April 19th Newsletter
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  • Jemeel Moondoc & Muntu – New York Live !
    Jemeel Moondoc & Muntu – New York Live !
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    Side One recorded October 24, 80, Live at the Public Theatre, N.Y.C. Side Two recorded April 2, 1981, Live at Studio Henry, N.Y.C. Label: Cadence Jazz Records – CJR 1006 […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Lester Bowie – Fast Last!
    Lester Bowie – Fast Last!
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    “As is often true of a Lester Bowie record, this set has surpising moments and a liberal use of absurd humor, along with some fine playing. Certainly one would not […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Raymond Boni, Claude Bernard ‎– Pot-Pourri Pour Parce Que
    Raymond Boni, Claude Bernard ‎– Pot-Pourri Pour Parce Que
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    A9 Recorded live at Riverbop, Paris, April 16th 1977. All other tracks recorded live at La Vielle Grille, Paris, April 17th 1977. Label: Hat Hut Records – G Format: Vinyl, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Vario II – Vario II
    Vario II – Vario II
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    Recorded June 1980 at Historisches Museum, Hannover. Label: Moers Music – momu 01084 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Germany Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Antonello Salis ‎– Orange Juice / Nice Food
    Antonello Salis ‎– Orange Juice / Nice Food
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    Recorded Live on Monday February 4, 1980 at Untere Mensa der Universität Zürich. Label: Hat Hut – hat Hut TEN Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Switzerland Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Vinny Golia Trio – … In The Right Order …
    The Vinny Golia Trio – … In The Right Order …
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    “On this fine all-around showcase, a two-LP set from his Nine Winds label, Vinny Golia gets a chance to really stretch out in a trio with bassist Roberto Miranda and […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Vinny Golia Quintet – Out For Blood
    The Vinny Golia Quintet – Out For Blood
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    “This is an exciting free bop album. Vinny Golia (who switches between tenor, baritone, soprano, and sopranino) teams up with the witty and extroverted trombonist Mike Vlatkovich, pianist [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Richard Ramirez & MSBR – Negative / Offensive
    Richard Ramirez & MSBR – Negative / Offensive
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    (A tribute to The New Blockaders (A celebration of the influential) Anti) artists Richard & P.D. Rupenus, TNB. Dedicated to the memory of Koji Tano. Collaboration release. Each artist [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Colin Potter – A Skeleton / Cupboard Situation
    Colin Potter – A Skeleton / Cupboard Situation
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    Compiled from his early ICR releases and compilation tracks all recorded/released from the years of 1978-1983. Label: Vinyl-On-Demand – VOD 35 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Germany [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • COUM Transmissions – Sugarmorphoses
    COUM Transmissions – Sugarmorphoses
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    “Sugarmorphoses was recorded in 1974 solely by Genesis P-Orridge within the COUM Transmissions headquarters, joyfully known as the Ho Ho Funhouse, and are some of the most compelling [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Asmus Tietchens – Teils Teils
    Asmus Tietchens – Teils Teils
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    “The first track of this is the side-long “Teilmenge 20,” which begins as a set of indecipherable static electricity clicks that are quite warm and engaging, which quickly [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Andrew Liles – Miscellany Deluxe (Souvenirs Perdus D’antan)
    Andrew Liles – Miscellany Deluxe (Souvenirs Perdus D’antan)
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    “Miscellany Deluxe was originally released as a 13 CDR box set in 2003. Eleven of the albums included in the box were later made available as individual downloads in 2011. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Malcolm Neon – 1980 – 1985
    Malcolm Neon – 1980 – 1985
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    “Nowadays a member of Datblygu, who are still active and apparently played ATP Prestatyn in 2016, Malcolm’s early work fizzes with a raw outsider quality that’s hard to ignore, and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Aaron Dilloway / Carlos Giffoni – Live At The No Fun Fest 2007
    Aaron Dilloway / Carlos Giffoni – Live At The No Fun Fest 2007
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    “Full no fun 2007 live sets, from Giffoni and Dilloway recorded to the best possible quality.Total tape mangling, and Analog Synth destruction.” – No Fun. Label: No Fun [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Astro / Hiroshi Hasegawa – Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple
    Astro / Hiroshi Hasegawa – Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple
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    “This is the companion release to the Astro CD titled The Echo At the Purple Dawn being released at the same time on Important Records. Astro, of course, is the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Willem Breuker Kollektief – S/T
    Willem Breuker Kollektief – S/T
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    Recorded at Right Track, New York City Oct. 31, 1983 Label: About Time Records – AT-1006 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress Country: US Released: VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Current 93 Dreamt By Andrew Liles – Like Swallowing Eclipses
    Current 93 Dreamt By Andrew Liles – Like Swallowing Eclipses
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    “The Material on these albums, that has now been dreamt by Andrew Liles, was originally performed and released by Current 93 on the following albums Nature Unveiled, Dogs Blood Rising, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Viva Negativa! – A Tribute To The New Blockaders Volume I
    V/A – Viva Negativa! – A Tribute To The New Blockaders Volume I
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    “Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders including. collaborations with/reworkings by 75 avant garde/industrial/noise artists. 2 volumes, 4LPs each. Typically insane presentation [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • V/A – Wahrnehmungen 1980/1981 (Early P16.D4 and related groups, comes with 7″)
    V/A – Wahrnehmungen 1980/1981 (Early P16.D4 and related groups, comes with 7″)
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    “Members of the group p.d. (later renamed p16.d4) founded the label selektion in 1980. Using the name Wahrnehmungen the label released 19 cassettes in 1980/1981. The tapes mostly presented [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sleep Chamber – Sonorous Invokations Ov Brian Jones
    Sleep Chamber – Sonorous Invokations Ov Brian Jones
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    Hallucinogenic sounds Label: Manhood Records – RRR-SC Format: Vinyl, 10″ Country: Italy Released: 1995 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Muhal Richard Abrams – Spiral: Live At Montreux 1978
    Muhal Richard Abrams – Spiral: Live At Montreux 1978
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    “Muhal Richard Abrams performs unaccompanied throughout this concert appearance from the 1978 Montreux Jazz Festival. The relatively brief “String Song” features some odd sound [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
    Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
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    Hanuman Books, 10.5 x 7 cm.Softcover. 1988 edition. Light discoloration & foxing to both dustjacket and edges of pages. Noticeable corner crease/warp along upper right corner of front wrap. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
    Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
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    Grove Press, uncorrected proofs for the 1964 edition, presented in a spiral binder. Staining to & writing on both front and back wraps.Some general wear & discoloration to edges of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
    Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
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    A selection of Philip Pearlstein’s illustrations from 1978-1980 Staple-bound zine with dustjacket. Moisture damage/staining along upper edge

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    Gallery Of Photography: Vision
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    A pamphlet featuring work from the Vision Gallery, based out of Boston, circa 1980s Staple-bound zine with some discoloration

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • James H. Forest – Thomas Merton’s Struggle With Peacemaking
    James H. Forest – Thomas Merton’s Struggle With Peacemaking
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    “Written by Merton’s friend Jim Forest and drawing heavily upon their extensive correspondence, this booklet explores Merton’s beliefs about Christians and war, his life as a monk and his [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
    D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
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    “A collaborative work “featuring a fictional encounter between a businessman and a Portuguese girl on holiday in London” (from the front flap). The authors take turns writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – May Day Speech
    Jean Genet – May Day Speech
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    Transcript of Jean Genet’s May Day Speech, given in support of Bobby Seale after his imprisonment. City Lights, 1970 staple-bound zine. Some light wear and discoloration.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
    Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
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    On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
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    In his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
    Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
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    Poems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars North Point Press, 1986 Hardcover edition. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
    Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
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    Victimization and betrayal are frequently the themes of this Spanish writer, who saw plenty of both as a youth during his homeland’s Civil War. Based on an actual case study […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
    Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
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    Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s Repetition tells of Filib Kobal’s journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor.  He […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
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    Neither Victims nor Executioners was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
    Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
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    It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
    Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
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    Alberto Moravia’s nightmarish exploration of disaffected youth in fascist Italy. FSG, 1980 Hardcover First US edition. Light discoloration to dustjacket.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
    Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
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    Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • Vladimir Paral – Catapult
    Vladimir Paral – Catapult
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    This twist on the Don Juan story looks at the attractions and difficulties of freedom. In the course of his commute, Jacek Jost is suddenly catapulted out of his daily […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Celine – Fable For Another Time
    Celine – Fable For Another Time
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    Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Walser – Selected stories
    Robert Walser – Selected stories
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    How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Tommaso Landolfi – An Autumn Story
    Tommaso Landolfi – An Autumn Story
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    “Set during WW II, this is the first novel to appear in English by the celebrated Italian author of Words in Commotion and Other Stories. The narrator, an outlaw, takes […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares – Asleep In The Sun
    Adolfo Bioy Casares – Asleep In The Sun
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    Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
    Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
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    In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland’s state newspaper. From the early days […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul Verlaine – The Cursed Poets
    Paul Verlaine – The Cursed Poets
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    Assembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of The Cursed Poets (Les Poètes maudits) was published in 1888. Arthur Rimbaud, the boy with whom Paul Verlaine had […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
    Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
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    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 – The Successor
    Ismail Kadare – The Successor
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    A fictionalized political tale based on true-life events and the author’s conversations with the victim’s son follows the events surrounding the death of Mehmet Shehu, a hand-picked [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jens Peter Jacobsen – Niels Lyhne
    Jens Peter Jacobsen – Niels Lyhne
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    Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women—including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Victor Serge – Last Times
    Victor Serge – Last Times
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    Last Times, Victor Serge’s epic novel of the fall of France, is based—like much of his fiction—on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last days of Paris […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
    Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
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    Jean Genet’s essay on Giacometti paired with photos of his work and studio. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN Scheidegger & Spiess, 2004 Hardcover edition. Light general wear. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN

    GENRE: Art/Photography