Books/Magazines

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Bill is an artist and he has illustrated some of our Cuneiform releases, as well as releases for The Laser's Edge/Sensory, Magna Carta and others, as well as designing our Cuneiform website. This small color book (a bit larger than a CD case) contains ...

“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....

Sid is a fine writer and while he is most definitely a FAN, he also doesn’t write as a fanboy. There’s lots of interviews, insights, gossip and deep details. HUGE fun for those who admire the [on and off] 50 year run of this band and the musician(s) behind it.

“Sid Smith’s In The Court Of King Crimson: An Observation Over 50 Years traces King Crimson’s career from the 1960s underground scene to the present day, featuring interviews with all the principal musicians and people associated with...

Beautiful print job on HEAVYWEIGHT paper.

Named by Vanity Fair as one of the ”17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read”

“…beautifully assembled, featuring some fabulously engaging two-fisted writing…”-The Guardian

“Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson and Thurston Moore with Neneh Cherry and Joe McPhee have contributed to an illustrated collector's guide to records -- replete with 277 pages of beatific album art, labels, sleeve notes and collector musings on their life-long obsessions...

“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....

Written by Steve & Alan Freeman, who wrote the legendary “Crack In The Cosmic Egg” book on German rock and “A Fistful Of Spaghetti” on Italian rock, this is a fun, in-depth, highly opinionated read!

Introduction, including: The French scene, Musique Concrète, The underground, The art of being French, etc., "Before it all began" by Jean-Jacques Birge, " A concise history " by Guigou Chenevier, "A voyage of discovery " by Andy Garibaldi, The French top 100, A short guided tour, including: setting...

"It's been a long, long time but finally it's here -- the second edition of Money Will Ruin Everything, Rune Grammofon's celebration of 5 more years of music. Originally planned as an update and slightly revised edition of the long deleted 2CD/book of...

“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...