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Black Ark is a 600‑page visual and textual immersion into Lee “Scratch” Perry’s legendary Kingston studio, assembled by Ishion Hutchinson, Kodwo Eshun, Lee Scratch Perry and Veerle Poupeye: a dense, collaged “house‑book” where dub’s sonic revolution is mirrored in murals, talismanic objects and layered histories.
In Spacemen 3 Vinyl – Extended Edition, Danny Passarella assembles the definitive visual chronicle of Sonic Boom and J Spaceman’s recorded universe: a lavish, full‑colour archive of global pressings, ephemera and new interviews that turns their vinyl trail into a tactile, time‑spanning narrative.
In Hypnotised: A Journey Through Trance Music (1990–2005), Arjan Rietveld traces trance from smoky backrooms to global main stages, charting how a marginal, emotional strain of dance music became a worldwide language of euphoria, melancholy and collective release.
Svartmálmur, Ditto’s latest publication, is a portrait of the Icelandic Black Metal scene by photographer Verði ljós, the alter-ego of Wormlust musician Hafsteinn Viðar Ársælsson.
2026 stock In 2011, a new version of Mauricio Kagel's ZWEI-MANN-ORCHESTER (1971-73) was realised in Basel and performed by the two one-man orchestras Wilhelm Bruck and Matthias Würsch at the Museum Tinguely.
Students of the Institute of Art at the HGK FHNW under the direction of Reinhard Manz have documented the construction and development process of the orchestra machine as well as the complete performance.Content of the DVD:
ZWEI-MANN-ORCHESTER (72 min)
ZWEI-MANN-LABOR de/en/fr/es (20 min)
Z…
French Language Edition This volume examines the protean and intermedial work of Pierre Alferi (1963-2023), in order to account for its singularity, and to situate it within contemporary poetic and artistic practices.
Italian Language Edition Una monografia esauriente e completa di uno dei maggiori artisti e poeti visivi del secondo novecento italiano, Arrigo Lora Totino. Un catalogo ragionato di poesie, performances, libri d’artista, video.
* Deluxe 88 pages offset printed CMYK, sewn-glued binding, and folded flaps cover * Building upon and furthering his efforts in attending to the contemporary landscape of music via insightful texts, from the ashes of his longstanding zine, Personal Best, Lasse Marhaug delivers his brand new outing in periodical publishing with the first installment of 8090 VÅG, Nothing Personal. Comprising interviews with Ronny Wærnes, Stina Stjern; Mental Overdrive, Government Alpha, Fredrik Nilsen, Jérôme Noe…
The Pink Violin by Jon Rose and Rainer Linz is a gloriously over‑the‑top fake biography of non‑existent violinist–composer Dr. Johannes Rosenberg, a “reformist parody” that lampoons art‑school scholarship, new‑music mythologies and violin culture with such detail and deadpan rigor it almost passes for the real thing.
The first monograph on John Giorno (1936-2019), poet, performer and activist who brought the written word off the page and into life. Accompanying the MAMbo Bologna retrospective, it maps six decades of radical practice at the crossroads of poetry, art and political action.
Drawings, Collages, Paintings reveals Adam Bohman as a visual artist every bit as singular as his music, collecting five decades of creatures, cowboys, food‑packet detritus and biro‑scrawled ephemera into a thick, disarming portrait of an English visionary working at the kitchen‑table edge of art history.
Hardcover, 468 pages, 21×27 cm! In the wake of his Cause And Effect cassette label and distribution service, Hal McGee launched Electronic Cottage International Magazine. From 1989 to 1991, its six issues focused on the independent home recording community – artists who had developed their craft in the post-punk DIY era. The contributors were nearly all members of the hometaper community. The magazine featured articles providing helpful tips and highlighted the challenges hometapers faced. It in…
Published on the occasion of the 2025 exhibition Corps à cordes: Vibrations and Resonances at the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO in Chatou, curated by Elena Sorokina and Simona Dvorák, this book explores the resonances between Sufism and contemporary artistic practice. Taking the setâr - a key Sufi instrument - as a central metaphor, it reflects on the vibratory nature of emotion, healing, and transmission across human, ecological, and spiritual realms. Conceived as both an extension of th…
The collection of previously unpublished interviews and extended versions of Alan Licht's famous conversations with figures in the American art and music scene.
The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. A heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive.
DINTE mint their short run book publishing imprint, The End books, with this vast collection of flyers for dances, clashes and blues parties in the Caribbean soundsystem tradition from across the UK between the early 1970s and mid 1990s. Comes complete with introduction by David Katz (People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae) and outroduction by Kevin Le Gendre (Don't Stop the Carnival: Black British Music, Children of the Ghetto: Black Mus…
Huge Tip! *2025 repress* 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 label and micro-press founded by musician Valentina Magaletti and writer Fanny Chiarello, dedicated to promoting contemporary female, non-binary and transgender artists. Basta Now is essentially a huge (yet admittedly not definitive) overview of 2…
Before the internet collapsed distances and democratized distribution, the international noise underground operated through an intricate web of mail-order catalogs, hand-dubbed cassettes, and photocopied fanzines. Labels emerged from bedrooms and basements, their catalogs circulating through postal networks that connected isolated outposts of extreme sound across continents. Few figures navigated this world as actively as Frans de Waard, and few labels embodied its uncompromising spirit as purel…
This book surveys the final six years of Het Apollohuis, the alternative art space founded by artists Paul and Hélène Panhuysen in 1980 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The rarest volume in the series - printed in only 500 copies, compared to the 1000-1500 print runs of the previous volumes. Housed in a former cigarette factory, Het Apollohuis produced exhibitions, concerts, installations, lectures, and publications concerned with experimental, interdisciplinary, and interactive art. Much of the work …