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★Ningen Paper Press

The Piano Music of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru
The expanded edition of the scores of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru's piano music: the 16 pieces of Éthiopiques 21, with photographs, drawings and handwritten letters from the Emahoy Music Foundation archive. 128 pages, 29 x 29 cm.
Sound Series 4: Pierre Bastien
Fourth issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press, on the musical world of Pierre Bastien and the mechanical instruments of his early years. A 24-page zine in English and Korean, edited and designed by Ganghyeon Paeg.
My Kindergarten Memories
Sister Irene O'Connor remembers her first years as a young nun at a kindergarten in Singapore and how she began making music. Made with Freedom to Spend after the Fire of God's Love micro museum in Seoul. English and Korean.
Recordings of Independent Origin
An 88-page A4 book on the DIY bootleg cassettes of the 1980s: Portastudio, Walkman and home Xerox, tapes copied in small numbers and shared like letters, and the lo-fi experimental, noise and improvised music they carried.
Shinjuku, 1973
A zine on the ten years of Kaoru Abe in Tokyo's free jazz scene, 1968-1978, with excerpts from an unpublished 1973 conversation between Abe and Shinto recorded in a small Shinjuku coffee shop. English and Japanese.
Talklog About Emahoy with Mississippi Records
Transcript of a conversation between Mississippi Records and music scholar Thomas Feng for the 102nd anniversary of Emahoy's birth: the release of Church of Kidane Mehret, Portland and New York, her legacy. 20 pages, English and Korean.
Sound Series 3: Ikue Mori
Third issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press: Ikue Mori from the drums of DNA in the New York No Wave scene to computer music, her move from Tokyo and the meeting with John Zorn. A 20-page zine, 2024.
Sound Series 2: Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru
Second issue of the Sound Series by Ningen Paper Press, on Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, the Ethiopian nun and composer whose piano music offers solace and reflection. A 20-page zine edited and designed by Ganghyeon Paeg, 2023.