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  • Richard Ramirez _? Amplified Tactics 2LP (Jacket water damaged – records are fine)
    Richard Ramirez _? Amplified Tactics 2LP (Jacket water damaged – records are fine)
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    “‘amplified tactics’ collects 4 segments of live performances from texas and mexico in 1999, rolling back to an era when live noise shows were isolated mysterious affairs or [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Germano Celant – Witkin
    Germano Celant – Witkin
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    An overview of the work of American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin’s surreal collage photos. Not for the faint of heart. Scalo, 1995 Hardcover edition. Some tearing to dustjacket edges [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
    Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
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    “Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. But, above all, as this book [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Bo Huston – Horse And Other Stories
    Bo Huston – Horse And Other Stories
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    “Bo Huston’s sensitive, stately prose translates gay underclass experience with such authenticity yet acumen that it seems the work of a first rate double agent. Horse brings to the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
    Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
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    “A Picture novel study of the human spirit in the fantastic / magical and the human soul in the metaphorical and physical in Five Chapters – being Oppression, Rainbows, Mythology, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gilbert & George
    Gilbert & George
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    Exhibition catalogue from The Baltimore Museum of Art’s 1984 exhibition, Gilbert & George. Baltimore Museum Of Art, 1984 Softcover edition. Discoloration & wear to front/back wraps. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Breakthrough Fictioneers
    Breakthrough Fictioneers
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    “This massive anthology of works compiled by Kostelanetz, features artists from a range of disciplines who use both text and images to experiment with the formal and conceptual qualities of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Gun Club ? Mother Juno (1987 UK)
    The Gun Club ? Mother Juno (1987 UK)
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    “The Gun Club collapsed within a year of the release of 1984’s The Las Vegas Story, so more than a few fans were surprised in 1987 when Jeffrey Lee Pierce […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Kenneth Patchen – But Even So
    Kenneth Patchen – But Even So
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    A collection of Patchen’s “picture-poems”, which combine surreal childlike doodles and concrete poetry into a synthesized art form. New Directions Publishing, 1968 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marcel Duchamp
    Marcel Duchamp
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    “This remarkable book with its more than 1,300 illustrations covers 70 years of Duchamp’s artistic production and traces his elusive personae across that same span. texts by Jennifer [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Special Ed – I Got It Made (promo)
    Special Ed – I Got It Made (promo)
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    Label: Profile Records – PRO-5245 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1989 Genre: Hip Hop VG+ / Gen WOL

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • 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
  • Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
    Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
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    “I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
    October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
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    Critical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s.From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
    Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
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    From the early seventies until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: Akenaten, Jubilee, Bob-Up-A-Down, B Movie: Little [...]

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  • 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
  • Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
    Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
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    Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema’s only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work [...]

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Big Youth ? Hit The Road Jack
    Big Youth ? Hit The Road Jack
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    Some 70s US soul covers on here – roots style. Fun one. Label: Trojan Records – TRLS 137 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo Country: UK Released: 1976 VG+/VG+, with […]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Reggae Chartbusters Vol Two
    Reggae Chartbusters Vol Two
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    Great ska/reggae comp from 71! No brainer pickup to toss on. Label: Trojan Records – TBL 147 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1971 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Yasuaki Shimizu ? Get You
    Yasuaki Shimizu ? Get You
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    Debut LP from composer Yasuaki Shimizu. His “Music For Commercials” LP from Crammed Discs & “Kakashi” LP via Palto Flats reissue have been a massively popular record [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • 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
  • Japan: New Psychedelic Underground
    Japan: New Psychedelic Underground
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    Recorded live at Seikazoku, Nagoya on July 20-21, 1996. Label: Manifatture Criminali – bob 107/indigo 4157-2 Format: CD, Compilation Country: Germany Released: VG+/VG+ with small crack in case [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International
  • Roger Eno ? Voices
    Roger Eno ? Voices
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    “Using piano and broad washes of synths, some treated by older brother Brian Eno, the younger Eno’s pieces are slow, contemplative works of minimalism, similar to Erik Satie’s [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • David Bowie ? Lodger
    David Bowie ? Lodger
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    The third (and arguably most underrated) of Bowie’s Berlin trilogy, demonstrating his interest in both world music & krautrock Label: RCA – RVP-6390 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • 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
  • Bob Dylan _? Another Side Of Bob Dylan (64 Mono)
    Bob Dylan _? Another Side Of Bob Dylan (64 Mono)
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    Early 64 Mono pressing of Dylan’s 3rd. Label: Columbia – CL 2193 Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Terre Haute Country: US Released: 1964 VG/G+

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • 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
  • Holger Czukay ? Movies
    Holger Czukay ? Movies
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    “The creation of this album was the logical continuation of my work in Can’s last years of active existence. It took me about 2 years to work this album out […]

    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
  • Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
    Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
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    City Pop 12″ with some solid melodies and grooves Label: Niagara Records – 15AH 1515 Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Mini-Album Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: International, Rock / Pop
  • Mal Waldron ? Left Alone – Mal Waldron Live 1
    Mal Waldron ? Left Alone – Mal Waldron Live 1
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    Killer live album with Waldron leading a stellar quartet. Label: Fontana – PAT-1061 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: Japan Released: 1974 VG+/VG+ with some wear to cover  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Circle ? Paris – Concert
    Circle ? Paris – Concert
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    Essential record by the Avant-Jazz super-group on ECM. Chick Corea forever. Label: Trio Records – ECM-4010~11 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1980 VG+/VG+ with some [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Karin Krog – Archie Shepp ? Hi-Fly
    Karin Krog – Archie Shepp ? Hi-Fly
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    Shepp accompanies the stellar Norwegian jazz vocalist. Label: Baybridge Records – ULS-1687-B, Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1977 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Masonna – Shinsen Na Clitoris (Picture Disc)
    Masonna – Shinsen Na Clitoris (Picture Disc)
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    Reissue of a limited CD from 1990 on Vanilla Records Label: Hospital Productions – HOS-639 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Picture Disc, Reissue Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fantastic Tchico* ? Mon Enfant
    Fantastic Tchico* ? Mon Enfant
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    Folk/pop from the Republic Of Congo Label: Pili-Pili – AC-10012 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1984 VG+/VG+ with some wear to sleeve. Includes liner.  

    GENRE: International
  • Nyboma* Et L’Orchestre Les Kamal? Dynamiques Du Za?re* ? Doubl? Doubl?
    Nyboma* Et L’Orchestre Les Kamal? Dynamiques Du Za?re* ? Doubl? Doubl?
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    Stellar Soukous music from Zaire Label: Pili-Pili – AC10006 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1984 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: International
  • Dennis Brown ? Just Dennis
    Dennis Brown ? Just Dennis
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    Japanese edition of an early Dennis Brown album Label: Trojan Records – PA-6352 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1975 VG+/VG  

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Akira Sakata – 20 Personalities Akira Sakata Sings
    Akira Sakata – 20 Personalities Akira Sakata Sings
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    Akira Sakata’s frantic “vocal-jazz” album Label: Better Days – YF-7006-N Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1980 VG+/VG+ with some wear to cover. Includes liner.  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise