Little Symphonies: A Phil Spector Reader (Book)
Phil Spector is the reclusive maverick producer who invented The Wall of Sound. This collection gathers together the best articles, interviews and reviews about the enigmatic man and his revolutionary music. At the forefront of the sixties pop explos…
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany (Book)
The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how one band revolutionized the cultural landscape of our time.
'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near-total secrecy in their D…
Nico: Songs They Never Play On The Radio (Book)
Fully updated with a new introduction, this is the story of Nico, former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground and darling of Andy Warhol's factory, when the world had all but forgotten her.
In 1982 Nico was living in Manchester, in…
The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label (Book)
This is the first full-length look at Zapple—the Beatles’ label for experimental music and spoken word recordings and the most ambitious expression of the group’s determination to be leading members of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. B…
Fonstret N.6 - In Tune (Magazine)
Fonstret is a project of Stockholm’s Edition Festival for Other Music focused on publishing new works and surfacing material from the festival’s archives.
Printed volume of conversations and essays published on the occasion of the Sixth Edition Festi…
Six Ateliers - Concerts Jacques Lejeune
Late 80's original copies of the Ateliers de Musique Êlectroacoustique (Studios for Electroacoustic Music) program, designed by Jacques Lejeune himself, and ealized in conjunction with Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). 24-page book, large size, w…
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s (Book)
Multiple Realities offers a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations—GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia—during the 1960s to 1980s. Despite their geographical proximity, artists working…
Fonstret N.3 - Edition Festival For Other Music (Magazine)
Fonstret is a project of Stockholm’s Edition Festival for Other Music focused on publishing new works and surfacing material from the festival’s archives.
Book sewn with open spine. 170 x 239mm. 192pp. 1+1 Pantone 546C, 120 gsm offset paper inside, 3…
Vinyl Age: A Guide To Record Collecting Now (Book)
From Carolina Soul Records, one of the world's largest online record sellers, comes the definitive guide to every aspect of record collecting in the digital era. Any music fan knows that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. Even wit…
Volume ! n° 20-1 – La Valeur de la Musique (Magazine)
Focus on the question of the economic and cultural value of music, which has re-emerged with the advent of streaming platforms.
Volume! The French journal of popular music studies is the only peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of c…
Volume ! n° 16-2 / 17-1 - La Voix Pop (Magazine)
2024 stock. This issue explores the crossroads, contacts and contrasts between two fields of musical knowledge: ethnomusicology and popular music studies.When ethnomusicology tackles music that is produced in recording studios in both the North and t…
Volume ! n° 19-2 - Terrains Communs (Magazine)
This issue explores the crossroads, contacts and contrasts between two fields of musical knowledge: ethnomusicology and popular music studies.When ethnomusicology tackles music that is produced in recording studios in both the North and the South, wh…
Sound of Sounds (Book + 2CD)
*2024 stock* Pianist, composer and sound artist Hans Otte is still undervalued in Europe, and the Anglo-American cultural scene just starts to notice him. Ingo Ahmel's bilingual study of his biography and artistic work highlights Otte’s view of life …
Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life (Book)
The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. From his pioneering compositions as part of New York's vibrant avant-garde scene (alongside artists including Philip Glass, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg) to his genre-e…
Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental Music (Book)
Huge Tip! 392 pp! Basta Now: Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental Music is a non-academic essay by French poet, novelist and music enthusiast Fanny Chiarello. It’s also the first book to be published by Permanent Draft, an all-female record labe…
Stockhausen es Funcional al Imperialismo
Spanishedition. Perfect bound. 190 pages. Cornelius Cardew's Stockhausen serves imperailism, originally published in 1974 is translated to spanish for the fist time. Seminal text for those who are interested in the intersection between experimental m…
Vague Fanzines Book – Volume 1 – 1979-1984 Issues 1-15 (Book)
Vague was the Post Punk Fanzine that tuned so many people into the joy of punk and the futuristic and hybrid styled music that followed it, that became known as ‘Post-Punk’ or for a period of time ‘Positive Punk’. Vague promoted the notion that a ban…
In a Word (Book)
2024 stock. The artistic career of Christopher Knowles (born 1959) began at the age of 13, when his writings and recordings came to the notice of avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson. Still a teenager, Knowles went on to write the libretto for …
Out of the Grid – Italian Zine 1978-2006
Huge Tip! Large format, 400 pages Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication s…
Trad, Gras Och Stener: A Collective History (Book)
Huge Tip! 400 pages, 387 Images. The story of the legendary Swedish psych rock band Träd, Gräs och Stenar is also a defining story of alternative culture. Across multiple incarnations, the musicians of this iconic group (whose name translates to “Tre…