April 12th Newsletter
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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Eric Dolphy – Out To Lunch! [1975 pressing]
    Eric Dolphy – Out To Lunch! [1975 pressing]
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    “This article originally appeared in The Wire 11 (January 1995). The American poet Robert Frost once likened free verse to playing tennis with the net down. Jazz probably has more […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • David Murray – Ming’s Samba
    David Murray – Ming’s Samba
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    Although David Murray had already recorded a countless number of sessions as a leader by the late 1980’s, Ming’s Samba was his first on a large American label. Using an […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Krystall Klear And The Buells – Ready For The 90’s
    Krystall Klear And The Buells – Ready For The 90’s
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    “Four of the five selections on this LP have some adventurous playing from a quartet consisting of tenor saxophonist Marty Krystall, trumpeter Warren Gale, bassist Buell Neidlinger and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bob Dylan – Empire Burlesque
    Bob Dylan – Empire Burlesque
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    Mid 80s Dylan genius at work. A “he’s back” album if there ever was one. Infidels was great too. I’m no hater. DARK EYES. Label: Columbia – FC 40110 Format: […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • McDonald And Giles ‎– McDonald And Giles
    McDonald And Giles ‎– McDonald And Giles
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    Following the meltdown of the original King Crimson lineup, Ian McDonald and Michael Giles brought brother Peter Giles back, which helps to account, in some ways, for the resemblance of […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Black Sabbath – Mob Rules
    Black Sabbath – Mob Rules
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “After a steady decline in both inspiration, mental stability, and commercial appeal throughout the second half of the ’70s, metal icons Black Sabbath were reborn with 1980’s [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • The Damned – Damned Damned Damned [2022 repress]
    The Damned – Damned Damned Damned [2022 repress]
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Easily one of the most energized riff heavy punk records of all time. Unbeatable. Label: BMG – BMGAA01LP Series: The Art Of The Album Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 2022 […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sun Ra – The Magic City
    Sun Ra – The Magic City
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    “The boundaries of Sun Ra’s self-proclaimed “space jazz” underwent a transformation in the mid-’60s. The Magic City is an aural snapshot of that metamorphic process. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Black Sabbath – Born Again
    Black Sabbath – Born Again
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    Regularly heralded as a flop meet up of Sabbath & Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan, I think Born Again rocks. The weird 80s production doesn’t help my case at all, […]

    GENRE: Metal, Rock / Pop
  • Lee Morgan ‎– Search For The New Land (1973 Stereo)
    Lee Morgan ‎– Search For The New Land (1973 Stereo)
    $75.00 | , Add to cart

    “All that seriousness and intensity is embodied in the album’s mesmerising title track, which, at nearly 16 minutes long, takes up most of the first side. From its opening moments, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • R.E.M. ‎– Document
    R.E.M. ‎– Document
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “R.E.M. began to move toward mainstream record production on Lifes Rich Pageant, but they didn’t have a commercial breakthrough until the following year’s Document. Ironically, [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Pretty vacant… Label: Warner Bros. Records – BSK 3147, Virgin – BSK 3147 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Jacksonville Pressing Country: US Released: Nov 11, 1977 VG/VG [Some pretty large scuff [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

VINYL

  • Eric Dolphy – Out To Lunch! [1975 pressing]
    Eric Dolphy – Out To Lunch! [1975 pressing]
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “This article originally appeared in The Wire 11 (January 1995). The American poet Robert Frost once likened free verse to playing tennis with the net down. Jazz probably has more […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • David Murray – Ming’s Samba
    David Murray – Ming’s Samba
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Although David Murray had already recorded a countless number of sessions as a leader by the late 1980’s, Ming’s Samba was his first on a large American label. Using an […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Krystall Klear And The Buells – Ready For The 90’s
    Krystall Klear And The Buells – Ready For The 90’s
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    “Four of the five selections on this LP have some adventurous playing from a quartet consisting of tenor saxophonist Marty Krystall, trumpeter Warren Gale, bassist Buell Neidlinger and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bob Dylan – Empire Burlesque
    Bob Dylan – Empire Burlesque
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Mid 80s Dylan genius at work. A “he’s back” album if there ever was one. Infidels was great too. I’m no hater. DARK EYES. Label: Columbia – FC 40110 Format: […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • McDonald And Giles ‎– McDonald And Giles
    McDonald And Giles ‎– McDonald And Giles
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Following the meltdown of the original King Crimson lineup, Ian McDonald and Michael Giles brought brother Peter Giles back, which helps to account, in some ways, for the resemblance of […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Black Sabbath – Mob Rules
    Black Sabbath – Mob Rules
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “After a steady decline in both inspiration, mental stability, and commercial appeal throughout the second half of the ’70s, metal icons Black Sabbath were reborn with 1980’s [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • The Damned – Damned Damned Damned [2022 repress]
    The Damned – Damned Damned Damned [2022 repress]
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Easily one of the most energized riff heavy punk records of all time. Unbeatable. Label: BMG – BMGAA01LP Series: The Art Of The Album Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 2022 […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sun Ra – The Magic City
    Sun Ra – The Magic City
    $65.00 | , Add to cart

    “The boundaries of Sun Ra’s self-proclaimed “space jazz” underwent a transformation in the mid-’60s. The Magic City is an aural snapshot of that metamorphic process. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Black Sabbath – Born Again
    Black Sabbath – Born Again
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Regularly heralded as a flop meet up of Sabbath & Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan, I think Born Again rocks. The weird 80s production doesn’t help my case at all, […]

    GENRE: Metal, Rock / Pop
  • Lee Morgan ‎– Search For The New Land (1973 Stereo)
    Lee Morgan ‎– Search For The New Land (1973 Stereo)
    $75.00 | , Add to cart

    “All that seriousness and intensity is embodied in the album’s mesmerising title track, which, at nearly 16 minutes long, takes up most of the first side. From its opening moments, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • R.E.M. ‎– Document
    R.E.M. ‎– Document
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “R.E.M. began to move toward mainstream record production on Lifes Rich Pageant, but they didn’t have a commercial breakthrough until the following year’s Document. Ironically, [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Pretty vacant… Label: Warner Bros. Records – BSK 3147, Virgin – BSK 3147 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Jacksonville Pressing Country: US Released: Nov 11, 1977 VG/VG [Some pretty large scuff [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

CDs

  • Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
    Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
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    Four tracks of harsh noise with a junk noise vortex that leans into all manner of collapsed constraint. Richard Ramirez, Sean Matzus, and guests Anjilla Ulfhednar, Scott Kindberg, Thomas Puopolo [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
    Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
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    Tracks complied from previously released cassettes released on Property Solution as “Dopamine Scythe”, “Imprudent Abjection”, “Pure Slaughter Value” and “Sabotage Momentum” All sounds and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
    Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
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    Amplexus is a raw unforgiving barrage of harsh noise as one might expect from two well-known figures in the noise world. There is definitely some shared territory with the newer […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
    Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
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    Reissue of cassette on Bizarre Audio Arts from 2018

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Parasite Nurse  – Lack
    Parasite Nurse – Lack
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    Parasite Nurse’s follow up to 2023’s “Life Is Beautiful” with “Lack” which as far as I’m concerned, it might be necessary to listen to as a whole, all [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
    Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
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    A live documentation of a collaboration between T. Mikawa: Electronics and Reona: Tap Dance, Metal sheets, Chains, Loud speaker. Disarming, complex tension creeping through a labyrinth of junk [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • William Basinski + Richard Chartier – Untitled 1-3
    William Basinski + Richard Chartier – Untitled 1-3
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    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
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    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

BOOKS

  • D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
    D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
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    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
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    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
  • Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
    Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
    Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
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    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
  • 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
  • Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
    Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
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    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
  • Arthur Machen – Ornaments In Jade
    Arthur Machen – Ornaments In Jade
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    Long out of print and presented here for the first time in paperback, is Arthur Machen’s classic collection of prose poems. The ten exquisite pieces included in this volume are: […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive