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Signed copy (Edition signed by most of the Artistst) Bringing together over seven hours of  absurd, elusive and often disturbing music, The Box label finally unveil this epic, years-in-the-making 13x LP Box Set from Lafms, a must for those of you familiar with their work or, indeed, the colourful dreamscapes so often associated with.LAFMS BOX BOX documents every performance from the exhibition Beneath the Valley of the Lowest Form of Music - The Los Angeles Free Music Society 1972-2012 at The Bo…

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…

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…

Robert Pollard's  (Guided By Voices) amazing collages in a full-color 238-page book.

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…

"Kindling is super excited to share our latest edition created by Arek Gulbenkoglu, who we think has produced some of the most consistently interesting sound works for fixed media in Australia over the last decade or more. Creating wilfully obtuse or even opaque works which are sonically thought-provoking and perceptually pleasurable by equal measure. While Arek has released a string of fantastic works on respected labels such as Penultimate Press, Regional Bears, Index Clean, Careful Catalog, a…

Edition of 100 copies. A travel diary, in sound. Ezio Piermattei: tapes, field recordings, voice, harmonica, organ, bells, objects, piano, etc. Recorded in Tallinn, Scanno, Helsinki, Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Vilnius, Rosello, Brighton, Campo Imperatore, Jūrmala, Barreiro, Ortona, Budapest, Civitella Alfedena. Many thanks for their contributions to: Mamma, Nonna, Barbara Gileno, Emiliano Tenaglia, Angelo Barbati, Paola Marcocchia, Felice Sciorilli, Meridiana Barbati. Unintentional appearances: …

Edition of 100 copies. Lullabies wrote and sang for, with, and by their son Arion. Composed and recorded by Jonida Prifti and Stefano Di Trapani. Produced by Antonio Giannatonio and Acchiappashpirt. Edited by Antonio Giannatonio. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Cover artwork by Re Delle Aringhe. Jonida Prifti: vocals, toy keyboards. Stefano Di Trapani: gears, field recordings, Casiotone, piano, vocals. Special vocals: Arion. Includes "Ai miei figli e ai miei nipoti", a poem by Dania De Vincenzi.

Abdullah Miniawy is  talented singer, songwriter, musician, and poet hails from Egypt, captivating audiences with his rich blend of poetry and sound. Leveraging the fusion of traditional Egyptian themes and modern electronic influences. Growing up in the vibrant atmosphere of revolutionary Egypt, Abdullah's formative years were colored by the socio-political climate, deeply impacting his connection to music. His initial encounters with different musical instruments and poetry laid the foundation…

The six tracks that compose this record were taken form a seven-hour performance that took place in November 2023 in the Louvre-Lens Museum in France. This album crystallizes a process where multiple timelines and possibilities coexisted, distilling them into a linear sequence. This album involves transforming a live act that embraced a fluid and expansive understanding of time, into an object that can be played in identical loops. The live performance was reimagined, translating temporalities w…

The six compositions on Soundwalk Collective’s new album, It’s All Breaking Apart, are based on field recordings from Berlin clubs, particularly Berghain, blended with additional sounds processed through modular synthesizers, ambient noise, fragments of conversations, and new vocal performances, both sung and spoken. The album features collaborations with Anika, Gudrun Gut, Elvin Brandhi, and Nina Kraviz. The opening track, The Crowd, is a collaboration between Soundwalk Collective and legendary…

This audio recording is a new experiment, and simultaneously recalls a line of inquiry from the early practice of Christine Sun Kim. By inviting her to make a record, the curators proposed a return to her work with audio—to a series of artworks that were characterized by the sensorial vibrations and bodily experience of sound, for which she often employed voice. “I can feel [my voice] inside of my body, and in this way it is accessible to me.” Alongside an embodied connection to Deaf culture, th…

The long-awaited reissue of Alice Coltrane’s original spiritual teachings and reflections, which provide powerful insight into her transcendent music, cherished by millions across the globe.

This volume unpacks the cultural legacy of musician, spiritual leader, wife and mother Alice Coltrane. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition at Los Angeles' Hammer Museum, the book takes its title from Coltrane's 1977 autobiography and devotional text, Monument Eternal, in which reflected her newfound spiritual beliefs; the loss of her husband, the saxophonist John Coltrane; and the path to healing and self-discovery.Coltrane was "ahead of her time," as her son, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, says: …

Edition of 300 copies. Throughout the installation, designed with Hala Wardé, Nan Goldin and Soundwalk Collective work with underground waterworks, walls and sculptures to highlight the historical moment. The power of the women marching, their memory frozen in the surroundings are evoked in the sound installation using the voices of well-known women (Isabelle Adjani, Élodie Bouchez, Laetitia Casta, Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nan Goldin, Isabelle Huppert, Isild Le Besco, Anna Mougl…

Announcing Open Symmetry; New York-based composer Tristan Perich’s first release on Erased Tapes. The 50-minute work for 3 vibraphones and 20-channel 1-bit electronics is performed by the dynamic French group, ensemble 0, who return to Erased Tapes following their 2023 collaboration with Peter Broderick. Perich’s music spans the electronic/classical divide, with explorations that pair string instruments, piano, organ, and other acoustic instrumentation with custom-built 1-bit electronics. Open S…

Huge Tip! **200 copies** Eprc is a project by Roberto Crippa and Elisabetta Porcinai that exists between Berlin, Milan and London - a collaboration rooted in improvisation that has gradually distanced itself from the artists' respective practices, grounded in sound art, performance, visual art, and poetry, and evolved into a language and narrative of its own. In their work, the body is the starting point from which to measure and explore the world. Sensory perceptions and inner landscapes are di…

2025 Stock, rare and out of print compilation. 2CD Recordings from the "Bielefelder Colloquium Neue Poesie", an annual conference of worldwide visual and phonetic poets started in 1978 in Bielefeld, Germany. Performances & contributions by Gerhard Rühm, Carlfriedrich Claus, Henri Chopin, Jeremy Adler, Bernard Heidsieck, Franz Mon, Hartmut Geerken, Friedrich Achleitner, Ernst Jandl, Pierre & Ilse Garnier, Robert Lax, Valeri Scherstjanoi. When the Bielefeld Colloquium Neue Poesie was founded in 19…

Inkjet Print on Hahnemuehle Paper / 48 x 32 cm. David Lieske's ‘La Collectionneuse (Oscar)’ is a visual translation of the first page of ‘Allez Hop’ by Luciano Berio and Italo Calvino, an experimental work composed between 1952 and 1959 that fuses avant-garde literature and music.  Liske’s work is part of a collaboration between SZ Sugar and MIART, which encourages artists to explore the intersection of music and visual art. With the proposed work, I’d like to address the tension between “the wr…

*Bilingual Edition Italian/English* Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist’s poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding. Sound and listening construct processes that challenge human individuality and conventional languages. Sound, by its porous nature, and the cultural and symbolic manifestation of music fostering social connections, exert…

Art edition, LP + booklet, English / Italian, 31.5 x 31.5 cm, 36 pages. Starting with the film Monelle (2017), music has been a fundamental part of almost every work by the artist Diego Marcon. Federico Chiari’s compositions emerge from his ongoing dialogue with the artist. The music and the imagery take shape together, riffing off one another as they are interwoven to define both the structure and the emotional temperature of the pieces. The collaboration between Marcon and Chiari revolves arou…

Tip! Recorded Between 2017 and 2023 in Rome, Drawing by Vito Stassi, Master by Polysick. Limited Edition Cassette. Giulia Crispiani is a writer and visual artist based in Rome. Her practice brings together her backgrounds in industrial design, object making, philosophy and art theory, which are manifested in live and printed formats such as performances and publications.

*Bilingual Edition Italian/English* Costruzione dell'Universo: Artists’ Magazines and Publications after Marcel Duchamp is a research project that gathers artists’ magazines and publications by various artists who were active in the realm of “periodical and irregular” printed matter from the 1950s to the present day, beginning with of the work of the visionary artist Marcel Duchamp. This significant and hitherto overlooked sector of artistic production explores the dimension of the newspaper and…

*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…

Dan Melchior has a wild history, brain and catalogue. Penultimate Press is honoured to add to it. The former and later that is. This is Melchior's first piano recording. “I used my girlfriend Jessica's piano and got a fairly cheap mic from the guitar centre that could just be plugged onto the end of a guitar cable.” The reverb is natural, as the piano sits in a large, mostly empty room. Hill Country Piano is the result of a human music box mind brimming with many a corner somehow aligning with c…

25th Anniversary Edition. Goodbye 20th Century is a double album of covers of Avant-garde recordings by Sonic Youth and collaborators. SYR4 features works by avant-garde classical composers such as John Cage, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, and Christian Wolff played by Sonic Youth along with several collaborators from the modern avant-garde music scene, such as Christian Marclay, William Winant, Wharton Tiers, Takehisa Kosugi and others. The album received mixed reviews, but most critics praised the gro…

Taking a deep dive into some of the most important works ever created by the Italian avant-garde, Alga Marghen returns with a much needed and long-overdue brand new edition of their towering 5LP collection, “Il Divano dell'Orecchio”, dedicated to the work of Walter Marchetti. Gathering the composer’s seminal work for Cramps, issued between 1974 and 1989, and a host of archival material, scores, texts, and photographs, it’s an unprecedented dive into this truly singular voice, issued in a brand n…

300 copies - Introducing the the very first vinyl LP from En Halvkokt I Folie. Material that was compiled beginning in the early 1980s and extending a few years beyond. This is the ultimate blend of the best and the worst – a tapestry of Cut-Up dreams, devoid of Muzak, Musique Concréte and Sound collages infused with pure geniality!!!

