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  • Peter Warren – Bass Is
    Peter Warren – Bass Is
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    Heavily underrated bass-led free-jazz on Enja Label: Enja Records – 15MJ 9054 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1985 VG+/VG+. Includes liner.  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Toshiyuki Miyama – Canto Of Libra
    Toshiyuki Miyama – Canto Of Libra
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    Label: Columbia – SW-7032 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1976 VG+/VG+ with some scuffing/wear to cover. Includes liner.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Yasutaka Tsutsui – House
    Yasutaka Tsutsui – House
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    Strange cross between a free-jazz and psych record. Label: Frasco – FS-7007 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1976 VG+/VG, with Scratch/damage on Cover, Mark on Media. Includes [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor – Great Paris Concert “2”
    Cecil Taylor – Great Paris Concert “2”
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    Recorded on 30 November 1966 in in Paris, France. Label: Freedom – PA-9740 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1977 VG+/VG+. Includes liner.  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Richard Beirach With Masahiko Togashi – Kahuna
    Richard Beirach With Masahiko Togashi – Kahuna
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    Explosive LP of piano led free-jazz duo Label: Trio Records – PAX-6005 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1978 VG+/VG+. Includes liner  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Meltable Snaps It – Points Blank
    Meltable Snaps It – Points Blank
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    Free improv/avant-garde music from a superstar group. Label: No Man’s Land – NML 8604 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: Germany Released: 1986 VG+/VG, with a seam split  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Life At The Donaueschingen Music Festival
    Archie Shepp – Life At The Donaueschingen Music Festival
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    “This is an exciting album. The important tenor Archie Shepp and his 1967 group — with both Roswell Rudd and Grachan Moncur on trombones, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Beaver [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman – An Evening With Ornette Coleman «1»
    Ornette Coleman – An Evening With Ornette Coleman «1»
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    “this live concert captures Coleman in a transitional period that found him experimenting with contemporary classical forms as well as making more frequent use of the violin and trumpet. In [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Humair Jeanneau Texier – Humair Jeanneau Texier
    Humair Jeanneau Texier – Humair Jeanneau Texier
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    Mind-blowing combination of free-jazz & fusion. Label: Owl Records – OWL 016 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: France Released: 1979 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Raspberry Bulbs – Nature Tries Again
    Raspberry Bulbs – Nature Tries Again
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    Label: Hospital Productions ‎– HOS-305 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: US Released: Mar 2011 VG+/VG+

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  • Raspberry Bulbs – Finally Burst / Lone Gunman
    Raspberry Bulbs – Finally Burst / Lone Gunman
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    Label: Personnel Records ‎– PER-002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 2012 VG+/VG+

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  • The Dwarves – I Wanna Kill Your Boyfriend
    The Dwarves – I Wanna Kill Your Boyfriend
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    Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry – SFTRI 132 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Pink Marbled Country: US Released: 1992 VG+/VG+

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  • Ornette Coleman Quartet* – The Best Of Ornette Coleman
    Ornette Coleman Quartet* – The Best Of Ornette Coleman
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    Japanese exclusive comp of some key Coleman tracks Label: Atlantic – SMAT 2004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1968 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Cecil Taylor Quartet And The Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory* – At Newport ’57
    The Cecil Taylor Quartet And The Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory* – At Newport ’57
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    Split live album from the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival. Label: Verve Records – MI-1071 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono Country: Japan Released: VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Terumasa Hino – Journey Into My Mind
    Terumasa Hino – Journey Into My Mind
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    Soulful free jazz led by the trumpeter at his peak. Label: CBS/Sony – 23AP 654 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1977 VG+/VG with some staining/discoloration to sleeve [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Rova* – This, This, This, This.
    Rova* – This, This, This, This.
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    Solid album by the more experimental pseudonym of the World Saxophone Quartet. Label: Moers Music– Moers Music 01080 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Cover has [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Circle – Circle-1 Live In German Concert
    Circle – Circle-1 Live In German Concert
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    The first live album from the free-jazz supergroup, featuring an extended take on the standard There Is No Greater Love. Label: CBS/Sony – SOPL 19-XJ Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Togashi-Yamashita Duo – Kizashi (兆)
    Togashi-Yamashita Duo – Kizashi (兆)
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    Piano/percussion free-jazz duo that goes in many interesting directions, never content to settle in one space for too long. Label: Next Wave – 25PJ-1001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty Parts 1-4
    Virgin Prunes – A New Form Of Beauty Parts 1-4
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    Virgin Prunes best work by far, this collection of 4 “mini-suites” crosses genres from post-punk to goth pop, and even dark ambient soundscapes. Label: Italian Records – EX 41L2 [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Autosalvage – S/T
    Autosalvage – S/T
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    Sole record by NYC folk influenced psych band Label: RCA Victor – LSP-3940 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1968 VG+/VG+. Low end VG+/VG+. Record has a couple […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Steven Legget – Bathhouse
    Steven Legget – Bathhouse
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    “It’s safe to say that Steven Legget has been somewhat measured in his approach to releasing music. The Newcastle native was behind the Four Hands moniker, with releases alongside iconic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • And Suddenly It’s Evening
    And Suddenly It’s Evening
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    Varied compilation from mostly Cherry Red artists, featuring artists as diverse as Laibach and Felt. Label: Vap – 35506-15 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1986 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Clear Cut 5
    Clear Cut 5
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    The fifth and final volume in Rough Trade’s Clear Cut series Label: Rough Trade – RTL 35 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1983 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Clear Cut 3 – Summer Place
    Clear Cut 3 – Summer Place
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    The sole reggae compilation from Rough Trade’s Clear Cut series Label: Rough Trade – RTL-24 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Radio Twelve
    Radio Twelve
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    Peak 80’s Rough Trade comp that shows them embrace their new-wave leanings as a label. Label: Rough Trade – 25RTL-3 Format: Vinyl,LP, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1983 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Stomu Yamash’ta – Percussion Recital
    Stomu Yamash’ta – Percussion Recital
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    Prior to his career as a fusion bandleader, Yamash’ta released this showcase for his percussive skills. Label: Columbia – OS-10106-N Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1971 [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Live ‘N’ Rare
    Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Live ‘N’ Rare
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    Selected tracks from various gigs & radio broadcasts over Beefheart’s career. Label: Ozit-Morpheus Records – OZITCD 9003 Format: 2xCD, Compilation Country: UK Released: 2005 VG+/VG+ [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Di Stefano – For the Moment
    John Di Stefano – For the Moment
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    Label: Concentric Circles Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+ Akin to the electronic kraut forefathers Moebius & Roedelius – “For the Moment” [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Frank W. Becker / Michiko Akao – Incantation
    Frank W. Becker / Michiko Akao – Incantation
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    Haunting soundscapes from the synthesizer pioneer and flutist duo. Label: Toshiba Records – TP-72321 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1979 VG+/VG  

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Wim Mertens Performed By Soft Verdict – Maximizing The Audience
    Wim Mertens Performed By Soft Verdict – Maximizing The Audience
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    “Wim Mertens’ first album after dropping the group name Soft Verdict, the double-disc Maximizing the Audience consists of the music for Jan Fabre’s play The Power of Theatrical [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Cecil Taylor – Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1
    Cecil Taylor – Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1
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    An intense live set from Taylor backed by an all-star lineup including Jimmy Lyons & Sam Rivers. Label: RCA – RCA-6085 M Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: Japan Released: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Cecil Taylor Quartet – Looking Ahead!
    The Cecil Taylor Quartet – Looking Ahead!
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    “Looking Ahead! does just that while still keeping several toes in the tradition. It’s an amazing document of a talent fairly straining at the reins, a meteor about to burst […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Attica Blues
    Archie Shepp – Attica Blues
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    “Attica Blues is one of Shepp’s most successful large-group projects, because his skillful handling of so many different styles of black music produces such tremendously groovy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Miles Davis Quintet* – Live In Rome & Copenhagen 1969
    Miles Davis Quintet* – Live In Rome & Copenhagen 1969
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    Screamin’ selection of electric Miles gigs. Label: Gambit Records – 69330 Format: 2xCD, Unofficial Release Country: Europe Released: 2010 VG+/VG+ Image may not be of actual item.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Crass / Poison Girls – Bloody Revolutions / Persons Unknown
    Crass / Poison Girls – Bloody Revolutions / Persons Unknown
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    Label: Crass Records – 421984/1 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Cecil Taylor – Solo
    Cecil Taylor – Solo
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    Live solo piano from Taylor, recorded in 1973 Label: Trio Records – PAP-9256 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Hawkwind – Live Seventy Nine
    Hawkwind – Live Seventy Nine
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    First live album from the third era of Hawkwind, featuring a more aggressive & metal influenced sound than eras prior. Label: Bronze – VIP-6745 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Creation – The Super Best
    Creation – The Super Best
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    Compilation from the Japanese psych pioneers. Label: Express – ETP-80011 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1978 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • David Toop/Max Eastley – New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments
    David Toop/Max Eastley – New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments
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    “This might be as close as some music listeners ever get to Brian Eno, who both produces and gets involved in the actual music-making. Max Eastley and David Toop have […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Yosuke Yamashita Trio – Concert In New Jazz
    Yosuke Yamashita Trio – Concert In New Jazz
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    Recorded live at Sankei Hall on September 21, 1969. Label: Union Records – KUL-5004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Japan Released: 1969 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bobby Womack – Fly Me To The Moon
    Bobby Womack – Fly Me To The Moon
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    “Debut album from the self-proclaimed “Last Soul Man,” who earned his credentials as writer and composer of the Rolling Stones’ first U.K. number one. He was also one of [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Gregory Isaacs – Cool Ruler
    Gregory Isaacs – Cool Ruler
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    Gregory Isaacs’s 1978 album, that was originally intended to be his breakthrough record had little chart success but has aged very well and is now considered to be one of […]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Thin Lizzy – Thin Lizzy (1971 Pressing)
    Thin Lizzy – Thin Lizzy (1971 Pressing)
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    Thin Lizzy’s debut studio album is known for being significantly mellower than the rest of their hard rock career, showcasing their folk influences & harmonies. Label: London Records – [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • V/A – Gittin’ To Know Y’All
    V/A – Gittin’ To Know Y’All
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    “Gittin’ to Know Y’All is a various artists album recorded during the annual Baden-Baden Free Jazz Meeting in 1969 and released on the MPS label in 1970. It features one […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Terry Allen – Lubbock (On Everything)
    Terry Allen – Lubbock (On Everything)
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    “Arguably Allen’s most widely beloved and most easily approachable album—it contains his two best-known and most oft-covered songs, “Amarillo Highway (for Dave Hickey)” and “New Delhi [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Neutral – Neutral
    Neutral – Neutral
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    “Neutral’s 2014 1st LP, Grå Våg Gamlestaden, is widely considered ground zero for the explosion of creativity that has transpired in the Swedish Underground ever since. It is the noisy […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • V/A – …And Shiva Came For Charlie
    V/A – …And Shiva Came For Charlie
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    Memorial compilation for Charlie Gocher featuring many Sun City Girls associates. Includes 20pg zine with info/photos Label: Ri Be Xibalba – OQ’EBAL 002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Henry Cow ‎– Concerts
    Henry Cow ‎– Concerts
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    Henry Cow’s live LP Concerts demonstrates them at their avant-garde improv best. Oslo in particular absolutely smokes sounding like a tighter & somehow more fried out Chrome Label: [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pearls Before Swine – One Nation Underground
    Pearls Before Swine – One Nation Underground
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    “Psychedelic-folk debut from one of the most erudite, literate minds in rock, Thomas D. Rapp (and the first of his ever-changing Swine). Although the songs here lack some cohesion, this [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Electric Prunes – Underground
    The Electric Prunes – Underground
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    “According to Electric Prunes members Jim Lowe and Mark Tulin, producer Dave Hassinger enjoyed enough success as a result of the group’s early hit singles and their subsequent debut [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Archie Shepp – For Losers
    Archie Shepp – For Losers
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    “At the time this record was recorded, Shepp was bouncing back and forth between Paris and New York. He also bounced between the Impulse! and BYG labels. He also bounced […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Byard Lancaster – It’s Not Up To Us
    Byard Lancaster – It’s Not Up To Us
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    A spiritual/free jazz all-timer at the store. A truly breathtaking record. Label: Vortex Records – SD 2003 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1968 VG+/VG. with sleeve on lower […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • MC5 – Back In The USA
    MC5 – Back In The USA
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    The second MC5 record, cementing their status as proto-punk stalwarts Label: Atlantic – SD 8247 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1970 VG+/VG. Drillhole, some moisture damage and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Nico – The Marble Index
    Nico – The Marble Index
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    Nico’s second album is the first in which she plays harmonium and is much darker & more sombre than Chelsea Girl. Heavy and brooding winter music. Label: Elektra – EKS-74029 […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind ‎– Hawkwind
    Hawkwind ‎– Hawkwind
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    The debut Hawkwind album still sounds pioneering and new years later. Label: United Artists Records – UAS 5519 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1971 VG+/VG, with some tearing […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Whole Earth Catalog: Spring 1969
    Whole Earth Catalog: Spring 1969
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    “The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC) was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published by Stewart Brand several times a year between 1968 and 1972. The magazine featured [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
    The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
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    Probably the single greatest work of conspiracy literature. Needs to be read to be believed. Feral House, 2004 paperback edition. Some light corner & edgewear to the wraps. Writing on […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Angela Carter – The Sadeian Woman
    Angela Carter – The Sadeian Woman
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    “Sexuality is power,” wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine’s triumphantly [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rene Crevel – Putting My Foot In It
    Rene Crevel – Putting My Foot In It
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    “Imagine, if you can, Freud and Proust sitting down for a chat with Zippy the Pinhead and the marquis de Sade. Then, just when things are starting to get a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William S Burroughs Jr – Kentucky Ham
    William S Burroughs Jr – Kentucky Ham
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    William S Burroughs Jr’s second autobiographical novel detailing his troubled upbringing by Burroughs Sr and struggles with addiction. Overlook Press, 1984 hardcover edition. Writing and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive