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  • Tent Music – Tent Music
    Tent Music – Tent Music
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    It’s difficult not to feel like everything’s already been discovered and documented, posted, scrolling under our compulsive thumbs; that what we have to look forward to is, at best, only […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Allison Lorenzen – Tender (Baby Blue Vinyl Repress)
    Allison Lorenzen – Tender (Baby Blue Vinyl Repress)
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    Still reeling from the gut-punch of the distortion filled lead single “Vale” released earlier this year, many of us wondered what a full-length LP by the Denver based artist would […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Magn?s P?lsson ? Enginn Gleypir S_?_lina CD + Book
    Magn?s P?lsson ? Enginn Gleypir S_?_lina CD + Book
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Audio from a Magnus Palsson exhibit. Very Runzelstirn Gurgelstock or Hermann Nitsch energy here. Lots of of grunting, moaning and intimate human sounds. Includes [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Chlorine – Wait For The Light To Shine
    Chlorine – Wait For The Light To Shine
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    What our staff has to say: “The instrumentals on this record are fantastic – super hazy synths, steady drum machine, all creating this surreal wash of sound. Perfect for lonely […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Eng?rdetz ? Sillmj?lke
    Eng?rdetz ? Sillmj?lke
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    Engürdetz perhaps weren’t a known name to the vast music devouring public – but for a brief period in time & to a scene of chosen few, they were a […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 3
    John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 3
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    This is the third installment in a series of albums produced by John Wiese using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions. Composed and mixed by John Wiese Cleveland, Ohio—15 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 2
    John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 2
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    This is the second installment in a series of albums produced by John Wiese using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions. Composed and mixed by John Wiese Cleveland, Ohio—19 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 1 LP
    John Wiese ? Magnetic Stencil/ 1 LP
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    This is the first installment in a series of albums produced by John Wiese using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions. Composed and mixed by John Wiese Cleveland, Ohio—19 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Gong – Magick Brother
    Gong – Magick Brother
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    What our staff has to say: “Gong’s first, a previously hard to get album is back in print. Comparatively to the albums they did a few years after, this one […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Magma – Zühn Ẁöhl Ünsaï – Live 1974
    Magma – Zühn Ẁöhl Ünsaï – Live 1974
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    Wherever they perform – whether at the legendary hippie Burg Herzberg Festival or at the Leverkusener Jazztage in Germany at the end of the 90s, the Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Henryk GoyRecki – Beth Gibbons, Krzysztof Penderecki – Symphony No. 3 Op. 36
    Henryk GoyRecki – Beth Gibbons, Krzysztof Penderecki – Symphony No. 3 Op. 36
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    An incredibly moving rendition of an important piece by the Portishead frontwoman. 2019 UK Pressing on Domino, WIGLP395X VG+/VG+ Light marks & wear. Signed print & DVD included.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Gee Gee Decorator – Gee Gee Decorator
    Gee Gee Decorator – Gee Gee Decorator
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    On the same label that brought us that Pat Metheny “Zero Tolerance for Silence” ‘reissue’ last year…. Insane “private press” ultra-obscurity reissued for [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Desperate Nights 7″ (H2L)
    Desperate Nights 7″ (H2L)
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    H2L007 – Desperate Nights High Tolerance B/w Unclean Machine 7” Lathe Cut/mastered at Str Mastering Center Label Design Luke Yamasaki Cover Design Erektor Korp Layout Assembled Packaged and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Adios Mundo Cruel 7″ (H2L)
    Adios Mundo Cruel 7″ (H2L)
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    H2L008 – Adiós Mundo Cruel En Silencio B/w Estrella De La Mañana 7” Lathe Cut / Mastered at Str Mastering Center Label Design Luke Yamasaki Design Layout Assembled Packaged and […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • T.V. Star – Hallucinate Me
    T.V. Star – Hallucinate Me
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    What our staff has to say: “Seattle’s TV Star Hallucinate Me is a short but sweet 12″ EP. 6 songs of killer Alt Country Twangy Psych Rock.” – Dan The […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sarah Davachi – Selected Works II
    Sarah Davachi – Selected Works II
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    Late Music and Disciples are pleased to present the first and second volumes in an archival series of selected electronic and acoustic works by Sarah Davachi, all previously unreleased in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Instrumentals
    Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Instrumentals
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    Following the star-studded release of Jazz Is Dead’s second series, the venerated label returns with an intimate offering of selected instrumentals from the Series 2 sessions with the legendary [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Koeosaeme ? Obanikeshi
    Koeosaeme ? Obanikeshi
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    Koeosaeme is Japanese artist Ryu Yoshizawa, and OBANIKESHI, his second album for Orange Milk, is a master class in how to engineer a compelling sound-design record front to back. Utilizing […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Foodman – Shokuhin
    Foodman – Shokuhin
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    Originally released 9/12/2012

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Nico Niquo ? Esperanto
    Nico Niquo ? Esperanto
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    Nico Niquo’s ‘Esperanto’ sees the Australian artist return to Orange Milk Records six years since his album ‘In A Silent Way’, and on this new release, Nico builds upon the […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Lauren Bousfield – Salesforce
    Lauren Bousfield – Salesforce
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    An omnivorous composer – gathering inspirations from a wide splattering of genres, styles, and subjects – Lauren Bousfield’s new album Salesforce is the latest creation in her sprawling catalog [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Enemy – Maladjusted
    Enemy – Maladjusted
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    Like a rocket from LA to the moon, enemy takes off with their new record Maladjusted. Returning from a split from LA’s Downsided last year, Enemy brings their brand of […]

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  • Aphrodite’s Child ? Best Of Aphrodite’s Child
    Aphrodite’s Child ? Best Of Aphrodite’s Child
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    A compilation of some of the Vangelis-led prog band’s best tracks German Pressing on Mercury, 6333 002 VG+/VG+ sleeve is VG++, nice copy!

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Icons Of Filth – Onward Christian Soldiers (90’s Boot)
    Icons Of Filth – Onward Christian Soldiers (90’s Boot)
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    Anarcho-punk from Wales. Goes hard. Mortarhate Records – LP MORT 5 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Fan Club Release Country: UK Released: 1996 VG+/VG+ Light marks, some shelf & cornerwear

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – black vinyl
    Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – black vinyl
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    “What the heck? You’re Somebody’s World, the new album from Fruit LoOops, is both a jagged sonic question mark and a fruitful return to the avant grit. Their second release […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – green vinyl
    Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – green vinyl
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    “What the heck? You’re Somebody’s World, the new album from Fruit LoOops, is both a jagged sonic question mark and a fruitful return to the avant grit. Their second release […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
    Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
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    Recital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (New […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers – Kicks or Macabre
    Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers – Kicks or Macabre
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    “Hark! DIY sleaze-rock henchpersons, ascend from your cellars and rejoice… Midwestern anti-folk hero Christopher Alan Durham (The Bibs, All Gone Recs) arrives on high horse in [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Brainiac – Attic Tapes
    Brainiac – Attic Tapes
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    The music of Brainiac ended with the death of frontman Tim Taylor in 1997. Offered here is a glimpse into the working mind of Taylor as he susses out tunes […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 (White Vinyl)
    Kelly Lee Owens – LP.8 (White Vinyl)
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    Born out of a series of studio sessions, LP.8 was created with no preconceptions or expectations: an unbridled exploration into the creative subconscious. After releasing her sophomore album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Woods – Perennial
    Woods – Perennial
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    Woods are in bloom again, inviting you to disappear into a new spectrum of colors and sounds and dreams on Perennial. “Formed in Brooklyn in 2004, Woods have matured into […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dead C – Operation Of The Sonne
    Dead C – Operation Of The Sonne
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    What our staff has to say: “The weird, undersung cousin of Tusk & The White House. Operation Of The Sonne is the closest Dead C’s gotten to touching on the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • S*Glass – Cesspool Of The Angels
    S*Glass – Cesspool Of The Angels
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    First solo LP of 2023 by S. Glass of Glands of External Secretion, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, This Is Yvonne Lovejoy and Bananafish Magazine. Numerous practices make up the electro-acoustic sound [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760
    Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760
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    Aphex Twin will release a new EP through Warp Records. Featuring four new tracks, Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In A Room7 F760 marks Richard D. James’ first new music […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Holger Czukay – Der Osten Ist Rot
    Holger Czukay – Der Osten Ist Rot
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    Upon examining the eventful life of Can bassist Holger Czukay, one might come to the conclusion that this intrepid musician was a loner. His turbulent career exuded an enduring eccentricity […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Protomaryr – Ultimate Success Today
    Protomaryr – Ultimate Success Today
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    There is a sting in the summer blossom of Ultimate Success Today, Protomartyr’ new album. Arriving after Relatives In Descent, Protomartyr’s headlong dive into the morass of American life in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
    Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
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    Dan Deacon’s most emotionally open record and his most transcendent, Mystic Familiar is the result of obsessive work, play, and self-discovery. The album’s 11 kaleidoscopic tracks of majestic [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Michael Rother – Fernwarme
    Michael Rother – Fernwarme
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    “This is a special guy. Rare among fine musicians is one who never bit the industry weenie. This guy never did. He’s done nothing but superior work just the way […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Holger Czukay – Rome Remains Rome
    Holger Czukay – Rome Remains Rome
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    Upon examining the eventful life of Can bassist Holger Czukay, one might come to the conclusion that this intrepid musician was a loner. His turbulent career exuded an enduring eccentricity […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen
    Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen
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    Buzzcocks’ seminal first album, lovingly restored and re-mastered from its original ¼ tapes for the first time since its March 1978 release.Newly curated booklet featuring an essay from cultural [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Technical Space Composer’s Crew – Canaxis 5
    Technical Space Composer’s Crew – Canaxis 5
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    What our staff has to say: “Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers getting so wild. Stockhausen zoned experimental. Incredibly various and musical. ‘Shook Eyes Ammunition’ is the best song title ever.” [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Twink – You Reached For The Stars: The Best Of Twink (Violet Vinyl)
    Twink – You Reached For The Stars: The Best Of Twink (Violet Vinyl)
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    What our staff has to say: “Wild British psych from Twink, of Pretty Things and Pink Fairies. His Think Pink record is classic, and this combines a number of tracks […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
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    Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is a tale as old as time. It’s an album. Its songs and music are by and for people together. For listening together. Before it […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill Nace – Through A Room
    Bill Nace – Through A Room
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    What our staff has to say: “Fever dream experimental guitar with an array of other instruments that are all completely abstracted. Uneasy listening.” – Hannah Using the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bill Nace – Both
    Bill Nace – Both
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    Free guitar for the new age: improv with intention, construction and destruction, all with the grain and air of performance captured and telescoped in a sonic particle collider. Makes sense, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bill Callahn – Shephard In Sheepskin Vest
    Bill Callahn – Shephard In Sheepskin Vest
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    The voice murmuring in our ear, with shaggy-dog and other kinds of stories, is an old friend so fine to hear from again. Bill’s gentle, spacey take on folk and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill Callahan – YTilaeR
    Bill Callahan – YTilaeR
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    From the beautiful to the jarring, intrepid explorer Callahan charts a passage through all kinds of territory, pitting dreams of dreams against dreams of reality. When he makes it back […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ty Segall – Hello, Hi
    Ty Segall – Hello, Hi
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    Tossing down straight acoustic shots with electric guitar back, Hello, Hi rides through the valley of yer ol’ Canyon legends, finding an isolated place to unspool Ty’s copious [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Circuits Des Yeux – Reaching For Indigo
    Circuits Des Yeux – Reaching For Indigo
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    A moment that fell down in the life of Haley Fohr on January 22, 2016 – now in album form! Redefining and realizing the goals that were set to allow […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Smog _? The Doctor Came At Dawn
    Smog _? The Doctor Came At Dawn
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    “all the bar tabs were destroyed in the fire. Once again I was a free man”

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  • Jim O’Rourke _? Simple Songs
    Jim O’Rourke _? Simple Songs
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    There ARE no simple songs — only simple people. And since guns don’t kill people, “Simple Songs” will have to do. Super-sweet terrorism from our very own latter-day Spector!

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Michel Leiris – Aurora and Cardinal Point
    Michel Leiris – Aurora and Cardinal Point
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    This volume collects two classics of Surrealist fiction, both long out of print, by the writer and ethnographer Michel Leiris (1901–1990). Close to Georges Bataille, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louis Aragon – Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel
    Louis Aragon – Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel
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    This novel, much of it written amidst the horror of the trenches when Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a medical orderly during the First World War, demonstrates the chasm that separates […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
    Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
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    Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
    Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
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    In the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Pierre Clastres – Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
    Pierre Clastres – Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
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    Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963–64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Count Stenbock – The Shadow Of Death
    Count Stenbock – The Shadow Of Death
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    Here, presented for the first time in paperback format, and limited edition hardcover, is an unabridged edition of Count Eric Stenbock’s third and last collection of poetry, which was originally [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
    Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
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    Late ’70s San Francisco. The Summer of Love is a hazy memory, the AIDS crisis is looming, and nearby Silicon Valley is still an obscure place where microchips are made. […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Auguste Villiers De L’Isle Adam – Isis
    Auguste Villiers De L’Isle Adam – Isis
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    Here, presented in English in a long-belated translation by Brian Stableford, is Isis, the first novel of the acclaimed author of Contes cruels, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Deserving to be reckoned [...]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
    Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York’s downtown music […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction