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  • Hawkwind – Live 74
    Hawkwind – Live 74
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    Stellar live show from the seminal space-rock band.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Captain Beefheart – Strictly Personal
    Captain Beefheart – Strictly Personal
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    Beefheart’s second album, and an interesting precursor to his fried out 70’s work.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
    Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
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    “The band’s best studio album, coming off of the success of Space Ritual. The group’s rock roots are juxtaposed effectively with the swelling synthesizer flourishes and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
    Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
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    “Doremi may not be Hawkwind’s most renowned album, but it carries the same type of prog rock spaciness as their first two releases. Even though the keyboard playing is trimmed […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
    The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
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    Five CD box set containing a quintet of albums from the Psychedelic rockers all housed in mini LP sleeves and packaged in a slipcase. Includes the albums I Had Too […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fraternity – Livestock
    Fraternity – Livestock
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    CD reissue of ultra-rare Australian prog/psych album featuring contributions from Bon Scott, pre-AC/DC.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
    The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
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    Early & rare psych gem.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
    The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
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    2023 collection from the psych rock icons. Each original source has been referenced to the earliest vinyl pressing and meticulously transferred at 96khz 24-bit resolution. Multitrack tapes of the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gong – Magick Brother
    Gong – Magick Brother
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    GONG’S MESMERIZING 1969 DEBUT ALBUM TRIPPY & SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK OF THE HIGHEST ORDER Having been part of the fabled ‘Canterbury scene’ along with luminaries such as Robert [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
    Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
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    The Pretty Things created some of the most exciting and innovative records of the late sixties and early seventies. Winners of the Hero award at the 2009 Mojo Honours, the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pretty Things – Parachute
    Pretty Things – Parachute
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    “The Pretty Things always made ‘The Stones’ look tame, and I think the time has come for their renaissance” David Gilmour, Pink Floyd The Pretty Things, iconic 1st wave R&B […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
    Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
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    With Attack Time’ by sound tinkerer Zeus B. Held, Bureau B is re-releasing one of the most exciting records of the original experimental Kraut-pop period. After various stints, including prog [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
    The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
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    Die Kosmischen Kuriere reissue the legendary debut album of the krautrock all-star band from 1974. Produced at Dierks Studios with the collaboration of Dieter Dierks. What an amazing improvement [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
    Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
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    Stuck on common ground is the debut album of the Italian Power Trio hijss. With a mixture of heavy blues influenced riffs and synthesized Krautrock parts hijss tries to create […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
    Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
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    Compilation CD including tracks from Munic & Elsewear and The Last LP

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Can – Soundtracks
    Can – Soundtracks
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    First released in 1970, Soundtracks consists of songs written for various films. The album marks the departure of the band’s original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Can – Live in Brighton 1975
    Can – Live in Brighton 1975
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    Can Live Series Vol II.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
    Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
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    Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
    Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
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    Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
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    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
    Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
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    Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
    Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
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    The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it’s a history […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
    Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
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    Marjorie Perloff’s stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
    Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
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    Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Surrealism At Play
    Surrealism At Play
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    In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Semiotext(e): The German Issue
    Semiotext(e): The German Issue
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    A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.The German Issue (1982) was originally [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
    From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
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    From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history’s understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • 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
  • Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
    Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
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    One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
    Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
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    How East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
    A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
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    The first comprehensive study of the former Yugoslavia’s diverse and groundbreaking alternative art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s. This first comprehensive study of the former [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
    Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
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    A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • On & By: Andy Warhol
    On & By: Andy Warhol
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    Writings about Andy Warhol by critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates together with archival material, interviews, and texts by Warhol himself. The impact of Andy Warhol on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: John Cage
    October Files: John Cage
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    An extended trajectory of Cage literature, from early critical reaction to writing by contemporaries to current scholarship.John Cage (1912–1992) defined a radical practice of composition that [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.* – Glorify Astrological Martyrdom
    Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.* – Glorify Astrological Martyrdom
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    “Acid Mother’s Temple’s Glorify Astrological Martyrdom is sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission
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    What our staff has to say: “One of my favorite bands making music in the world today. All star cast of Kentucky HEADS – members of Flanger Magazine (Torn Light), […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
    R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
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    Accomplished polymath R.Buckminster Fuller impacted and influenced everyone from John Cage to early hippie movements. Intuition is his 12th book. “In this series of poem-essays, Fuller [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Louis-Auguste Blanqui – Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis
    Louis-Auguste Blanqui – Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis
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    In a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hawkwind ? Silver Machine / Seven By Seven
    Hawkwind ? Silver Machine / Seven By Seven
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    UK pressing single of 2 tracks from Doremi Fasol Latido / Space Ritual era Hawkwind. 2 spaced rippers. Label: United Artists Records – UP 35381 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Apryl Fool ? The Apryl Fool
    Apryl Fool ? The Apryl Fool
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    Pre-Happy End Psych-rock from Hosono and company. Label: Columbia – COCA-12154 Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Repress Country: Japan Released: VG+/VG+. No obi. Image may not be of actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Brian Eno ? Here Come The Warm Jets
    Brian Eno ? Here Come The Warm Jets
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    Brian Eno’s debut solo LP. Still full of the glam of Roxy Music while he starts to take apart the music into something new. Baby’s on fire… Label: Island Records […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 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
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sixties Japanese Garage/Psych Rarities
    Sixties Japanese Garage/Psych Rarities
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    Solid compilation of some early Japanese Psych/Group Sounds tracks Label: Victor – VICL-23047 Format: CD, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1992 NM/NM, sealed. Image may not be of actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bernd Witth?ser ? Lieder Von Vampiren, Nonnen Und Toten
    Bernd Witth?ser ? Lieder Von Vampiren, Nonnen Und Toten
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    Reissue of a krautrock/freak folk from Walter Wegmüller associates Label: Wah Wah Records – LPS063 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Country: Spain Released: 2009 NM/VG+. Sealed [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Guru Guru ? UFO
    Guru Guru ? UFO
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    The Krautrock pioneers first album. Label: Ohr – CD 556005-2 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: Germany Released: 1993 VG+/VG+ with some light marks/wear Image may not be from actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The Past
    Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The Past
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    Underrated album by UK Amon Duul affiliates. Label: Abstract Sounds – ABT049CD Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+ Image may not be from actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Yoko Ono ? Approximately Infinite Universe
    Yoko Ono ? Approximately Infinite Universe
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    Yoko Ono’s most mainstream/crossover record still features a song called I Felt Like Smashing My Face In A Clear Glass Window Label: Apple Records – EAP-93087B Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Wild Ones ? Encore
    The Wild Ones ? Encore
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    Solid group sounds album Label: Express – ETP-80119 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: Japan Released: 1980 VG+/VG+, includes liner  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Bevis Frond ? Dolly Bug
    The Bevis Frond ? Dolly Bug
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    Great neo-psych from the British masters. Label: Damaged Goods – DAMGOOD 81 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: UK Released: 1995 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Jacks – Greatest Hits
    Jacks – Greatest Hits
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    Compilation of early Japanese group-sounds/psych band’s best tracks. Label: Express – ETP-8179 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Stereo Country: Japan Released: VG+/VG with some [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Morio Agata ? Zipangu Boy
    Morio Agata ? Zipangu Boy
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    Hosono produced experimental, psychedelic pop album. Label: Phillips – FW-8001~2 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1976 VG+/VG with a seam split. Includes liner.  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Evidence
    Evidence
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    Killer compilation of Japanese psych. Features Lost Aaraaf, an early Keiji Haino band. Label: Solid Records – Solid-1003 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1989 VG+/VG with [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Tenko – Slope
    Tenko – Slope
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    All-star backing band, including Fred Frith & Arto Lindsey, accompany Tenko on this thrilling album Label: Kinniku-Bijo – KBR 301 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1987 [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Third Ear Band ? Music From Macbeth
    Third Ear Band ? Music From Macbeth
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    Third Ear Band’s psych-folk score to Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Macbeth Label: Harvest – SHSP 4019 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress Country: UK Released: undated repress VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Third Ear Band ? Alchemy
    Third Ear Band ? Alchemy
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    ““One of the first releases on EMI’s progressive rock label, Harvest in July 1969, Alchemy was the debut album by Third Ear Band. One of the earliest signings to Harvest, […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Nico – The Marble Index
    Nico – The Marble Index
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    Released in 1968 on America’s coolest label Elektra Records, Nico’s sophomore solo release The Marble Index was an instant avant-garde masterpiece. Nico’s haunting voice and droning harmonium [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nico – Desertshore
    Nico – Desertshore
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    1970’s Desertshore, like much of Nico’s early work, has grown in stature with the passing of time. Hardly a pop album, the material stands alongside Chelsea Girl as some of […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych