog Mastered from the Original Tapes by Bernie Grundman and Pressed at QRP. Released in 1963 on [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Stan Getz – Sweet Rain LP
    Stan Getz – Sweet Rain LP
    $39.00 | Ships on/around Aug 30, 2024 Add to cart

    Stan Getz Sweet Rain on 180g LP. Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the Original Analog Tapes, Pressed at QRP and Packaged in a Stoughton Printing Gatefold Old-Style Tip-On Jacket. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series Reissue of Patrice Rushen’s 1974 Debut Album Prelusion on 180g LP. Available on Vinyl for the First Time Since Its Original Release 50 Years Ago. Mastered [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • PRE-ORDER
    Miles Davis Quintet – The New Miles Davis Quintet LP
    Miles Davis Quintet – The New Miles Davis Quintet LP
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    Original Jazz Classic Series Reissue of The Miles Davis Quintet’s 1956 Album Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet on 180g Vinyl LP. Cut from the Original Master Tapes (AAA) by Kevin Gray at [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    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
  • George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from George Russell, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details ‘Jazz In The [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
    Sun Ra – Space Is the Place
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Space Is The Place – highlighted by the rousing 21-minute title track – is both an essential album and a great onramp for new listeners to travel the spaceways of […]

    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
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    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
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    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
  • Harold Land – Choma (Burn)
    Harold Land – Choma (Burn)
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Digitally remastered edition. This was made by a fine small Jazz group operating in the early ’60s, co-led by saxophonist Harold Land and vibes player Bobby Hutcherson. They released [...]

    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
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    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
  • Ornette Coleman Trio – Live 1965/66
    Ornette Coleman Trio – Live 1965/66
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Performed on the same tour as his iconic Live at the Golden Circle dates, the music here features Ornette’s second great ensemble, his trio with drummer Charles Moffett and bassist […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
    Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Contains Jazz Advance, Looking Ahead & The World Of Cecil Taylor

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Albert Ayler – The Early Albums Collection
    Albert Ayler – The Early Albums Collection
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    The American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer, Albert Ayler, was a pioneer during the free-jazz-era of the early 1960s, however, some critics argue that while Ayler’s style [...]

    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
  • Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
    Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    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
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    ‘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
  • 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
  • The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
    The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
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    The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Nala Sinephro – Endlessness CD
    Nala Sinephro – Endlessness CD
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    ‘Endlessness’ is a deep dive into the cycle of existence. The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
    Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Now in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today. Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
    Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    1980s Los Angeles. The crack epidemic has hit hard. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug — a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
    Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sergio De La Pava – A Naked Singularity
    Sergio De La Pava – A Naked Singularity
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    The critically acclaimed novel that is now a major motion picture starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, coming to theaters August 6, streaming August 13! A Naked Singularity tells the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Troy James Weaver – Visions
    Troy James Weaver – Visions
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    “Troy James Weaver’s novel unravels the typical coming-of-age story. It erases the distinction between finding and losing your voice, becoming enlightened by a vision and swallowed by [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive