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RELEASE DATE: 3/4/2025
Delayed until March/2025... "A massive photographic archive of Lee 'Scratch' Perry's legendary recording studio. A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry created music from 1973 onward. The eclectic and constantly evolving decoration of the studio provides an enduring visual counterpart to Perry's expansive musical catalog. From mural paintings to shape-shifting assemblages of records, instruments, found objects, posters and newspaper clippings, the artworks layer upon one another as they intertwine with the studio building itself. Perry created his own dense and diverse world in which to work: memorialized in this volume before the Black Ark disappears for good. The photographic documentation of the studio in the spring of 2021 was supplemented by efforts to secure and preserve Perry's works, objects and recordings as part of a joint project with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Black Ark reflects the rhythm and layering effects of collage both in its content and the materials used to craft the book. Perry was involved in the development of this publication until his death in August 2021. The book closes with memorial essays from Ishion Hutchinson, David Katz, Kodwo Eshun, and John Corbett. Lee 'Scratch' Perry (1936-2021) was a musician and producer best known for pioneering the dub genre in the 1970s. He worked with well-known Jamaican artists such as Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Heptones, the Congos, and Max Romeo. In 2003 he won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album."
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$20.00
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RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2025
"Jim Franks is not a professional baker, because there are no such things as professional bakers. He is also not your father and never will be, nor is this a cookbook full of stories and recipes. Jim Franks is a baker and a poet who's written a love story about bread, which is to say he's written a life story about listening, learning, trying, failing, adapting, and above all, caring. Through humor, history, relentless curiosity, and refreshingly unsentimental poetry, Existential Bread teaches there are many ways to bake a loaf just as there are many ways to live a life." Paperback; 5.5" x 8.25" / 170pp "Existential Bread is a collected bakers' common sense from Jim Franks, one of the most knowledgeable people about modern baking in the United States today." --Matt Kedzie, Owner-Baker of Starter Bread "Part love letter, part philosophical manifesto, Jim Frank's book is an earnest and charming exploration of our human relationship with bread and what it takes to make it." --Fiona Cook, Author of The Wheel of the Year "In a world of samey-samey, this book is different. Jim Franks doesn't want you to make his bread (by providing glossy photos and detailed recipes); he wants you to make your bread (by sharing his practice and what he has learned). In a world of 'shoulds' and 'bottom lines,' Existential Bread creates space while providing structure for you to fall in love with the ancient act of making bread. Plus, it's a very fun read." --Abra Berens, Author of Ruffage, Grist and Pulp
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9783959053204
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$60.00
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RELEASE DATE: 1/21/2025
Delayed further... until early 2025.."Pioneering media artist and concrete poet Ferdinand Kriwet's 1971 cult artist's book in a facsimile edition. A monumental, three-volume encyclopedia of alphabetically organized images, Ferdinand Kriwet: Stars was first published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1971. In the 1960s, German author and media artist Ferdinand Kriwet (1942-2018), inspired by concrete poetry and its interest in the visual quality of linguistic signs, began to approach the literary medium of the book in a new way. Imagining new ways of reading that resisted linearity, Kriwet experimented with alternatives, encouraging a rapid back-and-forth between the pages of the book and the texts and images on them. In Stars, he treats images like words and arranges them in alphabetical order in an epic encyclopedia format. For years, Stars has only been available, at considerable cost, in antiquarian book catalogs. This new facsimile edition of Ferdinand Kriwet: Stars brings Kriwet's pioneering vision and his seminal book back into print." 416 pages. 2.5 pounds. 5.50(w) x 8.75(h).
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RELEASE DATE: 11/22/2024
"On the cover: AR Kane. Overlooked in their late '80s Mk 1 era and unsung for years after their 1994 split, the duo of Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala heralded many landmark developments in '90s music: most famously dreampop, shoegaze and post-rock. Through their embrace of dub, soul and club-forward forms they also impacted the development of trip hop, ambient dub and even, obliquely, house music's explosion into the charts. With last year's release of the AR Kive box set and a return to live activity, they talk to early supporter Simon Reynolds about what to expect next. Inside the issue: Yatta, Sun Yizhou, Cuntroaches. Invisible Jukebox: Sun Araw."
