March 8th Newsletter
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  • 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 / Neofolk
  • 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
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    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
  • Islamic Mystical Poetry
    Islamic Mystical Poetry
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    Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • H.P. Lovecraft -H.P. Lovecraft
    H.P. Lovecraft -H.P. Lovecraft
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    Chicago based acid rock. Fuzzed out and dark. 1967 US Pressing on Philips, PHS-600-252 G+/VG Vinyl plays VG to G+ throughout. Some light popping here & there, but overall a […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
    A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
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    With the death in 2020 of long-standing occasional third member Peter Stapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped as the core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Patton – Oh Baby!
    John Patton – Oh Baby!
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    Oh Baby! is an album by American organist Big John Patton recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.[1]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – The Main Attraction
    Grant Green – The Main Attraction
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    The Main Attraction is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1976 and released on the Kudu label.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Milk From Cheltenham ? Triptych Of Poisoners
    Milk From Cheltenham ? Triptych Of Poisoners
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    The first-time vinyl reissue of the sole album from UK DIY legends Milk From Cheltenham, originally released in 1983 on famed It’s War Boys imprint, is recommended for fans of […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri ? Toy Planet
    Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri ? Toy Planet
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    Toy Planet was recorded in 1981 and was a collaboration between the Swiss electronic music pioneer (and Jazzman) Bruno Spoerri and Irmin Schmidt.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Cleveland Eaton ? Plenty Good Eaton
    Cleveland Eaton ? Plenty Good Eaton
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    The jazz world lost a true legend when bassist Cleveland Eaton passed away in the Summer of 2020. This 1975 album, one of the real gems in the hallowed Black […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • JJ Band – Live I Kungsten
    JJ Band – Live I Kungsten
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    While working on his solo albums, JJulius put together a live band consisting of Clara Flygare (Standard) on drums and vocals, Gustav Danielsbacka (Incipientium) on guitar and Mattias Rörström [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Leda – Neuter
    Leda – Neuter
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    Sofie Herner (Enhet För Fri Musik, Neutral) returns with Neuter, the first proper album since the Gitarrmusik III-X LP released on Förlag För Fri Musik back in 2017. Neuter was […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Magnus J?verling ? Bowdark
    Magnus J?verling ? Bowdark
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    What our staff has to say: “Feels and sounds like a real movie score. For fans of electronic music sounds.” – Jack Bowdark is the name of a fictitious town […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sofia Carbonara – On Names
    Sofia Carbonara – On Names
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    ON “ON NAMES:” I recorded the voices of my parents (Joaquin & Daniela) reading off phonemes (the sounds in words) from Spanish, Italian, and German in search of what my […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – YORUBA! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria
    V/A – YORUBA! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria
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    Soul Jazz Records latest album Yoruba! Songs and Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria is newly recorded in Lagos, Nigeria. The album is co-produced by Soul Jazz Records label […]

    GENRE: International
  • Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
    Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
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    Ships by 7/28/23. Writing about Mazozma aka Ma Turner’s work is like trying to frame a river. Throughout the course of their prolific career and many projects, the Lexington, KY […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
    Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
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    Ships by or around 7/21/223 “Do you wanna hear it? Do you want to hear me screeeaaaaammmm!?” Fruit LoOops vocalist Jackie Switzer opened their 2020 LP, Orangina, with these words. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore
  • Zach Rowden – No Middle Without The Beginning LP
    Zach Rowden – No Middle Without The Beginning LP
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    Ships prior to release date of 9/29/2023. Zach Rowden’s new album, titled “No Middle Without The Beginning”, radiates the current musical concrete. Two pieces, each spanning a [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Downtown! LP
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Downtown! LP
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    Ships prior to release date of 9/29/2023. What our staff has to say: “‘Kentucky Kraut Rock’ If you are not yet familiar with EPA, please make it a point to […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Maggot Brain #12
    Maggot Brain #12
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    Crazy Doberman ? Erick’s Bradshaw delivers an epic, well-illustrated tour diary of a brief jaunt with these noise greats. Composer TAYONDAI BRAXTON by Katy Henricksen! A meaty, beautiful [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Protomartyr – Formal Growth In The Desert (Blue Vinyl)
    Protomartyr – Formal Growth In The Desert (Blue Vinyl)
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    Since their 2012 debut, Protomartyr have mastered the art of evoking place: the grinding Midwest humility of their hometown, as well as the x-rayed elucidation of America that comes with […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Colin Andrew Sheffield – Images
    Colin Andrew Sheffield – Images
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    What our staff has to say: “Gorgeous ambient soundscapes through manipulated samples of jazz records. While the source material is mostly unrecognizable, completely repurposed into amorphous [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Grant Green – Green Is Beautiful
    Grant Green – Green Is Beautiful
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    Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in Germany The Classic Vinyl Reissue [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Kwanza (Verve By Request Series)
    Archie Shepp – Kwanza (Verve By Request Series)
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    Newly Remastered from Original Analog Sources and Pressed on 180g Vinyl LP at Third Man Pressing in Detroit as Part of the Verve By Request Series Verve Records/UMe and Third […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Andrew Hill – Dance (Tone Poet Series)
    Andrew Hill – Dance (Tone Poet Series)
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    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Andrew Hill’s Dance With Death Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Joe […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Freddie Hubbard – Blue Spirits (Tone Poet Series)
    Freddie Hubbard – Blue Spirits (Tone Poet Series)
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    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Freddie Hubbard’s Blue Spirits Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Joe [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Joe Henderson – Page One
    Joe Henderson – Page One
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    Page One introduced the jazz world to the unusually mature and original young tenor saxophonist, Joe Henderson. “Recorda Me” & “Blue Bossa” have become jazz classics [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • C.I.A. Debutante – Down, Willow
    C.I.A. Debutante – Down, Willow
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    With their 3rd vinyl long player for Siltbreeze, CIA Debutante have successfully out-flanked those critics who have been forever chattering, “will they ever be as big as Artery?” To [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A – Brown Acid: The Fifteenth Trip
    V/A – Brown Acid: The Fifteenth Trip
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    Lo and behold, Brown Acid – The Fifteenth Trip is here, and it’s another mind-melting dose of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Metal
  • Son of Dribble – Son of Dribble Against The Wind
    Son of Dribble – Son of Dribble Against The Wind
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    2nd LP from the Columbus, OH trio (now expanded to a quartet)! 12 songs of scuzzed out garage pop that take you from Beat Happening to the Warsaw demos to […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
    Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
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    Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Faust – Momentaufnahme II
    Faust – Momentaufnahme II
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    Originally part of 2021’s Faust Box Set release commemorating the bands 50th anniversary Momentaufnahme I and II are now set for their own standalone release by popular demand. This is […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
    Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
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    From the viscerally punishing and nerve wrecking, to the wistfully sublime, Kevin Drumm’s work often yield a ferocious intensity through the timbres of minute details. Now, throughout this [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Faust – Punkt
    Faust – Punkt
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    After the overwhelming success of the 1971-1974 box set release (BB 374CD/LP), containing the first four studio albums and for the first time ever this lost “last” album recording, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Alternative TV – Vibing Up The Senile Man
    Alternative TV – Vibing Up The Senile Man
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    Possibly one of the weirdest experiments in the post-punk realm, Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One) is the second studio album by English anti-heroes Alternative TV, originally released in […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • VA ? Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)
    VA ? Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)
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    What our staff has to say: “Originally released in 1982 and now available from Song Cycle Records, Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record) showcases 3 to 5 minute sound pieces […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
    Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
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    “To hear a tape containing their earliest demos, recorded on May 11, 1965, and locked away until now, is to hear traces of things rarely associated with The Velvet Underground: […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over You
    Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over You
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    Durand Jones’s Wait ‘Til I Get Over is a memoir and a love letter. It is the story of Jones’s life, his growth and revelations, the wisdom of his hometown […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Jana Horn – The Window Is The Dream
    Jana Horn – The Window Is The Dream
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    A Rothko-esque color field set to music, The Window Is The Dream ventures even deeper into Horn’s inner space than her stark, acclaimed debut Optimism, which earned her an ‘artist [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Calvin Johnson – Gallows Wine
    Calvin Johnson – Gallows Wine
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    Rock’n’roll is dead. Gallows Wine [KLP287] is a wake for it’s charred remains. Calvin Johnson traveled to Columbus, Mississippi to record Gallows Wine with the combo Hartle Road at their [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
    Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
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    Chasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Luigi Pirandello – One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
    Luigi Pirandello – One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
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    Fiction. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Luigi Pirandello’s extraordinary final novel begins when Vitangelo Moscarda’s wife remarks that Vitangelo’s nose tilts to [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
    Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
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    Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
    William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
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    Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
    Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
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    In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
    Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
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    Anselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Desnos – The Die Is Cast
    Robert Desnos – The Die Is Cast
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    A startlingly contemporary portrait of drug addiction in prewar Paris Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance activities), The Die […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
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    What our staff has to say: “Insane amplified violin shredding on top of electric guitar on A side – I’ve never heard a violin sounding like that, blending completely with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
    John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
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    High Life is like a mini-album, a short journey or guide. The perfect use of the 7″ format, showcasing the range of this inventive duo with each playing their core […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Komet – Rausch LP
    Komet – Rausch LP
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      Komet // Frank Bretschneider is one of the founders of the esteemed raster-media label. This album – originally a CD released on 12k in 2000, features clean sine-tones and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic