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  • Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
    Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
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    There’s Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
    Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
    $8.00 | , , ,

    The Nasr family is spread across the globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
    Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
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    Doruntine or Who brought Dorontine is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine Book is in “Like New” […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cornelia Parker – Verso
    Cornelia Parker – Verso
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    This diminutive artists book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. Verso is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
    Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
    $125.00 | , ,

    Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stig Dagerman – Sleet
    Stig Dagerman – Sleet
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    A selection of stories from Sweden’s greatest post-war writer. “Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Breaking The Will – Mortal Terrain Incendiary
    Breaking The Will – Mortal Terrain Incendiary
    $10.00 |

    Human terrain systems. Operational art. Combat maneuver. Unrelenting harsh electronics exploding at a breakneck pace. The first Breaking The Will full-length since 2015’s “Choosing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Commuter – No Longer Penitent
    Commuter – No Longer Penitent
    $10.00 |

    “No Longer Penitent” is the new full-length from Commuter, a project from Portland’s Jackson Abdul-Salaam (Herukrat, Junta Cadre) that blends harsh noise and urban field [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Koufar – The Death Of Myself
    Koufar – The Death Of Myself
    $10.00 |

    To celebrate the tenth anniversary of New Forces we are excited to reissue an album from the label’s first batch of releases. At the time, Koufar’s “The Death of Myself” [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Inner Dialogue – Friend
    Inner Dialogue – Friend
    $14.00 | , ,

    Psych-pop from California Label: Ranwood – R-8074 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released:1970 VG+/VG. Light shelf wear. Couple faint marks on record.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Rottweiler – Haight
    Rottweiler – Haight
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    Hard-hitting acid house from Ariel Motto Label: Chicago Research – CR038 Format: CS, Album Country: US Released: 2020 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Mind Garage – Mind Garage
    Mind Garage – Mind Garage
    $35.00 | , ,

    Christian psych-rock from West Virginia Label: RCA Victor – LSP-4218 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Fraternity Of Man – The Fraternity Of Man
    The Fraternity Of Man – The Fraternity Of Man
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    “The short-lived Fraternity of Man is undoubtedly best known for the pro-pot anthem “Don’t Bogart Me,” which showed up during an unforgettable scene in the genre-defining [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fried ESK – Fried Eco System Kontact
    Fried ESK – Fried Eco System Kontact
    $4.00 | ,

    “Eco System Kontact Live hardware set” Label: Yard Sale For World Peace – YSFWP09 Format: CS, Album Country: US Released: 2021 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Bo Grumpus – Before The War
    Bo Grumpus – Before The War
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    “This album has a lot going for it that one would hope for from a band working out of New York — a sharp, rootsy approach to folk-rock, honed at […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Todd Tamanend Clark – The Deathguard Remnants
    Todd Tamanend Clark – The Deathguard Remnants
    $35.00 | ,

    “The Deathguard Remnants contains rare lo-fi recordings that were left off of legendary underground poet and composer Todd Tamanend Clark’s best-known album Nova Psychedelia 1975-1985 due [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
    Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
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    In 1994, in the company of Italian anarchist & photographer “Dekaro,” the author travelled across Morocco & the disputed Western Sahara. The notebooks from that journey [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
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    Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
    Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
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    In 1676, a century before the British colonized Australia, a defrocked French monk named Gabriel de Foigny published a novel imagining what the land was like. The work is told […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
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    Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
    Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
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    Booklist review: In a stealthily affecting reportorial voice, debut novelist Falkner tells the story of tepidly successful 1960s movie actress Kitty Dawson via interviews, critiques, press [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
    Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
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    “The Labour of Reading is at the heart of AUTOBIOLOGY. Readership as authorship, authorship as readership – and all of it consequently as thinkership. Questions on ‘work’ and ‘value’ abound. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Grant Maierhofer – Works
    Grant Maierhofer – Works
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    Works is a collection, but also something new: it is a conversation between Maierhofer’s early and contemporary writings that shares its title with Édouard Levé’s masterful experimental Works. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louse – Passions Like Tar
    Louse – Passions Like Tar
    $18.00 | ,

    “Like some mutated phantom lurking in the shadows, Cincinnati based new-wave punks Louse emerge into light with their debut LP Passions Like Tar- a heady and sullen collection of post-punk [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Corker – Hallways Of Grey
    Corker – Hallways Of Grey
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    CLEAR VINYL “Fragments of the past intersect with a dynamic sonic vision on Hallways of Grey, the second full length from Corker. Expanding upon the dense, rhythmic post-punk of their […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Dream Sellers
    The Dream Sellers
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    An investigation into drug-dealers and the drug trade as a whole. Jossey-Bass, 1972 Hardcover first edition. Discoloration to edges of pages and wear to dustjacket apparent under mylar. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William S. Burroughs – Queer (1st Printing)
    William S. Burroughs – Queer (1st Printing)
    $140.00 | , ,

    “Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma – both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs’ [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Spycomm: Covert Communication Techniques Of The Underground
    Spycomm: Covert Communication Techniques Of The Underground
    $80.00 | , ,

