“From Giacometti’s impressionistic roots to his latter spindly bronzes, this comprehensive volume details touching graphite sketches, ink drawings, oil paintings and study upon study [...]
Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work-one [...]
“The High Priestess is a 1989 art book by Anselm Kiefer, featuring an essay by Armin Zweite, that documents Kiefer’s monumental sculpture of the same name, which consists of two […]
The Fluxus issue of WhiteWalls Journal, featuring writings by Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Dick Higgins and more WhiteWalls, 1987 Softcover edition. Light discoloration [...]
Continuously in print for over 100 years, the SD remains today the most comprehensive sourcebook of the esoteric tradition, outlining the fundamental tenets of the “Secret Doctrine of the [...]
Nearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red, yellow, and blue lines famous, 19th-century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the color scheme for his 1847 edition of Euclid’s [...]
“What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. The authors, both [...]
“Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp created one of the most mystifying art works of the early twentieth century: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as […]
This landmark book offers a radical reinterpretation of the innovative art of the late 1950s and 1960s. Examining the work of major artists of the period—including Mark Rothko, Piero Manzoni, [...]
Paula Rego: Behind the Scenes offers the reader a unique opportunity to observe the studio life and working practice of one of the most important figurative artists working today. In […]
“At the age of 6, Joel-Peter Witkin witnessed an automobile accident in which a little girl was decapitated, her head rolling to a stop at his feet. This experience may […]
BG 001, the first release from Blushing Grinning, is the newest album from Harry Sings! titled Christies Toybox – a long play aural odyssey into the depths of an acidotic […]
“Bruit Direct Disques continues down the path of no-fucks-given w/yet another ace from a deck already heaped with bewildering maa. In much the same way as Pasolini’s Theoreme (the film) [...]
Guttural, coarse, and unprecious. Twisted Arp Odyssey and heavily-processed Saprano saxophone improvisations form a labyrinthine album of synth drone, occasional scronk, and composed noise. [...]
A focused exercise in idiophonic minimalism from an absolute devotee of extended bowed saw techniques. Recorded in Carrboro, North Carolina. October 2024.
On Heavy Metal – the debut solo album from Cameron Winter – the Geese frontman unravels his eclectic influences into a surreal mosaic of modern songwriting. Rumored to have been […]
The singer-songwriter’s ninth album arrives as a sweeping, sterling, often confounding work of self-mythology and psychoamericana: Lana’s in the zone. In 2014, Lana Del Rey told a journalist that [...]
Vinyl LP pressing. 2012 eight-song mini-album from the New York-based singer, songwriter, and performer, the follow-up to her enormously successful Born to Die album. She has described herself as [...]
The Crutchfield twins—accompanied by MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook—reunite for a spirited new project that plays to their strengths and embraces all the miles they’ve traveled. Katie and Allison [...]
Lana Del Rey’s second album of the year is a sweeping survey of her talent as a songwriter, stripped of the aesthetic borders she often places around her work. In […]
In September 1968, Amon Düül played the “International Essener Songtage,” Germany’s first rock festival of five days duration, which was initiated by the later OHR label boss [...]
The band Amon Düül formed in 1967, with music being only one part of their artistic work. In 1969, the albums Paradieswärts Düül (OMM 560082CD/560086LP) and Psychedelic Underground were produced. [...]
• DELUXE FOUR DISC LIMITED-EDITION BOX SET OF THE CLASSIC 1970 DEBUT ALBUM BY HAWKWIND. • WITH 3 CDs & A REGION-FREE BLU-RAY DISC. • THE ORIGINAL ALBUM MIX NEWLY […]
Brand new special reissue of the 1976 debut album deluxe CD by the massively influential art rock pioneers Chrome! • CD version includes an entire bonus disc of two complete […]
Ohr present a reissue of Birth Control’s Operation, originally released in 1971. Re-release of the second album of the Berlin outfit on the original Ohr label. Produced by the famous […]
Carla dal Forno announces her second full-length album, Look Up Sharp, on her own Kallista records. Dal Forno beckons a bold new era in her peerless output pushing her dub-damaged […]
Carla dal Forno resurfaces with the news of plans to release her third album, Come Around, via her own Kallista Records imprint. Now, based in the township of Castlemaine, Central […]
Carla dal Forno resurfaces with the news of plans to release her third album, Come Around, via her own Kallista Records imprint. Now, based in the township of Castlemaine, Central […]
What’s new for the first time in over a decade? Squirrel Bait’s self-titled 12” EP and Skag Heaven in the black. In ’85-’87, their screamin’ teenage psycho dilemmas stood way […]
A timeless statement on media, culture, and music. Karl Bartos, renowned as an essential member and songwriter of Kraftwerk during their most innovative years, is reissuing his solo album [...]
Fluoreszent is the new solo album by Cologne based artist Hans Nieswandt and his third for Hamburg’s Bureau B label. Hans Nieswandt is a long standing and highly respected key […]
“Taking inspiration from deep in the mediaeval mists of times long past, CV Vision comes riding over the hills like a knight to the rescue, and his new album Im […]
By 1973, Faust had already rewired the circuits of German rock. Their first two albums had exploded traditional song form with a joyous disregard for continuity, coherence, or commercial appeal. [...]
Faust is a group of artists who shared intense musical experiences in the years 1971 to 1974. Supported by producer Uwe Nettelbeck and sound engineer Kurt Graupner, they produced an […]
Faust is a group of artists who shared intense musical experiences in the years 1971 to 1974. Supported by producer Uwe Nettelbeck and sound engineer Kurt Graupner, they produced an […]
Hamburg’s kosmische custodians at Bureau B welcome legendary synth maestro Peter Baumann back into the studio for his first solo album since Machines Of Desire (BB 234CD, 2016). A defining [...]
“On Convex, as on many of his other albums, Schnitzler definitely used a sample-and-hold generator (S/H generator), a device that converts sounds stored as desired into random sequences of [...]
The 1960s weren’t just about The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and hippies; they also ushered in new forms of art: happenings, Fluxus, Neo-Dada, video art, to name just a few. […]
Hazy dream chronicles. “A Martin Rev album is always liable to spring a surprise. Think of the rough guitars which unexpectedly appeared on his 2003 release To Live (BB 417CD/LP) […]
“[Martin] Rev initially explored free jazz and similarly free forms of musical expression before discovering the magnetic attraction of electronic production and instrumentation, enabling [...]
On their last trip to Silberland, hurtled along the chrome highways and glass skyways of the kosmische landscape, powered ever onwards in perpetual motorik motion. This time, however, the Hamburg [...]
There’s something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973. Faust’s second-and-a-half album hit the [...]
Japanese producer Saeko Killy returns for her second album of psychedelic electronics and drum machine workouts with Dream In Dream on Bureau B. In contrast to her first LP Morphing […]
“Like a blizzard in a snow globe American indie label File 13 Records released what was already Martin Rev’s sixth solo album in the autumn of 2003. The previous year, […]
“Fun Fun Fun…” The fourth studio album from Kraftwerk, and the first one to grant them any sort of commercial success. Released in 1974, Autobahn followed the band’s first [...]
Horses by Patti Smith Group? Yeah, that 1975 slab of raw nerve and poetry vomit. Don’t let the “Group” fool you – this is Patti’s show, front to back. She […]
Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in Germany Blue Note Records has […]
On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye, a brilliant and ambitiously multi-layered album for Blue Note. Shorter’s goal for the album [...]