The Odessey
2025 stock To mark the 50th anniversary of the recording of their classic Odessey and Oracle album, The Zombies have assembled an eclectic collection of rare and unseen photos, original artwork and personal memories that offer readers an intimate snapshot of one of the more influential bands to emerge from the UK music scene of the 1960s.
The superbly illustrated book includes handwritten lyrics for 22 songs. From early hits “She’s Not There” and “Tell Her No,” through every song on Odessey and …
Mouans-Sartoux, Paris, Eschenau, Digne-Les-Bains, Trédrez-Locquémeau
Bilingual Edition French/English This book is a visual and geographical journey through the artist's work and exhibitions, enriched by five original samples—olive leaves, charcoal, street paper, earth and seaweed—inserted and activated by hand according to the artist's recommendations. In 2024 and 2025, the Espace de l'Art Concret, the Dourven Gallery, the Aline Vidal Gallery, and the Gassendi Museum presented the work of Herman de Vries, reflecting their long-standing relationships with the art…
Sudden Music
Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents a musical way of knowing that can closely engage us with the world and open us to its spontaneity.Improvisation is everywhere, says David Rothenberg, and his book is a testament to its creative, surpris…
From This World, Another
From This World, Another marks the first release for Terra Nova Editions, a new series of books not available from our usual distribution channels. This book is published along with a new album of music, recorded remotely during the pandemic, by David Rothenberg and Stephen Nachmanovitch, two veteran improvisors who also have written books on improvisation and the creative process. What started out as liner notes just got longer and longer…
Stephen and David share an affinity for improvising mus…
Errant Sound Reader – Thoughts and Practices from the Berlin Artist-Run Space (Book)
Errant Sound Reader brings together essays, interviews and documentation of projects by artists and researchers associated with Errant Sound, an artist-run space in Berlin.
Since 2014, Errant Sound has been an active part of Berlin's independent art scene, supporting work in sound art and experimental sonic practices. Over the years this has included a range of exhibition projects, performance events, discursive formats, and collaborative initiatives that investigate sound in diverse ways and th…
Oacis
**2025 Stock** As regards content, acoustics and optics, raster-noton.oacis goes beyond the momentary. The texts by top writers like Rob Young (The Wire), Pinky Rose, Peter Kraut (NZZ) and Martin Pesch (e.g. Frieze, Spex, Kunstforum) examine how raster-noton works on the cutting edge of electronic music, computer graphics and video animation, with which supreme ease the label moves between pop/club culture and the fine arts. The creative cover flap includes a CD with audiotracks and multimedia d…
Flitting Splits Reverb Adage (Book)
An assignment: find the titles of Rob Mazurek’s records and the names of his bands. Put them in a line. Now tell me he’s not a poet. Mazurek is a bona fide polymath. He thinks in multiple media. One modality bleeds into another, the musical into the visual into the verbal. And they are cumulative, as seen and heard and read in these beautiful poems. Colors explode, repetitions draw musicality out of words, text refers to the shape of a sound. Conjuring a cosmic sonosphere, the sound-crust on the…
America's Greatest Noise (Book)
The next book on Korm Plastics contains no photographs of the artists, no list of released records, no pictures of record sleeves, and no footnotes. It is not a hardcover, not on glossy paper and is not expensive. It’s… ‘America’s Greatest Noise’ tells the story of Ron Lessard, owner of RRRecords, a record store in Lowell, Massachusetts and, from 1986 to 2009, a record label, releasing the albums of Blackhouse, F/i, PGR, the first Merzbow LP outside Japan and many more, regional compilations, th…
Music from the Hearts of Space: Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music (Book)
Essential 1981 catalog of transformative music reissued for new generation of cosmic consciousness seekers
Shock Factory - The Visual Culture of Industrial Music (Book)
Back in stock! 640 pages! Industrial music has long been recognized for its sonic innovations, but the radical visual culture that accompanied this underground movement has remained largely unexplored. Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music presents the first comprehensive examination of how industrial artists created a coherent aesthetic language across multiple media—from xerox art and mail art to installation and performance—fundamentally challenging modernist utopias while pro…
Synths, Sax & Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978 (Book)
530 pages! While music fans worldwide celebrate Germany's Krautrock revolution, the equally radical French underground scene has remained largely hidden from view. Ian Thompson's groundbreaking Synths, Sax & Situationists finally illuminates this extraordinary movement that emerged from the revolutionary ferment of May 1968, revealing a generation of musicians who produced some of the most distinctive and vital experimental music of the entire decade.
At the dawn of the 1970s, French musicians …
Record Sleeves 1930 - 2000 (Book)
A selection of 300+ record sleeves from 1930 to 2000 by Masala Noir.
LÄRM #4 (Book)
New stories from the fringes of pop culture!Guided by a shared curiosity for layers that lie a little deeper, the authors in this 4th issue take an empathetic look at the footnotes of cultural history, at the supposedly insignificant or odd – somewhere between obsession and outsiderdom, myth and everyday life, personal reflection and historical context. By covering underground music, cinema and literature, by tracing lives of radical devotion, careers and dreams marked by ruptures and tipping po…
Spectres #05 – Diffusion
The fifth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, on the theme of diffusion and dissemination.
Alla ricerca di una musica concreta (Book)
OBS!!! Italian Language Edition Finalmente in italiano uno dei testi classici della musica elettroacustica. Questa è l’avventura pionieristica di Pierre Schaeffer, al tempo stesso un avvincente e leggibilissimo diario dei suoi esperimenti di composizione sonora e un trattato sulla ragion d’essere della “musica concreta”, un libro che ha avuto una profonda influenza sui compositori che hanno lavorato e lavorano con la tecnologia. Infatti, i suoi effetti si estendono oltre i confini della musica c…
Organic Music Societies
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry
Denshi Zatsuon #9
Denshi Zatsuon n.9 delves into the frontiers of noise, industrial, and power electronics with exclusive interviews, reviews, and artist profiles. This issue includes 2 CDs featuring leading figures from the scene, offering an immersive journey into the world of experimental sound for dedicated listeners and collectors.
Pride, Pop and Politics: Music, Theatre and LGBT Activism (Book)
** Hardcover edition ** Pride, Pop and Politics charts the development of gay culture and the rise of LGBTQ politics in the UK, from the formation of the Gay Liberation Front to the present day, through the music that provided the soundtrack.
Fifty years on from Britain’s first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and fundraising concerts, the performing arts have played an influential role in each great stride …
Roberto Altmann - L'œuvre gravé (1959-2012)
The first major publication on one of the most important Lettrist artists: the catalogue raisonné of Roberto Altmann's engraved work, with 200 works described, an interview with Maggy Mauritz, a biography and a list of exhibitions.Frédéric Acquaviva, born in 1967, has been since 1990 a sound artist and experimental music composer, creating chronopolyphonic installations and CDs and playing in art galleries, in museums or in underground venues.Staying away from traditional networks of musicians a…
Epistemic Imaginaries – Learning as Festivity (Book)
Epistemic Imaginaries brings attention to creative educational initiatives and how alternative learning situations work at reinventing community and related knowledge practices.
Central to the publication is emphasizing such initiatives as grounded in festivity, appreciating how they support and celebrate new ways of being together. From feasting on ideas to hosting dissident knowledges, from blending individual and collective work, along with discursive and somatic methods, to growing sustainab…