Music Downtown Writings from the Village Voice
*2023 stock* This collection represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the Village Voice by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. Charged with exploring every facet …
Reverse The Night
Attentive readers will know that late last year in my other guise as a musician I shared a split album with Andreas Brandal on Lithuanian label AghartA Tapes which, due to my involvement, was ineligible for inclusion in these here pages – I can’t rea…
Enginn Gleypir Sólina
In February 1993, at artist Hannes Lárusson’s Gallerí 11 in Reykjavik, Magnús Pálsson exhibited two installations, one in each of the gallery’s two rooms. In the first was Enginn Gleypir Sólina (No One Swallows The Sun). In the adjacent room was its …
Nothing Here Now but the Recordings
*2023 Restored Edition* In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson (then of Throbbing Gristle renown) travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of famed beat writer and cultural pioneer W…
Catorce Reflexiones Sobre el Fin
** Edition of 300. Comes with green inner sleeve ** Catorce reflexiones sobre el fin (Fourteen Reflections On The End) originated from an installation exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2019. Fourteen magnetic bodies o…
Frans Zwartjes (2LP)
This special discounted bundle includes the latest Purge releases, the Mykolaiv Singers's LP, previously unreleased in any form - spare a few tapes distributed in the Mykolaiv region - these are old, old songs (of winter, weddings, war, sex, bread) p…
Sometimes It Degenerates Into Music (Book)
Unquestionably one of the most exciting books to emerge this year - filled with revelation, insight and surprise, finally offering Conrad Schnitzler the attention and recognition he’s always deserved. An unparalleled survey of his work in music, scul…
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 …
Mati & The Music: 52 Record Covers 1955–2005 (Book)
Mati Klarwein (1932–2002) was a major presence in the New York art scene, admired by everyone from Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí to Jimi Hendrix and Jackie Onassis. His Pop-Surrealist universe of pantheistic religious harmony, sexual fertility and ge…
Pintura Música Arquitectura
*Massive 3LP edition with Hardcover book, nearly 400 pages* Drawings, LPs and an architectural survey by Mexico City–based artist, architect and musician Lucio Muniain. This volume presents three bodies of work by Mexico City–based architect, painter…
Shibboleth
CD+Book, art edition Original sound installation by Eiki Mori (born 1976 in Ishikawa, Japan). A horn speaker, used to send small sounds far away, will emit whispers of various voices that read Mori’s poems in multiple languages. In the galley space…
Fiction of the Physical
Crystalline examples of Zweig’s aesthetic and brilliance...A labyrinth of sound worth getting lost in
Cramps Records – Il suono che misura la libertà del tuo tempo (Book)
The illustrated history of legendary Cramps Records (Area, Demetrio Stratos, Arti e Mestieri, Claudio Rocchi, Alberto Camerini, Canzoniere del Lazio…) in a 22cm square-sized 244-page book.
The Ritual Year Book - Dave Pearson's English Calendar Customs 1973-1983
A hauntological beauty reminiscent of Seventies folk horror movies and Broadcast’s soundtrack work
Folklore Tapes: Ten Year Anniversary Book (2011-2021) (Book)
186 page full colour photo book, covering ten years of 35mm photography in the field, stage and studio. Includes essay by Jez winship and archival artwork. The Tenth Anniversary Book is filled with hitherto unseen images and text. Over the past decad…
Arthur Pétronio
Edition of 500. With fold-out poster and original sleeve design by Alain Geronnez. Arthur Petronio (1897-1983) was a French-Italian musician, poet and painter. Lived in Belgium and The Netherlands between 1910 and 1924 and since then in France. Young…
Das Orgien Mysterientheater - Musik Des 6-Tage-Spiels 2022
24 years after Hermann Nitsch's first realization of the six-day play (1998), his Gesamtkunstwerk once again took place in July 2022, shortly after the artist passed away in April. "The six-day play of the Orgien Mysterien Theater, is to become the g…
Behind The Buddha’s Mask (Book + Tape Bundle)
** Tape + Artist book containing a cycle of mythical poems written while in covid-exile in Japan. A sumi-e drawing by Kawabata Makoto is included in the text. Gold on purple cover, including a full colour insert, pure beauty. ** Limited to 60 copies…
Sound Anthology (LP)
From the celebrated imprint, Recorthings & Zona Archives, comes “Sound Anthology”, the first ever full length dedicated to the output of Maurizio Nannucci. Gathering sixteen pieces created between 1966 and 2013, the collection is an absolute revelati…
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word (Book)
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word explores the emancipation of language through historical and contemporary positions, from the earliest typographic and sound works of concrete poets to poetic experiments in the digital era, reveal…