April 5th Newsletter
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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Neutral – Live Pa Autodidaktik LP
    Neutral – Live Pa Autodidaktik LP
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Neutral live tape – now reissued on wax via Happiest Place. Disturbing “true industrial” sound. No flexing – akin to throbbing gristle or buried […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Hank Mobley ‎– Straight No Filter
    Hank Mobley ‎– Straight No Filter
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Straight No Filter finds tenor Hank Mobley in several settings from the mid-’60s, each of them excellent. The overall roster is quite impressive, starting with the first set which [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Esther Phillips – Black-Eyed Blues
    Esther Phillips – Black-Eyed Blues
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Galveston gal, Esther Phillips, was a teenage R&B sensation in the 1950s (when she went under the name ‘Little Esther’) but reinvented herself as a raspy-voiced blues/jazz song stylist [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Paulinho Da Costa ‎– Happy People
    Paulinho Da Costa ‎– Happy People
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Whomever the real Paulinho DaCosta is, there isn’t any doubt that he was heavily plugged into the American R&B hitmaking mode when this, one of his few albums as a […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Brother Jack McDuff ‎– Walk On By
    Brother Jack McDuff ‎– Walk On By
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    Soulful and groovy organ-jazz led by the master, Brother Jack McDuff. Label: Prestige – PRST 7476 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1966 VG+/VG+. Light marks, some sleeve [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • James Brown – Sings Out Of Sight
    James Brown – Sings Out Of Sight
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Brown actually recorded this album in 1964, during his brief alliance with Smash; a court injunction from King Records prevented its release at the time, and it wasn’t issued until [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Brother Jack McDuff – Tobacco Road
    Brother Jack McDuff – Tobacco Road
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Brother Jack McDuff recorded an enormous number of albums during the ’60s, so it can be difficult to figure out where to start digging a little deeper into his output […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Michael Howell – Looking Glass (promo)
    Michael Howell – Looking Glass (promo)
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    Underrated Milestone soul-jazz chiller, features the incredibly slinky Through The Looking Glass. Label: Milestone – M-9048 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo Country: US Released: 1973 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ray Brown – Something For Lester
    Ray Brown – Something For Lester
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This excellent trio session forms a sort of transition between bassist Ray Brown’s work with the Oscar Peterson Trio and his own small-group sessions of the ’80s and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts
    Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Dave Holland always described Sam Rivers’ groups as his finishing school. It was Sam who instructed him to play “all the music” – inside, outside, atonal, swing, blues, and all […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman and Prime Time – Opening The Caravan Of Dreams
    Ornette Coleman and Prime Time – Opening The Caravan Of Dreams
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Ornette Coleman’s innovative Prime Time band is heard at the peak of its powers on this LP from the small Caravan of Dream label. The altoist/leader is the main voice […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nina Simone – Nina Simone With Strings (Promo)
    Nina Simone – Nina Simone With Strings (Promo)
    $24.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Nina Simone has been the subject of countless accolades. She has, over the years, become one of the best known interpreters of songs, both on records and well as in […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco

VINYL

  • Neutral – Live Pa Autodidaktik LP
    Neutral – Live Pa Autodidaktik LP
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Neutral live tape – now reissued on wax via Happiest Place. Disturbing “true industrial” sound. No flexing – akin to throbbing gristle or buried […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Hank Mobley ‎– Straight No Filter
    Hank Mobley ‎– Straight No Filter
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Straight No Filter finds tenor Hank Mobley in several settings from the mid-’60s, each of them excellent. The overall roster is quite impressive, starting with the first set which [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Esther Phillips – Black-Eyed Blues
    Esther Phillips – Black-Eyed Blues
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Galveston gal, Esther Phillips, was a teenage R&B sensation in the 1950s (when she went under the name ‘Little Esther’) but reinvented herself as a raspy-voiced blues/jazz song stylist [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Paulinho Da Costa ‎– Happy People
    Paulinho Da Costa ‎– Happy People
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Whomever the real Paulinho DaCosta is, there isn’t any doubt that he was heavily plugged into the American R&B hitmaking mode when this, one of his few albums as a […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • James Brown – Sings Out Of Sight
    James Brown – Sings Out Of Sight
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Brown actually recorded this album in 1964, during his brief alliance with Smash; a court injunction from King Records prevented its release at the time, and it wasn’t issued until [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Brother Jack McDuff ‎– Walk On By
    Brother Jack McDuff ‎– Walk On By
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    Soulful and groovy organ-jazz led by the master, Brother Jack McDuff. Label: Prestige – PRST 7476 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1966 VG+/VG+. Light marks, some sleeve [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Brother Jack McDuff – Tobacco Road
    Brother Jack McDuff – Tobacco Road
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Brother Jack McDuff recorded an enormous number of albums during the ’60s, so it can be difficult to figure out where to start digging a little deeper into his output […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Michael Howell – Looking Glass (promo)
    Michael Howell – Looking Glass (promo)
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    Underrated Milestone soul-jazz chiller, features the incredibly slinky Through The Looking Glass. Label: Milestone – M-9048 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo Country: US Released: 1973 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ray Brown – Something For Lester
    Ray Brown – Something For Lester
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This excellent trio session forms a sort of transition between bassist Ray Brown’s work with the Oscar Peterson Trio and his own small-group sessions of the ’80s and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts
    Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Dave Holland always described Sam Rivers’ groups as his finishing school. It was Sam who instructed him to play “all the music” – inside, outside, atonal, swing, blues, and all […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman and Prime Time – Opening The Caravan Of Dreams
    Ornette Coleman and Prime Time – Opening The Caravan Of Dreams
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Ornette Coleman’s innovative Prime Time band is heard at the peak of its powers on this LP from the small Caravan of Dream label. The altoist/leader is the main voice […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nina Simone – Nina Simone With Strings (Promo)
    Nina Simone – Nina Simone With Strings (Promo)
    $24.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Nina Simone has been the subject of countless accolades. She has, over the years, become one of the best known interpreters of songs, both on records and well as in […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco

CDs

  • Max Roach Plus Four ‎– The Complete Mercury Max Roach Plus Four Sessions
    Max Roach Plus Four ‎– The Complete Mercury Max Roach Plus Four Sessions
    $110.00 | , Add to cart

    Incredible amount of Roach here… late 50s into early 60s group that includes Bob Boswell, Julian Priester, Ray Bryant, Stanley Turrentine & Tommy Turrentine. Label: Mosaic Records (2) – [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh ‎– The Complete Atlantic Recordings Of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh
    Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh ‎– The Complete Atlantic Recordings Of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh
    $80.00 | , , Add to cart

    Cool jazz giants boxset. Very ill – 6CDs. Label: Mosaic Records (2) – MD6-174 Format: 6 x CD, Compilation Box Set, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: US Released: 1997 VG+/VG+ Virtually [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Duke Ellington ‎– The Reprise Studio Recordings
    Duke Ellington ‎– The Reprise Studio Recordings
    $80.00 | , Add to cart

    #1-8 is mono. All other is stereo. # 2-15 to 2-20, 3-1 to 3-5 Produced Under License From Atlantic Recording Corp., All Other Produced Under License From Warner Bros. Records, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cabaret Voltaire – The Original Sound Of Sheffield ’78 / ’82. Best Of;
    Cabaret Voltaire – The Original Sound Of Sheffield ’78 / ’82. Best Of;
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Electronic music has come a long way since Cabaret Voltaire began mixing it up with machines in order to evade boredom. As primitive as Watson, Kirk, and Mallinder’s early material [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • William Basinski + Richard Chartier – Untitled 1-3
    William Basinski + Richard Chartier – Untitled 1-3
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier’s universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demdike Stare ‎– Wonderland
    Demdike Stare ‎– Wonderland
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Following Demdike Stare’s ambitious 2012 double CD, Elemental, which compiled four EPs along with bonus material, the British experimental electronic duo (consisting of Sean Canty [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Swell Maps – Jane From Occupied Europe
    Swell Maps – Jane From Occupied Europe
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Noisy and experimental, Britain’s Swell Maps experienced little commercial success during the course of their chaotic career, but in hindsight they stand as one of the pivotal acts of the […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi – Imikuzushi
    Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi – Imikuzushi
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The yearly summit of Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi continues with Imikuzushi, which finds the group extending the power-trio strategies of last year’s highly praised In a [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Betty Davis ‎– Nasty Gal
    Betty Davis ‎– Nasty Gal
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre–punk, funk–blues fusion that had yet […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Shaggs – “Shaggs’ Own Thing”
    The Shaggs – “Shaggs’ Own Thing”
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    “When The Shaggs’ Philosophy Of The World came out in 1969, some people couldn’t or wouldn’t understand it. But many musicians, including Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain, cited the Shaggs […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Aaron Dilloway – Beggar Master
    Aaron Dilloway – Beggar Master
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    Recorded in Kirtipur, Nepal, March 2005. Originally released on LP limited to 300 copies. Tape manipulations, feedback, crude field recordings, & Nepali dirt. “Side ‘Beggar [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Art Ensemble Of Chicago – The Alternate Express
    Art Ensemble Of Chicago – The Alternate Express
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Late 80’s Japan-exclusive release by the longstanding avant-jazz collective. Label: DIW – DIW-832 Format: CD, Album Country: Japan Released: 1989 VG+/VG+. No obi.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz

BOOKS

  • Peter Tradowsky – Stigmata: Destiny as a Question of Knowledge
    Peter Tradowsky – Stigmata: Destiny as a Question of Knowledge
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    Stigmata―the spontaneous appearance of bodily marks in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ―have long been a controversial phenomenon. Well-known stigmatics such as [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
    D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
    More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
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    Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
    Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
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    Over the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
    Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    An innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media. Typography is everywhere and yet widely unnoticed. When we read type, we […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
    Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    A revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
    Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    Art polymath extraordinaire, Dieter Roth (1930-1998) maintained throughout his career an output so prodigious and various that art historians and fans are still struggling to keep up. Bringing [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Artist & His Critic Stripped Bare: The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel (Bilingual Edition)
    Artist & His Critic Stripped Bare: The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel (Bilingual Edition)
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    Robert Lebel, French art critic and collector, was instrumental in rendering Marcel Duchamp’s often hermetic life, art, and ideas accessible to a wider public across Europe and the United States, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
    Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography