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Serial Music A Classified Bibliography of Writings on Twelve-Tone (Book)
*2023 stock* This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 18…
Source Music of the Avant-garde, 1966–1973 (Book)
*2023 stock* The journal Source: Music of the Avant-garde was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artis…
Loft Jazz Improvising New York in the 1970s (Book)
*2023 stock* The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alter…
Into the Mylar Chamber (Book)
Between 1968 and 1971, in a loft on New York's Jefferson Street, the poet, photographer and filmmaker Ira Cohen created some of the most mythic images of the late 1960s. Inspired by his friends Jack Smith and Bill Devore, Cohen’s initial experiments …
Margrethe Fjorden
*100 copies limited edition, hand-numbered in printed box* Recital presents its first ever video edition of "Margrethe Fjorden". Produced in 1996 by Fluxus artist Eric Andersen, the citywide Intermedia event included performances from Alice Damas, Wi…
Maggot Brain #12 (Mar/Apr/May 2023)
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 feature on DR. PETE LARSON by Fred Thomas, worlds collide! An a…
Maggot Brain #11 (Dec/Jan/Feb 2023)
On the cover: This issue is dedicated to the memory of astral traveling saxophone colossus Pharoah Sanders, with a tremendous evaluation of his most important work by the great music writer Andy Beta as the cover feature, rare images by Leni Sinclair…
Early Sound Installations
In the early 1980s, several artists such as Satoshi Ashikawa and Hiroshi Yoshimura, who were pioneers during the early days of Japanese sound art, began to display their works at exhibitions. Ashikawa, who passed away at the young at the age of 30, w…
The Heavyweight Sound Fight
Brimming with equal parts humor and rigorous art, iDEAL Recordings delivers one of the most fascinating and historically important archival releases that's aver graced our hands, Charlie Morrow, Sten Hanson, and Carles Santos' “The Heavyweight Sound …
Ehm
Xing presents the new LP Ehm by Canedicoda and Renato Grieco, seventh release of XONG collection - artist records.
Contraction
'Contraction' was released in 1974 and is considered a cult classic among fans of psychedelic rock and spiritual jazz. It is known for its experimental approach to music and its incorporation of spiritual and mystical themes. The album features a ble…
Anthony Braxton. Creative Music (Book)
*Only in German language* Der in der South Side Chicagos aufgewachsene Anthony Braxton (*1945) gehört seit über einen halben Jahrhundert zu den innovativsten, produktivsten und prägendsten Protagonisten der creative music. Unangepasst und kompromissl…
Toshi Ichiyanagi, A Pianist
The composer Toshi Ichiyanagi is, needless to say, also a pianist. We have collected recordings of his performances demonstrating his superb skills and ability. "Music for Piano No. 8," on which he is accompanied by Sumihisa Arima, a frequent collabo…
Maggot Brain #10 (Dec/Jan/Feb 2023)
Cover art by Detroit-based graphic artist Lucy Cahill depicts Wanda Jackson as an alien because why not; with additional recent works by her inside the issue. Glasgow's justly beloved Belle & Sebastian, hot on the heels of a US tour and their best re…
Maggot Brain #9 (Jun/Jul/Aug 2022 (Magazine)
Raymond Pettibon on the cover! And on the inside, in a wide-ranging and sweet interview by Adam Woodhead, Pettibon walks us through his entire career, and even makes economics sound interesting. Columns: Lucy Sante (their first autobiographical writi…
Distant Water Exotic Landscape - Post Installation Studies
*50 copies limited edition* “Distant Water Exotic Landscape” is a generative audio and visual installation that explores the micro and macro perceptions of environmental cycle system through the transformational and transmittable materiality of water…
Op. 163 Penthesilea / Op.176 Penthesilea (2LP + 5CD Box bundle)
This bundle includes the two latest Henning Christiansen Archive releases:Henning Christiansen "Op. 163 Penthesilea"(2LP)Henning Christiansen "Op. 176 Penthesilea"(5CD Box)Henning Christiansen "Op. 163 Penthesilea"(2LP) *Limited edition of 300 copies…
I Seem to Live [vol.2] (Book)
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * The second volume of Jonas Mekas’s autobiography I Seem to Live. The New York Diaries, 1969–2011 continues with the meticulous description of his dense life in New York’s underground art scene. It begins with the sev…
Op. 163 Penthesilea
*Limited edition of 300 copies* Beautiful, haunting and sombre, this 2LP presents the entire recording from Henning Christiansen’s Heinrich von Kleist tribute at Rene Block’s Rosenfest festival, Berlin, 1984. The Reality is a Ghost in My Mind (LP1) i…
Musical Experiences
The legendary French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet exalted naivety and spontaneity in visual art, and his brazenly experimental recordings on Musical Experiences evince the same spirit through sound. He once reflected, "Certain unexpected windfa…
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