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RELEASE DATE: 11/15/2024
In Straight Up, Without Wings, Joe McPhee surveys sixty years in creative music. Starting with his trumpeter-father's influence and formative years in the U.S. Army, McPhee recounts experiences as a Black-hippy-cum-budding-musician based in upstate New York, perched at an ideal distance from Manhattan's free jazz demimonde of the 1960s and its loft scene of the 1970s. A natural storyteller, revealing never-told tales and reveling in the joys of noise, McPhee puts the influence of -- and encounters with -- Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Albert Ayler into the context of an independently-minded young player, ravenous for experience, dealing with the crucible of racism, seeking to break out beyond the bounds of a regional Hudson Valley scene that he knows like the back of his hand. The memoir draws forward through thrilling passages in Europe and across the United States, as McPhee gains momentum, as his music becomes the impetus for multiple record labels, as he collaborates with figures from Peter Brötzmann to Pauline Oliveros, and as he eventually goes on to inspire musicians far and wide. Written as an oral history, deftly conducted by Mike Faloon to preserve McPhee's unique narrative voice, Straight Up, Without Wings includes "reflections" by eight musicians from across the protagonist's rich history. Photography: Ziga Koritnik, Ken Brunton, John Corbett. First printing, edition of 1000. 166 pages. Dimensions: 8.5" x 6" x .5".
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$188.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2024
"A limited deluxe box set of Dust & Grooves Volume 1 (10th Anniversary Edition) and Dust & Grooves Volume 2. Over 1000 full color pages, featuring over 270 of the world's greatest vinyl collectors, including: Questlove, A-Trak, Gilles Peterson, DāM FunK, Floating Points, Four Tet, Peanut Butter Wolf, Quantic, DJ Spinna, Kid Koala, Don Letts, Rich Medina, King Britt, Andy Votel, Colleen Murphy, Shawn Lee, Mayer Hawthorne, The Gaslamp Killer, and bass maestro Ron Carter. Included in the box set: Hardcover slipcase with foil stamping; 18x24" 'Sleeve Face' poster by Dust & Grooves."
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DGV 2001BK
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$100.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2024
"A stunning 650-page hardcover illustrated book, featuring over 150 record collectors including A-Trak, Colleen Murphy, DāM FunK, Peanut Butter Wolf, Quantic, DJ Spinna, Kid Koala, Don Letts, Andy Votel, Shawn Lee, Mayer Hawthorne, and bass maestro Ron Carter. Renowned photographer and publisher Eilon Paz returns with Dust & Grooves: Further Adventures In Record Collecting, a sequel to his 2014 best-selling Dust & Grooves, highlighting over one hundred fifty of the world's most fascinating and accomplished vinyl collectors, bridging stunning images with extensive interviews, and revealing the motives and backstories behind the global record-collecting community. Ten years after the first book release, with vinyl's consistent surge in popularity, Further Adventures, spanning over 650 pages, digs deeper than its predecessor, underscoring gorgeous collections from astute, everyday enthusiasts to venerated DJs, musicians and producers. Veteran journalist and editor David Ma (Wax Poetics, NPR, Rolling Stone) handles the editorial end of this sequel, making Further Adventures a cultural leader in the field, expertly accentuating the world's unifying devotion to vinyl. Tailor-made for lovers of world-class photography, novice to expert collectors, and music obsessives alike."
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$95.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2024
"A 470-page hardcover book featuring highly detailed photos and comprehensive research on 222 portable vinyl record players. Once considered little more than a children's plaything or a grade school accessory, the portable record player has gained newfound respect in recent years. Whatever they may lack in high-end audio fidelity, battery-powered turntables more than make up for it with their convenience and ease of use. Just ask any crate digger: a cult favorite portable like the Columbia GP-3 or the Audio-Technica Sound Burger (or even the Fisher-Price Big Bird model) can be an absolutely essential companion on an all-day vinyl hunt. Portables features lavish, detailed photos of 222 portable turntables from around the world, including rare record players from Japan, the UK, Germany and the Soviet Union as well as the USA, and ranging in vintage from the 1920s to the early twenty-first century. They're all gorgeously captured here by photographer Eilon Paz, with accompanying commentary from music historian Dan Epstein. Whether you're a hardcore turntable collector, an aficionado of cool vintage audio gear, a student of industrial design, or a vinyl lover curious about the wild world of portable record players, Portables will make your head spin -- and will soon have you scouring thrift stores, antique malls, and even your grandma's attic for the portable record player of your dreams."
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The growth of the Jamaican recording industry. Records have played an integral part in the history of Jamaican music and the importance of making records, as opposed to making music, can never be overstated. These are the stories, told through first-hand accounts wherever possible, of the men and women -- manufacturers, musicians, singers, deejays, arrangers and record producers -- who made the records and who made the sound of reggae available worldwide. 350-page hardback book. Illustrated throughout with period photos, artifacts and record labels.
"This volume of what promises to become a crucial series covers in comprehensive fashion Jamaican music's pivotal phase, when the music absorbed its US influences from soul and moved on from rock steady and progressed to the uniquely Jamaican sound of reggae and rockers. It was a period in which old and new rhythms became the cornerstone of the music and thus the true foundation of reggae. This second volume in the trilogy, amply illustrated, contains a wealth of interview testimony from the creators of the music and is both utterly authentic and essential reading." --Steve Barrow, Co-author of Reggae The Rough Guide
"If you couldn't be there, or even thereabouts, at the time, consider this book your very own literary TARDIS to help you to relive the evolution of Jamaican music at (almost) first hand. I'm very proud to have had even the smallest involvement with this essential read." --Tony Rounce, Author and Music Historian
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The birth and growth of the Jamaican recording industry. Records have played an integral part in the history of Jamaican music and the importance of making records, as opposed to making music, can never be overstated. These are the stories, told through first-hand accounts wherever possible, of the men and women -- manufacturers, musicians, arrangers and record producers -- who made the records and who made the sound of reggae available worldwide. 188-page hardback book. Illustrated throughout with period photos, artifacts and record labels.
"An absolutely crucial survey of the origins of the Jamaican music industry replete with chapter and verse quotes from many of the pivotal movers and shakers. A wealth of new information, expertly marshalled: this is a book whose time has come." --Steve Barrow, Co-author of Reggae The Rough Guide
"Jamaican Recordings is a fine read and a book that anybody with more than a passing interest in Jamaican recordings will need to add to their library right away." --Tony Rounce, Author and Music Historian
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"Perhaps you first encountered Lesley Arfin in the pages of Vice -- where her 'Dear Diary' column ran for six years in the aughts, rampaging you the reader through the flaming youth of a Long Island misfit girl and all the shit she tried. Or maybe it was the book collection -- all those searing 'Diary' entries coupled with latter-day Lesley's acerbic responses. Or perhaps, like your present writer, you sat up late, until late became early, falling in with the poor fucked-up creatures of Love (Netflix, 2016?2019), your heart breaking for the familiarity of their simple desires and the mayhem that followed. Plus, there's Girls, Awkward, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Betty; there's any number of ways you might have happened upon Lesley Arfin over the past twenty-plus years. As a comedian and a writer and a producer, her signature ability is to channel the heaviest of feels from the excruciating kind of real-life trouble that people put themselves through just trying to live every day. A gut-punch punctuated with a belly-laugh. Now, reflect on Tickle Me, and Lesley's path not traveled (until now): visual artist! As a kid, she wanted to write comic books. But she wasn't a happy artist in her youth, or a good one (so she thought), so she stuck to writing, up until her acumen'd brought her to the apex of the craft: the grind of network television. By then, doing a little painting seemed downright relaxing! Plus, it was therapeutic -- until it got to be so compelling it was like OCD. The busier she was -- with work, marriage, having a baby -- the more images came, the more paintings piled up. As you move through the images that make up Tickle Me, you see Lesley tapping her familiar depths and the creepy humor that she finds down there -- but through an outrageous riot of flowers and colors and '70s Sears Catalog imagery! If this is a safe space, then is there actually NO safe space? Fuhgettaboutit -- it's all just life space. Tickle Me features Lesley's early expressions of her truth in graphic art. Glittery reflections on gender, weather, mistakes, feminism, fantasy, failure, nostalgia; her own personal language rendered in watercolor, gauche, acrylic, fiber, stickers and collage. Like life, no guarantees, other than from that from any beginning, it can only keep growing. And it has, and it will."
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WIRE 489
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"Every copy of the November issue will come with a free CD of The Wire Tapper 66 attached to the cover. This latest edition of The Wire Tapper features a cover designed by Firpal and contains 16 new tracks by Boris Hauf, Rafael Anton Irisarri, and Niton. Featuring John Butcher, Masayoshi Fujita, Moor Mother, Schande, and more. On the cover: Marshall Allen. Inside the issue: Once Upon A Time In Lithuania, Frank Chickens, Water Damage. Invisible Jukebox: Pharmakon. Global Ear: Latvia. Unlimited Editions: Reading Group. Inner Sleeve: Eleni Poulou. Plus one page profiles of Kamilya Jubran, Flickers From The Fen, SEO, and Callahan & Witscher."
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"Record Time No 2 hits the bargain bins and neglected corners of the local record store to find great records that are still affordable to average folks. And, as with the first issue, we dig into the back stories of these records and artists, with a focus on good writing. This time around we do a deep dive into the life and career of Ray (Rae) Bourbon, a pre-Stonewall drag artist and comedian; jazzman Charles Lloyd's 'wilderness' albums; Catalan folk legend and politico Lluis Llach; oddball rockers the Hampton Grease Band; finding the South African country music holy grail; Canadian cabaret rocker Louis Furey; the weird world of Polka; hard rocking should-have-been-huge Birtha; actor and music pusher Jack Webb; Sex Pistols and Pistols-inspired novelty records; patron saint of smart asses Rick Johnson; and more! Contributors this time are Tom Hyland, Owen Maercks, Stella Beratlis, Steve Silverstein, Nathanel Amar, Adam Taub, Nate Knaebel, Laurent Bigot, Mike Trouchon, Greg Pshaw, Johnny Sunshine, Dennis Worden, Fred De Vries, Stan Appleton, Billups Allen, and Todd Trick Knee, with guest appearances by Lali Donovan, Larry Hardy, Tony Coulter, and Dana Katharine. Edited by S Soriano."
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"On the cover: Grace Jones by Tamara Palmer: Palmer delves into the entire history of this remarkable artist, who will naturally deliver us a stunning cover image. Jones is even more of a one-of-a-kind musician and persona than most of us realize, so we're extra excited to feature her on the cover of this issue. Deep Archival Dives With Living Luminaries -- PULP: Peeling back the onion of time, we are graced with a fine selection of ephemera and rare images from the forthcoming Hat + Beard book on the cult band's cult band: I'm With Pulp, Are You?, by Mark Webber; Mayo Thompson: Jasper Leach has delivered a stunningly good and very deep dive into the genesis and long life of Thompson's masterpiece Corky's Debt to His Father; REDD KROSS: They've already had a great double album and documentary readied for summer but in the Fall there's also a definitive RK book so we enlisted Jen B. Larson to do a career-spanning feature on your favorite teen babes from Monsanto. Larson wrote Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA 1975-83; MARY TIMONY: Mary Timony is one of the great guitar luminaries and songwriters of the indie era, but rarely does she get the credit she deserves. Audrey Golden, author of I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records, not only went into every nook and cranny of Timony's career, but the first question she asked Timony is one for the ages: 'Is that a lute?'"