    “Guerrillas, fugitives and other members of the “underground” must exploit existing resources to communicate secretly. This book tells you how they use improvised microfilm, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Loving Man: A Photographic Guide To Gay Male Lovemaking
    Loving Man: A Photographic Guide To Gay Male Lovemaking
    $75.00 | , ,

    One of the first sex-ed & health guides for gay men. Hark Publishing, 1976 Hardcover edition. Some sagging from spine and wear to boards. Discoloration to edges of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
    Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planet…
    $19.00 |

    CD The Exploding Star Orchestra is Rob Mazurek’s vehicle for blowing minds and reshaping worlds. For more than a decade and a half, the multi-instrumentalist has guided the variably configured [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
    Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
    $15.00 |

    CD Tomin’s debut full-length work, A Willed and Conscious Balance, answers a set of questions left unasked in recent years, as a new generation of artists re-energizes the tradition often […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gift Card
    Gift Card
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    Digitally send anyone a Gift Card for Torn Light Records! Cards can be sent in any amount and redeemed online! Your recipient will be given a code for the amount […]

  • Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
    Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
    $10.00 |

    Known to many as the percussive presence in groups like Nest Egg, MANAS, Wasting and We Bow to No Masters, Asheville’s Thom Nguyen moves in to dronier, driftier worlds with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Eternal Husk – Commune III
    Eternal Husk – Commune III
    $10.00 |

    Further tonal ruminations and aural questions asked from deep within. An outsider music grab bag jam selection, nay, transmission from deep within the Circle City. Another sonic commune (the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
    $16.00 |

    The Iceland Symphony Orchestra is widely praised for its performances and recordings and concerts devoted to modern music. Since 2011, the orchestra’s home has been Harpa Concert Hall in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
    Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
    $18.00 |

    Kristin Anna (Múm) and Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros) have created one of the most painfully beautiful albums I’ve heard in years. Kristin’s voice is as gorgeous as it is unique […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
    Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
    $15.00 |

    Icelandic cellist, singer, and composer Gyda Valtysdottir, a founder of the band múm and 2019 winner of the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize, releases Epicycle II on her label DiaMond in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
    Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
    $16.00 |

    Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen is an opera in four acts conceived by Kjartan Sveinsson and artist Ragnar Kjartansson, which was commissioned by and originally performed in Volksbühne am [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
    Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
    $12.00 |

    On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Alex Sopp, the flutist, composer, vocalist, and visual artist releases the title track ‘The Hem & The Haw’ from her upcoming debut album The Hem […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
    Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
    $17.00 |

    Rhízōma, composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s debut album of recorded works, is steeped in the beautiful strangeness and exhilaration of that which is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. The [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
    Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
    $18.00 |

    When two Icelandic composers Páll Ragnar Pálsson and Eðvarð Egilsson finished scoring Quake, a psychological family drama, they were not ready to stop just there. What followed was a voyage […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson – Caeli
    Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson – Caeli
    $18.00 |

    Caeli is spun out of the idea of skies and dimensions merging into a borderless being, boasting of a rich and vivid texture, at times carrying numerous worlds inside at […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Dior – Angels Kiss At The Edge Of Cacatopia
    Dior – Angels Kiss At The Edge Of Cacatopia
    $9.00 |

    DIOR is Sarah Moore and Stasia Kowaleski, (of Vats, Porcelain Gods, Trixie Linoleum, Babyface Evil) Sarah from Snoqualmie, WA and Phoenix and Stasia (Ghost Bitch, Desire Complex, kzv, Babyface [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Altamira – Altamira
    Altamira – Altamira
    $9.00 |

    Jackie Beckey’s Altamira is a cave song, a meditative howl, like Joanna Brouk in a snowstorm, ripping up your down jacket and wool socks, find her in the cold turning […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
    Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
    $9.00 |

    It’s as if the all star cast of a specific midwestern underground scene conspired to turn to their roots, an expansive flat land, rows of corn and a god damn […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Kudler* / Gerycz* – Kapteyn B
    Kudler* / Gerycz* – Kapteyn B
    $9.00 |

    my squashed ideas of person foil cooking oil padding your mouse feet across the kitchen I’m used to this sound and actually its lullaby doubled over the infestation is endearing […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • American Friend – Sound Under Rock
    American Friend – Sound Under Rock
    $9.00 |

    Adam’s drums keep the blood flowing and Sarah’s bass holds the body upright, Jana’s guitar reacts to the confines of rhythm and their lyrics pinch. They pull open the curtains […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Skeme Richards – Jazz All Days
    Skeme Richards – Jazz All Days
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    Limited release directly sourced from the Nostalgia King Himself A true Jazz Funk Mixtape The Jazz All Days cassette released in conjunction with fRUITY Shop in Shanhai. The cassette is […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Enklav – 2.
    Enklav – 2.
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    “On their second Lp Enklav presents two longer tracks of raw tape manipulations of concrete sounds. With an uncompromising attitude and a sound that seems to be carved out of […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Spiritual Sayings Of Kahlil Gibran
    Spiritual Sayings Of Kahlil Gibran
    $12.00 | , ,

    Kahlil Gibran’s followup to The Prophet, a collection of spiritual aphorisms. Citadel Press, 1970 Softcover edition. Writing on front matter. Crack at spine in first few pages, but still [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction