Graphème Vol.4 (Book)
Welcome to the fourth edition of Graphème: a collection of scores by composers and artists intent on sharing and collaborating with performers in the realisation of adventurous and creative sonic experiences. The pieces presented in this edition range from simple to complex. Some are more open to freedom of interpretation and some are more specific, but all are offered in the spirit of collaboration with the performer who interprets the work. In This Issue twelve previously unpublished works by:…
The Other Sound Of Art
2024 stock The very first art monograph in print on the ‘aliencentric world’ of visionary outsider duo My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA) and their interdisciplinary universe. Radical instantaneous composers, shamanic live performers and iconoclastic visual artists, brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio unveil a rich and astounding selection of their own paintings, drawings, installations, Polaroids, b&w photos, sculptures, cinematic poetry film stills, artist books, intermedia objects and phonographic a…
Works With Sound
*Bilingual Edition English/German* Terry Fox, who since the 1960s radically rejected traditional art forms and sought new forms of artistic expression, has been increasingly concerned with investigating the seldom-observed energetic aspects of materials. Hence, sound gained a central significance in his works. The artist is dedicated to finding sounds that make energies palpable and connect the listener and his physical surroundings.
Enclosed within the 120-page hardcover book produced in connec…
Huggy Bear - Killed (Of Kids)
Huggy Bear was a UK riot grrrl band that existed from 1991-1994. Outcast and outraged, they made a howling, squalling mess of punk, all the menace and freedom of flocking birds. The handful of records, zines, and memories that document this brief, bonfire lifespan sketch a blueprint for how to be in the world, for how to understand the forces of capitalism and patriarchy and capitulation and still resist. Huggy Bear was a group that let things be complicated, that considered themselves complicit…
A War Of Decibels
Tip! *2025 stock* The fourth release on Flatlines is ‘A War Of Decibels’, a 43 minute audio essay by Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak. Nowak is most well-known for his large-scale sound installations, especially Panzer (2011) and the Mantis (2019), dramatic and beautifully constructed sound systems installed on tracked vehicles which have hosted a range of DJs over the years such as Dj Rashad & DJ Spinn, Scratcha DVA, Ikonika and Kode9.The audio essay builds on the themes of his 2020 interdisciplin…
Indian Sun - The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar (Book)
The definitive biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the most influential musicians and composers of the twentieth century, told with the cooperation of his estate, family, and friends.For over eight decades, Ravi Shankar was India’s greatest cultural ambassador. He was a groundbreaking performer and composer of Indian classical music, who brought the music and rich culture of India to the world’s leading concert halls and festivals, charting the map for those who followed in his footsteps. Renowned…
About Transformations (Book)
Following on from 2023’s “Ruinous Spirituality”, and its predecessor, “Three Essays on Spirituality and Art”, the publisher, João Simões, returns with “About Transformations”, the third in their series of deep dives into the wild and radical mind of Henry Flynt. A beautifully produced, limited edition hardbound volume, across the length of this extensive essay Flynt returns to where so much began: his 1961 work “Transformations”, originally published in “An Anthology of Chance Operations” in 196…
juHrop
Limited and numbered edition of 250 copies. Die-cut box, 5 inlays and extensive booklet (Libretto). The opera "juHrop" was recorded with great effort at the Studio für Komische Musik Berlin and at the studio of Diamanda Galas in New York from 1996 to 2001. It is orchestral music produced with electronic devices and voices of Chinese singer Wu Jiang, David Moss, Diamanda Galas, Udo Scheuerpflug, Margarete Huber and the Moabiter Motettenchor. It was broadcasted in full length on "Deutschlandradio …
The Annual / Giftnalen / The Broken Flag Story (3 Book in bundle)
Since their relaunch in 2019 as, primarily, a publisher of books, the legendary Dutch imprint, Korm Plastics - founded in 1984 by Frans de Waard - has been blowing our minds with incredible volumes, roughly attending the music scenes to which they belong. Their three latest - Steve Underwood’s incredible immersion into the story of Broken Flag, “Even When It Makes No Sense”; the Kristian Olsson edited and assembled encyclopaedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts, “Giftnalen”, and the 20…
Klub Londinium
Klub Londinium was the creation of the conceptual art-pop collective Sudden Sway and took place across the streets of London during the early 1990s. It created a three-dimensional immersive landscape which superimposed a journey into the psychologies of various personality types over a walk through physical space and urban history. Combining music with aural atmospheres, an internal voice, and a narrator Klub Londinium pioneered the psychogeographic experience by creating a club with no specific…
Projectile
Projectile is an artist’s book by Reto Geiser, David Grubbs, and John Sparagana that spirals outward from a single source image: a news photograph of chair-throwing at the conclusion of a cancelled rock concert in the early 1980s. Visual artist John Sparagana has long produced sliced and mixed collage works in which a source image is enlarged, copies of the image sliced vertically into 1/8” strips and then sequenced horizontally, followed by a second stage in which the stretched image is sliced …
Ninulla + Gran Trotto (2LP Bundle)
* The two recent Holidays Records releases in a special discounted bundle. 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…
Amazoom
Collector's edition of 30 copies, each accompanied by an artist's multiple: a sculpture inspired by the seeds of Parartocarpus venenosa from the Amazon jungle, used by monkeys as combs and now objects to be mounted on the turntable while listening. The edition contains a text/score by Luca Trevisani. Xing presents the first LP by Luca Trevisani, AMAZOOM, sixteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, includin…
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…
Eat 20
Robert Pollard's (Guided By Voices) amazing collages in a full-color 238-page book.
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…
Swan In The Past
"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…
Gran Trotto
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: …
Ninulla
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.