World Food Books

To Note: Notation Across Disciplines

2017, English
Softcover, 362 pages, 18 x 11 cm
Edition of 500,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Perimeter Editions / Melbourne

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Published in an edition 500 copies in 2017 and out-of-print.

Notation is part of our everyday. It is an act that records an observation for future reference. From a handwritten note, an electronic reminder or a quick sketch to a highlighted passage of text or post-it note, notation assumes many casual forms. It marks a moment of (anticipated) significance. Its audience may be its author or others. In time, it may or may not retain its (intended) significance. The motivation for the notation may be to capture something out of time for consideration at a later date – a reminder, a record, an instruction. It may be to convey something in the here and now by extracting (and abstracting) it from its original context and into the moment – to communicate. It may be a generative gesture, using a system of symbols to share a thought or proposition with peers for their interpretation or response.

In December 2015, notation became the focal point of a workshop presented at RMIT Design Hub in Melbourne entitled To Note: Notation Across Disciplines, which involved 25 practitioners working in and across the disciplines of sound, dance, visual art and design/architecture. Part reference, part exercise manual, this book is a collection of material that both informs and challenges our understanding of notation and how it exists both historically and currently within and across various fields and disciplines.

Editor: Hannah Matthews
Design: Žiga Testen & Stuart Geddes
Authors: Dr Michael Trudgeon, Erkki Veltheim, Dr Sally Gardner & Dr Alex Selenitsch
Participants: Deanne Butterworth, Lane Cormick, Georgina Criddle, Richie Cyngler, Matthew Day, Eliza Dyball, Benjamin Forster, Dr Sally Gardner, Nathan Gray, Helen Grogan, Aurelia Guo, Melanie Irwin, Rebecca Jensen, Shelley Lasica, Michelle Mantsio, Phip Murray, Geoff Robinson, Jan van Schaik, Brooke Stamp, Lilian Steiner, Studio Apparatus, Studio Osk, Colby Vexler, Phoebe Whitman, Benjamin Woods

Very Good copy.

File under: Deanne Butterworth Lane Cormick Georgina Criddle Richie Cyngler Matthew Day Eliza Dyball Benjamin Forster Dr Sally Gardner Nathan Gray Helen Grogan Aurelia Guo Melanie Irwin Rebecca Jensen Shelley Lasica Michelle Mantsio Phip Murray Geoff Robinson Jan van Schaik Brooke Stamp Lilian Steiner Studio Apparatus Studio Osk Colby Vexler Phoebe Whitman Benjamin Woods Michael Trudgeon Erkki Veltheim Sally Gardner Alex Selenitsch Hannah Matthews Perimeter Editions / Melbourne Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Concrete Poetry

The Manson File: Myth And Reality Of An Outlaw Shaman
by Nikolas Schreck

2024, English
Softcover, 396 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
Published by Surrealist Research / Kent

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"A major work in elegant prose that will captivate and challenge anyone who thinks they know the story of Charles Manson."—Dr Stephen Harper, author of Madness, Power & The Media, University of Portsmouth

Based on thirty years of research, the story of notorious outlaw, musician and folk devil Charles Manson is revealed to be one of the most twisted and depraved cover-ups in American history.

A landmark in cultural reportage, Nikolas Schreck’s epic long-read shows with meticulous detail how a confluence of Hollywood, the music industry, organized crime and the judiciary colluded to conceal the real motives for the 1969 “Helter Skelter” killing spree.

Structured like a proverbial helter skelter, this groundbreaking work cracks open the official story to reveal the interconnected aspects of Charles Manson as philosopher, musician, revolutionary and patsy.

An essential textbook for scholars and a mighty “true crime” book for the general reader, The Manson File reveals a secret history of America in a narrative as artful as a great novel.

File under: Charles Manson Nikolas Schreck Charles Manson Surrealist Research / Kent Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Occult / Esoterica Counterculture Theory / Essay Sound / Music

HEAVY ZINE VOL 1 — HARDCORE VICTIM 24

2024, English
Softcover, 102 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by Friends That Publish / Naarm

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Volume 1 of Heavy Zine, a photo zine collection of black and white photography documenting 3 days of the 4 day Hardcore Victim ‘24 Festival in Naarm/Melbourne — featuring 19 bands — Kissland, Hacker, Romansy, No Future, Sintax, Straight-Jacket Nation, Kriegshög, Shove, Persecutor, Rat Bait, Sepsis, Phantasm, Swab, Dejector, Enzyme, Skizophrenia, Cryptid, Vampire, Thatchers Snatch. 102 pages of full bleed photographs shot by Charlie Foster and printed in Melbourne on enviro paper with heavy stock covers. $5 from every sale will be donated equally towards PARA and Pay The Rent.

File under: Kissland Hacker Romansy No Future Sintax Straight-Jacket Nation Kriegshög Shove Persecutor Rat Bait Sepsis Phantasm Swab Dejector Enzyme Skizophrenia Cryptid Vampire Thatchers Snatch Friends That Publish / Naarm Sound / Music Australian Art Photography Counterculture

CHIRASHI
TOKYO PUNK & NEW WAVE '78-80s

2022, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. obi strip), 480 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by SLOGAN / Japan

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First 2022 edition of CHIRASHI — TOKYO PUNK & NEW WAVE '78-80s, an almost 500 page comprehensive compilation of "the flyers that have coloured the music scene since the 'Tokyo Rockers' in 1978. Underground music history as seen through leaflets". Edited by Toshio Iijima and Hirokazu Furukawa.

The rise of punk rock & new wave from 1978. The paper medium of 'flyers' supported this great wave. Bands delivered information by flyers, people gathered by flyers, bands and people burned together, and flyers were literally 'scattered'.Punk Rock ~ New Wave since 1978 The large waves were supported by a paper medium called "flyer". The band delivers information by the flyer, the flyers gather people, the band and people burned together, and the flyers literally "scattered".