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 …

*Bilingual Edition (English / German)* Once more, it’s a journey to the fringes. Recalling ­resistant and peculiar aesthetics, wondrous and forgotten outgrowths of music and cultural history of the last ­seventy years – a search for works with inherent value, often contrary to a semblance of seriosity. Among them are Vox Populi!, Takahisa Zeze, Antediluvian, Unica Zürn, Wolfgang Hilbig, Sergio Martino and others.

*Bilingual Edition (English / French)* The ultimate edition of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh's famous text, which explores, in the form of an ABC, the singular experience of improvising and free improvisation. The initial fragments, written about twenty years ago, provide a valuable testimony to the connections, differences, and questions of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh. The book is accompanied by a CD, Song Lang, a solo recorded in March 2024 at the Sound (Dis)obedience Festival in Ljubljana, Sloven…

Original 1989 LP, few copies available "Haiku Lingo" is constructed as a narrative musical labyrinth of characters, styles, orchestrations, texts and juxtapositions. The work makes use of Shelley Hirsch's vocal power and flexibility, humor and imaginative language together with David Weinstein's chameleon-powered sampling keyboards and electronics. Hirsch/Weinstein have collaborated regularly since 1985 including staged works "Occidental Dreams Of A Geisha" and "Celebration Of The Obvious", the …

An extremely rare Toshi Ichiyanagi art edition LP. Deluxe art edition boxset only available for gallery exhibition in Tokyo in 1982 and not available elsewhere. Housed in silver box with book, outer sleeve and many inserts with calligraphic artYuichi Inoue (1916-85) was an avant-garde calligraphy artist. This remarkable collaboration was realized by a curator Masaomi Unagami in 1982. This edition is consisted of 6 calligraphy of Yuichi's 'Taka' (hawk), Shohei O'Oka's short novel 'Taka' and fanta…

144, printed in offset. Artist Book. Can you hold a sound? This book experiments with giving tangible form to something seemingly immaterial. Within these pages, you will find a collection of thoughts on sound gathered by artists and researchers, each attempting to grasp sound’s fleeting nature through verbal and visual expressions. What are auditories? The plural of “auditory” emphasizes that there is no one way of hearing, and that hearing is not an isolated activity. For the inaugural present…

Softcover, 228 pages, 21x21 cm Korm Plastics founder Frans de Waard teamed up with designer Alfred Boland for the (second) one and only Korm Plastics magazine cum yearbook. Lots of new authors, including Audrey Golden (about Una Baines), Elodie A. Roy (about Shimmy Disc), Michel Faber (about Extreme Death Metal), Huili Raffo (about Hotline), Robin Rimbaud (about Peter Tscherkssky), Erik Quint (on Radio Tonka), Fred de Vries (the Kalahari Surfers), Lukas Simonis (about Dull Schicksal) and Richard…

Hardcover, 20×29,6 cm, 480 pages. Edited and assembled by Kristian Olsson. Almost an encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts and much beyond! Book-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, esoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic collages, oneiric musings, outlaw occultism, perversion, sinister arts and visual expansionism. Giftnålen is the foul arts journal for death-obsessed br…

Bomb! Softcover, 17×24 cm, 144 pages. English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary interest was radical music, noise and power electronics. They first released music by label boss Gary Mundy’s project, Ramleh, but later also by Le Syndicat, MB, Controlled Bleeding, Giancarlo Toniutti and various Mundy solo projects. Steve Underwood’s text appeared in a 2010 magazi…

**Essential reading!** Having issued a truly remarkable suite of publications, dedicated to radical reaches of musical practice and thought, over the last year or so - George Lewis and Harald Kisiedu's “Composing While Black”, Hans Reichel's “Daxophonie”, Guillaume Belhomme's “Eric Dolphy”, Phil Freeman’s “In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor”’ and “Radio Cologne Sound Das Studio für Elektronische Musik des WDR”, to name just a few - Wolke Verlag returns with “Cause and Curi…

The first visual book on the massively influential musician and interdisciplinary artist whose six-decade oeuvre unites music, movement and art

Encyclopedia of French progressive rock, experimental, electronic music, etc. by Steven Freeman & Alan Freeman - Following on the tradition of our other country focused music books: "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg" exploring "Krautrock" and the wider scene from Germany, and the more recently completed "A Fistful Of Spaghetti" covering the amazing Italian "Spaghetti-Rock" scene, this book had been germinating as long as the latter, with the basic structure and discographies largely completed decades…