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Hasla (Book + DVD)
"I was in this land called Hasla. A far-off land in which everything seemed familiar and yet oddly alien; a place you have never traveled to and yet which in a strange way is similar to every city you've ever visited, which – no sooner did you arrive – you already left again. At least that's how I remember it. But how can I tell of a land that doesn't exist?"
Hasla consists of electroacoustic compositions that are inspired by a poetry of localization and spatialization of sound. Calmly and tran…
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band (Book)
*2024 stock* Described by Lennon as ‘the best thing I’ve ever done’, and widely regarded by critics as his best solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released alongside the remarkable Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band on 11 December 1970. With first-hand commentary by John & Yoko, members of the Plastic Ono Band and other key figures in their lives, and packed with evocative and revealing letters, artworks and photographs, this incisive volume offers new insights into the raw emotions and open mi…
Valentinus (Book + CD)
*2024 stock* The fourth and final in the "saints series" by Eric Schmid and Sean McCann and friends, following St. Francis, St. Paul, and Joan Of Arc (R 037CD, 2017). Eight artists -- Burns-Coady, Friel, Gean, Grossinger, McCann, Pollard, Schmid, Walton, Weidmann -- responding closely or distantly or lazily to a proposed score by Jonathan Gean. Holds the following writings: Messianism by Eric Schmid, Gospel of Truth by Tim Weidmann, along with photography by Jonathan Gean and Sean McCann. 56-pag…
Orgelkonzert Jesuitenkirche
Hermann Nitsch playing the church organ in the Jesuit church of Vienna, November 20th, 2013. Four heavy drone pieces, mastered by Martin Siewert. Double LP version comes with an eight-page booklet with artwork and an essay by Nitsch about music (in German). These four tracks of Nitsch performing solo on organ are made of sustained drones that are soothing and intense. Music is beautiful and meditative, as it slowly evolves and transforms, full trills that shimmer with celestial light and glide s…
Conference of the Birds
**2022 Stock. Originally released in June 1973, audiophile pressing taken from the original analog tapes** It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle’s great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland’s first album as a full-fledged leader. An album of driving, progressive jazz it is also of historical significance as the only occasion when Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton, two of the m…
Rimorso
Repossessed by the past, bitten once again and forced to relive drama, history, memories, tradition and roots. A past that needs exorcizing, bending and re-imagining in order to move forward and depend on. This is ‘Rimorso’, Mai Mai Mai’s colossal mediterranean gothic album. Known for his incredible blend of Southern Italian Folklore, industrial drone, proto-techno & punishing miasmic electronic music, Toni Cutrone aka Mai Mai Mai approached ‘Rimorso’ with a clean slate. Following ‘Nel Sud’ (La …
Morricone Segreto Songbook
"With an extraordinary career spanning more than six decades, world-renowned Italian composer Ennio Morricone created over 600 original compositions and a unique and unmistakable style, blending avant-garde solutions with the finest pop-psych attitude. Marking would have marked the Maestro’s 95th birthday (10th November 2023), CAM Sugar presents a new collection of little-known gems composed by Morricone, that stands complimentary to 2020’s Morricone Segreto collection: Morricone Segreto Songboo…
Isn’t Anything
* Black vinyl in gatefold sleeve, inners + printed inner sleeve *Isn’t Anything and Loveless have been mastered fully from analog for deluxe LPs and also mastered from new hi-res uncompressed digital sources for standard LPs, with each being made available widely for the first time ever. Fully analog cuts of m b v will also be available on deluxe and standard LPs globally for the first time. My bloody valentine, the quartet of Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Deb Googe and Colm Ó Cíosóig, are wi…
Linea Mundi
Klaus Lang's involvement with God Records began with already cult two-part release of his stunning organ works. Famous for his heavy droning sound, new Lang's pieces are highly successful ensemble pieces linea mundi. and weiße farben., both premiered at the festival Wien Modern. Heavy textures, disturbing counterparts, slow progressions, threatening dynamics...
According to Marshal McLuhan, the nature of the medium used to transmit a message is of greater importance than the message’s meaning or…
nina harker
Freeform, pigeon-hole dodging, stylistic merry-go-round, restless, weird and addictive - the long anticipated return of Nina Harker!
The Portable John Latham (Book)
*2024 stock* This book features a selection of documents from the personal archive of the late British artist John Latham (more information here), presently maintained in his last home and studio in Peckham, South London. Through reproductions of letters, invitation cards, exhibition reviews, performance scripts and images, the publication retraces Latham’s pioneering practice over six decades, from the late 1940s to his death in 2006. Published on the occasion of John Latham: Anarchive in asso…
The 120 Days Of Musica (Book)
*2024 stock* 120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin.Traitor to his country, Frédéric Acquaviva composes against adversity and for more than a quarter of a century, a bordeline and transgender musical work, with the modus operandi “Never repeat yourself”. “The 120 Days of Musica” aren't Fluxus gags, nor imaginary lettrist works, nor situationist ambiant derives, nor actionist actions, nor contemporary music from ancient times…
Orion Aveugle (Book)
*2024 stock* New monograph / artist's book based on a series of paintings realized between 2012 and 2013. With the same image of Freud's divan on its front and back covers, "Orion Aveugle", Anne Laure Sacriste's new artist's book, offers a selection of recent paintings marked by an intensification of the characteristics we have come to know: monochrome grounds, vegetal motifs and visual anamneses. Borrowing the principle of free association (here, of pictures) from psychoanalysis, she also incl…
Black Mirrors (Book)
*2024 stock* “Black Mirrors” is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Julien Langendorff. It includes depictions of many of his works, from bold and abstract paintings to photo-collages, all of which demonstrate a fascination with counterculture groups of decades past and female sexuality through an array of juxtapositions.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Julien Langendorff – Goddess Fuzz Fantasy”, agnès b. gallery, New York, in 2012.
Julien Langendorff (born 1982 in Paris,…
In the Canyon, Revise The Canon – Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-Run Community Art Spaces in Southern California (Book)
*2024 stock* Before the onset of the social and cultural backlash that was brought on by the Reagan administration in the early eighties, Southern California was ripe territory for the genesis and development of emancipation movements for and by African Americans, Chicanos, pacifists, Marxists, feminists and homosexuals. Starting in the late sixties, these revolutionary waves particularly influenced practices such as performance art, video, installation and collaboration, which led to the const…
Retrospective (Book)
*2024 stock* Alberto García del Castillo's first novel, Retrospective, is a comedy-science-fiction novelette about “faggotry” and the art world; depicting a retour-au-passé in contemporary painting and waving to some of the most beautiful homosexuals on Earth.Flaunting otherness, the alert reader can follow a clerk of The Land of Sculptures whilst he encounters the pretty faces of The Painter, The Foreign Painter, The Tyrolese Painter and other people doing art and drugs. Retrospective includes…
Improvising Sculpture As Delayed Fictions (Book)
*2024 Stock* Experimental musician, sound and visual artist Félicia Atkinson (born 1981) lives on the wild coast of Normandy (France). She has played music since the early 2000s. She has released many records and a novel on Shelter Press, the label and publisher she co-runs with Bartolomé Sanson. For Félicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don't speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The French electro-a…
Being Time: Case Studies in Musical Temporality(Book)
Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton Feldman, James Saunders, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Ryoji Ikeda, Toshiya Tsunoda, Laurie Spiegel and André O. Möller. Multiple perspectives are explored through a series of encounters, initially between an individual and a work, an…
Rrose To The Occasion (Book)
*2024 Stock* In 1984, John Cage gave a concert at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Thomas Wulffen seized the opportunity to talk to him about his work, about Berlin, and about Germany. The hitherto unpublished interview shows this major avant-garde artist in a relaxed mood, perfectly at his ease, though not without a light touch of irony. An historical document.