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  • Cheyney Thompson: Passages
    Cheyney Thompson: Passages
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    One of the first book-length publications on contemporary artist Cheyney Thompson, whose work is known for its radically forward-looking intellectualism and formal rigor. Cheyney Thompson’s (b. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Leaning On The Moment: Interviews From Parabola
    Leaning On The Moment: Interviews From Parabola
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    Featuring interviews with Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell & others. Parabola Books, 1986 Hardcover Edition. Some staining to upper edge of pages. Some scuffing/discoloration to dustjacket

  • Ryan Sawyer’s Shaker Ensemble – For Those Who Wish to Sing Will Always Find a Song
    Ryan Sawyer’s Shaker Ensemble – For Those Who Wish to Sing…
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    One night, not too long ago at Union Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ryan Sawyer introduced his piece, “For Those Who Wish to Sing, Will Always Find a Song.” He invited […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ben Bennett – Answers
    Ben Bennett – Answers
    $22.00 | ,

    I often think about a video that Ben made in the mid-2000s, shot in profile with his shadow cast on a dimly lit Ohio punk house wall. In the video, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • V/A – Reportage: Spela Själv (Unofficial Reissue)
    V/A – Reportage: Spela Själv (Unofficial Reissue)
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    “Exact reproduction LP of a Swedish release from 1970. A bit of confusion surrounds this release: The album has been credited to Träd, Gräs och Stenar, but they aren’t featured […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rocker Magazine Issue 12
    Rocker Magazine Issue 12
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    ROCKER is a digest published in beautiful Richmond, VA, USA. It focuses on noise, ambient, and experimental music. on the cover: Stefan Aune In this issue: interviews with • New […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Niklas Persson Trio – Live at Teater Tribunalen
    Niklas Persson Trio – Live at Teater Tribunalen
    $32.00 | ,

    The long overdue first proper jazz album on Discreet Music! Niklas Persson Trio is a free jazz group consisting of three of Sweden’s leading improvisers. The trio started 10 years […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Carrie DeCunzo Mirande – My Shadow
    Carrie DeCunzo Mirande – My Shadow
    $32.00 | ,

    Discreet Music encountered Philadelphia-based Carrie Decunzo Mirande for the first time in 2024 when she performed at Longest Night in Gothenburg alongside Arv & Miljö and Christian Mirande. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
    Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
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    The first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France’s most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Manfred Hermes – Hystericizing Germany
    Manfred Hermes – Hystericizing Germany
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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist’s oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin, a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
    Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
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    Exploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years. Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
    Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
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    Sweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
    Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
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    The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Mark Fisher – K-Punk
    Mark Fisher – K-Punk
    $35.00 | ,

    A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation. This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryann Donnelly – Body High
    Ryann Donnelly – Body High
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    How do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the ’60s offer remedies to the author’s […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
    Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
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    A nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972
    Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute o…
    $25.00 | ,

    The history of India’s first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor. Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India’s [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends
    Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery &…
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    120 vivid “exquisite corpse” drawings made by the outrageous artist, performer, and designer Leigh Bowery with friends and collaborators during the 1980s and 1990s. In the wild years [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
    Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
    $35.00 | ,

    An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
    Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
    $25.00 | ,

    Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
    Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
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    A forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert’s version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community. Tony Duvert’s novel Atlantic [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sylvère Lotringer – Overexposed
    Sylvère Lotringer – Overexposed
    $17.00 | ,

    A report on the administration of deviant desire in specialized clinics that documents the way our postmodern society exposes sexuality to the point of overexposure. Do you ever get aroused […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
    Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
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    An uncompromising account of a Bosnian writer’s life as an exile in America. Considered a literary icon of Bosnia, Dario Džamonja wrote raw, unfiltered accounts of life in the streets […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
    Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Available from Blank Forms for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM-Uranoia, New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, two [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Golomb – The Beat Goes On
    Golomb – The Beat Goes On
    $14.00 | ,

    Molded in the fertile rock crescent of Columbus,Ohio, three-piece Golomb – comprised of Mickey Shuman (vocals/guitar), Xenia Shuman (bass/guitar) and Hawken Holm (drums) – channel [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    $22.00 | ,

    Joan Shelley follows her critically-acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth. Her 7th album, recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), the 13-tracks feature [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    $14.00 | ,

    Joan Shelley follows her critically-acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth. Her 7th album, recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), the 13-tracks feature [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
    Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
    $25.00 | ,

    “The recordings Contained herein are contained here after many years on the shelf…” So begin Michael Hurley’s notes to these unbelievably great recordings from [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru* – Church of Kidane Mehret
    Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru* – Church of Kidane Mehret
    $15.00 | ,

    Deeply resonant spiritual music transmitted via piano, organ, and harmonium by beloved composer and Ethiopian Orthodox nun Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. Church of Kidane Mehret collects all the [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Alick Nkhata – Radio Lusaka
    Alick Nkhata – Radio Lusaka
    $23.00 | ,

    Country, township jazz, and pop hits from the height of Zambia’s freedom movement. Vocalist, guitarist, and bandleader Alick Nkhata moved effortlessly between lonesome country slide, big band [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Crushed – No Scope
    Crushed – No Scope
    $24.00 | ,

    As crushed, musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan make maximalist dream pop music for themselves. Recording out of various homes, not fixed to any single location (Morell from Texas, now […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Crushed – No Scope
    Crushed – No Scope
    $14.00 | ,

    As crushed, musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan make maximalist dream pop music for themselves. Recording out of various homes, not fixed to any single location (Morell from Texas, now […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • JJulius* – Vol III
    JJulius* – Vol III
    $25.00 | ,

    In the discourse around new albums from singular, world-building artists, the phrase “a big step forward” can often be a blinking red warning sign. You know you’re about to be […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • François J. Bonnet* / Sarah Davachi – Banshee / Basse Brevis
    François J. Bonnet* / Sarah Davachi – Banshee / Basse Brevis
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    François J. Bonnet – Banshee Banshee is an ear directed towards the edges of the old world, where these infinite fines terrae cut and fractalize into coasts, harbours, fjords, peninsulas […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sissy Spacek – Entrance
    Sissy Spacek – Entrance
    $27.00 | ,

    Entering its 26th year of activity, the morphing, Los Angeles based experimental outfit, Sissy Spacek, joins Shelter Press with Entrance, among the project’s most captivating outings to date. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – A Todas Las Imágenes Del Mundo: Antología Del Canto A Lo Divino
    V/A – A Todas Las Imágenes Del Mundo: Antología Del Canto A Lo Divino
    $28.00 | ,

    Canto A Lo Divino is the unique musical expression of the Chilean peasant world – a conversation with the divine nourished by Biblical and other sacred texts. It is communal […]

    GENRE: International
  • Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
    Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
    $21.00 | ,

    A reimagined version of Michael Hurley’s 2002 masterpiece! Some of the most beautiful recordings of his catalog available on vinyl for the first time. Sweetkorn was originally released on [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Rail Band – Rail Band
    Rail Band – Rail Band
    $22.00 | ,

    One of the greatest, heaviest, and hardest-to-find guitar records from 1970s West Africa, available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade!!! A product of Mali’s golden age, […]

    GENRE: International
  • Pierced Arrows – Straight To The Heart
    Pierced Arrows – Straight To The Heart
    $21.00 | ,

    Pierced Arrow’s first record! Fred And Toody Cole’s post Dead Moon band with Legendary rocker Kelly Haliburton on drums. Most musicians get softer with age, but Fred and Toody brought [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Kayo Makino & Tori Kudo ‎– Ein Traum Für Dich
    Kayo Makino & Tori Kudo ‎– Ein Traum Für Dich
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Black Truffle is pleased to announce the release of this genuine head-scratcher, the first collaboration between DJ/mixtape-compiler Kayo Makino and underground legend Tori Kudo. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Creep Of Paris ‎– Virgin Brood
    Creep Of Paris ‎– Virgin Brood
    $25.00 | , ,

    “Creep Of Paris is the solo project of Thomas LaRoche (aka Eudocimus Ruber). Complementing his audio and visual output, he moonlights as an insect breeder and secondhand book seller. He [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dickie Landry ‎– Solos
    Dickie Landry ‎– Solos
    $15.00 | , ,

    “On February 19, 1972, a crew of mostly Louisiana-raised musicians came together at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in Soho to perform a wholly improvised concert. This ensemble’s [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jennifer Veillerobe ‎– Luftlöcher
    Jennifer Veillerobe ‎– Luftlöcher
    $18.00 | , ,

    “Recorded at home in Oreno di Vimercate (Italy), September 2012, using various kinds of sparkling liquids recorded through miniature holes on plastic bottles. No overdubs, postproduction or [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Flora Yin Wong* / Sébastien Roux ‎– Trigram For Earth / 50 Frequency And Amplitude Modulated Sine Waves Describing A Landscape
    Flora Yin Wong* / Sébastien Roux ‎– Trigram For Earth / 50 Frequency A…
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Flora YIN WONG ‘Trigram for Earth’ Trigram for Earth, by Flora Yin Wong, is inspired by traditional eight-sided Pakua mirrors and the trigrams inscribed on each of their edges. [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Lucrecia Dalt – Ou
    Lucrecia Dalt – Ou
    $25.00 | , ,

    “Along the arc of Dalt’s music, beyond what steers her so allusively away from self-repetition, there is an undefinable forward inertia. What can explain, for instance, the near absence of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • S.P.I.T.E. ‎– Violence
    S.P.I.T.E. ‎– Violence
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Solo album by Gary Mundy. This pre-dates Kleistwahr. This was the only record released under this name. Originally released on cassette in 1982 on Broken Flag as BF2. Re-released on […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Cortex A9 ‎– Basic Housekeeping – Order.
    Cortex A9 ‎– Basic Housekeeping – Order.
    $20.00 | , ,

    Music By – Dan Johansson (sewer election) , Frederikke Hoffmeier (puce mary), Hugo Randulv Label: Förlag För Fri Musik – 013 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Judith Hamann ‎– Shaking Studies
    Judith Hamann ‎– Shaking Studies
    $15.00 | , ,

    “For her first album releases as a soloist, nomadic Australian cellist and composer Judith Hamann presents two collections of her sonic inquiries into shaking and humming. Her LP, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Graham Lambkin ‎– Poem (For Voice & Tape)
    Graham Lambkin ‎– Poem (For Voice & Tape)
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Graham Lambkin’s first solo release, and the premiere record of his then newly-formed label Kye, Poem (For Voice & Tape) (Kye, 2001) captures his Shadow Ring bandmate, Tim Goss, as [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat [early 70s Stereo/Mono]
    The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat [early 70s Stereo/Mon…
    $75.00 | , ,

    “The world of pop music was hardly ready for The Velvet Underground’s first album when it appeared in the spring of 1967, but while The Velvet Underground and Nico sounded […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych