March 22nd Newsletter
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  • Vinny & Charlie – The Repo Code
    Vinny & Charlie – The Repo Code
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    Following in the steps of last year’s mysterious “Beyond the Garage” 12 inch, L.I.E.S. throws another curve ball with a 30 track continuous LP from veteran West Coast producers, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    In your face new 8 track LP of vicious beat driven warehouse electronics from the L.I.E.S. boss. Straight and to the point, “Extinctionist” stands very much in line and continues […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    In your face new 8 track LP of vicious beat driven warehouse electronics from the L.I.E.S. boss. Straight and to the point, “Extinctionist” stands very much in line and continues […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Heule / Leguía / Rivero / Escalante – An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing
    Heule / Leguía / Rivero / Escalante – An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    A monumentally fucked up recording from this quartet. Anything short of saying “AUDIO ASSAULT” is not doing any justice to the release. This is fucked up and violent/blown out & [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • 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
  • Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
    Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
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    Althea Gyles (1867-1949), Irish artist and mystic, though primarily remembered today for the book covers she did for the poet William Butler Yeats and her association with the author and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
    She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
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    She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
    Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
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    The Red Sorcerer, originally published as a 64-part feuilleton serial in Le Journal  between 31 July 1910 and 3 October 1910, and here appearing in English for the first time […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mrs. Florence Aadland – The Big Love
    Mrs. Florence Aadland – The Big Love
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    The Big Love is a Hollywood nightmare. It tells the story of Errol Flynn—a fading, alcoholic movie star—and the underage dancer-actress Beverly Aadland. The narrator? Beverly Aadland’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lorrain – Monsieur De Bougrelon
    Jean Lorrain – Monsieur De Bougrelon
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    In Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Bougrelon, an eccentric, outmoded dandy leads ennui-filled French tourists around misty Amsterdam. Guiding them through sailors’ bars, whorehouses, and costume [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michel Leiris – Nights As Day Days As Night
    Michel Leiris – Nights As Day Days As Night
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    Translated from French by Richard Sieburth, with a foreword by Maurice Blanchot. Hailed as an “important literary document and contemporary pleasure” by Lydia Davis, Nights as Day, Days as Night [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • V/A – Gespenterland
    V/A – Gespenterland
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    Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany’s sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the copse of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Blickwinkel
    Faust – Blickwinkel
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    “After dipping into the archive to deliver a series of essential reissues, Bureau B continues to encourage the chaotic brilliance of Faust with an LP of brand new music curated […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Conrad Schnitzler – Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal
    Conrad Schnitzler – Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal
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    “Auf dem schwarzen Kanal” is one of the most outstanding and sought-after releases in Conrad Schnitzler’s extensive catalog. Released in 1980 as the only one of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Supersempfft – Roboterwerke
    Supersempfft – Roboterwerke
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    LP version. After introducing listeners to the techno-tropical pop of Supersempfft via an essential reissue of their stargazing sophomore LP Metaluna, those surefooted folks at Bureau B beam back [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Toluse Low Trax – Kiosique Versions
    Toluse Low Trax – Kiosique Versions
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    Parisian-by-choice Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax turns the page again. Always willing for a new episode, notion, impulse, idea, ideal. Searching for some light out there. Now Kiosque [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Cluster – Cluster II
    Cluster – Cluster II
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    Cluster’s second album finds them still in their Berlin phase, that of the amorphous analog electronic passages without the reference points of any actual rhythms. The tracks move along [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Agonal Lust / Serration – Like A Knife
    Agonal Lust / Serration – Like A Knife
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Remastered vinyl edition of long sold out split tape from Dominion Of Flesh. Limited to 200 copies.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Brighter Death Now – No Decency
    Brighter Death Now – No Decency
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    This is the raw rehearsal recordings of Brighter Death Now for the American tour in 2019. Recorded early february 2019. Originally released as a tape, we now bring you a […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Trepaneringsritualen – Septentrional
    Trepaneringsritualen – Septentrional
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    The most elusive of T × R × P albums finally sees a reissue, courtesy of Cloister Recordings. The six songs — here accompanied by a seventh, previously unreleased outtake […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
    Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door
    $28.00 | Add to cart

    Wheezing Maniac was a mysterious, short-lived band with enigmatic lyrics that was active in Southern California in the late eighties. Due to their off-kilter originality, high energy, and thanks [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • PRE-ORDER
    Cameron Knowler – CRK
    Cameron Knowler – CRK
    $27.00 | , Ships on/around Apr 04, 2025 Add to cart

    ***Ships On Or Around 04/04/25 “Pure musical expression pulling from over a hundred years of American folk history but still feels unburdened by the past and looks sharply towards the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
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    ***Pre-Order Item – Ships on or around 3/21 Nice to hear the first solo LP in a good while by this most excellent guitarist who also runs the superb Scissor […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma
    Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    Yuma Abe presents “Hotel New Yuma,” the latest album from the vocalist and guitarist of Tokyo-based band never young beach. Japan of the 1950s and 1960s has had such a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Jim O’Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto – Shiminkai
    Jim O’Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto – Shiminkai
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    New album “Shiminkai” by Kafka’s Ibiki, a three-piece band comprised of Jim O’Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. Recorded live performance in Tokyo in 2023 by [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • Steve Kuhn, Scott LaFaro, Pete La Roca – 1960
    Steve Kuhn, Scott LaFaro, Pete La Roca – 1960
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    The only recordings left by the three members of John Coltrane’s short-lived rhythm section in New York in 1960 tell the story of the missing link in jazz history. This […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Lloyd New Quartet – Passin’ Thru
