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  • Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
    Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
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    Dirty Three Ahoy! Appropriately disheveled, the Three emerge from the unending waves of time to pick up their guitar drum and viola/violin/piano/synthesizer/loops/percussion for their first album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
    Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Sticking us with something that won’t go away, the Dirty Three are back. It’s been awhile, but that just means that the music here is heavy with seven years in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
    Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    It’s 2012 — do you know where your government is tonight? Occupy yourselves — and let’s get busy with the music in our minds.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Six Organs Of Admittance _? Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
    Six Organs Of Admittance _? Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    6OOA’s 2020 opus is reunmanaged by sound composer Twig Harper, whose REMIX goes places no other remix record could dare under his unlimited brief. In the process, it affords the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
    L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    The Earth, the sky and the earth again — plus another trip through “La Soci é t é du Spectacle.” Something between a riveting caress and an invigorating shake. Elevated […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gastr Del Sol _? We Have Dozens Of Titles 3LP boxset
    Gastr Del Sol _? We Have Dozens Of Titles 3LP boxset
    $66.00 | , Add to cart

    Nearly twenty-five years after disbanding, Gastr del Sol have unpacked their archive, stringing together an alternative view to their genre-melting 1993-1998 run. This assembly of previously [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy ? Sings Greatest Palace Music
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy ? Sings Greatest Palace Music
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    The master Bonnie comes to terms with his past and takes it to Nashville for some serious revamping. The greatest release from the greatest Prince in the greatest Palace- historically […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • High Rise ? Speed Free Sonic
    High Rise ? Speed Free Sonic
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    High flying and hard hitting noisy psych rock from Japan. Blue Cheer x100. Label: Paratactile – PLE 1104-2 Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1999 VG+/VG+ with light marks & […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
    Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
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    An excursion in electronic sound instrumentally unpacking Dean Spunt’s fascination with language – in this instance, the syntax of the systems and processes of various 64-voice E-mu modules [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Streets (Select Highlights From Independent British Labels)
    Streets (Select Highlights From Independent British Labels)
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    Killer compilation documenting the British punk scene of 1977, featuring tracks from John Cooper Clarke, The Lurkers & more. Label: Beggars Banquet – BEGA 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Richard Ramirez _? Amplified Tactics 2LP (Jacket water damaged – records are fine)
    Richard Ramirez _? Amplified Tactics 2LP (Jacket water damaged – records are fine)
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    “‘amplified tactics’ collects 4 segments of live performances from texas and mexico in 1999, rolling back to an era when live noise shows were isolated mysterious affairs or [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Germano Celant – Witkin
    Germano Celant – Witkin
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    An overview of the work of American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin’s surreal collage photos. Not for the faint of heart. Scalo, 1995 Hardcover edition. Some tearing to dustjacket edges [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
    Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
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    “Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. But, above all, as this book [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Bo Huston – Horse And Other Stories
    Bo Huston – Horse And Other Stories
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    “Bo Huston’s sensitive, stately prose translates gay underclass experience with such authenticity yet acumen that it seems the work of a first rate double agent. Horse brings to the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
    Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
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    “A Picture novel study of the human spirit in the fantastic / magical and the human soul in the metaphorical and physical in Five Chapters – being Oppression, Rainbows, Mythology, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gilbert & George
    Gilbert & George
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    Exhibition catalogue from The Baltimore Museum of Art’s 1984 exhibition, Gilbert & George. Baltimore Museum Of Art, 1984 Softcover edition. Discoloration & wear to front/back wraps. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Breakthrough Fictioneers
    Breakthrough Fictioneers
    $36.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This massive anthology of works compiled by Kostelanetz, features artists from a range of disciplines who use both text and images to experiment with the formal and conceptual qualities of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Gun Club ? Mother Juno (1987 UK)
    The Gun Club ? Mother Juno (1987 UK)
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    “The Gun Club collapsed within a year of the release of 1984’s The Las Vegas Story, so more than a few fans were surprised in 1987 when Jeffrey Lee Pierce […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Y_@_G@ – Green Village EP CDr
    Y_@_G@ – Green Village EP CDr
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Suriname/Chicago-based deconstructionist duo Y@G@ team up 20 years too late. “Green Village” pairs rolling production and songcraft from Andrew Apollos with granular defragmentation [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Rhybadi – Twine EP CDr
    Rhybadi – Twine EP CDr
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    Rhybadi’s “Twine” unravels across four disparate tracks. The original, a hazy reflection on childhood, kinship, and distrust, plays out like a perpetually developing photograph. [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Michael Bingaman – Thought Reducer CDr
    Michael Bingaman – Thought Reducer CDr
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    Michael Bingaman melts hardware into soft serve piercing ubiquity with exploratory wayfinding and a reverence for groove. This collection of tracks was selected for maximum viscosity. They keep [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Kenneth Patchen – But Even So
    Kenneth Patchen – But Even So
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    A collection of Patchen’s “picture-poems”, which combine surreal childlike doodles and concrete poetry into a synthesized art form. New Directions Publishing, 1968 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Black Mountain College: Experiment In Art
    Black Mountain College: Experiment In Art
    $100.00 | , Add to cart

    “Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933–1956) and enrolled fewer than 1,200 students, Black Mountain College was one of the most fabled experimental institutions in art education [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Marcel Duchamp
    Marcel Duchamp
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This remarkable book with its more than 1,300 illustrations covers 70 years of Duchamp’s artistic production and traces his elusive personae across that same span. texts by Jennifer [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Neil Quigley –  Stretchings 1 CDr
    Neil Quigley – Stretchings 1 CDr
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    A stately blend of timecode and incoherence. Neil Quigley ages gracefully in the wheelhouse, but it’s rolling directly at you. Supple and anxious maneuvers.

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Special Ed – I Got It Made (promo)
    Special Ed – I Got It Made (promo)
    $125.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Profile Records – PRO-5245 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1989 Genre: Hip Hop VG+ / Gen WOL

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • Next World Sound Vol. 3
    Next World Sound Vol. 3
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    *Continuing the Hyperspace instrumental ambient series are two sides of delicious futuristic ambiance from three artists, renowned for studio work on both coasts. Frank Eaton and Kevin Fullen [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jackie Mclean – Let Freedom Ring LP Tone Poets Series
    Jackie Mclean – Let Freedom Ring LP Tone Poets Series
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Jackie McLean’s Let Freedom Ring: Blue Note Tone Poet Reissue Mastered From the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray and Pressed at RTI Jackie McLean’s 1962 [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • PRE-ORDER
    Modest Jazz Trio – Good Friday Blues LP
    Modest Jazz Trio – Good Friday Blues LP
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of The Modest Jazz Trio’s Good Friday Blues: Blue Note Tone Poet Reissue Mastered From the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray and Pressed at RTI. Featuring Jim [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • PRE-ORDER
    Prince Lasha Quintet – The Cry LP
    Prince Lasha Quintet – The Cry LP
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    Contemporary Records Series 180g Vinyl LP Reissue of Prince Lasha Quintet’s The Cry!. All-Analog Mastered from the Original Tapes by Bernie Grundman and Pressed at QRP. Released in 1963 on [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Max Richter – In A Landscape 2LP
    Max Richter – In A Landscape 2LP
    $40.00 | Add to cart

    Max Richter’s ninth solo album – the first to be written and recorded at his serene new studio in rural Oxfordshire – is a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in […]

    GENRE: Classical
  • Stan Getz – Sweet Rain LP
    Stan Getz – Sweet Rain LP
    $39.00 | Ships on/around Aug 30, 2024 Add to cart

    Stan Getz Sweet Rain on 180g LP. Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the Original Analog Tapes, Pressed at QRP and Packaged in a Stoughton Printing Gatefold Old-Style Tip-On Jacket. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series Reissue of Patrice Rushen’s 1974 Debut Album Prelusion on 180g LP. Available on Vinyl for the First Time Since Its Original Release 50 Years Ago. Mastered [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
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    Miles Davis Quintet – The New Miles Davis Quintet LP
    Miles Davis Quintet – The New Miles Davis Quintet LP
    $39.00 | Add to cart

    Original Jazz Classic Series Reissue of The Miles Davis Quintet’s 1956 Album Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet on 180g Vinyl LP. Cut from the Original Master Tapes (AAA) by Kevin Gray at [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band – Egypt Strut
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    In 1968, while he was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis, Salah Ragab formed the first jazz big band in Egypt, The Cairo Jazz Band. Some […]

    GENRE: International, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
    Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Live in New York 1973
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    Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, July 6th 1973 as part of the Newport Jazz Festival, broadcast on WBGO-FM

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    George Russell – Four Classic Albums
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from George Russell, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details ‘Jazz In The [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra – The Solar-myth Approach
    Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra – The Solar-myth Approach
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    MONUMENTAL SESSIONS FROM THE SATURN LEGEND A double CD edition that showcases the unparalleled creative verve of Sun Ra, the man who created his own genre. Upgrading his celebrated band […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
    Grant Green – Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s
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    SLICK! – Live at Oil Can Harry’s is a never-before-released recording from jazz guitar great Grant Green captured live on September 5, 1975 at a popular club in Vancouver, BC […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Harold Land – Choma (Burn)
    Harold Land – Choma (Burn)
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Digitally remastered edition. This was made by a fine small Jazz group operating in the early ’60s, co-led by saxophonist Harold Land and vibes player Bobby Hutcherson. They released [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sam Rivers – The Quest
    Sam Rivers – The Quest
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    «Improvising is sort of a real democracy kind of situation where everyone is performing in their own particular style or idiom of performing», stated Sam Rivers in December 1997 during […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
    Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
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    Contains Jazz Advance, Looking Ahead & The World Of Cecil Taylor

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
    Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
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    ICONIC MUSICIAN AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST MAKES A TYPICALLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING STATEMENT ON HISTORIC 1969 RECORDING Of all the African-American jazz musicians who arrived in Paris at the end of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
    Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    HISTORIC 1969 PARIS SESSION BY THE AMERICAN SAXOPHONIST-VOCALIST-INTELLECTUAL WHO CONVEYS HIS DEEP ANGUISH AT THE LOSS OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ICON. In a long and distinguished career Archie Shepp has [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Art Ensemble of Chicago – A Jackson in Your House
    The Art Ensemble of Chicago – A Jackson in Your House
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    ‘A Jackson in Your House’ is the first of the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s renowned trio of albums for BYG’s Actuel series. This album is The Art Ensemble’s most celebrated […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
    Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Livin’ In Elizabethan Times is a 2017 mini-album by Alien Stadium – a collaboration between Steve Mason and Primal Scream’s Martin Duffy.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Second Sun – El?ndes El?nde
    Second Sun – El?ndes El?nde
    $13.00 | Add to cart

    ‘Eländes Elände’ is the second album from Second Sun. The Swedish band fronted by Jakob Ljungberg (ex Tribulation) combines influences of space rock, progressive rock and hard rock [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Live 74
    Hawkwind – Live 74
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Stellar live show from the seminal space-rock band.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Captain Beefheart – Broadcasts 1968-1980
    Captain Beefheart – Broadcasts 1968-1980
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    When Captain Beefheart filtered the blues through his own avant-garde vision, he not only discovered a new language for music-making, but he also created a singular body of work that […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kevin Ayers – Kevin Ayers
    Kevin Ayers – Kevin Ayers
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    2014 Original Albums Series release. Includes the albums: Joy of a Toy, Shooting at the Moon, Whatevershebringswesing, Bananamour & the Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories. Warner.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Syd Barrett – Barrett
    Syd Barrett – Barrett
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    Second and final studio album of new material released by former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett. The album was produced by Pink Floyd’s guitarist David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Captain Beefheart – Strictly Personal
    Captain Beefheart – Strictly Personal
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    Beefheart’s second album, and an interesting precursor to his fried out 70’s work.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
    Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    “The band’s best studio album, coming off of the success of Space Ritual. The group’s rock roots are juxtaposed effectively with the swelling synthesizer flourishes and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
    Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    “Doremi may not be Hawkwind’s most renowned album, but it carries the same type of prog rock spaciness as their first two releases. Even though the keyboard playing is trimmed […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
    The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Five CD box set containing a quintet of albums from the Psychedelic rockers all housed in mini LP sleeves and packaged in a slipcase. Includes the albums I Had Too […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fraternity – Livestock
    Fraternity – Livestock
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    CD reissue of ultra-rare Australian prog/psych album featuring contributions from Bon Scott, pre-AC/DC.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
    The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Early & rare psych gem.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
    The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    2023 collection from the psych rock icons. Each original source has been referenced to the earliest vinyl pressing and meticulously transferred at 96khz 24-bit resolution. Multitrack tapes of the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gong – Magick Brother
    Gong – Magick Brother
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    GONG’S MESMERIZING 1969 DEBUT ALBUM TRIPPY & SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK OF THE HIGHEST ORDER Having been part of the fabled ‘Canterbury scene’ along with luminaries such as Robert [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
    Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    “Having left Pink Floyd in 1968 after a daily LSD habit had taken its toll, Syd Barrett’s first solo album finally appeared two years later with ex-Floyd sidekicks David Gilmour […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych