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  • Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs And The Press
    Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs And The Press
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    Verso, 1999 paperback edition. Light wear to wraps & pages. “On March 16, 1998, the CIA’s Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally let the cat out of the bag in an […]

  • Vijaya Anand – Asia Classics 1: South Indian Film Music
    Vijaya Anand – Asia Classics 1: South Indian Film Music
    $23.00 | Add to cart

    You won’t hear Vijaya Anand sing on this record. Nor will you hear him play any of the instruments. He is the invisible presence behind each of these songs. He’s […]

  • The Movers – The Movers Vol 1 (1970 – 1976)
    The Movers – The Movers Vol 1 (1970 – 1976)
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    It’s a special, but also a strange sensation to be releasing an album of one of your early musical heroes. I first discovered The Movers on my very first “record […]

  • Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
    Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
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    With his 2021 self-titled debut, Andy Pastalaniec’s Chime School became one of the defining acts of the seemingly never-ending, prolific and multifaceted Bay Area pop scene. Slumberland Records [...]

  • Nala Sinephro – Endlessness
    Nala Sinephro – Endlessness
    $31.00 | 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, [...]

  • 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, [...]

  • DJ Speedsick / Giugno
    DJ Speedsick / Giugno
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Released on CDr from endogenesis – housed in a manilla envelope. labeled CDr.

  • Black Tote Bag
    Black Tote Bag
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    New shop tote – green ink on black canvas. Holds around 25 LPs.

  • Rob Logan – Explode The Rose
    Rob Logan – Explode The Rose
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    “Explode the Rose” is the first solo recording by Rob Logan (Desert Liminal / Midnight Minds). The album is as much self-examination as it is an exploration of composition and […]

  • Sacred Arts Of Haitian Vodou
    Sacred Arts Of Haitian Vodou
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    UCLA Fowler Museum, 1998 second printing. Binding lightly pulling from wraps at spine, however pages are intact and tight at binding. Wraps show some noticeable wear & scuffing, particularly [...]

  • Wade Davis – The Serpent & The Rainbow (1st ed)
    Wade Davis – The Serpent & The Rainbow (1st ed)
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    Simon & Schuster, 1985 1st hardcover edition. Binding is tight, with light yellowing to pages and small sticker on bottom spine of dust jacket. “In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis [...]

  • Kurt Schwitters – PPPPPP
    Kurt Schwitters – PPPPPP
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    Exact Change, 2002 paperback edition. Light cornerwear to wraps & pages. The most comprehensive anthology of Dada polymath Kurt Schwitters’s writings and sound poetry transcriptions. [...]

  • Bill Ayers – Fugitive Days: A Memoir
    Bill Ayers – Fugitive Days: A Memoir
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    Beacon Press, 2001 hardcover edition. Tearing and sticker on dust jacket, writing on frontspiece. Corner folding to three of the pages. Bill Ayers memoir of his radicalization, time spent leading [...]

  • J.G Ballard – The Crystal World
    J.G Ballard – The Crystal World
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    Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966 1st hardcover US edition. Dust jacket is clipped and shows noticeable wear and staining, along with some creasing. Pages are topstained blue, but also have […]

  • Werewolves In Western Culture: A Lycanthropy Reader
    Werewolves In Western Culture: A Lycanthropy Reader
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    Syracuse University Press, 1986 paperback edition. Frontspiece is clipped and has writing on it. Wraps show some corner & edgewear, along with some scuffing to spine. Scuffing & [...]

  • Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and The Origins of Religion
    Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and The Origins of Religion
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    Yale University Press, 1986 paperback edition. Writing on frontspiece. Some wear & discoloration to wraps, particularly at corners. “This fascinating book discusses the role played by [...]

  • R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
    R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
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    Impact Publishers, 1983 paperback edition. Wraps some some staining and wear/scuffing. Pages show some wear & folding at upper corners. Writing on frontspiece. Accomplished polymath [...]

  • The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
    The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
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    Causeway Books, 1973 hardcover edition. Dust jacket shows some noticeable staining, rubbing and fraying. Pages are noticeably discolored, yellowing/foxing but tight to binding. The essential [...]

  • Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
    Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
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    A solo double bass LP from Zach Rowden. A minimal and  drone album that requires you to let go, and hear Zach’s discipline and from that – patience. Immediately intimate, […]

  • 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 [...]

  • Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
    Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
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    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 […]

  • Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
    Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
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    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 [...]

  • Cannibal Error (Revised)
    Cannibal Error (Revised)
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    A social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of [...]

  • Sergio De La Pava – A Naked Singularity
    Sergio De La Pava – A Naked Singularity
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    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 […]

  • Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
    Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
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    On 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls […]

  • Troy James Weaver – Visions
    Troy James Weaver – Visions
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    “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 [...]

  • Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
    Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
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    The reader will find here the true aftermath of the adventures of Ahab, self-described captain, survivor of his last fight against a giant fish. We will see how this retiree […]

  • Alain Mabanckou – African Psycho
    Alain Mabanckou – African Psycho
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    Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho’s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and [...]

  • Shane Jesse Christmass – Xerox Over Manhattan
    Shane Jesse Christmass – Xerox Over Manhattan
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    A young man on a radar screen. Sewerage from the storm drain. Makeshift refugee compounds. Dishwasher used as an ice box. The luncheon held on artificial grass. Television. Late 1980s. […]

  • Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
    Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
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    Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia is a series of poems Tinti composed in the spring of 2020. The epigraphic collections of the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, and the National [...]

  • Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976-1988
    Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976-1988
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    A visual history of the artists, fans, and fanzines of widely influential British punk. Zerox Machine is an immersive journey through the vibrant history of British punk and its associated […]

  • Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
    Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
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    Upon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was […]

  • Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    In 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]

  • Alan Moore – Jerusalem
    Alan Moore – Jerusalem
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    In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the […]

  • Mathias Enard – Zone
    Mathias Enard – Zone
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    “The novel of the decade, if not of the century.”–Christophe Claro Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for [...]

  • Joseph McElroy – Hind’s Kidnap
    Joseph McElroy – Hind’s Kidnap
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    A long-ago kidnaping case all but abandoned resurfaces, yet its memory of lives put aside almost screens itself with a population of new life. Neighborhoods of New York, of Brooklyn […]

  • Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
    Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
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    “Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop Alice [...]

  • Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
    Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    The first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music. West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, [...]

  • Claire Donato – Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts
    Claire Donato – Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts
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    The first major book from a longtime legend in underground literature; known by citation and word of mouth, but only now emerging with a work that will earn a broad […]

  • Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
    Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    New evidence in ‘Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control’ uncovers the origin of an organized group of racist terrorists committing [...]

  • Richard John Parfitt – Stray Dogs
    Richard John Parfitt – Stray Dogs
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    Turner is a high school dropout newly arrived in Toronto. After taking a job selling dictionaries for a local grifter named Romeo Silva, the day goes wrong and Turner gets […]

  • Clark Coolidge – The Crystal Text
    Clark Coolidge – The Crystal Text
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    Clark Coolidge’s book-length meditation on a crystal–long considered a masterpiece of American avant-garde poetry–returns in a new edition. “No other poet ever has so [...]

  • The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
    The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Mystical and everyday reveries from the visionary American modernist In the early years of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield painted mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his [...]

  • Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
    Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    As the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter. Harder and faster than […]

  • Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
    Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
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    Is Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. […]

  • Brainbombs – Burning Hell
    Brainbombs – Burning Hell
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    “Noise rock classic. Psychedelic and unhinged dirge rock. “After Acid” is a top 5 for me of all time.” – Alex Label: Blackjack Records – JACK009 Format: Vinyl, LP, [...]

  • The Faith* / Void – The Faith / Void
    The Faith* / Void – The Faith / Void
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    Possibly the greatest US hardcore LP of all time. Label: Dischord Records – Dischord No.8 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 1985 VG/VG with Some noticeable light marks […]

  • Fripp and Eno ‎– (No Pussyfooting)
    Fripp and Eno ‎– (No Pussyfooting)
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    A heavenly meeting of frippertronics & Eno’s gorgous synth drone and tape music. Label: Editions EG – EGS 102 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

  • Riuichi Sakamoto Featuring Robin Scott ‎– Left Handed Dream
    Riuichi Sakamoto Featuring Robin Scott ‎– Left Handed Dream
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    “This is a fantastic record that was made at a pivotal time for Ryuichi Sakamoto – it displays a wealth of global influences as shown by the diversity of instruments […]

  • Archie Shepp And The Full Moon Ensemble ‎– Live In Antibes (Vol. 2)
    Archie Shepp And The Full Moon Ensemble ‎– Live In Antibes (Vol. 2)
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    Piano grounded Ensemble record that goes very very far out and free. Shepp’s band smoke here. Incredible for those looking for the more mangled parts of the early 70s explorations […]

  • Brian Eno ‎– Before And After Science (81 pressing)
    Brian Eno ‎– Before And After Science (81 pressing)
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    Eno with his most spooked out and seemingly sad music. Label: Editions EG – ENO 4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG+

  • Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (82 pressing)
    Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (82 pressing)
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    Eno & Manzanera make a masterpiece. Hard to beat this unreal energy. Label: Editions EG – ENO 2 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 1982 VG+/VG+

  • Yasuaki Shimizu – Get You
    Yasuaki Shimizu – Get You
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    Debut LP from composer Yasuaki Shimizu. His “Music For Commercials” LP from Crammed Discs & “Kakashi” LP via Palto Flats reissue have been a massively popular record [...]

  • John Cage – John Tilbury – Mr. John Cage’s Prepared Piano
    John Cage – John Tilbury – Mr. John Cage’s Prepared Piano
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    British pianist John Tilbury performs “Sonatas & Interludes For Prepared Piano”. Label: London Records – SLA 6025 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Japan Released: 1975 VG+/VG+

  • Yuji Takahashi : John Cage – Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano
    Yuji Takahashi : John Cage – Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano
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    Yuji Takahashi, a student of Iannis Xenakis, performs Cage’s pieces for prepared piano. Fantastic. Label: Denon – OX-7059-ND Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1976 VG+/VG+

  • Philip Glass – Songs From Liquid Days
    Philip Glass – Songs From Liquid Days
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    Glass’s collaboration with Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, David Byrne & Laurie Anderson. Lots of Linda Ronstadt on vocals! Cool. Label: CBS/Sony – 28AP 3182 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: [...]

  • Billy Harper – Capra Black
    Billy Harper – Capra Black
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    Rare & gorgeous LP from Strata East. Label: Denon – YX-7577-AX Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1978 VG+/VG with a seam split to sleeve. Includes liner

  • Herbie Hancock Trio With Ron Carter + Tony Williams* – Herbie Hancock Trio With Ron Carter + Tony Williams
    Herbie Hancock Trio With Ron Carter + Tony Williams* – Herbie Hancock Trio With Ron Carter + Tony Williams
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    Straight ahead reunited crew of Hancock, Williams & Carter from the 1964 to 1969 Miles Davis Quintet. Label: CBS/Sony – 25AP 2190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1981 […]

  • Albert Ayler Trio – Spiritual Unity
    Albert Ayler Trio – Spiritual Unity
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    “Disquietingly harsh and brutal but at the same time deeply tinged with pathos” – Val Wilmer Label: ESP Disk – BT-5002(M) Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono Country: Japan Released: [...]

  • David Bowie – Lodger
    David Bowie – Lodger
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    Label: RCA – RVP-6390 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Includes liner. Light marks.