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  • Lexus / Rhybadi Split EP CDr
    Lexus / Rhybadi Split EP CDr
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    Windburned tracks from Chicago with tangled Tennessee roots. Lexus brings a dank and inverted-ennui that shatters the 4th wall only to reconstruct it. Rhybadi lowers your blood pressure to [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Eraserhead – Film Audio
    Eraserhead – Film Audio
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    Complete audio rip from VHS to cassette.

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Gyorgy Galantai – Space & Time (Hungarian Mail Art / Fluxus Artist)
    Gyorgy Galantai – Space & Time (Hungarian Mail Art / Fluxus Artist)
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    Here’s another one with the Fluxus vibes. Sounds like a dude scraping a piece of metal in a circular motion sometimes softly, sometimes more aggressively. György Galántai (born June 17, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Master/Slave Relationship – Soundtrack To Black Leather Bondage
    Master/Slave Relationship – Soundtrack To Black Leather Bondage
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    Label: Cause And Effect Format: Cassette, Album, C60 Country: US Released: 1987 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial Does not include re-sealable pouch with a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ booklet.  

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature
    Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature
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    “In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Intersystems – S/T
    Intersystems – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Fantastic boxset that collects all 3 LP’s from Canada’s Intersystems, includes a lovely 132-page book.  For anyone interested in Canada’s [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Personal Best 10
    Personal Best 10
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    Interviews with: Alexander Rishaug Carlos Giffoni Hilary Woods Harald Fetveit Evicshen Rhodri Davies Deathprod 100 pages. Offset CMYK print. Perfect bound.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Personal Best 9
    Personal Best 9
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    Lasse Marghaug’s magazine Personal Best is back! Issue number 9 will be in hand and shipping mid to late June. Still my favorite magazine around. Issue 9 features interviews with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jay Stevens – Storming Heaven: LSD And The American Dream
    Jay Stevens – Storming Heaven: LSD And The American Dream
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    “For Aldous Huxley it was the next step in human evolution; for the CIA it was a potential tool for mind control; for Timothy Leary it was the liberator of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pierre Mabille – Mirror Of The Marvelous: The Surrealist Reimagining Of Myth
    Pierre Mabille – Mirror Of The Marvelous: The Surrealist Reimagining Of Myth
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    “A surrealist exploration of the marvelous in ancient, classic, and modern works from around the world • Long considered one of the most significant and original books to have come […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alan Lomax – The Land Where The Blues Began
    Alan Lomax – The Land Where The Blues Began
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    “A self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930’s and ‘40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta’s [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Dane Rudhyar – The Rebirth Of Hindu Music
    Dane Rudhyar – The Rebirth Of Hindu Music
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    “The Rebirth of Hindu Music is a book written by the renowned philosopher and musician, Dane Rudhyar. In this book, Rudhyar explores the rich history and cultural significance of Hindu […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Andy Warhol: The Factory Years
    Andy Warhol: The Factory Years
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    “New York City, the 1960s: Inside a ramshackle studio known as The Factory, the post-war art world encountered the industrial revolution. For more than two years, Nat Finkelstein was on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Earthcare: An Anthology In Environmental Ethics
    Earthcare: An Anthology In Environmental Ethics
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    “This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Body – I Shall Die Here
    The Body – I Shall Die Here
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    “Sharing their heathen vision with The Haxan Cloak, The Body’s tried and true sound is cut to pieces, mutilated by process and re-animated in a spectral state for their fourth […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Pablo Escobar And Colombian Narcoculture
    Pablo Escobar And Colombian Narcoculture
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    “In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Bernhard – Correction
    Thomas Bernhard – Correction
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    “The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • River Of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge And The Technological Wild West
    River Of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge And The Technological Wild West
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    “Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Orwell’s Roses explores what it was about California in the late 19th-century that enabled it to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Eros: An Erotic Journey Through The Senses
    Eros: An Erotic Journey Through The Senses
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    An approachable study on eroticism in art. Crescent Books, 1988 Hardcover edition. Light scuffing to dustjacket and discoloration to ends of pages.

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Time Bomb: A Nuclear Reader From The Progressive
    Time Bomb: A Nuclear Reader From The Progressive
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    An awareness and preparedness guide from the anti-nuclear Progressive Foundation. Progressive Foundation, 1980. Some rubbing & cornerwear to wraps, along with some foxing to pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Terror Attacks: The Violent Expression Of Desperation
    Terror Attacks: The Violent Expression Of Desperation
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    “Traces the roots of terrorism’s violent acts and describes how terrorists use violence in an effort to bring about change. Includes table of contents and appendix of terrorist [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Missing Brazilians* – Warzone
    The Missing Brazilians* – Warzone
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    “Another Science Fiction Dancehall Classic! Originally released in 1984, this is one of the most envelope-pushing records on the On-U Sound label: a rhythmic collision of noise, dub and [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Dragontime: Magic And The Mystery of Menstruation
    Dragontime: Magic And The Mystery of Menstruation
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    A history of menstruation rituals and lore. Ash Tree, 1991 Softcover edition. Some noticeable staining and foxing to both pages and wraps. Some light writing and underlining as well.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Norman Spinrad – Bug Jack Barron
    Norman Spinrad – Bug Jack Barron
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    “With over a hundred million viewers, Jack Barron is a media star of the highest celebrity―think Jerry Springer crossed with Ted Koppel―and his call-in talk show is the perfect platform [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joanna Russ – The Female Man
    Joanna Russ – The Female Man
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    “Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • V/A – Schau Hör Main Herz Ist Rhein
    V/A – Schau Hör Main Herz Ist Rhein
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    Obscure German industrial comp from the label that eventually became Selektion Label: Wahrnehmungen – WNP 001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Germany Released: 1981 VG+/VG, with some [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Cathy O’Brien – Access Denied
    Cathy O’Brien – Access Denied
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    “Access Denied for Reasons of National Security details how Mark and Cathy survived to globally release pertinent facts on mind control and healing from it. This testament to the strength [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Comandos: The CIA And Nicaragua’s Contra Rebels
    Comandos: The CIA And Nicaragua’s Contra Rebels
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    “Recounts how the American government financed and orchestrated the ten-year civil war between the Sandinistas and the Contras” Owl Books, 1992 Softcover edition. Light wear to edges [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • DDAA – Ronsard
    DDAA – Ronsard
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    French experimental/art-music that crosses into industrial at certain points. Label: Electrip – ELECTRIP 01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:Belgium Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
    Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
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    Reissue of a limited edition CDr from 2003 Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records – mt056b Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
    Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
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    “This 1978 recording finds the estimable British guitarist in the musical company of several members of the cutting edge of the Japanese jazz avant-garde of the time. These musicians, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Motörhead ‎– Orgasmatron
    Motörhead ‎– Orgasmatron
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    “I admire metal’s integrity, brutality, and obsessiveness, but I can’t stand its delusions of grandeur–the way it apes and misapprehends reactionary notions of nobility. [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Kathy Acker – Literal Madness
    Kathy Acker – Literal Madness
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    “Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na’veté that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink Plus Albert Mangelsdorff – The End (Late 70’s Pressing)
    Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink Plus Albert Mangelsdorff – The End (Late 70’s Pressing)
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    “The great thing about this trilogy/set is how naturally everything flows. . . . each subdividing of the group, each solo excursion, feels smooth and logical, as though the player(s) […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Revolutionary Ensemble – Vietnam (Japanese Pressing)
    Revolutionary Ensemble – Vietnam (Japanese Pressing)
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    “For the first time, this album is released as the unbroken improvisation it was when performed “live,” instead of being broken into two parts as it was when released on […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
    Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
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    Ethnographic field recordings of Balinese cultural ceremonial music. Label: Lokananta Records – BRD-020 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Indonesia Released: 1969 VG+/VG with Old store sticker. Some [...]

    GENRE: International
  • The Damned – The Black Album
    The Damned – The Black Album
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    The Damned embrace goth & art-rock leanings on their fourth album Label: Chiswick Records – CWK 3015 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+ with light marks & […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Golden Dawn  – Power Plant
    The Golden Dawn – Power Plant
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    The sole album by the “Other Great Texas Psych Band”, The Golden Dawn. Label: International Artists – IA-LP #4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – Inspiration & Power 14 Free Jazz Festival 1 (Legendary Japanese Free Jazz Gig)
    V/A – Inspiration & Power 14 Free Jazz Festival 1 (Legendary Japanese Free Jazz Gig)
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    One of the best examples of Japanese Free Music ever recorded. Label: Trio Records – PA-3006~7 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1973 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bad Brains – Rock For Light
    Bad Brains – Rock For Light
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    “This band was a weird bundle of contradictions from day one: black Rastafarian instrumental virtuosos playing hardcore punk, formerly the exclusive domain of white, aggressively atheist [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Charged G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats (UK Pressing 1982)
    Charged G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats (UK Pressing 1982)
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    “Street punk pioneers Charged G.B.H. formed in Birmingham in l978, the name referencing original bassist Sean McCarthy’s trial for grievous bodily harm. The in-your-face hardcore of [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
    The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
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    “In the wake of the star-filled A Minute To Pray A Second To Die, The Flesh Eaters’ frontman Chris D. assembled a leaner, meaner band to deliver his next unbound […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
    Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
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    “By the time they started touring to preview and then support the revamped version of ‘Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac,’ the Buttholes’ live show was a berserk, evolving [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds Of
    The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds Of
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    “Did the 13th Floor Elevators invent psychedelic rock? Aficionados will be debating that point for decades, but if Roky Erickson and his fellow travelers into inner space weren’t [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
    Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
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    It’s all about Sister Ray. Label: Verve Records – 23MM 0190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Epicycle – Special First Edition
    Epicycle – Special First Edition
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    Psych tinged power-pop from Chicago. Label:Cirkle Records – CST 1111 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG with some noticeable sleevewear & staining. Start of split at upper [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • PiL – Metal Box (All Inserts Included)
    PiL – Metal Box (All Inserts Included)
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    “The key word, though, is reinvention. Lydon talked grandly of abandoning rock altogether,  arguing that killing off the genre had been the true point of punk. But unlike the absolutely [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Nick Drake – Demo Collection Volume Two
    Nick Drake – Demo Collection Volume Two
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    Fan club collection of early takes & demos from Drake’s haunted career. Label: no label Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Unofficial Release Country: US Released: undated VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • My Bloody Valentine ‎– m b v
    My Bloody Valentine ‎– m b v
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    My Bloody Valentine’s 3rd album, covering the ground they’d previously established and embracing an oceanic current. Label: MBV Records – mbv lp 01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pop Group – Y (OG Japanese Pressing)
    Pop Group – Y (OG Japanese Pressing)
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    “The repackaged LP starts with the legendary single ‘She is Beyond Good and Evil’. Lacerated with slashes of James Brown-like guitar, the track re-imagines the love song as a Dionysiac […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
    Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
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    “Tones for Joan’s Bones, Chick Corea’s first session as a leader, is a blazing, advanced hard bop set from late 1966, with writing that reveals an affinity with McCoy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Steve Marcus, Miroslav Vitous, Sonny Sharrock, Daniel Humair – Green Line (OG Japanese Pressing)
    Steve Marcus, Miroslav Vitous, Sonny Sharrock, Daniel Humair – Green Line (OG Japanese Pressing)
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    “Terrific session originally licensed on Japanese indie label Nivico in 1970. Recorded at Victor Studio, Aoyama, Tokyo on September 11, the album is the essential work of four wicked minds. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
    Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
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    “The most significant dividing line in Ornette’s chronology might be Charlie Haden’s leaving the group in the mid-’70s. This set of duos from a few years later highlights the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
    Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
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    Documentation of The Stooges final live performance. Heavy & hostile. Label: Import Records – IMP 1015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released: 1977 VG+/VG+ with light marks & some [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
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    “Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey’s generous latest offering is a tape-mangled, xenharmonic trip into the dissociated outerzone. Properly next level spirit-calling drone musick that [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    North Carolina based singer/songwriter Rosali Middleman has spent the last decade using her voice and guitar to construct tunes built upon the spectrum between joy and pain – deeply [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
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    “Friends, they are my ticket out of this place I am in… feels like nothing more than a dirt bike vacation stop between Phoenix and San Diego.” Dirt Bike Vacation—for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
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    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Prairiewolf – Deep Time
    Prairiewolf – Deep Time
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    Prairiewolf make easy listening music for an age of fracture. They almost do it in spite of themselves. No one can seriously question the head music bona fides of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
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    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country