Alain Pierre – Quitte à me tromper (Book)
A stark and contemplative tribute to composer and intellectual Alain Pierre (1948-2024) by Belgian artist Tim Onderbeke. Published shortly after Pierre's passing, this volume collects 69 black-and-white photographs taken on June 1, 2016, at Pierre's residence and studio, located behind the iconic VRT building in Brussels. Presented without captions and arranged in a purely figurative sequence, the photographs document Pierre in his most natural state—moving through his home, engaging with his ar…
Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins
Jazz legend Sonny Rollins will celebrate his 80th birthday this fall, and Saxophone Colossus will be published to mark this occasion and honor his incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation combines the images of John Abbott, who as Rollins’s photographer of choice for the past 20 years has captured the saxophonist at home and at work, and the essays of Bob Blumenthal, a jazz critic who has chronicled Rollins and his art for nearly four decades. Sonny Rollins has been at the center o…
Roxy Live: Under Exposed: One Fan's Unseen Concert Photos
2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music’s eponymous debut album, which the band are celebrating with a North America and UK tour, their first in over a decade. To coincide with this milestone, we are proud to present a one-of-a-kind historical document and celebration of one of the most beloved and enduring bands of our times. Documenting the band from their heyday in 1973 right up to Roxy’s last live performance in 2019 – more often than not from the photographer’s pit – and punctuated by…
The Raymond Building, 1976 (Art Edition)
Art Edition, includes a 5x5 inch pigment print, a self portrait from the book, printed by and signed on the back by Fredrik Nilsen. This is a 32 page perfect bound book of photographs by Fredrik Nilsen documenting 3 months in 1976 when we members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, aka the LAFMS, occupied studios in the 35 South Raymond building in what was then the derelict district of Old Town Pasadena. Some images were taken as promotional photos for our upcoming infamous performances at t…
The Raymond Building, 1976 (Book)
300 copies. This is a 32 page perfect bound book of photographs by Fredrik Nilsen documenting 3 months in 1976 when we members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, aka the LAFMS, occupied studios in the 35 South Raymond building in what was then the derelict district of Old Town Pasadena. Some images were taken as promotional photos for our upcoming infamous performances at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California in July of that year. Others show the general mayhem that transpir…
Jukebox 1967 - 2023
San Francisco rock’n roll bleeds through Michael Goldberg – an innovative, inspiring figure who always has been quietly pioneering something interesting for the past 50+ years. Hozac Books is thrilled to present the first-ever collection of his photographs in JUKEBOX, featuring an impressive array of underground figures and outcast luminaries captured in their natural habitat, most seen here for the first time anywhere. Also the author of our critically acclaimed WICKED GAME book, Michael’s body…
Dark Rome 1982-1985
*Bilingual Edition Italian & English* This book gather Dino Ignani's Dark Portraits collection, a selection of approximately 200 photographs that are part of a much larger series of shots, mostly portraits, taken over the course of five years, and effectively evoke the spirit of the 1980s in the dynamic city of Rome. Ignani's research is a window on the look of the young adults who animated the clubs of the so-called Dark scene in Rome, a scene that was in fact diverse and multifaceted, presenti…
Genuine Leather (Book)
For the past fifteen years, Jan Utecht has toured North America, Europe, the UK and Scandinavia with his black metal band Occvlta. During this time he started taking photos with a small format camera, inspired by analogue and point-and-shoot photography. This gave him the opportunity to portray more than a hundred metalheads, friends and musicians.
Some of the people you see in this book are pictured on posters that have hung on the walls of rehearsal rooms for decades, including his own. These …
Portables: A Visual & Historical Exploration of 222 Vintage Portable Turntables (Book)
A 470-page hardcover book featuring highly detailed photos and comprehensive research on 222 portable vinyl record players.
Once considered little more than a children’s plaything or a grade school accessory, the portable record player has gained newfound respect in recent years. Whatever they may lack in high-end audio fidelity, battery-powered turntables more than make up for it with their convenience and ease of use. Just ask any crate digger: a cult favorite portable like the Columbia GP-3 o…
Dust & Grooves Vol. 2: Further Adventures in Record Collecting (Book)
A stunning 650-page hardcover illustrated book, featuring over 150 record collectors including A-Trak, Colleen Murphy, DāM FunK, Peanut Butter Wolf, Quantic, DJ Spinna, Kid Koala, Don Letts, Andy Votel, Shawn Lee, Mayer Hawthorne, and bass maestro Ron Carter.
Renowned photographer and publisher Eilon Paz returns with Dust & Grooves: Further Adventures In Record Collecting, a sequel to his 2014 best-selling Dust & Grooves, highlighting over one hundred fifty of the world’s most fascinating and ac…
Dust & Grooves Volumes 1 & 2 Boxset
A limited deluxe box set of Dust & Grooves Volume 1 (10th Anniversary Edition) and Dust & Grooves Volume 2. Over 1000 full color pages, featuring over 270 of the world’s greatest vinyl collectors, including: Questlove, A-Trak, Gilles Peterson, DāM FunK, Floating Points, Four Tet, Peanut Butter Wolf, Quantic, DJ Spinna, Kid Koala, Don Letts, Rich Medina, King Britt, Andy Votel, Colleen Murphy, Shawn Lee, Mayer Hawthorne, The Gaslamp Killer and bass maestro Ron Carter.
Long Play (Book)
The photographic volume 'Long Play' by Arme Reimer, which has long been out of print at the publisher, is an insightful photo book about the era of the long-playing record. Over the past ten years, photographer Arne Reimer has visited old record stores and also record collectors in Europe and the USA. His contemporary portraits as well as his interior shots are carefully dedicated to the past. 'The vinyl record was once the dominant medium,' writes Ulf Erdmann Ziegler in his essay on this subjec…
Parazoan Mapping #2 (Magazine + Digital Download)
Kindling #1: Parazoan Mapping #2 by Taku Unami and Eric La Casa is the first edition of an ongoing series of artist-run digital+paper sound-art releases, only available as a newspaper plus digital file. Through their individual practices, Taku Unami and Eric La Casa have contributed greatly to what we think about how we listen and practice sound and music, and often indirectly challenging where these two tightly linked categories might collide or overlap. Parazoan Mapping #2 continues their publ…
Book 2 (Book)
Very nice artists'zine by Faith Coloccia. Includes photographs, collage and paintings.
Untitled (Book)
Very nice artists' zine by Faith Coloccia. Includes photographs, collage and paintings.
Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii (Book)
Very nice artists' book by Faith Coloccia. Includes artwork, documentation and composition notation from the album "Mare Decendrii". Limited edition of 100 copies. 60 pages, 7" x 8", perfect bound, professionally printed on uncoated heavyweight stock, full color and black and white, hand numbered.
Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting
The second revised edition of the book profiles over 130 vinyl collectors, featuring a foreword by the RZA and interviews with Questlove, Gilles Peterson, Four-Tet, the Gaslamp Killer, and more. (This edition has 20 more pages than the first edition!) Readers get an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions as well as a glimpse into the collections of world-renowned and lesser-known DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. The book is divided i…