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Hot Love - Swiss & Punk 1976 - 1980 Published by Edition Patrick Frey 2006 (Softcover) Price £52 |
From Cabaret to Techno: 1904-2012, a century of Berlin music Listen to the city – Read the stories of the major musical works made in Berlin over the last hundred years and the events that shaped them. |
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Théo Lessour: Berlin Sampler Published by Ollendorff & Desseins 2012 (Softcover) Price £16.50 |
From Cabaret to Techno: 1904-2012, a century of Berlin music Listen to the city – Read the stories of the major musical works made in Berlin over the last hundred years and the events that shaped them. . |
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Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973-1977 Published by Picturebox Inc 2012 (Softcover) Price £24.99 |
Destroy All Monsters were an influential Detroit group that made music, art, zines and an elaborate junk-based self-mythology. Two of its members have become renowned artists: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw. But aside from the zines, the actual output by the members has never been examined as independent art objects. This is the first retrospective of the artwork itself, as opposed to the zines and memorabilia produced. Nearly all of this work has never been published. Included are: dozens of candid photographs of the group, offering a snapshot of a proto-punk unit.
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The Fall Lyrics Published by The Lough Press 1985 (Softcover) SOLD - out of print |
The Fall Lyric & Text, Von Mark E. Smith. In Deutsch & Englisch. With Drawings by Brix. Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by Wulf Teichmann." Early Fall lyrics w/ facing German translations, reproductions of original typescripts & handwritten drafts, b&w photos & drawings from the period 1977-1983.
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V11 The Fall - Mark E. Smith Published by The Lough Press 2011 (Softcover) Price £42 |
An intrepid visual and annotated journey through the incomparable mind of Mark E Smith. His rantings, snippets, cheap collages and poems are all collated for the first time here. This is a hilarious recount of Smith's daily activity (and sometimes inactivity) and is a rare montage of his stream of consciousness. Interspersed between the lyrics of 52 Fall songs, can be found drawings, newspaper cuttings, scrolled notes, images of his local boozers and other inspirational items.
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DESTROY ALL MONSTERS MAGAZINE 1976-1979 Published by Primary Information 2011 (Softcover) Price £22.95 |
Formed in 1973, the Detroit band Destroy All Monsters was a wild and reckless synthesis of psychedelia, proto-punk, heavy metal, noise and performance art. Destroy All Monsters released very little recorded music until Thurston Moore issued a three-CD compilation in 1994, but they published six issues of a now legendary and much sought-after zine, also titled Destroy All Monsters. This publication collects those six zines, released between 1976 and 1979, and also includes parts of a lost seventh issue that never saw publication. The Destroy All Monsters zines comprise a vibrant array of collage, writing, photography and other miscellanea by the band.
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Arcana V: Musicians on Music, Magic and Mysticism Published by Hips Road/Tazadik 2010 Price £29.95 |
For centuries musicians have tapped into mysticism, magic and alchemy, embracing ritual, spell, incantation and prayer, and experimenting with esoteric approaches to harmony, pitch and vibration. In recent decades, avant-garde musicians have rediscovered these overlaps, as occultism has reinvented itself--through Buddhist and other Asian influences, Thelema and Chaos Magic--to accommodate cultural strains from psychedelica through Punk and Industrial music. This special edition of John Zorn's much acclaimed Arcana series focuses on the magical aspects of the act of making music. Neither historical overview nor musicological study, it illuminates the sympathies between music and the esoteric tradition with the help of today's finest experimental musicians and occultists. Among these are William Breeze, Gavin Bryars, Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, Sharon Gannon, Larkin Grimm, William Kiesel, Yusef Lateef, Frank London, Meredith Monk, Mark Nauseef, Pauline Oliveros, Genesis P-Orridge, Terry Riley, David Toop, Greg Wall, Peter Lamborn Wilson and Z'ev.
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Arcana IV: Musicians on Music Published by Hips Road/Tazadik 2010 Price £26.95 |
Now in its fourth installment, with a fifth in preparation, John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series provides insight into the work and methodologies of some of the most creative musical minds of our time. Rather than an attempt to distill or define a musician's work, Arcana IV illuminates directly via personal vision and experience, through the undiluted words and thoughts of the practitioners themselves, elucidating through manifestos, scores, interviews, notes and critical papers, composer/performers address composing, improvising, teaching, living, touring and thinking in and through music. Essential for composers, musicians, students and fans alike, this challenging and original series has now become the major source on new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century. Among Arcana IV's contributors are the late Derek Bailey, Nels Cline, Chris Cutler, Paul Dresher, Kenneth Gaburo, Shelley Hirsch, Wayne Horvitz, Vijay Iyer, Gordon Mumma, Matana Roberts, Katherine Supové and Carolyn Yarnell.
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Arcana III: Musicians on Music, Magic and Mysticism Published by Hips Road/Tazadik 2010 Price £26.95 |
Arcana III is the third groundbreaking collection of critical writings on avant-garde and experimental music put together by editor (and experimental music legend) John Zorn. In this volume, 30 distinguished composer/performers illuminate and speculate upon method and practice in the process of making, experiencing and thinking about music. Comprised of essays, scores, manifestoes and interviews both real and imaginary, Arcana III gives voice to a new generation of brave musical explorers who live outside of the mainstream academy. Contributors include John Zorn, Maryanne Amacher, Derek Bermel, Steven Bernstein, Theo Bleckmann, Gavin Bryars, Greg Cohen, Jacques Coursil, Mario Diaz de Leon, Timb Harris, Scott Hull, Jerry Hunt, Henry Kaiser, Ha-Yang Kim, Makigami Koichi, Pamelia Kurstin, Okkyung Lee, Sean Lennon, Frank London, Brad Lubman, Christian Marclay, Kaffe Matthews, Olga Neuwirth, Buzz Osbourne, William Parker, Paola Prestini, Jamie Saft, Eric Singer, Wadada Leo Smith, Laeticia Sonami and Hal Willner.
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Arcana II: Musicians on Music Published by Hips Road/Tazadik 2010 Price £26.95 |
In his preface to the first Arcana: Musicians on Music (2000), avant-garde composer and saxophone player John Zorn wrote: "This book exists to correct an unfortunate injustice, the incredible lack of insightful critical writing about a significant generation of the best and most important work of the past two decades." That the injustice was repaired by that collection was happily affirmed by its subsequent success. The range of writing--from the technical to the aphoristic/diaristic--demonstrated that sometimes critical writing on music can inspire as much as it can explicate. As Zorn acknowledged, though, Arcana was also a first step. Now Arcana II, also edited by Zorn, extends the scope of its predecessor, compiling further essential writing by luminaries of contemporary improvisation and composition such as Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Marina Rosenfeld, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Annie Gosfield, Jim O'Rourke, Milford Graves, Zeena Parkins, Bill Laswell and Uri Caine. |
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Arcana: Musicians on Music Published by Hips Road/Tazadik 2010 Price £29.95 |
Arcana is an anthology of writings, working notes, scores, interviews, and manifestos from an incredible collection of avant-garde/experimental musicians and composers familiar to those with an ear to the ground of what's new and interesting in recent music. There are 30 contributors to this rich collection, and they include many of the most respected, innovative, and provocative players and composers in the present generation: Chris Brown, Anthony Coleman, Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Stephen Drury, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Peter Garland, Gerry Hemingway, Scott Johnson, Eyvind Kang, Guy Klucevsek, George Lewis, David Mahler, Miya Masaoka, Myra Melford, Ikue Mori, Larry Ochs, Bob Ostertag, John Oswald, Mike Patton, Marc Ribot, David Rosenboom, John Schott, Elliott Sharp, David Shea, Frances-Marie Uitti, Lois V Vierk, Z'EV, and John Zorn. It contains a preface by the editor and a discography. This is a book that has been needed for quite some time, and it has found a welcoming audience among musicians, composers, theorists, and fans alike.
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Crass Book 2011 £45
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Crass embodied the anarcho-punk aesthetic of the late ‘70s: they privileged politics over musicianship, substance over form, and above all independence over profitability. Crass played four concerts in New York in the summer of 1977, at small, unexpected venues such as The Puerto Rican Club and the Polish Club. This exhibition represents the first opportunity since that brief visit for New Yorkers to experience the unique visual and aural mayhem that is Crass’ trademark. The material featured in this exhibition spans the high period of Crass’ endeavors, from 1978 to 1984, and constitutes a special segment of The Mott Collection.
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Special Sound 2010 (Hardback) Price £17.95 |
Special Sound traces the fascinating creation and legacy of the BBC's electronic music studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of other studios in Europe and America. The BBC built a studio to provide its own avant-garde dramatic productions with experimental sounds "neither music nor sound effect." Quickly, however, a popular kind of electronic music emerged in the form of quirky jingles, signature tunes such as Doctor Who, and incidental music for hundreds of programs. These influential sounds and styles, heard by millions of listeners over decades of operation on television and radio, have served as a primary inspiration for the use of electronic instruments in popular music. |