FEATURING:
Tokyo Rockers / Friction / Lizard / Mirrors / S-Ken / Punk 99% / The Stalin / The Star Club / Jagatara / Zelda / Non Band / Gozira Records / Les Rallizes Dénudés / 100% Nylon / Pirate Boat K / Electric Circuit / Daisuck And Prostitute / Auto-Mod / Telegraph Records / Fools / Legal Contagion Gig / Typhus / Indiscriminate Gig / Pablo Picasso / Mods Mayday'81 / Emotional Market / Adk Day / Disinfection Gig / Gauze / Chance Operation / Edps / Heavenly Injection Day / etc...

FROM THE EDITOR...
The flyer, as it is now called, is a paper medium that carries information about shows and releases. With the rise of Punk Rock in the late 1970s, it played an important role as a means of communicating information in the music scene and was called a "flyer" or "leaflet" at the time. Of course, there were no computers back then, and flyers were produced completely by hand, copying, cutting and pasting hand-drawn illustrations, photographs and existing materials, and writing information on a text sheet called an in-letter (......). The flyers, produced entirely by hand, were literally 'scattered' as a medium to succinctly convey the individuality and orientation of each band and live project. As they were distributed free of charge, most of them were discarded when they had fulfilled their advertising function. However, many of the designs are still attractive today and, as a result, have become valuable record-keeping media for live shows and other information. This time, for the first time in Japan, flyers have been compiled into a book, with the cooperation of people who have recognised the significance and value of flyers as more than mere information announcements and have carefully preserved them. By collecting the flyers and arranging them chronologically, we can feel the changes in the underground scene from a different perspective from the books and films that have been published so far. We are convinced that this content, which goes beyond a mere collection of works and conveys a real history of the scene, is a valuable record of Japanese / Tokyo PUNK ROCK / underground music. These "flyers" cannot be called art or works of art, nor do we want to call them that. However, we are sure that it is full of mysterious charm. We hope that everyone who picks up a copy will be able to feel the passion that has transcended the years. Record shop BASE, Toshio Iijima 2022

As New.

File under: Toshio Iijima Hirokazu Furukawa SLOGAN / Japan Sound / Music Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Out-of-print / Rare

Shock Factory – Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
by Nicolas Ballet

2023, French
Softcover, 465 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.

Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly produced a global visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, video) in a close dialogue with the legacy of modernity and the growing influence of technology. Originally British, its development grew in Europe, the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments deployed by industrial bands—designing synthesizers, manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes recycled or conceived by the artists—were supplemented by a rich array of radical visual productions, deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. The saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, altered by a détournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art) that invested polemical themes: mental control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry and totalitarianism, among others. This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analyzing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement, who anticipated current issues concerning the media and their coercive power.

Nicolas Ballet is an art historian and associate curator at the Centre Pompidou. He specialises in research into alternative visual cultures, experimental art, sound studies and the avant-garde. He received his PhD from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches contemporary art history. He has written numerous texts exploring the visual and sonic contributions of counter-cultures and experimental artistic practices. He is the author of two books on Genesis P-Orridge, and has published in Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Octopus Notes, Marges,OpticalSound, Volume !, Revue & Corrigée, Klima, in Cahiers du CAP and Histo.art (Éditions de la Sorbonne), as well as in books devoted to the work of Nigel Ayers and Zoe Dewitt. In 2023, he curated the exhibition "Who You Staring At? Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s" at the Centre Pompidou.

Foreword by Pascal Rousseau.

File under: Nicolas Ballet Pascal Rousseau Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Sound / Music Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video

The Rita
Correlations

2024, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 31 x 24 cm
Published by Amaya Productions / USA

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This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita.

Correlations presents some of the images and documents Sam McKinlay finds most definitive in his practice. The monograph is designed to provide a cohesive understanding of the artist's creative trajectory, as well as illuminate The Rita's uncanny process that visually, conceptually, and historically 'connects' seemingly unrelated subjects.

Published by Amaya Productions and curated by Andrea Stillacci; the monograph includes essays by the art historian and Centre Pompidou curator Nicolas Ballet (Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music), associate Professor and harsh noise artist Lexi Turner (Cornell University), and author, writer, producer Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women).

Credited as one of the pioneers of "harsh noise wall", influential artist Sam McKinlay (born 1974 in California) has been operating under the alias The Rita since the 1990s. Having performed extensively and credited with over 200 releases, the project has grown into a laser focused multidisciplinary venture and is celebrated for pushing the boundaries of "harsh noise". Accompanying The Rita's singular and often unpredictable sonic output is an inseparable and distinct visual language. By combining McKinlay's fine arts education, research, experimentation, and collaboration; the project visually and texturally unites the artist's interests in minimalist design, noise, ballet, sharks, choreography, and film.

Edited by Andrea Stillacci.
Texts by Nicolas Ballet, Lexi Turner, Kier-La Janisse.

File under: The Rita Sam McKinlay Nicolas Ballet Andrea Stillacci Lexi Turner Kier-La Janisse Amaya Productions / USA Sound / Music Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Photography Conceptual Art Art Fetishism / BDSM

Nigel Ayers
Electronic Resistance

2021, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 31 x 22.86 cm
Published by Amaya Productions / USA

$130.00 - Out of stock

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Since the late 1970s, Nigel Ayers (b. 1957, UK) has cut a bracing, subversive path through the contemporary underground, bridging DIY industrial enthusiasms with multimedia experimentation to form a singular body of work. Co-founder of the groups The Pump and Nocturnal Emissions (along with brother Daniel Ayers and then-partner Caroline Kaye), Ayers has been a contributor to and proponent of industrial music’s high-water marks, his Sterile Records imprint disseminating not only NE sides but also defining work from Lustmord, SPK, Maurizio Bianchi, and others between 1979 and 1986. In 1987, Ayers inaugurated the Earthly Delights label with the now-canonical Caroline K recording Now Wait For Last Year, and the imprint has since served as Ayers’s primary outlet for releasing new work, whether as Magnetizdat, Spanner Thru Ma Beatbox, or Nocturnal Emissions, a going concern to this day.

Published, designed, and produced by Ross Waitman and Amaya Productions in collaboration with the artist, Electronic Resistance compiles mail-art, collages, assemblages, flyers, slides, video stills, ephemera, record and tape covers to present an arresting cross-section of the genre-sundering art Nigel Ayers created between 1980 and 1992. It features an introductory reflection from Ayers, as well as an essay entitled “Bleeding Images: Antipsychiatry, Death, and Mind Control” by art historian and critic Nicholas Ballet (Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), contextualizing Ayers’s work and extensive career.

750 copies limited edition.

File under: Nigel Ayers Nicholas Ballet The Pump Nocturnal Emissions Lustmord SPK Maurizio Bianchi Amaya Productions / USA Art Sound / Music Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

G.B. Jones

1994/2022, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 68 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
Published by Kunstverein Toronto / Toronto

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Long-awaited re—print of G.B. Jones' legendary 1994 monograph.

G.B. Jones (b. 1965, Bowmanville, Canada) is recognized for many accomplishments: for the success of her post-punk band Fifth Column (1981–2002), the widespread influence of the many queer punk zines she co-authored, including J.D.s, Double Bill and Hide, her coining of the term “queercore,”and her prolific work as a “no-budget” filmmaker, scene photographer and visual artist. Her drawing series, “Tom Girls,” originally published in J.D.s, replaced Tom of Finland’s iconic, “hyper-virile studs” with bold, uncompromising leather dykes, co-opting Finland’s objectified, male-on-male erotica and presenting a world of “nasty female role models”—Dodie Bellamy.

In 1994, Feature Inc. + Instituting Contemporary Idea in New York released the monograph G.B. Jones. Edited and designed by Steve Lafreniere, the book compiled Jones’ “Tom Girls” drawings alongside show and film posters, record covers, comics and commissioned writing, including contributions and appearances by Dennis Cooper, Vaginal Davis, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Caroline Azar, Johnny Noxzema, and others. As part of a campaign by the Canadian Border Services agency against allegedly pornographic or immoral materials in the 1990s, copies of Jones’ book were seized by the Canada Border Services Agency and barred from entering the country on the charge of depicting “bondage.” Jones was later informed that the seized copies had been burned by Border Control agents.

27 years later, in collaboration with Jones, Kunstverein Toronto is putting G.B. Jones back in circulation in Canada. This re—publication of the book was published to accompany a 2022 exhibition of related drawings, photographs, posters, ephemera and tributes that reflect the reach and influence of Jones’ heterogenous practice, both at the time of the original release of G.B. Jones, and today.

File under: G.B. Jones Dennis Cooper Vaginal Davis Dodie Bellamy Kevin Killian Caroline Azar Johnny Noxzema Kunstverein Toronto / Toronto Art Eros Sound / Music Film / Video LGBTQ+ Drawing Counterculture Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Selling Ourselves for Dinner (+ poem print)
by Christopher Barnett

1982, English
Softcover (staple-bound + telex), unpaginated, 24.5 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by All Out Ensemble / Adelaide

$50.00 - Out of stock

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“The greatest Australian poet you’ve never heard of”—Anne Marsh

Very rare copy of Australian avant-garde poet and playwright Christopher Barnett's theatre poem, Selling Ourselves for Dinner, performed at the Adelaide Festival in 1982 with the All Out Ensemble (Nicholas Tsoutas, Peggy Wallach, etc.) in the Rundle Street Carpark. Printed at The Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide and published by the All Out Ensemble, this hand-made publication, final drafted in December 1981, presents the entire revolutionary performance—poem by Christopher Barnett, scene for scene, along with introduction, cast credits and bios. Starring Barnett as his hero, Soviet-Russian poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky, the play opens at a reading of Mayakovsky's work at the Moscow Polytechnic in 1929. Directed by Nicholas Tsoutas, the cast of characters includes Lilya Brik, Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan, Alexander Fadeyev, Jim Morrison, Sergei Yesenin, etc. with visual and sound contributions from Michael Trudgeon, Derek Kreckler, Laughing Hands, Peter Cheslyn, Jacky Redgate, Ian de Gruchy, and many more.

In Adelaide and Melbourne in the early 1980s the hard talking, hard living poet Christopher Barnett was a force to be reckoned with—socially, artistically, politically, not that he made these distinctions. A charismatic public performer once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", this self-styled “Cultural Bolshevik”—a homage to his hero, Valdimir Mayakovsky—and a key collaborator with Nicholas Tsoutas and Peggy Wallach in the All Out Ensemble, Barnett left Adelaide for Fitzroy and then in the mid 80s relocated to Nantes in France where he became notable for co-founding an experimental company, Le Dernier Spectateur, working with the disenfranchised, where he remains to this day.

This copy with inserted dot matrix printed poem, “Telec".

Very Good copy.

File under: Michael Trudgeon Derek Kreckler Laughing Hands Peter Cheslyn Jacky Redgate Ian de Gruchy Nicholas Tsoutas Peggy Wallach Christopher Barnett Christopher Barnett All Out Ensemble / Adelaide Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Poetry Sociology / Politics Art Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Sound / Music

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

$OUL — DÉCADA DEL 70 — INTERCÂMBIO ENTRE MAC E CAYC
Organised by Jorge Glusberg

1976, Portuguese
Double-sided fold-out, 4 panels, 47 x 30 cm (unfolded)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo / São Paulo

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Very rare fold-out catalogue for the important international art exhibition surveying conceptual art, concrete poetry, experimental art, performance art, mail art ("activity with a critical view of society") in the 1970s organized by Argentine author, publisher, curator, professor, and conceptual artist, Jorge Glusberg, who was director of the Center for Art and Communication of Buenos Aires (CAYC). With text by Brazilian professor, historian, art critic and curator by Walter Zanini, director of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de Sao Paulo (MAC). With a number of the exhibited heliographic documents from the exhibition illustrated throughout, the brochure catalogues the exhibited works by participants including: Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner, Genesis P-Orridge, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, Öyvind Fahlström, Július Koller, Tim Ullrichs, Luis Fernando Benedit, Jaime Davidovich, Jorge Glusberg, Víctor Grippo, Lea Lublin, Luis Pazos, Julio Plaza, Jonier Marin, Jiří Valoch, Guillermo Deisler, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Manuel Barbadillo, MH de Ossorno, Valcárcel Medina, Felipe Ehrenberg, César Bolaños, Pawel Petasz, José Urbach, Lydia Okumura, Haroldo González, Les Levine, and many others.

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Dan Graham Lawrence Weiner Genesis P-Orridge Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Öyvind Fahlström Július Koller Walter Zanini Jorge Glusberg Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo / São Paulo Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Concrete Poetry Art Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Film / Video Fluxus Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Poetry Protest / Revolt Sound / Music

Rogério Duarte
MARGINÁLIA 1

2013, English / Portugese
Softcover, 224 pages, 23 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin

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The first in-depth survey of Brazilian designer, poet, musician, artist and author, Rogério Duarte's practice, and the first time that a selection of his poems and texts have been translated into English. Now long out-of-print and collectible resource.

Arguably, Rogério Duarte (* 1939, Ubaíra) is “the genius behind the geniuses” (Narlan Mattos) of Brazil's 1960–70s counter-cultural and avant-garde efforts. Thus, it comes as no surprise that key figures in the fields of design, music, art, and cinema, such as Glauber Rocha, Hélio Oiticica, Gilberto Gil, and Caetano Veloso, have provided the posterity with a vast catalogue of testimonies that leave no doubt as to the crucial role that Rogério played in the emergence of what is known today as the Tropicália movement, or Tropicalism. Yet, despite the growing interest that the Brazilian counter-culture of that time encountered on the international stage during the past two decades, Rogério's work has remained almost unknown to a broader public.

Marginália 1 was developed by the designer Manuel Raeder and the artist Mariana Castillo Deball over a period of four years and published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with texts by Rogério Duarte, Narlan Matos Teixeira, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Mariana Castillo Deball, Manuel Raeder. Published in both English and Portuguese.

Fine copy.

File under: Rogério Duarte Manuel Raeder Mariana Castillo Deball Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz Narlan Matos Teixeira Rogério Duarte Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin Graphic Design / Typography Sound / Music Film / Video Art Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
by Theodor W. Adorno

1992, English
Softcover, 180 pages, 21 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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First 1992 University of Chicago English edition.

"A masterpiece.... This is tremendous stuff, well translated and urgently to be recommended."—Peter Franklin, Musical Times

Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical back-ground, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that began with his childhood response to the marches and folk tunes of his native Bohemia. Since its appearance in 1960 in German, Mahler has established itself as a classic of musical interpretation. Now available in English, the work is presented here in a translation that captures the stylistic brilliance of the original.

"Consistently wonderful.... No one who is fascinated by Mahler's music, perhaps even more no one who finds it insuffer-able, can afford to ignore this book." —Michael Tanner, Times Literary Supplement

"Penetrates to the very bone and marrow of Mahler's entire output."—Harold Blumenfeld, Musical Quarterly

"A major work in the Adorno canon: it is grandly conceived and fully realized on every level."—Stephen Miles, Notes

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69), one of the foremost members of the Frankfurt school of critical theory, studied with Alban Berg in Vienna during the late twenties, and was later the director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death. His works include Aesthetic Theory, Introduction to the Sociology of Music, The Jargon of Authenticity, Prism, and Philosophy of Modern Music.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: Gustav Mahler Theodor W. Adorno University of Chicago Press / Chicago Philosophy Out-of-print / Rare Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Sound / Music Art

New Age Music Disc Guide

2020, Japanese
Softcover (w. obi strip), 224 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Disc Union Books / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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An epoch-making book, New Age Music Disc Guide, published in 2020 by the mighty Disc Union book imprint and compiled by new age music enthusiast, collector, writer and staff member of the Meditations record store in Kyoto, Tsunaki Kadowaki, is an essential and definitive overview of acoustic, ambient, electronic, and meditative sounds. The book collects and profiles over 600 international new age and ambient album recommendations, with full-colour reproductions of the cover artwork, spanning various styles and eras from the private issued 1970's underground, tracing global shifts in the music over decades all the way up to the genre’s well-deserved current revival and re-evaluation. Also takes a look back at various inspirations earlier still (pre 1974), from folk, early electronic, krautrock, prog and cosmic jazz. Spans electronic, acoustic, balearic, "kankyō ongaku” (environmental music), ambient-oriented Japanese 'anime' soundtracks, modern classical, ethereal, fourth world, minimal, fusion, drone, library .... The book also features interviews with Haruomi Hosono, Yoshio Ojima, Chee Shimizu, Dubby, Spencer Dolan of Visible Cloaks and includes an article by Koki Emura of EM Records.

Some artists includes: Iasos, Ariel Karma, Francesco Messina, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Laurie Spiegel, K. Leimer, Gigi Masin, Satoshi Ashikawa, Midori Takada, Robert Rich, Steven Halpern, John Elder, Ros Bandt, Pepe Maina, Giusto Pio, Richard Pinhas, Dorothy Carter, Emerald Web, Dominique Guiot, Suzanne Ciani, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Dolphins Into The Future, Hype Williams, Ana Roxanne, James Ferraro, Visible Cloaks, Susumu Yokota, S.E.N.S., Hiroki Okano, Yasuaki Shimizu, Popol Vuh, Yoshio Suzuki, Yas-Kaz, Axis, Aragon, Yutaka Hirose, Robert Ashley, Pauline Anna Strom, Dom, Arica, Moondog, John Fahey, Bobby Brown, Third Ear Band, Sun Ra, Terry Riley, Klaus Schulze, Virginia Astley, Lino Capra Vaccina, Woo, Ashra, Iury Lech, Enya, Erik Wøllo, The Ghostwriters, Laraaji, Eric Tingstad, Deuter, Vidna Obmana, Constance Demby, Nik Tyndall, Eduard Artemiev, Peter Davison, Don Slepian, Mark Isham, Igor Savin, Roedelius, Jon Hassell, Michael Stearns, A.r.t. Wilson, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mark McGuire, Sean McCann, Joanna Brouk, Manuel Gottsching, Michael Hoenig, Carlos Maria Trindale / Nuno Canavarro, Steve Roach, Philippe Saisse, Roberto Donnini, Patricia Escudero, Luis Paniagua, Peter Michael Hamel, Morgan Fisher, Wally Badarou, Robert Turman, Malcolm Cecil, J.D. Emmanuel, Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Tangerine Dream, David Lanz, Brainticket ............. to name but a few!!