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"When Paul Simon first heard the Zulu accordion flourish that would open his multi-platinum album Graceland, he told Joe Boyd that it seemed to proclaim, 'You haven't heard this before!' Yet the 'world music' boom of the 1980s that Simon's album helped to usher in had roots that extended back through the decades and across continents: tango on the eve of World War I, Latin dance across the '30s, '40s and '50s, reggae in the '70s, pre-War samba and pre-Beatles bossa nova, Eastern European ensembles filling capitalist concert halls during the Cold War, Indian ragas changing rock and roll in the 1960s, gypsy music inspiring classical composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. As far back as 1853, the music that had intrigued Simon had captivated London during a Zulu choir's extended run there. (Only Charles Dickens dissented.) Like that of other far-flung musical traditions sweeping the globe, the story of Zulu music and its relationship to neighbors, invaders, appropriators, and admirers -- from brutal 19th century massacres to 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' -- is more controversial, colorful, and complex than many imagine. Joe Boyd was part of a small group of label heads and journalists who chose 'world music' as their marketing slogan in the 1980s. Already the legendary producer of artists including Pink Floyd, The Incredible String Band, Soft Machine, Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Toots and the Maytals, and many others, Boyd had little idea how fast and how wide those simple words would spread, or how far back the history went. He would soon learn, producing pathbreaking music in Cuba, Brazil, Bulgaria, Mali, Hungary, Spain, and India under his label Hannibal Records. Following the success of his book White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, a self-published smash hit, Boyd now sets out to explore the stories behind the world music he had helped to popularize. He has traveled across continents and interviewed dozens of musicians, producers, and academics, and spent years reading, listening, and writing. The one-of-a-kind result is And The Roots of Rhythm Remain: a riveting, symphonic, globetrotting tour of the music that shapes the world. Hardcover. 900 pages."
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WIRE 488
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"On the cover: Keiji Haino. Inside: Shamica Ruddock, Seppuku Pistols, Jabu, Gregory TS Walker, Viktar Siama?ka. The Primer: John Butcher. Invisible Jukebox: Wolfgang Voigt. Epiphanies: Mark Webber on Spaceman 3. The Inner Sleeve: Céline Gillain on Leonard Cohen. Global Ear: Nicosia. Unlimited Editions: Nashazphone, and in the reviews sections: Wendy Eisenberg, Ivo Perelman, Yellow Swans, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tristwch Y Fenywod, Byard Lancaster, Zdeněk Li?ka, Dr John, Supernormal, Heroines Of Sound, and much more."
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The twelfth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Worldwide for Gilles Peterson. 128 pages, 170 x 240 mm in size and printed on 140g Edixion paper with laminated 300g Invercote covers. All articles presented in English. Includes "Gilles Peterson" by Anton Spice, "Ingrid Laubrock" by Stewart Smith, "Hannibal Lokumbe" by Bret Sjerven, "Universal Folks Sounds" by Magnus Nygren, "Spoken Word/Free Jazz" by Alex Coles, "Dutch Jazz Archive" by Danny Veekens, "Takuya Kuroda" by Rob Garratt, "Jan Roder and Michael Griener of Die Enttäuschung" by Bill Meyer, "divr" by Daryl Worthington, "Astro Can Caravan" by Wif Stenger, "Discaholic Column" by Mats Gustafsson, "J Jazz 1955-88" by Tony Higgins, album reviews, and more.
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"On the cover: this summer, avant metal duo The Body and vocalist/producer Felicia Chen, aka Dis Fig, take their collaboration on the road in the US and UK, showcasing work from their joint album Orchards Of A Futile Heaven out now on Thrill Jockey. They talk about collaborative processes and more to Antonio Poscic. Plus, inside the issue: interviews with dissident Czech guitarist Pavel Richter, improvising polymath Steve Beresford, punk turned improv bassist Farida Amadou, an Invisible Jukebox with Tokyo avant rock duo Melt Banana, and much more. The Inner Sleeve: Eve Libertine, Epiphanies: Roy Claire Potter, Global Ear: Barcelona, Unlimited Editions: YOUTH, plus in the review sections: Laurie Anderson, Belong, Seefeel, Three Quarter Skies, Dhangsha, NicoNote, Laura Cannell, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra, Endon, Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Red Kross, David Corio's images of Black musicians, the Gnaoua & World Music Festival, Gary Stewart, Lonnie Holley, specialist columnists, and more."
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"Ugly Things #66 on the cover: a mind-blowing, emotional interview with Michelle Phillips about the stratospheric highs and catastrophic lows she experienced with the Mamas & the Papas -- the music, the men, the drugs, the power trips, and the magical, inviolable, fragile chemistry they shared as a group. Also: the history of Peru's greatest psychedelic band, Traffic Sound; Peter Stanfield goes deep on the MC5's 1972 UK sojourn; '60s garage punks the Emperors from Long Beach, California and the Traits from Pelham, NY; the continuing story of UK '70s punk outsiders the Subway Sect; soul music songwriter hero Dan Penn; Japanese Mod power pop trio the Badge; Canadian '60s garage/psychsters the Fringe -- and lots more, including, as always, the expansive and essential review sections covering all the latest vinyl and CD reissues, and rock 'n' roll-related books."
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"Maggot Brain is a full-color, quarterly magazine edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content -- art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more -- with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. On The Cover: Unpublished Joe Dilworth photo of My Bloody Valentine, from sessions for their Isn't Anything record. My Bloody Valentine: Revelatory, unpublished interview excerpts from hours of tapes with Kevin Shields by editor Mike McGonigal conducted for his 33⅓ book on Loveless. Inside: A great interview with Joe Dilworth by Mike Galinsky and pages of his photos of London's underground music scenes in the 1980s and '90s, including unseen images of MBV. Will Oldham: Great, lengthy conversation with his collaborator and longtime friend Nathan Salsburg, on the occasion of their record of Lungfish covers. Harvey Milk: Epic, well-illustrated oral history of the pioneering '90s Athens, GA-based doom/ heavy-rock/ experimental/otherwise unclassifiable and influential band. Justin Green: New scans of the underground cartoonist's music comics, many originally published in Tower's Pulse magazine. 18 full pages, with text by comics historian John Kelly."
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"On the cover: David Lynch & Chrystabell. Since performing on the soundtrack to 2006's Inland Empire, Texas-born Chrysta Bell Zucht, aka Chrystabell, has had an enduring creative partnership with film director David Lynch. But after countless in-studio and on-screen collaborations, the new album Cellophane Memories, out soon via Sacred Bones, will be their first fully co-credited album. In a wide-ranging exclusive interview, the duo talk to The Wire about cinema, music and more. By Britt Brown. Inside the issue: The sound world of David Lynch. Expanding on the issue's cover feature, Wire writers contribute a series of essays on the sonic and audio components of director David Lynch's idiosyncratic worldview. Topics range from fandom and karaoke, the sonic semiotics of wind and the influence of Twin Peaks on rave music to reinterpretations of songs from the Lynchian repertoire by artists like Ono and Backxwash. Invisible Jukebox: Dhangsha. The composer and educator formerly known as Dr Das of Asian Dub Foundation takes on The Wire's mystery listening challenge. Tested by Daryl Worthington. Plus one page profiles of Copper Sounds, Miaux, and Feeo & Caius Williams, and regular sections and columns including Epiphanies, Unlimited Editions, Global Ear, and The Inner Sleeve."
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"On the cover: Tomeka Reid: The cellist, composer, improvisor and band leader goes from strength to strength across several creative projects. By Stewart Smith. Plus: KMRU: The Kenyan sound artist finds a new mode of listening on his collaboration with Kevin Martin. By Ilia Rogatchevski; Bodies In Motion: Dance and music collide in the creative worlds of Malik Nashad Sharpe, NWAKKE and Bianca Scout. By Emily Bick and Misha Farrant; Gordan: Folk songs of the Balkans plug into noise and industrial currents in this cross-continental trio. By Abi Bliss; Tongue In The Mind: DJ and conceptualist Juliana Huxtable joins forces with Jealous Orgasm and Via App to rock the club. By Claire Biddles; Invisible Jukebox: Karl Bartos: Will the ex-Kraftwerk man have had more fun computing The Wire's mystery record collection? Tested by Leah Kardos. Also inside this issue: Global Ear Belgrade; Unlimited Editions Notice Recordings; Unofficial Channels A Moon Age Daydream; The Inner Sleeve by Alison Cotton; Nick Dunston; Nika Son; Henry Birdsey; Sisso & Maiko; Epiphanies by Jim Staley; pages of reviews and much more."
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[sold out] "Record Time is a new print-only music magazine that focuses on obscure, unusual, forgotten and neglected records, not collectibles or rarities, but great records that can be had without shelling out max cash. The debut arrives right when interest in records is at a 30-year high and is growing across generations. Record Time is about the wonderful world of records, specifically unusual, obscure, forgotten and neglected slabs of plastic. Rather than focus on holy grails of the most expensive kind or $$$ reissues, Record Time scours bargain bins, garage sales, and those corners of record stores that only the most diehard music freaks dig through -- and what readers find are wonderful records that are too often passed by even though they are usual cheap. In that spirit, Record Time #1 does a deep dive into the crazy history of Plastic Bertrand's 'Ca Plane Pour Moi,' the biggest international hit single in punk history, its roots in novelty music, Elton Motello's contribution to the song, and the dozens of cover versions, answer songs, rip-offs and exploitations the song inspired. Also in issue one: A cruise through the music and career of Hansadutta Swami, the Hari Krishna 'machine gun guru' and failed rock star; a dip into controversial politico/musician Harvey Matusow and his Jew's Harp Band; the Surfsiders, a fake surf band that included a young Lou Reed; Alquin and the Dutch prog rock scene of the 1970s; the obscure and delightful DIY psych pop of The People's Victory Orchestra And Chorus; and records on alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. There's more: Columns on 1960s garage instrumental 45s and forgotten 7"s from the 1990s punk scene, a feature on The Wuzz Band, a run-through of the records and crimes of novelty rapper/drug kingpin Hurt Em Bad, a ton of record reviews (of albums lurking in used bins), an interview with Dick Vivian of San Francisco's Rooky Ricardo's Records (and Dick's picks of great budget R&B and girl group singles), and more. Record Time is published and edited by Scott Soriano, a long-time music writer, record label runner, zine publisher, and political journalist. It features a rich group of contributors such as Brian Turner, Owen Maercks, Laurent Bigot, Fred de Vries, Johnny Sunshine, D. Worden, and others, from the US, France, South Africa, and abroad. 11"x8.5", perfect-bound with color cover."
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DC 198BK
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"Back in print for the first time this era is David Berman's Actual Air. Released in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry (including names that still make waves today like The New Yorker and GQ), David Berman's first (and only) book of poetry was and is a journey though shared and unreliable memory. Uncannily inspired, Berman's poems walk through doors into rooms where one might hear 'I can't remember being born/and no one else can either/even the doctor who I met years later/at a cocktail party' (from 'Self-Portrait at 28'), or praise 'the interval called hangover/a sadness not co-terminous with hopelessness' (from 'Cassette Country') and 'that moment when you take off your sunglasses/after a long drive and realize it's earlier/and lighter out than you had accounted for' ('The Charm of 5:30'). At that time, Berman was called a modern-day Wallace Stevens and a contemporary of John Ashberry with his own logic, awareness of pop culture and sensitivity to the details of the post-postmodern world in his poems. Alongside his lyrics to a half-dozen infamous Silver Jews records, Actual Air endeared Berman to lovers of poetry, prose, and music alike. Poet James Tate said it best: 'It is a book for everyone.' And poet laureate Billy Collins could only add, 'This is the voice I've waited so long to hear.' The second edition of the hardcover version of Actual Air is limited to 1000 copies. Features of the second edition are: new larger dimensions and enlarged typeface, new dustjacket artwork variant, deluxe cloth boards, updated full-color endpapers, dust-jacket featuring a photo of the artist around the time of publication, and of course the poems that inspired all this fuss in the first place. Fans of Actual Air, get hard again!"
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9781953691194
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"Steve Cannon's cult classic novel returns to print. Despite decades of notoriety as one of the 'filthiest books in the world,' Steve Cannon's first and only piece of longform fiction, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first being published in 1969. In the words of American poet Ishmael Reed, Cannon's debut work inspired a generation by breaking with staid literary modernism. Its publication 'signaled a resurfacing of the irreverent, underground trickster tradition of Black orature.' This erotic farce follows Annette, a teenage runaway, from the outhouse of a New Orleans juke joint to the psychedelic paradise of Oo-bla-dee -- an idyllic country possibly founded by Dizzy Gillespie -- by way of bacchanalian voodoo ritual. As Ophelia Press, its original publisher, wrote, Groove, Bang and Jive Around is an absolute necessity 'for everyone who wants to know where and how the action takes place in sex and soul.' Steve Cannon (1935-2019) moved to New York City in 1962 and joined the Umbra Workshop. He worked with and was a mentor to many artists and writers. In 1990 he founded the magazine and gallery A Gathering of the Tribes in New York City's East Village." 4.3 x 0.7 x 7 inches; 244 pages; 7.2 ounces.
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