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  • Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
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    Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
    Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
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    Guiding readers across the desiccated landscape of twenty-first century America in The Frontier Index is the cult duo of Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, two of contemporary art and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
    Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
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    Booklist review: In a stealthily affecting reportorial voice, debut novelist Falkner tells the story of tepidly successful 1960s movie actress Kitty Dawson via interviews, critiques, press [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
    Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
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    ZER000 EXCESS is a work of ambient body horror. Depicting the birth and growth of strange organisms–creatures spawned from the maw of the text. Watch as they fester in the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
    Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
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    “The Labour of Reading is at the heart of AUTOBIOLOGY. Readership as authorship, authorship as readership – and all of it consequently as thinkership. Questions on ‘work’ and ‘value’ abound. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Christopher Norris – Hunchback ’88
    Christopher Norris – Hunchback ’88
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    Hunchback ‘88 is a book… or a novel mirror of haunted house ferox… or a puzzle in no rush to be solved… or a plot dug in ocean mist… or […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • T.H.M. Gellar-Goad – Masks
    T.H.M. Gellar-Goad – Masks
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    The mask is the classic disguise. But as alter ego, it reveals as much as it conceals. Why are masks so often creepy, even outside of horror movies? Can a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Grant Maierhofer – Works
    Grant Maierhofer – Works
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    Works is a collection, but also something new: it is a conversation between Maierhofer’s early and contemporary writings that shares its title with Édouard Levé’s masterful experimental Works. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louse – Passions Like Tar
    Louse – Passions Like Tar
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    “Like some mutated phantom lurking in the shadows, Cincinnati based new-wave punks Louse emerge into light with their debut LP Passions Like Tar- a heady and sullen collection of post-punk [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Disintegration – Shiver In A Weak Light
    Disintegration – Shiver In A Weak Light
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    The first full-length release from Cleveland’s Disintegration brings their intricate circuitry of nocturnal synthwave and noise-saturated post-punk to a new plateau. Sharper, leaner, and more [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Corker – Hallways Of Grey (Clear / Smoke Vinyl)
    Corker – Hallways Of Grey (Clear / Smoke Vinyl)
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    CLEAR VINYL “Fragments of the past intersect with a dynamic sonic vision on Hallways of Grey, the second full length from Corker. Expanding upon the dense, rhythmic post-punk of their […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Drin – Elude The Torch
    The Drin – Elude The Torch
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    The Drin forge further into their own captivating world of sound on their fourth album, ‘Elude the Torch’. Since 2021, the Cincinnati group has released one strikingly original album [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
    The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
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    Way out there. From up in the attic, in the village of Cincinnati – the third album from the Drin has arrived to commence 2023. Cold rhythms reverberate through the […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West
    Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West
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    “In 1952, the U.S. Navy began illegally testing high-explosive bombs on an enormous expanse of public land near Fallon, in northwestern Nevada. The land had long been sacred to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Whole Spy Catalog: A Resource Encyclopedia for Researchers, Pi’S, Spies, and Generally Nosy People
    Whole Spy Catalog: A Resource Encyclopedia for Researchers, Pi’S, Spies, and Generally Nosy People
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    “A resource encyclopedia for Researchers, PI’s, Spies, and Generally Nosy People. The ultimate guide for finding information and intelligence on anything.” Lapin, 1995 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Action (scarce)
    The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Action (scarce)
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    A guidebook to the inner and outer workings of the CIA throughout history. Westview Press, 1988 Softcover edition. Light general wear, some scuffing along bottom edge of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryu Murakami – Almost Transparent Blue (1st Edition)
    Ryu Murakami – Almost Transparent Blue (1st Edition)
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    “Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami’s image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dianne Lake – Member Of The Family
    Dianne Lake – Member Of The Family
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    “At fourteen Dianne Lake—with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them—became one of “Charlie’s girls,” a devoted [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bernard Roseman – The Peyote Story (scarce)
    Bernard Roseman – The Peyote Story (scarce)
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    “Delves into the rich cultural and spiritual tapestry surrounding the ancient ritualistic use of peyote. Through meticulous research and captivating storytelling, Roseman traces the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • M.M Kirsch – Designer Drugs
    M.M Kirsch – Designer Drugs
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    “Describes the effects of China White (a synthetic heroin), Crack, Ecstasy, MPTP, Crystal, and PCP, explains why they represent a danger to our society, and shares the experiences of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Dream Sellers
    The Dream Sellers
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    An investigation into drug-dealers and the drug trade as a whole. Jossey-Bass, 1972 Hardcover first edition. Discoloration to edges of pages and wear to dustjacket apparent under mylar. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William S. Burroughs – Queer (1st Printing)
    William S. Burroughs – Queer (1st Printing)
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    “Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma – both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs’ [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • R.E.L Masters – Forbidden Sexual Behavior and Morality
    R.E.L Masters – Forbidden Sexual Behavior and Morality
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    “Forbidden Sexual Behavior And Morality: An Objective Re-Examination Of Perverse Sex Practices In Different Cultures by R. E. L. Masters is a book that delves into the topic of taboo […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Spycomm: Covert Communication Techniques Of The Underground
    Spycomm: Covert Communication Techniques Of The Underground
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    “Guerrillas, fugitives and other members of the “underground” must exploit existing resources to communicate secretly. This book tells you how they use improvised microfilm, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Loving Man: A Photographic Guide To Gay Male Lovemaking
    Loving Man: A Photographic Guide To Gay Male Lovemaking
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    One of the first sex-ed & health guides for gay men. Hark Publishing, 1976 Hardcover edition. Some sagging from spine and wear to boards. Discoloration to edges of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
    Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
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    CD The Exploding Star Orchestra is Rob Mazurek’s vehicle for blowing minds and reshaping worlds. For more than a decade and a half, the multi-instrumentalist has guided the variably configured [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
    Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
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    CD Tomin’s debut full-length work, A Willed and Conscious Balance, answers a set of questions left unasked in recent years, as a new generation of artists re-energizes the tradition often […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tomin – Flores Para Verene / Cantos Para Caramina
    Tomin – Flores Para Verene / Cantos Para Caramina
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    Black Vinyl 27-year-old Tomin Perea-Chamblee is a brass- and reed-centered multi-instrumentalist, the composer and arranger of pieces with excellently thorny harmonies, an at-times reluctant [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Anthony Braxton – Saxophone Improvisations / Series F.
    Anthony Braxton – Saxophone Improvisations / Series F.
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    “The Inner City label reissued this album not out of some great commitment to avant-garde solo saxophone, but because there was a licensing deal with the shady French label called […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Crude – Attitude
    Crude – Attitude
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    Reissue of their 4th album from 2000 Label: Feral Ward – YAN-0012-056-2009 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 2009 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Steve Lacy – Only Monk
    Steve Lacy – Only Monk
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    “Steve Lacy has long been one of the foremost interpreters of pianist Thelonious Monk’s music. This set is a solo soprano saxophone recital in which Lacy digs into nine of […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
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    Digitally send anyone a Gift Card for Torn Light Records! Cards can be sent in any amount and redeemed online! Your recipient will be given a code for the amount […]

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  • SS-20 – Merry Christmas 1986: Is Santa Listening
    SS-20 – Merry Christmas 1986: Is Santa Listening
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    Cincinnati punk in its holiday best. Label: No Pretense Records – JRC 86043A Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1986 VG+/VG+. Paste on santa has fallen off but is still […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ben Hall – Windbag
    Ben Hall – Windbag
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    A half hour channeling session invoked by human breath. Lungs push forth force and conjure temporary and overlapping tones to trance out to. Let these sounds set your ears afloat […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
    Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
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    Known to many as the percussive presence in groups like Nest Egg, MANAS, Wasting and We Bow to No Masters, Asheville’s Thom Nguyen moves in to dronier, driftier worlds with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Eternal Husk – Commune III
    Eternal Husk – Commune III
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    Further tonal ruminations and aural questions asked from deep within. An outsider music grab bag jam selection, nay, transmission from deep within the Circle City. Another sonic commune (the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Solid Squares – KS I & II
    Solid Squares – KS I & II
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    Local composer / saxophonist / drummer / improvisor Tom Lageveen drops in two heavenly compositions for piano, under his Solid Squares moniker. With a little help from his friends, KS […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mark & Landon – Vol. 1
    Mark & Landon – Vol. 1
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    Sounds from the basement underneath the dance floor. Dusty programmed beats bussed out and live mixed amongst a hazy tapestry of keys and electric strings. Midwestern crunch through a [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Soft Places – Memory Does Not Pass
    Soft Places – Memory Does Not Pass
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    Memory Does Not Pass is a collection of studies in dissolving rhythm & voice set against environment, time, & connection to those who have come before and the echoes of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • William Basinski – Lamentations
    William Basinski – Lamentations
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    “William Basinski’s reputation as the foremost producer of profound meditations on death and decay has long been established, but on his new album, Lamentations, he transforms operatic [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
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    The Iceland Symphony Orchestra is widely praised for its performances and recordings and concerts devoted to modern music. Since 2011, the orchestra’s home has been Harpa Concert Hall in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
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    At the risk of getting doxxed by my musician colleagues, I’m going to divulge a dark truth about classical music: it’s never as captivating or molecule-altering for anyone as it […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
    Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
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    SILVA is a work for processed double bass built on the idea of a downward growing forest, living its own secret life of underground raves and meditative cohesiveness. I like […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
    Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
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    Kristin Anna (Múm) and Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros) have created one of the most painfully beautiful albums I’ve heard in years. Kristin’s voice is as gorgeous as it is unique […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
    Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
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    Icelandic cellist, singer, and composer Gyda Valtysdottir, a founder of the band múm and 2019 winner of the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize, releases Epicycle II on her label DiaMond in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
    Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
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    Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen is an opera in four acts conceived by Kjartan Sveinsson and artist Ragnar Kjartansson, which was commissioned by and originally performed in Volksbühne am [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
    Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
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    On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Alex Sopp, the flutist, composer, vocalist, and visual artist releases the title track ‘The Hem & The Haw’ from her upcoming debut album The Hem […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Concurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Concurrence
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    “I am both very proud and excited to bring out the second volume of this recording project dedicated to bringing the orchestral sound world of Icelandic composers to the ears […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
    Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
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    Rhízōma, composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s debut album of recorded works, is steeped in the beautiful strangeness and exhilaration of that which is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. The [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
    Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
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    When two Icelandic composers Páll Ragnar Pálsson and Eðvarð Egilsson finished scoring Quake, a psychological family drama, they were not ready to stop just there. What followed was a voyage […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic