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  • 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.” […]

  • La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – 31 VII 69 10:26 – 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 – 3:11 AM The Volga Delta
    La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – 31 VII 69 10:26 – 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 – 3:11 AM The Volga Delta
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “‘Composer La Monte Young Does Not Understand His Work’ – Tony Conrad, 1990” – Cleo “La Monte Young was born in Bern, Idaho in [...]

  • Bernard Parmegiani – De Natura Sonorum
    Bernard Parmegiani – De Natura Sonorum
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    2022 repress. De Natura Sonorum (1975): Premiered at the Salle Wagram in Paris on June 3rd 1975. A suite of 12 movements, divided into two series of six. “The first […]

  • Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing
    Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Falling asleep to Automatic Writing, having a nightmare during Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon, waking back up to She Was A Visitor and going about […]

  • Sydney Spann – Sending Up A Spiral Of LP
    Sydney Spann – Sending Up A Spiral Of LP
    $27.00 | Add to cart

    The first vinyl release from American artist Sydney Spann, Sending Up A Spiral Of well encapsulates Spann’s body of work thus far. On their music, which reacts to themes of […]

  • “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Out Of The Blue
    “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Out Of The Blue
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Worth it just for A Letter From Home. ‘This train is lit by the luminescence of the town and the faint morning light, and […]

  • 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 [...]

  • 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 […]

  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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 [...]

  • Peter Weibel – Sound Art
    Peter Weibel – Sound Art
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    Essays and images that map art’s new sonic cosmos, illustrated in color throughout. This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists’ engagement with sound. Since the beginning of [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Magnus Jäverling – Bowdark
    Magnus Jäverling – Bowdark
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Feels and sounds like a real movie score. For fans of electronic music sounds.” – Jack Bowdark is the name of a fictitious town […]

  • Franciska – Tryghed
    Franciska – Tryghed
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Another Discreet pick for me this week. This record crafts the ultimate comfort sound, dropping you into a soundscape that feels like laying on […]

  • Zach Rowden – No Middle Without The Beginning LP
    Zach Rowden – No Middle Without The Beginning LP
    $22.00 | Add to cart

    Ships prior to release date of 9/29/2023. Zach Rowden’s new album, titled “No Middle Without The Beginning”, radiates the current musical concrete. Two pieces, each spanning a [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Colin Andrew Sheffield – Images
    Colin Andrew Sheffield – Images
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    What our staff has to say: “Gorgeous ambient soundscapes through manipulated samples of jazz records. While the source material is mostly unrecognizable, completely repurposed into amorphous [...]

  • Kerry O’Brien And William Robin – On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
    Kerry O’Brien And William Robin – On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “A revisionist history of minimalism’s transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating [...]

  • VA – Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)
    VA – Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Originally released in 1982 and now available from Song Cycle Records, Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record) showcases 3 to 5 minute sound pieces […]

  • Michael Snow – Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder
    Michael Snow – Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Michael Snow may be more recognized as an artist/filmaker, but has crossover into recorded media (music) as well, starting with his involvement with free […]

  • Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood – Tete-a-tete
    Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood – Tete-a-tete
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    Over the course of a nearly 50 year romantic and creative partnership sound artist Annea Lockwood and the late pioneering electronic composer Ruth Anderson have shared space on a number […]

  • William S. Burroughs – Break Through In Grey Room
    William S. Burroughs – Break Through In Grey Room
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    Inspired 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 [...]

  • William S. Burroughs – Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
    William S. Burroughs – Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
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    In 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 [...]

  • Thomas Bernhard – The Voice Imitator
    Thomas Bernhard – The Voice Imitator
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    The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard’s work depicts [...]

  • Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
    Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
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    Chasm. 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 […]

  • Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
    Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
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    In 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 […]

  • The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
    The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Mina Loy’s technique and subjects – prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide – shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as [...]

  • Steven Cline – Amok!
    Steven Cline – Amok!
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    In 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 […]

  • Kenneth Patchen – Sleepers Awake
    Kenneth Patchen – Sleepers Awake
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    Sleepers Awake, first published in 1946, is one of Kenneth Patchen’s major prose books. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention, it might be described as novelistic fantasy–a [...]

  • Ishmael Reed – Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    Ishmael Reed – Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Ishmael Reed’s classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.

  • Pierre Reverdy – The Thief of Talant
    Pierre Reverdy – The Thief of Talant
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    Challenged by his friend, poet and art critic Max Jacob, to write a novel, Pierre Reverdy produced this fragmented, beautiful assemblage of loneliness, paranoia and depersonalization drawn from [...]

  • Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
    Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
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    Anselm 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 [...]

  • Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Insane amplified violin shredding on top of electric guitar on A side – I’ve never heard a violin sounding like that, blending completely with […]

  • Personal Best 9
    Personal Best 9
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Lasse Marghaug’s magazine Personal Best is back! Issue number 9 will be in hand and shipping mid to late June. Still my favorite magazine around. Issue 9 features interviews with […]

  • Tony Conrad: Writings
    Tony Conrad: Writings
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    Essential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone music Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a legendary multidisciplinary artist known for his [...]

  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
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    Three 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 […]

  • Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
    Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
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    In 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 […]

  • Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
    Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
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    Moondog is one of America’s great originals.–Alan Rich, New York Magazine Here is a revised edition of a book that celebrates one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth […]

  • Henri Michaux – Life in the Folds
    Henri Michaux – Life in the Folds
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    Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux’s (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a [...]

  • Roland Topor – Head-To-Toe Portrait of Suzanne
    Roland Topor – Head-To-Toe Portrait of Suzanne
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    Working from the 1960s on, the French writer, artist and illustrator Roland Topor (1938-97) was an all-round maverick known for his paintings and drawings as much as for his novels […]