    Charles Lloyd New Quartet – Passin’ Thru
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    Though the Charles Lloyd New Quartet has been together for a decade, they haven’t recorded as a group since 2011’s Athens Concert, when the saxophonist was still signed to ECM. […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Eberhard Weber – The Following Morning
    Eberhard Weber – The Following Morning
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    “In some ways this is a more contemplative work, lingering longer upon the tones of the individual instruments. The title track opens with backwards piano and slides into a pensive […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dave McMurray – Grateful Deadication
    Dave McMurray – Grateful Deadication
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    Dave McMurray made his Blue Note debut in 2018 with Music Is Life, an album that focused largely on his own assertive original tunes. Now, the saxophonist returns with Grateful […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cautious Clay – Karpeh
    Cautious Clay – Karpeh
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    On Cautious Clay’s deeply personal Blue Note debut KARPEH, the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer takes an artistic leap forward with an ambitious yet introspective [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Roland Kirk – Introducing Roland Kirk
    Roland Kirk – Introducing Roland Kirk
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    This title is part of GRP’s new Chessmates series, which culls from Chess, Argo, Cadet, Coral, Dot, Decca and associated label analog source materials from the ’50s and ’60s. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – The Clown
    Charles Mingus – The Clown
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    The Clown was Charles Mingus’ second masterpiece in a row, upping the already intense emotional commitment of Pithecanthropus Erectus and burning with righteous anger and frustration. With [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jean-Luc Ponty – Civilized Evil
    Jean-Luc Ponty – Civilized Evil
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    All of the titles here make some kind of reference to cosmic issues of good and evil on the planet Earth, but the suggestive wordplay doesn’t make this music much […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple
    Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple
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    With the possible exception of its song, “Footprints,” which would become a jazz standard, Adam’s Apple received quite a bit less attention upon its release than some of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Coltrane – Blue Train
    John Coltrane – Blue Train
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    Although never formally signed, an oral agreement between John Coltrane and Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion was indeed honored on Blue Train — Coltrane’s only collection of [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Frederick Knight – I’ve Been Lonely For So Long
    Frederick Knight – I’ve Been Lonely For So Long
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    The Bessemer, AL native has his finest hour with this, his first and only album for Stax Records. The title track, co-written by his wife Posie, was his biggest hit […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Keith Jarrett – Facing You
    Keith Jarrett – Facing You
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    Facing You is one of the most important recordings in contemporary jazz for several reasons, aside from being beautifully conceived and executed by pianist Keith Jarrett. It is a hallmark […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Nduduzo Makhathini – Modes Of Communication: Letters From The Underworlds
    Nduduzo Makhathini – Modes Of Communication: Letters From The Underworlds
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    After collaborations with Wynton Marsalis and Shabaka Hutchings, the visionary South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini is set to release his Blue Note debut Modes of Communication: [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Johnathan Blake – Passage
    Johnathan Blake – Passage
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    Passage captures the arc of personal and collective evolution: the passing from one moment to the next, from one phase into another. Johnathan Blake – “Passage” / Johnathan [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Yusef Lateef – The Gentle Giant
    Yusef Lateef – The Gentle Giant
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    Yusef Lateef’s music from the early ’70s commands large doses of both appeal and skepticism. At a time when funk and fusion were merging with the intensely volatile and distrustful [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Coltrane – Olé Coltrane
    John Coltrane – Olé Coltrane
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    The complicated rhythm patterns and diverse sonic textures on Olé Coltrane are evidence that John Coltrane was once again charting his own course. His sheer ability as a maverick — […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Coltrane & Don Cherry – The Avant-Garde
    John Coltrane & Don Cherry – The Avant-Garde
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    This album is rightfully co-credited to Don Cherry (trumpet), who ably trades blows with John Coltrane (tenor/soprano sax) throughout. The Avant-Garde also boasts the debut studio recording of [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Steve Kuhn Trio – Live At Birdland
    Steve Kuhn Trio – Live At Birdland
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    Steve Kuhn has been recording professionally for close to five decades, most of which time he’s operated stealthily, rarely achieving the level of recognition he so richly deserves for [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Changes Two
    Charles Mingus – Changes Two
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    Along with its companion volume Changes One, this is one of the great sessions from one of the best working bands of the 1970s. Starting with the spirited “Free Cell […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Duke Ellington – The Feeling Of Jazz
    Duke Ellington – The Feeling Of Jazz
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    This is a nice all-around set by the 1962 Duke Ellington Orchestra. Whether it be the lightweight but fun “Taffy Twist,” “I’m Gonna Go Fishin'” (the theme from [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Brubeck Plays Bernstein
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Brubeck Plays Bernstein
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    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
    John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
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    One of the most important records ever made, John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme was his pinnacle studio outing, that at once compiled all of the innovations from his past, spoke […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Blackbyrds – Night Grooves
    The Blackbyrds – Night Grooves
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    Despite the fact that 1989’s Greatest Hits rendered this earlier Fantasy compilation obsolete — Greatest Hits contains all seven songs found here, plus four others — Fantasy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Coltrane – Giant Steps
    John Coltrane – Giant Steps
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    History will undoubtedly enshrine this disc as a watershed the likes of which may never truly be appreciated. Giant Steps bore the double-edged sword of furthering the cause of the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
    John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
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    Although seemingly impossible to comprehend, this landmark jazz date made in 1960 was recorded in less than three days. All the more remarkable is that the same sessions which yielded […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz