“After having borrowed lines from Jimi Hendrix and English poets for all previous anniversary releases, Rune Grammofon struck out for this one until Kim Hiorthøy, well after the deadline, accidentally stumbled over Johnny Cash and Forever Words: The Unknown Poems (2016). Let's Put It To Music quite nails it when it comes to the basic idea of the book and how the label approach the whole process of making a record. As Tim Gane is quoted in Adrian Shaughnessy's introduction "a Stereolab record was never....

“From trailer park punks to Pulitzer Prize winners, this is the untold story of a sleepy Navy town that became the unlikely gathering point for some of the most innovative, unclassifiable American artists of their time.
The late 60s arrival of Harry Partch -- hobo composer, iconoclast and inventor of instruments such as the Harmonic Canon and Quadrangularis Reversum -- jump started a revolution that was as much social as it was musical, drawing on the occult, self-realization and radical political...

This is a beautiful facsimile reprint of four of Ra’s books and pamphlets.

“Corbett vs. Dempsey is delighted to announce the release of four books of poetry by Sun Ra. Two of these were pamphlets that accompanied early Sun Ra albums issued in the late 1950s; the other two were published more than a decade later later by Infinity Inc./Saturn Research.
CvsD's reprints are fastidiously designed facsimiles of the original publications, marking the first time they have been available in their....

“Presented in a lush CD book including dozens of Zorn’s original erotic drawings printed in gold ink on distinctive art paper, this is the definitive presentation of one of Zorn’s most poignant and lush creations—an all-vocal setting of the Bible’s sensual poetry “The Song of Solomon.”
Scored for five female voices plus male and female narrators, the ensemble here includes narration by classical superstar Barbara Hannigan and renown French actor/director Mathieu Amalric.
Featuring a newly...