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What Lies Beneath #5 Zine + CD-R
$11.00 | Print, Zine Add to cartInterviews with/writings on Troth, Warm Currency, Ritual Heaps & Minimum Table Stacks. What Lies Beneath, 2024
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Julia Kristeva – Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive [...]
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Hermann Burger – Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the tunnel-village of Göschenen, a man named Hermann Burger has vanished without a trace from his hotel room, suspected of suicide. What is found in his room is not […]
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Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartExquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob “All over the world,” wrote [...]
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Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived The British-born artist and writer […]
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Lucy Sante – Maybe the People Would Be the Times
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn her second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Lucy Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape […]
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Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey [...]
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Remedios Varo – On Homo Rodans and Other Writings
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith the 2018 publication of Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings, Wakefield Press introduced the writings of Surrealist painter Remedios Varo into English for the first time. These texts, never [...]
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Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe rare and collectible Process Church magazines are back in print. Do you dare find out who rules you? The Process Church of the Final Judgement inspired fear and devotion […]
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Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTo Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]
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Jamie Stewart – Anything That Moves
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom being caught having their first orgasm by their mom’s best friend to being stalked and propositioned by a fundamentalist pastor; from soliciting spanking dates over the Internet to scoring [...]
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Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for […]
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Wojciech Tochman – Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEquipped with the sensitivity known from his earlier reportages, in Roosters Crow, Dogs Whine, Wojciech Tochman addresses people with mental illnesses in Cambodia who are imprisoned in kennels, [...]
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Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood’s influential Expanded Cinema was [...]
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Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are little known. In this volume, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of […]
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Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of […]
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Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAndy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono ― Jonas Mekas was well acquainted with a great many New York artists. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via […]
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Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReferences to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by [...]
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Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly […]
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Daniel Oberhaus – Extraterrestrial Languages
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIf we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand? The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been […]
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Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJohn Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 […]
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Fernando Pessoa – Philosophical Essays
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by “thousands of philosophies,” all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-language Philosophical Essays. The resulting [...]
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England’s Hidden Reverse, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound. This newly expanded edition of [...]
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Mot – Remains
$10.00 | Cassette Add to cartRecorded during the Autumn of 2023 amidst fluctuating extreme states of tension and tranquility, Canadian artist Paul van Trigt delivers 30 minutes of thoughtfully spliced cassette and reel [...]
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Arv & Miljö – Jorden Först
$24.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartAn emotionally charged and bizarrely evocative look at radical environmental advocacy groups, mainly Earth First! and Earth Liberation Front, channeled through the memories of the Swedish [...]
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Thistle Group, P Wits – Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
$15.00 | 7", Vinyl Add to cartMatch made in heaven collaborative hit single from New Zealand-based artists Claire Mahoney (Thistle Group) and Benedict Quilter (P Wits). Recorded and mixed by Stefan Neville, mastered for vinyl [...]
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Alex York – Electro Paralysis
$7.00 | Cassette Add to cartFrequent patrons of the Prime Ruin catalog should already recognize Alex York as a household name but for those that don’t, here is a brief introduction: Hailing from the Cincinnati, […]
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Franciska – Afvikling
$7.00 | Cassette Add to cartThe latest in the prolific output of Copenhagen’s talented Jonas Torstensen, better known as Franciska. Those already familiar with Franciska’s output from the past couple years on [...]
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Stinkmeat – Stinkmeat
$7.00 | Cassette Add to cart“Who is he?!” While the subgenre of gorenoise may be a hair outside of this label’s wheelhouse, Gracious Host is no less proud to present the debut of Ithaca’s STINKMEAT. [...]
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Tongue Depressor + Austin Larkin – Landau Bar
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartTongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and [...]
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Sonic Youth – Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
$22.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartUnfettered by studio time limitations with their own home base of Echo Canyon, SYR 2 shows Sonic Youth chasing the shadows of predecessor SYR 1 and the series’ distinct aesthetic: […]
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Coil – Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)
$57.00 | Box Set, Vinyl Ships on/around Mar 15, 2024 Add to cartRelease Date: 3/15/24. Will shipped on or around release date. First compiled as a double CD in 2002, Moon’s Milk (in Four Phases) is a suite of four EPs that […]
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Personal Best 9
$16.00 | Magazine Add to cartLasse 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 […]
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Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
$10.00 | CD Add to cartVoid Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]
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Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
$40.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartVoid Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]
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Keränen – Tammisalo Tapes – The Final Early Recordings
$15.00 | CD Add to cartFive early tracks of thundering noise from the finnish noise king. While perhaps best known as being one half of Testicle Hazard, his solo CD albums Bats In The Attic […]
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Lettera 22 – Salvado
$15.00 | CD Add to cartRecorded during two days in the spring of 2022, Salvado sees Lettera 22 go all in musique concrete. One single long tape loop worming its way around a room through […]
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Merzbow / Sissy Spacek – Coronado
$15.00 | CD Add to cartIn their first collaborative album, pioneering Japanese sound artist Merzbow and prolific outsider outfit Sissy Spacek unite to unleash an unstoppable firebomb of frenzied electronics and raging [...]
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Sissy Spacek – Cosm
$10.00 | CD Add to cartA new Sissy Spacek album in the realm of free-improv, but a great expansion of the perimeter. This power trio features Charlie Mumma on drums, Masahiko Ohno (Solmania) on guitar, […]
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C.C.C.C. – Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh
$10.00 | CD Add to cartA searing document of C.C.C.C.’s indelible live performance at Wilkins School Community Center on October 11, 1992, Community Center Cyber Crash/Live In Pittsburgh voyages into an abyss of [...]
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The Haters – Tractor 2023
$10.00 | CD Add to cartThe Haters classic remixed, remastered and reenvisioned! A full volume grinding cacophony of entropic sound and amplified destruction across three reworked live actions—8/15/87 San Francisco [...]
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Phew – New Decade (Clear Vinyl)
$16.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartconic Japanese experimentalist Phew returns to Mute for first time in 30 years with a haunted and strung out set of barely-there vox and submerged synths “Rising to […]
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Simon Fisher Turner, Edmund de Waal – A Quiet Corner In Time
$15.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartA Quiet Corner In Time began life as a sound work created by the composer Fisher Turner for renowned ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal’s architectural installation, – one way […]
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Sven Torstenson – Drugs
$28.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartSven Torstenson‘s notorious Drugs is a loopdigga’s fever dream, bursting with breaks for days and featuring possibly the most iconic cover of all library music’s cult classics. [...]
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Helm – Axis (Clear Purple Vinyl)
$16.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartLondon exploratory industrialist Luke Younger characterizes the creation of his latest collection, Axis, as a liberating return to roots: “It felt like going back to the beginning, it felt [...]
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Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma – Intemporel
$19.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartIf there is a single feature that makes the context of experimental music so exciting, it is arguably the willingness of artists to freely converse and collaborate. This is made […]
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Lucrecia Dalt – The Seed (Original Score)
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartLucrecia Dalt pays tribute to decades of innovative horror score-making with an eerie analog-focused accompaniment to Sam Walker’s gory “The Seed”. Seriously atmospheric modern [...]
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Tashi Dorji – Stateless
$15.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartGuitar improviser Tashi Dorji takes acoustic in hand, recording in a rare studio setting with extra focus and balance. In a set of songs that travel through our bleak modern […]
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Kali Malone – All Life Long
$29.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartRelease Date: February 9th. Will start shipping when in stock. Kali Malone’s anticipated new album “All Life Long” is a collection of music for pipe organ, choir, and [...]
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Alex York – Black Tupelo CD
$12.00 | CD Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A completely mesmerizing, beautiful CD by Alex. His droning, minimal collages speak perfectly to how in sync folk and minimalism are.” – Hannah Alex [...]
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Sarah Davachi, Quatuor Bozzini – Long Gradus
$31.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartnew longform commissioned work released 3 November 2023 on the artist’s own Late Music label. String quartet version available as a 2LP and CD, or four different instrumental variations presented [...]
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Greymouth – Parked Up
$15.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartThe duo of Mark Anderson (Bancho Taste / Mysteries of Love) and Mark Sadgrove (Mazda Hatchback / Mysteries of Love) take the wheel and don the louvres to serve up […]
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Emily Robb – If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection
$27.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartThe fantastic new album from tireless seeker Emily Robb. It’s a no-frills, high-minded celebration of guitar and sound and tone and string and amp and adventure committed to tape at […]
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Dead C – Tusk
$29.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Ba Da Bing! dropping the heat with three Dead C reissues from their mid 90’s period, The Operation of the Sonne, White House, and […]
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Habitat Ensemble – S/T
$24.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartSelf-titled debut album of Habitat Ensemble, a new musical collective headed up by musician Marius Houschyar. The collective originates deep in the south of the Czech Republic, on the border […]
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Nigel Rolfe – Island Stories
$15.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartNigel Rolfe’s “Island Stories” is a unique record for 80’s Ireland. An unusually experimental electronic and abstract record for the time, it was originally released to little fanfare on Reekus [...]
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Six Organs Of Admittance – Sleep Tones
$34.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartSix Organs of Admittance takes listeners through an extended narcoleptic journey on Sleep Tones, an all-electronic double album of new ambient work. Mastered by VDSQ labelmate Chuck Johnson, [...]
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The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Writings of Austin Osman Spare is a collection of three books written by the famous artist and occult author. The three books included in this publication are Anathema of […]
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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The Harry Smith resurgence is upon us.” – Jack He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught [...]
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Shadow Ring – Put The Music In It’s Coffin
$21.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartRecorded in summer of 1994 at S.H.P studios (frontman Graham Lambkin’s parents’ home), the group’s sophomore record Put the Music in Its Coffin is a more sinister, saturnine [...]