Highly recommended resource to the music that is usually playing in the World Food Books shop!

File under: Haruomi Hosono Spencer Dolan (Visible Cloaks) Yoshio Ojima Iasos Ariel Karma Francesco Messina Hiroshi Yoshimura Laurie Spiegel K. Leimer Gigi Masin Satoshi Ashikawa Midori Takada Steven Halpern John Elder Ros Bandt Pepe Maina Giusto Pio Richard Pinhas Dorothy Carter Emerald Web Dominique Guiot Suzanne Ciani Monopoly Child Star Searchers Dolphins Into The Future Hype Williams Ana Roxanne James Ferraro Visible Cloaks Susumu Yokota S.E.N.S. Hiroki Okano Yasuaki Shimizu Popol Vuh Yoshio Suzuki Yas-Kaz Axis Aragon Yutaka Hirose Robert Ashley Pauline Anna Strom Virginia Astley Lino Capra Vaccina Woo Ashra Iury Lech Enya Erik Wøllo The Ghostwriters Laraaji Deuter Vidna Obmana Constance Demby Nik Tyndall Eduard Artemiev Peter Davison Don Slepian Mark Isham Igor Savin Roedelius Jon Hassell Michael Stearns A.r.t. Wilson Oneohtrix Point Never Mark McGuire Sean McCann Joanna Brouk Manuel Göttsching Michael Hoenig Carlos Maria Trindale / Nuno Canavarro Steve Roach Philippe Saisse Roberto Donnini Patricia Escudero Luis Paniagua Peter Michael Hamel Morgan Fisher Wally Badarou Robert Turman Malcolm Cecil J.D. Emmanuel Joel Vandroogenbroeck Dubby Chee Shimizu Tangerine Dream Eric Tingstad Robert Rich Klaus Schulze Dom Arica Moondog John Fahey Bobby Brown Third Ear Band Sun Ra Terry Riley Koki Emura Chee Shimuzu Disc Union Books / Tokyo Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Orstralia: A Punk History 1974—1989
by Tristan Clark

2024, English
Softcover, 326 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Published by PM Press / Oakland

$45.00 - In stock -

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With appeal to more than just punk history obsessives, Orstralia offers an unprecedented snapshot of an underacknowledged segment of Australian life and history.

Far from punk’s more modish North Atlantic core in the late 1970s, discontented youth in Australia were enacting similar musical and cultural reckonings. Yet in spite of the Australia's purported “laid-back” national demeanour, punks there were routinely met with insult, fist, or the police baton.

More subterranean than the national scandal that was punk back in “homeland” Britain, Australia’s own bands nonetheless came to be heralded internationally. Orstralia represents the first definitive account of the country’s initial years, from progenitors the Saints and Radio Birdman in the mid-70s, through the emergence of hardcore in the 1980s, to the stylistic diffusion that accompanied transition to the 1990s.

Based on over 130 interviews, Orstralia documents the most renowned to the most fleeting and obscure acts the nation produced. Included are equally engrossing and shocking personal narratives befitting such a passionate and intemperate cultural form, as well as punk’s placement within broader Australian society at the time.

“Australia has some claim to being a punk founder nation, most obviously through the influence of the Saints and Radio Birdman. In Orstralia, Tristan Clark explores the wider terrain to recover a vibrant prepunk, punk, and postpunk history that captures the vibrancy and excitement of a culture brimming with ingenuity and teenage verve. A brilliant book and essential reading for all those interested in punk's cultural past.”—Matthew Worley, author of No Future: Punk Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–84

“If your knowledge of Australian punk grinds to a halt at the Saints, Radio Birdman, the Hard-Ons, and Vicious Circle, Orstralia is a deep dive into that country’s turbulent alternative underground of the late 1970s and ’80s, when rebellious youths clashed with the police (not to mention the church, the government, the media . . . authority in general), rival subcultures, their parents and even themselves. Proving that an oppressive police state is no match for subversive creativity in the long run, Australian punk evolved and thrived in the face of such adversity—very much its own beast given its isolation from London and New York—and this forensically researched tome is its story, written in such detail and with such fascinating insight, you can relive it all vicariously without having your nose broken and discover a treasure trove of passionate noise into the bargain. This is an important and entertaining piece of work.”—Ian Glasper, author of Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980–1984 and The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980 to 1984

Tristan Clark is a Melbourne-based educator, musician, and writer. His involvement in punk has spanned over three decades and encompassed a near gamut of roles: band member, roadie, merch person, show organizer, Food Not Bombs volunteer, community radio DJ, as well as having written sporadically for local zines and other publications. He now routinely encounters the young students he spends his week working with at local DIY shows and is heartened by punk’s continued ability to self-reproduce.

File under: Tristan Clark PM Press / Oakland Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Theory / Essay

ORSTRALIA - A PUNK HISTORY 1990—1999
by Tristan Clark

2024, English
Softcover, 212 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Published by Self Published / Melbourne

$30.00 - In stock -

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Australia, the 1990s: Strictly Ballroom, Silverchair, Mabo, Port Arthur, economic rationalism, and Pauline Hanson.

Within its more concealed history, the opening of the decade saw punk in Australia experiencing a transitory lull. Populated mostly by the diehards and remnants of the 1980s, its sound and style were in danger of being subsumed, or at least diluted, by grunge and alternative music through a resurgent interest in guitar-driven bands. Able to maintain its own identity and networks against the challenge, as the decade progressed punk evolved into even more diffuse subgenres.

Now, twenty years after its relatively inauspicious birth in Australia, punk, in one of its multivarious forms, topped the national music charts. But though the decade brought if not respectability then a new saleability to punk, it was an era still prone to its tumult, tragedy, humour, and audacity. Through a further 70 interviews, Orstralia: A Punk History 1990-1999 continues the disclosure of its first volume, covering bands from the most obscure to those who reached the very apex of Australia's music industry.

Tristan Clark is a Melbourne-based educator, musician, and writer. His involvement in punk has spanned over three decades and encompassed a near gamut of roles: band member, roadie, merch person, show organizer, Food Not Bombs volunteer, community radio DJ, as well as having written sporadically for local zines and other publications. He now routinely encounters the young students he spends his week working with at local DIY shows and is heartened by punk’s continued ability to self-reproduce.

File under: Tristan Clark Self Published / Melbourne Sound / Music Counterculture Sociology / Politics Australian Art Theory / Essay Anarchism

ORSTRALIA: A PUNK HISTORY 1974—1989 & 1990—1999 (2 VOLS)
by Tristan Clark

2024, English
Softcovers, 326 + 212 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Published by PM Press / Oakland Self Published / Melbourne

$70.00 - In stock -

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Both volumes of Tristan Clark's ORSTRALIA: A PUNK HISTORY, covering 1974—1989 & 1990—1999, offering an unprecedented snapshot of an underacknowledged segment of Australian life and history. See individual listings for more information on each volume.

Tristan Clark is a Melbourne-based educator, musician, and writer. His involvement in punk has spanned over three decades and encompassed a near gamut of roles: band member, roadie, merch person, show organizer, Food Not Bombs volunteer, community radio DJ, as well as having written sporadically for local zines and other publications. He now routinely encounters the young students he spends his week working with at local DIY shows and is heartened by punk’s continued ability to self-reproduce.

File under: Tristan Clark PM Press / Oakland Self Published / Melbourne Australian Art Counterculture Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

SPECTRES Volume 4
A Thousand Voices

2024, French / English
Softcover, 256 pages, 13.5 x 20 cm
Published by Shelter Press / France

$40.00 - In stock -

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The voice is everywhere, infiltrating everything, making civilisation, marking out territories with infinite borders, spreading from the farthest reaches to the most intimate spaces. It can be neither reduced nor summarised. And accordingly, when taken as a theme, the voice is inexhaustible, even when seen in the light of its very particular relation with the sonic or the musical, as is the case in most of the texts collected in this volume. There is no point therefore in trying to circumscribe or amalgamate the multiple avatars of the voice. We must rather try to apprehend what the voice can do, to envisage its landscape, its potential effects.

Authors: Francois J. Bonnet, John Giorno, David Grubbs, Yannick Guedon, Lee Gamble, Sarah Hennies, Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, Stine Janvin, Joan La Barbara, Youmna Saba, Akira Sakata, Pierre Schaeffer, Peter Szendy, Ghedalia Tazartes

File under: Shelter Press / France Periodicals Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Shūji Terayama
Kamen Gaho

1991, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket + obi), 128 pages, 26 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Heibonsha / Tokyo

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful photo-book chronology of the world of Shūji Terayama (1935—1983) and his experimental theatre troupe Tenjō Sajiki (with Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, Fumiko Takagi, ...), a major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene of the 1960s and 70s. Terayama's activities encompass a who's-who of the Japanese avant-garde arts and literature of the time. This book visually documents it all; the filmography, performances, installations, happenings, exhibitions, posters, publications, and all else that resonated from Japan’s most revered and provocative avant-garde film-maker and his collaborators. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of illustrations in colour, duo and b/w with Japanese commentary, biographies and chronology. A wonderful, visually mind-blowing reference for anyone interested in the work of Terayama, Tenjō Sajiki, Surrealist performance, or Japanese avant-garde underground (Angura) theatre.

Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. In 1967 Terayama founded Tenjō Sajiki with Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi, a Japanese experimental theater troupe. A major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the group produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.

Very Good—Near Fine

File under: Tenjō Sajiki Kujō Kyōko Yutaka Higashi Tadanori Yokoo Fumiko Takagi Shūji Terayama Akira Uno Aquirax Uno akira Heibonsha / Tokyo Art Performance / Dance / Theater Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Surrealism Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Sound / Music Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Silvestar Club 6

1987, Japanese
Softcover, 176 pages, 22 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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The 1987 "Noise" issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Silvestar Club, published and edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave...). Features Zoviet France, H.N.A.S., Nurse with Wound, SPK, Etant Donnes, P16.D4, M.B. / Maurizio Bianchi, Sema / Robert Haigh, Coil, Whitehouse, Current 93, Chris & Cosey, Monte Cazazza, Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P-Orridge, Organum, Nocturnal Emissions, Tamia, Ramleh, Club Moral, Esplendor Geometico, Lustmord, Mnemonists, Die Tödliche Doris, The Hafler Trio, Cranioclast, Cabaret Voltaire, Zos-Kia, Test Department, Diamanda Galas, Z'ev, Danielle Dax, and much more. Articles on iconic live performances by Wire and Dome, plus essays by music critic, editor (Rock Magazine, Ego, et al) and Vanity label owner Yuzuru Agi; noise artist Merzbow's Masami Akita; experimental musician Keiji Haino; noise artist Toshiji Mikawa; experimental programmer Ryoichiro Debuchi; plus Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater group artists Norimizu Ameya and Kyusaku Shimada; theatre director Koharu Kisaragi; computer graphics artist for films Haruhiko Shono; visual artist Seiko Mikami; music critic Kuniharu Akiyama... ! Discographies, performance documentation, related artworks, record sleeves, flyers, and much more, printed across multiple raw paper stocks. A must! A perfect pre-cursor (and certainly as good as) Masami Akita's Noise War book of 1992. Texts in Japanese.

Very Good—Fine copy.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Norimizu Ameya Kyusaku Shimada Koharu Kisaragi Haruhiko Shono Seiko Mikami Keiji Haino Toshiji Mikawa Ryoichiro Debuchi Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater Group MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Sema (Robert Haigh) Zoviet France H.N.A.S. Nurse with Wound SPK Etant Donnes P16.D4 Genesis P-Orridge Coil Whitehouse Current 93 Throbbing Gristle Organum Nocturnal Emissions Tamia Ramleh Club Moral Monte Cazazza Chris and Cosey Cosey Fanni Tutti Lustmord Mnemonists Die Tödliche Doris The Hafler Trio Cranioclast Cabaret Voltaire Zos-Kia Test Department Diamanda Galas Z'ev Danielle Dax Masami Akita (Merzbow) Kuniharu Akiyama Yuzuru Agi Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Theory / Essay Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

End of the Century Club 2 (Deathtpia in Suburbia)
September 1996

1996, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 256 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Core Magazine / Tokyo

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Don't judge a book by it's cover — you've been warned! Straight out of the young nihilist 90s, the second volume of the very short-lived and absolutely demented Seikimatsu Club (End of the Century Club), published in Tokyo between 1996—2000 for a total of only five volumes. This second volume, "Deathtpia in Suburbia", has the feature theme of Horror! Bizarre! Bizarre! Cruelty! and is packed to the absolute brim with "corpses, freaks, spectacles, murders, suicides, autopsies, rapes, sickness, pain, accident, war, religious rituals, violence, forensics, foetuses. A shocking document that eliminates all fiction (all genuine)!"

With contributors to this issue including Masami Akita (Merzbow), Masaaki Aoyama (author), Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (corpse photographer), Suehiro Maruo (ero guro manga artist), Teruo Ishii (ero guro film director), Kotaro Kobayashi (Too Negative editor-in-chief), Trevor Brown (artist), you should know what you are getting yourself into.

Following the trajection of fellow Japanese abnormal subculture magazines such as Kotaro Kobayashi's notorious Too Negative, Ultra Negative, ORG, etc., and in the spirit of a new wave of 90's nihilist publishing around the world (Answer Me!, Killing Times, Fuck!, AMOK, Feral House, etc.) End of the Century Club stares directly into the dark recesses of humanity and presents its viewers with the uncompromising extremes of our global culture. The real stuff. Where Too Negative presents itself as a glossy colour photo/art magazine, End of the Century Club is almost like a Whole Earth Catalog to the authentic macabre. With articles, interviews, reports, catalogues and hundreds of images spanning all manner of medical/autopsy/corpse photography, death journalism, serial killers, formalihide babies, war/shock accident/crime scenes, hara-kiri, murder, rape, slaughterhouse, forensic books, international underground magazines, Photobook of World Diseases, City of Sodom, corpses on the internet, Underground Baby Contest, Atlas of Dermatology, complete guide to Freaks movies, the Garbage Pail Kids, religious ceremonies, animal deformities, Interview with "The King of Cult" ero guro film director Teruo Ishii, bizarro sex, acrotomophila, artist Joel Peter Witkin's world, interview with Masaaki Aoyama, interview with corpse photographer Kotaro Kobayashi (Death, Hardcore Works, Too Negative, Billy, etc.), photography of George Dureau, interview with fetish film director and producer Kaoru Adachi, interview with experimental film director Shozin Fukui (Metal Days, Gerorisuto, Caterpillar, 964 Pinocchio, Rubber's Lover...), article on "Serial Killers & Record Junkies" by Toshihiko Hironaka (of Boris, Balzac, Hellbent fame), and all sorts of other curios from the mondo, bizarro realm.

Includes "gorgeous" 24-page high-quality corpse photo booklet feature and cover art by Trevor Brown.

Not for the fain-hearted. You'll feel like a shower after.

Very Good copy with dust jacket and obi.

File under: Trevor Brown Teruo Ishii Masami Akita (Merzbow) Joel Peter Witkin Kaoru Adachi Shozin Fukui Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Suehiro Maruo Kotaro Kobayashi George Dureau Masami Akita (Merzbow) Masaaki Aoyama Core Magazine / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Japanese Photography Photography Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Eros Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Theory / Essay Crime / Violence Sound / Music Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

End of the Century Club 3 (The World You Don't Know)
1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 256 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Core Magazine / Tokyo

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Don't judge a book by it's cover — you've been warned! Straight out of the young nihilist 90s, the third volume of the very short-lived and absolutely demented Seikimatsu Club (End of the Century Club), published in Tokyo between 1996—2000 for a total of only five volumes. This third volume, "The World You Don't Know", has the feature theme of exposing "a reality erased from everyday life", which sums it up... packed to the absolute brim with "freaks, corpses, bestiality, autopsies, fetal executions, lynchings, traffic accidents, plane crashes, amputee, heteromorphic animals, freak shows, corpse museums, shemales, etc. A shocking document that eliminates all fiction (all genuine)!"

With contributors to this issue including Masami Akita (Merzbow), Masaaki Aoyama (author), Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (corpse photographer), Hideshi Hino (horror manga artist / Guinea Pig director), Kotaro Kobayashi (Too Negative editor-in-chief), Trevor Brown (artist), you should know what you are getting yourself into.

Following the trajection of fellow Japanese abnormal subculture magazines such as Kotaro Kobayashi's notorious Too Negative, Ultra Negative, ORG, etc., and in the spirit of a new wave of 90's nihilist publishing around the world (Answer Me!, Killing Times, Fuck!, AMOK, Feral House, etc.) End of the Century Club stares directly into the dark recesses of humanity and presents its viewers with the uncompromising extremes of our global culture. The real stuff. Where Too Negative presents itself as a glossy colour photo/art magazine, End of the Century Club is almost like a Whole Earth Catalog to the authentic macabre. With articles, interviews, reports, catalogues and hundreds of images spanning all manner of medical/autopsy/corpse photography, death journalism, serial killers, formalihide babies, war/shock accident/crime scenes, human intersection, murder art show, lobster boy, 3D stereo photography hall of horrors, donkey fucker (please no!), strange diseases of the world, amputee lovers, siamese twins, deformed children, amazing Photo Press historical stories, animal deformities, huge Hideshi Hino art gallery, book guide and interview, ALARMA! photo gallery, Trevor Brown art gallery, corpse photography, columns and features on and by Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (Death, Hardcore Works, Too Negative, Ultra Negative, Billy, etc.), Father Yod (YaHoWha 13) record guide, Medical Atlas by Naruhiko Tanaka, lots of noise record reviews by Masami Akita (Merzbow) inc. Smell & Quim, M.B., Lustmord, Ramleh, Genocide Organ, Richard Ramirez, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Whitehouse, Extreme Hair Stench, Genital Masticator, Traci Lords Loves Noise, Morder, etc., interview with artist Wes Benscoter (heavy metal illustrator for Slayer, Mortician, Kreator, Deceased, Cattle Decapitation, etc) on the occasion of his NG Gallery body painting show, complete Freak book library, and all sorts of other curios from the mondo, bizarro realm. Lots of full colour gore.

Not for the fain-hearted. You'll feel like a shower after.

Very Good copy with dust jacket and obi.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Merzbow MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Smell & Quim Lustmord Ramleh Genocide Organ Whitehouse Morder Richard Ramirez Agoraphobic Nosebleed Extreme Hair Stench Genital Masticator Traci Lords Loves Noise Hideshi Hino Trevor Brown Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Wes Benscoter Core Magazine / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence Film / Video Sound / Music Occult / Esoterica Drugs / Psychedelia Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography Periodicals Photography Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

SUN RA + AYÉ ATON
SPACE, INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS, 1972

2013, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 23 x 22 cm
Out of print title / as new
Published by PictureBox / Brooklyn Corbett vs. Dempsey / Chicago

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In 1972, the legendary musician, composer and mystic Sun Ra (1914-1993) was hard at work scripting and acting in the now classic documentary on his life and work, Space is the Place, as well as publishing his second book of poetry. The book of poems (now extremely rare) was designed and edited by Ra's manager, who asked one of Ra's band members in the Arkestra--the drummer and percussionist Ayé Aton--to contribute images to accompany Ra's poems. The final publication contained three photographs of Aton's indoor, space-themed murals. Published here for the first time, a once-lost trove of photographs dating from 1972, a pivotal year for Sun Ra. Half of the photos in this book are of the interior murals made by Ayé Aton — spectacularly beautiful in their 1970s supersaturated color. From the same period, a cache of never-published photographs taken on location in Oakland for the film Space is the Place, features Ra in full regalia, wearing beautiful Egyptian costumes borrowed from a local masonic temple. These spectacular photographs — unseen artifacts from a now remote time — offer us a special and often entertaining behind-the-scenes glimpse of a much-missed musical visionary.

Published by PictureBox, Inc. and Corbett vs. Dempsey.
Includes an introduction by Glenn Ligon and an essay by John Corbett
Edited by John Corbett

File under: Sun Ra Ayé Aton John Corbett PictureBox / Brooklyn Corbett vs. Dempsey / Chicago Art Painting Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Noise War
by Masami Akita (Merzbow)

1992, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 238 pages, 22 x16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Seikyūsha / Tokyo

$200.00 - Out of stock

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MB, Negativland, SPK, Nocturnal Emissions, Werkbund, Asmus Tietchens, Monte Cazazza, Throbbing Gristle, William S. Burroughs, Aleister Crowley, COME, Whitehouse, Esplendor Geometico, Lustmord, Ramleh, Club Moral, Mail Music, The Hafler Trio, Organum, The New Blockaders, Etant Donnes, Pirate Radios, P16.D4, S.B.O.T.H.I., Anti Records, Gum, Trax, MC5, Gordon Mumma, Boyd Rice / NON, Vagina Dentata Organ, The Haters, RRR Records, Schimpfluch, Entre Vifs, Moholy Nagy, Luigi Russolo, Carcass....

First (only) hardcover edition of the seldom seen and highly coveted "Noise War", written by Merzbow's Masami Akita and published only in Japan in 1992. Long out-of-print, "Noise War" surveys 10 years of noise, tracing developments and interests in the work of Burroughs and Crowley into the the birth of industrial music, power electronics, experimental noise and noise art/performance, bionic noise, metal alchemy, noise electronics, anti-information and avant-garde radio, mail art, noise collage/exchange music, media attack, record destruction, ambient noise, and much more, delving into the work of keys artists and record labels from all over the world within the survey period, but also influential historical figures. Heavily illustrated throughout in black and white with record sleeves, posters, photographs, and finishes with Akita's compiled noise record list.

Merzbow is a noise project created in Tokyo, Japan in 1979 under the direction of noise technician Masami Akita. As well as a legendary underground noise artist, Akita is a prolific writer in Japan and frequently writes on the arts, music, erotica, esoterica, modern architecture, and animal rights, with articles on emerging subcultures and underground extreme cultures appearing in publications like SM Sniper, Studio Voice and Fool's Mate. His development of the Merzbow aesthetic ran parallel with a series of investigative books in which he catalogued and introduced a vast amount of hermetic types of music, sexual practices and autonomous creativity to a fairly conservative (but not close-minded) Japanese audience. "Noise War" is the most sought after of these very books.

Japanese text, fine copy with fine metallic endpapers, metallic illustrated hardcovers, and illustrated dust jacket. Tight with little-to-no wear.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) László Moholy-Nagy Marcel Duchamp Negativland SPK Nocturnal Emissions Werkbund Asmus Tietchens Monte Cazazza Throbbing Gristle William S. Burroughs Aleister Crowley COME Whitehouse Esplendor Geometico Lustmord Ramleh Club Moral Mail Music The Hafler Trio Organum The New Blockaders Etant Donnes Pirate Radios P16.D4 S.B.O.T.H.I. Anti Records Gum Trax MC5 Gordon Mumma Boyd Rice / NON Vagina Dentata Organ The Haters RRR Records Schimpfluch Entre Vifs Moholy Nagy Luigi Russolo Carcass Boyd Rice Maurizio Bianchi (MB) MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Masami Akita (Merzbow) William S. Burroughs Aleister Crowley Seikyūsha / Tokyo Sound / Music Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Dada