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Greek Rhapsody + 2 CDs
Dust-to-Digital 2014 ISBN 9781938922374 Acqn 23297
Pb 15x25cm 152pp 45 b+w ills 28.50

Rembetika is a popular style of Greek folk music that deals with the sorrows and troubles
of everyday life, much like the Blues in the United States. Originating from oral tradition,
Rembetika merges traditional Turkish and Greek musical elements with lyrics that deal
with more modern, urban issues. The Rembetika music collected for Greek
Rhapsody was recorded from 19051956 in Greece, Istanbul, the United States and even
a German prison camp during the First World War. The set is mostly, but not entirely,
made up of instrumental music, steering clear of vocally dominated songs. The publication
comes with two CDs that feature 42 meticulously remastered tracks from 78 rpm
recordings of Greek instrumentals, including rare and never-before-issued tracks. Delving
deep into the history of this period, this publication offers a unique panorama of the
instruments and styles of Greek folk music.

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Opika Pende - Africa At 78 RPM
Pb 15x22cm 112pp 54ills 34col 46
The tremendous variety of music that was pressed to shellac discs on the continent of Africa is
truly astonishing. Popular songs, topical songs, work songs, comic songs, songs of worship,
ritual, dance and praise--the sheer range of musical styles resists any easy categorization, just as
African geography itself resists boundaries. Opika Pende: Africa at 78 rpm is a four-disc collection
featuring 100 tracks taken from rare 78 rpm recordings of African music--from 1909 to the mid-
1960s--none of which have ever been issued on CD until now. Across these 100 tracks,
traditional music stands side by side with popular music as traditional culture coexists with so-
called modernity. Pan-African in scope and wildly diverse, Opika Pende is a testament to the
deep riches found in early recorded music across the continent. In 2013, this set was nominated
for Best Historical Album by the Grammy Awards.
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Drop On Down In Florida - Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-
1980
Hb 15x20cm 216pp 40ills 31
In 1981, the Florida Folklife Program released the 27-track double LP Drop on Down in Florida:
Recent Field Recordings of Afro-American Traditional Music, based on four years of fieldwork
throughout the state. The album was intended to highlight African-American music traditions for a
statewide public audience--blues and sacred traditions in particular. Recently, the Folklife
Program sought the opportunity to produce an expanded reissue of the album that would include
previously unissued fieldwork recordings and photos. Dust-to-Digital, celebrated for its specially
packaged rereleases of American vernacular music, agreed to release the expanded reissue.
Drawing upon fieldwork materials now housed in the State Archives of Florida, this volume
includes 28 new tracks, plus a book with numerous photos documenting the musicians and
communities that perpetuated these traditions. Also included are new track notes; essays by past
and present folklorists with the Florida Folklife Program; and an essay on African-American one-
string instrument traditions.
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Pictures Of Sound - One Thousand Years Of Educed Audio: 980 1980
Hb 26x21cm 144pp 164col ills 38
Over the past 1,000 years, countless images have been created to depict sound in forms that
theoretically could be played just as though they were modern sound recordings. Now, for the
first time in history, this compilation uses innovative digital techniques to convert historic pictures
of sound dating back as far as the Middle Ages directly into meaningful audio. It contains the
worlds oldest known sound recordings in the sense of sound vibrations automatically recorded
out of the air--the groundbreaking phonautograms recorded in Paris by douard-Lon Scott de
Martinville in the 1850s and 1860s--as well as the oldest gramophone records available anywhere
for listening today, including inventor Emile Berliners recitation of Der Handschuh, played back
from an illustration in a magazine, which international news media recently proclaimed to be the
oldest audible record in the tradition of 78s and vintage vinyl. Other highlights include the oldest
known recording of identifiable words spoken in the English language (1878) and the worlds
oldest surviving trick recording (1889). Pictures of Sound pursues the thread even further by
playing everything from medieval music manuscripts to historic telegrams, and from
seventeenth-century barrel organ programs to eighteenth-century notations of Shakespearean
recitation. In short, this isnt just another collection of historical audio--it redefines what historical
audio is.
Ain't No Grave The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely
Hb 17x24cm 348pp 290 b+w ills 37.50
Once described as the King Recording Label's Gospel Ranger, Brother Claude Ely (1922-1978)
was known and loved throughout the Appalachian mountains as both a religious singer-
songwriter and a Pentecostal-Holiness preacher. Few people, however, knew the details of his
childhood, military service and years of hard toil in the coal fields of southwestern Virginia. What
Ely was known for was his brilliance as a preacher and his songwriting gifts. Through the
enormous popularity of songs like There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, Brother
Claude Ely bequeathed a musical and spiritual influence that continues to resonate throughout
the Appalachians and in gospel music today. Authored by Ely's great-nephew Macel Ely, Ain't No
Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely is an oral biography composed from recorded
interviews with more than 1,000 people in the Appalachian Mountains who knew Brother Claude
Ely. An accompanying CD collects two recordings of There Ain't No Grave alongside other
songs and sermons.
I Listen to the Wind that Obliterates my Traces Music in Vernacular Photographs 1880-1955
Hb 17x22cm 184pp 152 b+w ills 37
I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces compiles music, photographs and literary
excerpts that reflect on or present music itself as subject matter, from the earliest days of the
phonograph. Culled from artist Steve Roden's collection of thousands of vernacular photographs
related to music, sound and listening, the many gems to be found in this book (and its
accompanying two CDs) include accounts of the Barnum-esque Professor McRea (Ontario's
Musical Wonder) and anonymous African-American guitar players, and an amazing trove of
photographs of early phonographs. Other images range from professional portraits to accidental
double exposures, via photographic formats such as tintypes, ambrotypes, cdvs, cabinet cards,
real photo postcards and albumen prints. The two CDs bring together a variety of recordings,
including one-off amateur recordings, regular commercial releases and early sound effects
records.
Never a Pal Like Mother Vintage Songs & Photographs of the One Who's Always True
Hb 15x22cm 96pp 59ills 1col 29.95
Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, separation from loved ones was an accepted
fact of life, for several generations of Americans. Westward migration had cleaved many families
along generational lines, as young people left their elders in the east, rarely if ever to see them
again. Immigrants from Ireland and Germany and Italy said goodbye to their mothers as they
prepared to cross the ocean to America, while African Americans in the South did the same as
they boarded northbound trains. Another wave of young soldiers left home, headed for the hills of
Cuba and the Philippine boondocks, and their sons would write home from the trenches of
Europe. This generational nostalgia became a mainstay of pop culture: in early country music, the
mother song was a staple, from the heartbreaking to the maudlin; blues and black gospel singers
missed their mamas too, from Jaybird Coleman to the Pilgrim Travelers. Gathering vintage
photographs of mothers and children and a two-CD compilation of 78 rpm recordings of motherly
love, this book is the ultimate homage to our beloved mothers.

Victrola Favorites Artifacts From Bygone Days +2 CDs
Hb 15x22cm 144pp 92ills 60col 36.95

A staple of the 1920s parlour-room, the Victrola was a wind-up gramophone designed to play
78-rpm shellac records. Victrolas were hard on 78s: each plays slightly different than the last
as the needle bites deeper into the groove, says Robert Millis, co-compiler of this seductive
homage to both the Victrola and the 78. With Victrola Favorites, Millis and J effery Taylor, both
musicians (in the band Climax Golden Twins) and collectors, aim to recreate the Victrola
listening experienceclicks, pops, hums and all. With the rise of the phonograph came a
fascinating print culture of logos, slogans, hand lettering, mailing labels, postcards and
ephemera, and Victrola Favorites reproduces a hefty sampling of these colourful gems of
design along with two CDs of recordings made between 1920 and 1950. These CDs are
packed with what you could call aural bugs in amber: Chinese Buddhist nuns chanting circa
1915, J apanese bamboo xylophones circa 1910, London traffic noises circa 1929, Burmese
guitars, Chinese opera, Persian folk songs, Fado, hillbilly and lost stars of jazz and blues such
as The Tennessee Ramblers, Slim Lamar's Orchestra, J essie May Hill and many, many
others.
Brian Wilson An Art Book This book has not been authorised by Brian Wilson or the Beach
Boys
Four Corners 2004 ISBN 9780954502515 Acqn 11569
Pb 120pp 52ills 13x20cm 11.95
Brian Wilson: words and images is a Brian Wilson reader written by artists and art writers
from a wide range of perspectives. During the last few years there has been a great
resurgence of interest in the music Brian Wilson made with the Beach Boys in the 1960s, not
least amongst artists. It could be said that the nature of Brian Wilson's achievements is more
evident to us now than it was then. This book accounts for this through the filter of
contemporary art.
The texts are accompanied by a 52pp section of illustrations of art works that act as an
exhibition in book form. Some refer to Brian Wilson or the Beach Boys directly; most, though,
have been selected to evoke something of the feel of the music, the environment it emerged
from, Wilson's extraordinary life story, or how these elements interrelate. Works date from the
Beach Boys' earliest records to the present day.
The book's organising principle - Brian Wilson - gives rise to relations between art works
across movements, geographies and histories. Although many of the works are abstract, or
verge on abstraction, together the illustrations form a narrative arc that mirrors the trajectory
of Wilson's work and life, while also having an independent logic of its own. Edited by Alex
Farquharson, with essays by Peter Blake, Thomas Demand, Michael Duncan, Alex
Farquharson, Andrew Gellatly, Jeremy Glogan, Bruce Hainley, Jennifer Higgie and Dominic
Willsdon.

Beauty Is In The Street A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising
Four Corners Books 2011 ISBN 9780956192837 Acqn 19804
Hb 23x28cm 272pp ills 25

In May 1968, demonstrations against the French government spread across Parisian
universities, and then to factories and other workplaces, resulting in a general strike of eleven
million workers that brought the country to a virtual standstill. Among the students were a
group who called themselves the Atelier Populaire, who produced hundreds of posters to
encourage the protestors and to report on police brutality. Beauty Is In The Street reproduces
over 200 of these posters which have become landmarks in political art and graphic design.
Also included are a wealth of photographs, many published for the first time, and translations
of first-hand accounts of the clashes between the students and strikers and the police.


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The Graphic World of Paul Peter Piech
Hb 22x31cm 192pp 150ills 140col 20

The Graphic World Of Paul Peter Piech, by Zoe Whitley is the first book on this artist
Born in New York, Paul Peter Piech (1920-1996) worked for most of his life as a printmaker in the
UK, producing prints, posters and books from his home in the London commuter belt and, later,
Wales. Piechs works, sometimes joyful, sometimes angry, always inventive, tackle the political
concerns of the late 20th century, combining the artists advertising expertise with his forthright
personal beliefs. The Graphic World Of Paul Peter Piech reproduces over 120 prints drawn from
the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the University of Reading.
Published by Four Corners Books, in association with V&A Publishing, London and designed by
Familiars designer-in-chief John Morgan.
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Pirate Nightmare Vice Explosion - Edited and introduced by Michael Kupperman
Pb 24x32cm 144pp col ills 15.99
In the late 1990s, Michael Kupperman bought a stack of mens magazines from the 1950s and
1960s. On examining them, he discovered that their original owner had tampered with them,
using the contents to form his own hybrid magazines. Pirate Nightmare Vice Explosion presents
highlights from that collection, and takes place in a murky, monochromatic world where
mysterious, energetic sin is always happening behind closed doors.
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Kim Gordon - Is It My Body? Selected Texts
Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790386 Acqn 23224
Pb 12x19cm 182pp 36ills 12.95
Edited by Branden W. Joseph
Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to cultural analyses, the writings collected in this volume
chart Kim Gordons trajectory from art student to member of the influential rock group Sonic
Youth. They are compelling for their contribution to the discourse surrounding art, architecture,
film, fashion, and rock music that catalysed art scenes from Los Angeles to Cologne at the end of
the twentieth century. Frequently gravitating to rock and roll and interior design, and the manner
in which the two come together, Gordon also casts a critical eye on key stakes within
contemporary art, whether the revival of Pop-art strategies, the persistence of formalist
modernism, or the vicissitudes of institutional critique.
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Douglas Coupland - Shopping in Jail: Ideas Essays and Stories for the Increasingly Real
21st Century
Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365863 Acqn 22675
Pb 13x20cm 94pp 8.95
With an introduction by Shumon Basar
In Douglas Coupland's writing, the doldrums of a world afflicted by the pains of dotcom booms
and busts, the ascendency of subcultures to pop cultures, and the subsequent struggle for
identity are counterbalanced by droll, personal, and incisive analyses. This collection of non-
fiction essays provides an illuminating meander through what we call culture today.
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and designer. His first novel, Generation X,
was an international bestseller. He has published fourteen novels, two collections of short stories,
and seven non-fiction books; written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company; and
has penned a number of works for film and television. He is a regular contributor to the New York
Times, Wired magazine, and the Financial Times.


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Christian Marclay - Fire & Water + CD
Dis Voir 2014 ISBN 9782914563734 Acqn 23340
Pb 17x22cm 64pp 60col ills 27

In 2011 Christian Marclay was invited to create an artwork for Mixed Bathing World. A
contemporary art festival held every three years in Beppu, one of Japans most famous hot spring
resorts. Marclay designed a field of one hundred flags installed on a jetty near the harbour. Fifty
flags represented water, and fifty fire. At the bottom corner of each flag he attached a small bell.
Fires brass bell was heavier, needing more wind to chime but with a longer sustain, while
Waters stamped iron bell was lighter and had a short, dry and low ring. The enclosed CD
documents these bells ringing in the changing wind, mixing with sounds from the harbour.


Ryoji Ikeda - =/- [The Infinite Between 0 And 1]
Access 2012 ISBN 9784901976688 Acqn 21766
Hb 19x26cm 144pp 50col ills 55.95

Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda creates music concerned primarily with sound in a variety of
raw states, such as sine tones and noise, often using frequencies at the edges of the range of
human hearing. The conclusion of his album +/- (Touch, 1997) features just such a tone, "a high
frequency sound that the listener becomes aware of only upon its disappearance". This book
documents the nature of his methods, where he explains fascinating theories about sound and its
perception in an interview, Music as marginal art. A list of works and biography completes the
volume.

Ryoji Ikeda Dataphonics
Pb 15x20cm 64pp 60 b+w ills 27
A star of minimalist electronica and sound art, Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966) focuses on the building blocks
of sound and aural minutiae, often deploying frequencies at the very edges of human hearingsound
that, as he puts it, the listener becomes aware of only upon its disappearance. His albums +/- (1997)
and Matrix (2001) spread this soundworld of sine waves and ambient glitchery to a wider audience;
since then, he has exhibited and collaborated (notably with Carsten Nicolai) across the world. A
homage to Musique Concrte pioneer Pierre Schaeffer's Solfege de l'objet sonore, Dataphonics began
as a monthly broadcast on France culture's Atelier de Cration Radiophonique, in which Ikeda created
a highly physical auditory experience based on the idea of binary-logic data made audible, to
materialize the invisible domain of totally pure digital data.' This book and CD includes spreads of
graphic scores, codes, symbols and the composition itself, recomposed from the ten segments in
which it was originally conceived.

Laurie Anderson Nothing In My Pockets +2 CDs
Pb 15x20cm 64pp 80col ills 30

Nothing In My Pockets was originally a sound diary, conceived for the Atelier de Cration
Radiophonique de France Culture, that was kept between J uly 4th and October 4th, 2003. In
that new and innovative experimentation, Laurie Anderson unfolded her daily life as an artist,
microwaved it and presented herself as more than a diarist: she became the electronic sound
architect of her own existence. The sound diary that Laurie Anderson presents here also
offers unpublished visual documents through the pages of a book. The opportunity is for an
intimate journey into the personal universe of the artist through a series of daily leaps: from
her New York studio in Tribeca to the numerous travels and landscapes she crossed over the
whole 3 month period.

Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer Water Days +CD
Pb 15x20cm 64pp 53b+w ills 27
A book and audio CD, Water Days documents an exchange of pictures, texts, sounds and
voices between multimedia artist Leah Singer and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. During their
2007 and 2008 residencies at the Centre national de l'estampe et de l'art imprim (CNEAI) in
Chatou, near Paris, Singer and Ranaldo created a body of printworks in the museum's
etching atelier, as well as field recordings made in the studio, on their houseboat and in the
community at large. Water Days began as two texts inspired by the conflict between
wanderlust and the desire for home. When invited to do a radio piece for Atelier de Cration
Radiophonique de France Culture, the sound recordings made in Chatou were combined with
recordings of electric guitar, as well as pre-recorded voices including those of artist Robert
Smithson and writer Carson McCullers. The current volume attempts to create a filmic
sequence of photographs to augment and accompany the recording.
Arcana II Musicians on Music
Hips Road/Tzadik 2007 ISBN 9780978833763 Acqn 15463
Pb 17x25cm 294pp 27
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.
Arcana III Musicians on Music
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,
passionately and selflessly devoting themselves to the search for the miraculous. 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 John Zorn has created an influential body of
work that defies academic categories. A native of New York City, he has been a central figure
in the downtown scene since 1975, incorporating a wide range of musicians in various
compositional formats. Early inspirations include American innovators like Ives, Varse,
Cage, Carter and Partch, the European tradition of Berg, Stravinsky, Ligeti and Kagel,
soundtrack composers Herrmann, Morricone and Stalling, as well as avant-garde theater,
film, art and literature.
Arcana IV Musicians on Music
Now in its fourth instalment, with a 5fth in preparation, John Zorns 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 distil or define a musicians work, Arcana IV illuminates
directly via personal vision and experience, through the undiluted words and thoughts of the
practitioners themselves. Elucidating through manifestoes, 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 remarkably challenging and original series has now become the major source
on new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century. Among Arcana IVs contributors
are Derek Bailey, Nels Cline, Chris Cutler, Paul Dresher, Kenneth Gaburo, Shelley Hirsch,
Wayne Horvitz, Vijay Iyer, Gordon Mumma, Matana Roberts, Katherine Supov and Carolyn
Yarnell.
Arcana V Musicians on Music, Magic & Mysticism
Pb 17x26cm 464pp 46ills 16col 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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John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Give Peace A Chance (+DVD)
Bakhall 2007 ISBN 9789177422600 Acqn 17184
All we are sayingis Give Peace A Chance! was recorded in May of 1969 on a portable tape
deck during John Lennon and Yoko Onos famous Bed-In to promote world peace. Released on
record a few weeks later, it quickly became an anthem for peace-loving people of all countries,
and still stands as a slogan for peace that is fresh and relevant as ever.
This book, edited under Yokos supervision in 2007, is an anthology of photos, documents and
quotations culled from the couples many inspiring peace campaigns, spanning from the late
1960s to Yokos peace work in Lennons memory in recent years.
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Yoko Ono Grapefruit
Hb 14x21cm 254pp 20ills 30
Grapefruit is Yoko Ono's legendary collection of her quirky, subversive, surprising instructions for
art and life. First published in Tokyo as a limited edition in 1964 and later enlarged and widely
reprinted in 1970, Grapefruit is now a modern art classic. "Make a hole. Leave it in the wind."
"Draw a map to get lost." "Listen to the sound of the earth turning."
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Yoko Ono - Yes Box
Box 15x13cm 17ills 7col 24
A comprehensive presentation of the grand retrospective YES YOKO ONO exhibition, shown at
the Japan Society, New York from October 2000 to January 2001 and thereafter at many other
first-ranking art museums around the world. This box contains chosen samples of the artworks of
the exhibition together with Yoko's own commentary. The box contains the following items:
1. SOUL GOT OUT OF THE BOX - a 32 page booklet presenting some of the artworks from the
exhibition.
2. INTERVIEW CD - a CD with a recorded interview with Yoko Ono giving her inner thoughts on
many of her artworks. The interview was conducted by Bakhall's publisher Orjan Gerhardsson in
Yoko's home in New York on February 28, 2003. Playing time: 18 minutes 13 seconds.
3. SONG CD - a CD with two songs from Yoko's album Blueprint For A Sunrise: "It's Time For
action" and "I'm Not Getting Enough". Playing time: 7 minutes 30 seconds.
4. A CARD WITH A HOLE - ... with the text "A hole to see the sky through" - a replica of Yoko
Ono's artwork from 1964.
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Yoko Ono - Imagine Yoko + DVD
"Imagine Yoko" is a book of ideas--provocative, engaging, enjoyable. In this unique edition Yoko
Ono shares her inner thoughts with us on such themes as what art really is and how art can make
the world a better place. This brilliant book also gives us an unclouded insight into Yoko's artistic
realm and guides us through her work. So what is art? Art is to imagine. Art can be the saviour
when politics fail. Art is a means of survival. The book is an anthology of aphorisms and essays
that Yoko has verbally communicated or written over the years, compiled and edited by Bakhall's
founder Orjan Gerhardsson in close cooperation with the artist herself.
Deluxe hard-cover edition, 128 pages, printed on high quality paper with many color illustrations.
Included with the book is a bonus DVD with samples from two of Yoko's films: Film No.4
(Bottoms) and Film No. 13 Fly. Playing time: 14 minutes.
Dennis Morris A Bitta Pil
Parco 2011 ISBN 9784891948900 Acqn 20703
Former PIL photographer Dennis Morris presents an unofficial PIL photo book. This catalogue
showcases a series of photos that capture fragments of John Lydon's private life in Jamaica,
before he formed his band Public Image Ltd (P.I.L.). The book features dual text in English &
Japanese and is predominantly a visual, illustrated book, introducing PIL albums with
personal commentaries.

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This is the One: A Photo Essay on the Rise of the Stone Roses by Dennis Morris
Who Said It Publishing 2012 ISBN 9780957247109 Acqn 22050
Hb 28x33cm 200pp col ills 65
From legendary photographer Dennis Morris comes a lavish collection of colour photos of the
Stone Roses at their peak. With a forward by Dave Haslam, and texts by Luke Bainbridge and
Dennis Morris.

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Valerie Solanas - Scum Manifesto
Verso 2004 ISBN 9781859845530 Acqn 23824
Hb 14x29cm 80pp 3.95

SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts
when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published
this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and
resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is
impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has indisputable
prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its time, predicting artificial
insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the arts but also as a
stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.
The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell's incisive
introduction, "Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas." Here is a reconsideration of
Solanas's infamous text in light of her social milieu, Derrida's "The Ends of Man" (written in the
same year), Judith Butler's Excitable Speech, Nietzsche's Ubermensch and notorious feminist
icons from Medusa, Medea and Antigone, to Lizzie Borden, Lorenna Bobbit and Aileen Wournos,
illuminating the evocative exuberance of Solanas's dark tract.
Serge Gainsbourg - The Biography
Tam Tam Books 2012 ISBN 9780966234671 Acqn 20923
Pb 14x22cm 590pp 10ills 18.95
When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: Franois Mitterand himself
proclaimed him our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire. Gainsbourg redefined French pop, from his
beginnings as cynical chansonnier and mambo-influenced jazz artist to the ironic y-y beat and
lush orchestration of his 1960s work to his launching of French reggae in the 1970s to the electric
funk and disco of his last albums. But mourned as much as his music was Gainsbourg the man:
the self-proclaimed ugly lover of such beauties as Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin, the iconic
provocateur whose heavy-breathing Je taime moi non plus was banned from airwaves
throughout Europe and whose reggae version of the Marseillais earned him death threats from
the right, and the dirty-old-boy wordsmith who could slip double-entendres about oral sex into the
lyrics of a teenybopper ditty and make a crude sexual proposition to Whitney Houston on live
television.
Gilles Verlants biography of Gainsbourg is the best and most authoritative in any language.
Drawing from numerous interviews and their own friendship, Verlant provides a fascinating look at
the inner workings of 1950s1990s French pop culture and the conflicted and driven songwriter,
actor, director and author that emerged from it: the young boy wearing a yellow star during the
German Occupation; the young art student trying to woo Tolstoys granddaughter; the musical
collaborator of Petula Clark, Juliette Greco and Sly and Robbie; the seasoned composer of the
Lolita of pop albums, Histoire de Melody Nelson; the cultural icon who transformed scandal and
song into a new form of delirium.
Serge Gainsbourg Evguenie Sokolov
Pb 13x18cm 138pp 12.95
Serge Gainsbourg's sole foray into fiction, Evguenie Sokolov describes an artist who uses his
intestinal gases as the medium for his scandalous artwork. What once was a smelly and noisy
problem in his social and sex life becomes a recipe for success in the early 1980s art world.
Adolf Loos Why A Man Should Be Well Dressed
Metro Verlag 2011 ISBN 9783993000400 Acqn 20361
Pb 12x19cm 128pp ills 14
Throughout his life Adolf Loos raised his eloquent voice against the squandering of fine
materials, frivolous ornamentation and unnecessary embellishments. His admirers consider
him to be the inspiration for all modern architecture. Yet, few are acquainted with his amusing,
incisive, critical and philosophical literary work reflecting on applied design and the essence of
clothing in fin de sicle Vienna. Adolf Loos often had a radical, yet innovative outlook on life
that made him such a nuisance for many of his contemporaries. His provocative musings on
many subjects portray him as a man of varied interests and intellectual refinement as well as
possessing a keen sense of style, which still has value today. For the first time the Loos
Dress Code is available in English. Included is a short social/historical look as the birth of
Modernism in Adolf Loos Vienna.


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In The Words Of Sparks...Selected Lyrics
Hb 14x21cm 182pp 5col ills 18.50

Sparks--the long-running duo of Ron and Russell Mael--are among the most respected
songwriters of their generation, their songs ranking alongside those of Ray Davies (The Kinks
having been a formative influence), George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim.
Formed in Los Angeles in 1971, Sparks have issued over 20 albums and scored chart hits with
songs such as This Town Aint Big Enough for Both of Us, Cool Places and Never Turn Your
Back on Mother Earth. While their musical style has changed dramatically over the course of 40
years--embracing the British Invasion sound of the 60s, glam rock, disco (they teamed up with
Giorgio Moroder for 1979s No. 1 in Heaven) and even techno--their work has consistently
stretched the boundaries of pop music and the song form. Sparks continue to break new ground:
they are currently working on a project with filmmaker Guy Maddin and are soon to embark on a
world tour. Now, for the first time, the Mael brothers have chosen their favorite Sparks lyrics (to
some 75 songs), editing and correcting them for presentation in In the Words of Sparks. As
James Greer--novelist and former member of Guided by Voices--comments, Sparks-level
wordplay is a gift, and more than that, an inspiration. This book also includes a substantial
introduction by fellow Los Angeles resident and longtime fan, Morrissey.


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On the Threshold of Beauty Origins of Dutch Electronic Music 1925-1965
nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080652 Acqn 22244

On the Threshold of Beauty. Philips and the Origins of Electronic Music in the Netherlands 1925-
1965 is a lavishly illustrated book by Kees Tazelaar which meticulously reconstructs the birth and
evolution of electronic music in the Netherlands from 1925 to 1965. It is the compelling story of
the development of electronic music at the Philips research laboratory, the collaboration between
Xenakis, Le Corbusier and Varse on the now legendary Philips Pavilion at the 1958 World Expo,
and the first studios for electronic music in the Netherlands with key figures like Dick Raaijmakers
and Gottfried Michael Koenig.
On the Threshold of Beauty is an extremely well-documented, lavishly illustrated and highly
readable study. Based on new and original research, it serves the needs of both specialists and a
broad audience. It describes a period of musical history in which an entirely new world of
electronic sounds and compositional attitudes was developed and explored, ranging from avant-
garde extremes to the earliest experiments in electronic pop, from the music for the iconic Philips
Pavilion at the 1958 World Expo to electronic soundtracks for film.


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Records By Artists 1958-1990
Danilo Montanari Editore 2013 ISBN 9788897753087 Acqn 23463
Pb 16x24cm 288pp 600ills 250col 36.50

The catalogue to an exhibition curated by Giorgio Maffei at the Biblioteca Universitaria, Bologna,
during Artelibro 2013 explores diverse artistic experiences using sound and audio storage media
since its beginnings around 1960. Central to the interdisciplinary context of dematerialisation of
the work of art, visual, literary, performance and other artists have increasingly experimented with
the record and sound as a vehicle for investigating the possibilities of verbal and non-verbal
expression, considerations of the body and avant-garde tendencies. Hundreds of examples are
presented in this impressively researched and carefully documented and illustrated book.


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CAN Superamas - Box Set. 4 Catalogues + 2 Vinyl LPs
Les Presses Du Reel 2014 ISBN 9782839913836 Acqn 23775
Pb 33x33cm 144pp 224ills 35

Luxurious box set including 4 catalogues (with more than 200 photographs and 44 original
poems) and a double vinyl of the concert by Damo Suzuki and The Fume (a live performance by
the ex-singer of CAN, in the continuity of the krautrock movement), prolonging one year of
evolving exhibitions and performances at Centre d'Art de Neuchtel.
The cycle was called Superamas (supercluster) and involved four consecutive phases. Designed
and developed organically, the phases occupied the art centre for a year, from May 2012 to April
2013, taking place one right after the other in an un- broken series in which the ending of one
phase and the beginning of the next were indistinguishable. Thus Superamas existed in a
permanent state of transformation. The centres exhibition spaces and administrative offices were
gradually fused as well to avoid the formation of the usual distinction in time and space between
the conception, materialisation and final layout of a show. The constant movement generated by
this nonmethod prevented any clear separation between praxis and theory, while encouraging
visions that might furtively emerge from this organic mass.
Far from being an objective report on the experience, the present publication continues along the
path running through Superamas by putting to good use the residual energy released during the
inevitable mishaps that occurred along the way.


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Jim's Terrible City - J G Ballard And Shanghai. Photos By James H Bollen
James H Bollen 2014 ISBN 9780992815707 Acqn 23832

James H. Bollens photographs are inspired by the legendary British writer J. G. Ballard (1930-
2009), and Ballards semi-autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun. Ballard was born in
Shanghai in 1930 in what was then known as the International Settlement. Through extensive
readings of Ballards highly visual fiction, Bollen explores a literary exhibitions and heritage of
Shanghai with his own painterly photographic language. The images construct an urban
landscape where time ceases to exist and life becomes like a stage set. In Bollens eyes,
violence, flight, car crashes, the incongruities of time and life can seem so immediately cinematic,
or a like a ghostly glimpse of life experienced by J.G. Ballard while living in Shanghai during the
Japanese Occupation. Many of these themes and images can be tracked throughout J.G.
Ballards writings, where a near-hallucinatory state of mind merges memories of a Shanghai
exhibitions while continuing to exist in the citys present.


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Listen To This T-Shirt
World Photo Press 2013 ISBN 9784846529727 Acqn 22669
Pb 21x28cm 192pp 550ills 500col 27.95

As a teenager growing up in Japan, Yasuhiro Takeishi caught the American rock and roll bug
early on. Since putting on his first band t-shirt in 1987, he has amassed a mind-blowing collection
of 5000 vintage t-shirts from rock bands, concerts and festivals, most of them dating from the
1970s through early 80s a period that may well be dubbed the dawn of rock and roll. This book
features countless legendary rock t-shirts from his collection, including artists like Bob Dylan, Iggy
Pop, Tom Waits, Jimi Hendrix, The Clash, David Bowie, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, The
Sex Pistols, The Doors, and many more, plus a special section on The Rolling Stones.

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Max Matkiel - Studio Paradiso
Voetnoot 2013 ISBN 9789491738029 Acqn 22837
Pb 23x24cm 624pp 590ills 42
As a frequent visitor to concerts at Paradiso, Amsterdams long-running music venue, in the early
1980s, Dutch photographer Max Natkiel encountered all manner of subcultures: punks, new-
wavers, rockers, mods, Rastafarians, squatters, and metal- and skinheads. Eventually he decided
to bring along his camera and started making portraits of the fascinating people he found; a
collection eventually numbering over 1000. A selection of about 600 of these black and white
photographs appears here, reflecting the explosion of pure youth culture and fierce desire for
individuality he experienced in the decade between 1980-1990. With an introduction by
philosopher Dirk van Weelden.


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Raymond Pettibon - To Wit
David Zwirner Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780989980944 Acqn 23633

In the summer of 2013, Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) converted the David Zwirner exhibition
space into an improvised studio, in order to prepare the drawings and collages for his critically
acclaimed show at the gallery. The works ranged from depictions of Joe DiMaggio as a young
boy, Bob Dylan and the comic strip character Bazooka Joe to pieces dovetailing popular imagery
with quotations from Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert or the
Bible, and addressing themes of violence, humour, sex, evolution, religion, politics, literature,
youth, art history and sports. This volume documents both the making of these works during
Pettibon's intensive tenure in the space and the finished works themselves. Boasting a drawing
made especially for the cover, Raymond Pettibon: To Wit includes an essay by Lucas Zwirner
titled "A Month with Raymond" that describes the show's making and offers fresh observations on
the relationship between word and image, and reading and writing, in Pettibon's art. This essay is
complemented by a selection of black-and-white photographs from Andreas Laszlo Konrath, who
also documents the creation of these works, and an interview with Pettibon by artist and founding
member of Sonic Youth Kim Gordon, who first encountered Pettibon's work in the early 1980s in
Los Angeles.

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Wired Up! - Glam Proto Punk And Bubblegum European Picture Sleeves 1970-1976
Wired Up Media 2013 ISBN 9780615488769 Acqn 22060
Wired Up! is the first book to fully document the underground European glam rock scene of the
early 1970s, cataloging hundreds of the best and most sought after junkshop glam, proto-punk
and bubblegum 45 sleeves from the 197076 period. The history of this highly influential but
seldom discussed moment in rock n roll is told through reproductions of the colorful,
outrageously designed record sleeves as well as first-hand accounts from some of the musicians
who were there, such as Alan Gordon of Hector, Jesse Hector of the Hammersmith Gorillas and
Gordon Nicol of Iron Virgin. Wired Up! is truly a labor of love, requiring several years of research--
digging through record bins and scouring online auctions--as well as the assistance of several
prominent collectors, including Phil King, bass player with The Jesus & Mary Chain and driving
force behind the groundbreaking Glitterbest compilation of UK glam, and Robin Wills, guitarist
with The Barracudas and author of the Purepop blog. While a handful of better-known names are
present--Bay City Rollers, Gary Glitter, The Osmonds, Suzi Quatro, Slade, Sparks, The Sweet--
the bulk of Wired Up! is given over to a proudly revisionist history of a parallel pop universe, one
populated by the now-forgotten likes of Carol and the Boston Garden, Floating Opera, Galahad,
Lemming, The Panics, Punchin Judy and Union Joke.

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Stanley Donwood - Red Maze
Schunk 2011 ISBN 9789490624033 Acqn 20823
Stanley Donwood is the pen name of English artist Dan Rickwood. He is known for his close
association with the British rock group Radiohead, having created all their album and poster art.
He also has collaborated with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and others on the band's website
and appeared in the occasional band webcast and the 2001 Grammy awards. This book shows a
selection of his paintings, drawings and illustrations and is introduced by Stijn Huijts.


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Where'd You Get Those? 10th Anniversary Edition - New York City's Sneaker Culture:
1960-1987
Testify Books 2013 ISBN 9780972592086 Acqn 23139
Hb 21x26cm 280pp 575ills 450col 29.50

The mother of all sneaker books is finally back in print, in an expanded edition. Upon its initial
publication in 2003, Whered You Get Those? was hailed by Vanity Fair as The perfect primer on
the sole of pop culture a much needed compendium. The New Yorker raved that Garcias
book is an anthropological trove, while the New York Post noted that Whered You Get Those?
is a must. Vogue gushed: Garcia chronicles the gym shoes rise to cultural prominence with
obsessive detail Whered You Get Those? is a welcome addition to New York cultural history.
Paper magazine called it The definitive book on the rise of sneaker fanaticism, and Time Out
New York hailed it as a rhapsodic, comprehensive chronicle. Documenting more than 400 pairs
of sneakers in a highly illustrated, chronological format, Whered You Get Those? is simply a
stone cold classic. Sneakers are fetishized by consumers worldwide, and dozens of subsequent
sneakers books have come and gone, but none have come close to attracting the readership and
unfettered adulation that this book has enjoyed. (Carnegie Mellon University even offers a class,
Sneakerology 101, that uses Whered You Get Those? as its main textbook.) Updates to the new
edition include new sneakers inaugurated into the canon, as well as a new foreword, introduction
and afterword.

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