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Theresa Ganz - Grand Illusion
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's "Museum View" of Baroque European palaces—objects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible.
Joseph Havel - Parrot Architecture
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Wall assemblages and totemic bronze and resin sculptures made during the pandemic by Houston-based sculptor Joseph Havel with the help of his pet parrot Hannah.
Charles Bernstein - Poetry Has No Future Unless It Comes to an End - Poems of Artificial Intelligence 
2023
English edition
Nero
A collection of poems generated between 2020 and 2022 by an Artificial Intelligence trained exclusively on poet Charles Bernstein's entire corpus.
Yaron Michael Hakim - Psittaciformes
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
Monograph devoted to Yaron Michael Hakim's Psittaciformes body of work, drawing inspiration from the migratory nature of parrots and their ability to assimilate. Through bold paintings on used Dacron sailcloth, Hakim uses this subject matter to explore his own relationship with assimilation, living between cultures, and the exoticization of his heritage.
Anuradha Vikram - Use Me at Your Own Risk - Visions from the Darkest Timeline
2023
English edition
X Artists' Books
A speculative novel set in 2046 that asks us to question our role in the destruction of our environment, the impact of automation on society, and heightened inequity across class, race, and gender.
The Stonewall Nation
2023
English edition
Torpedo
currently out of stock
Edited by artist Sille Storihl, The Stonewall Nation engages the archival remains of a gay colony that a group of gay men wanted to establish in Alpine County in Northern California in the early 1970s.
Bridget Mullen - Birthday
2023
English edition
Zolo Press
Bridget Mullen's "Birthday" series of intimate-sized paintings expressing emotions through abstracted figures and features, with a conversation between the artist and Lucas Blalock.
Tom Wesselmann - After Matisse
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Almine Rech Editions
The major influence of Henri Matisse on the work of one of the leading figures of American Pop Art.
Aurel Schmidt - Trash Dolls 2
2023
no text
Nieves
Aurel Schmidt's drawings.
Jocko Weyland - Elk
2023
no text
Nieves
The culmination of the American artist's assemblage project.
Alvin Lucier - One Arm Bandits (CD)
2023
Important Records
currently out of stock
An hour-long piece in four parts, scored for four cellists, featuring Tyler J. Borden, Laura Cetilia, Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.
Alvin Lucier - Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
An ideal introduction to Lucier's late music.
Nickolas Mohanna - Double Pendulum (vinyl LP)
2023
Run/Off
Double Pendulum is a selection of new material from NY-based artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna. Using a varied palette of percussive devices alongside the electric guitar and computer, hammered notes flutter into brushed cymbals to create pulsing and immersive shapes.
Carroll Dunham - Green Period - Prints, Drawings, and Paintings – 2018-2022
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Carroll Dunham's "Green Period."
Polly Apfelbaum - 2/5
2023
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
Zoë Lund - Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the first publication dedicated to her work.
Pippa Garner - Act Like You Know Me
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bierke
The first comprehensive monograph and critical survey of American artist Pippa Garner, Act Like You Know Me surveys fifty years of her radical and transdisciplinary art practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through ca. 400 photographs, illustration, ephemera, and original writings.
Tucker Nichols - Flowers
2023
no text
Nieves
Tucker Nichols' flowers paintings.
 Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (vinyl LP)
2023
Sub Rosa
From his early days with Henry Cow, Fred Frith was seen as a brilliant instrumentalist and improviser, but what has been overlooked is what a first-rate composer he is. This recording offers both aspects. His most complex orchestral composition and two selected improvisations with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.
 Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble (CD)
2023
Sub Rosa
From his early days with Henry Cow, Fred Frith was seen as a brilliant instrumentalist and improviser, but what has been overlooked is what a first-rate composer he is. This recording offers both aspects. His most complex orchestral composition and two selected improvisations with the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.
Richard Chartier - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (pour Georgia O\'Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Richard Chartier.
Stephen O\'Malley - Sept duos pour guitare acoustique & piano préparé (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
The second collaboration between Stephen O'Malley and Anthony Pateras, this time entirely acoustic, based around an acoustic guitar and prepared piano: a music that seems suspended, captivating by its almost organic coherence and modal simplicity, behind which resonances and subtle plays of pitch develop.
Daniel Arsham - 100 Hotel Sketches
2023
English edition
Perrotin
In 100 Hotel Sketches Daniel Arsham compiles 100 drawings made over the last few years as Arsham has travelled for exhibitions and installations worldwide.
Ana Mendieta - Aux commencements
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.
Don Cherry - Blank Forms - Organic Music Societies
2023
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
(last copies available!)
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry.
 7038634357 - Neo Seven (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
7038634357 (Neo Gibson)'s first vinyl record, between soundscape, song, and silence.
Alan Licht - May 99 (vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
29.00 26.90 €
The experiments of three musicians with different backgrounds who improvise together around continuous sinusoidal waves, between minimal and rock sensibilities.
 Lary 7 - Larynx (2 vinyl LP)
2023
Blank Forms - Records
Recorded in Lary 7's legendary apartment studio Plastikville over nearly a decade, Larynx is the first full-length retrospective of the East Village icon's hybrid music and engineering practice.
Ciarán Finlayson - Perpetual Slavery
2023
English edition
Floating Opera Press
In Perpetual Slavery, Ciarán Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both utilize imagery of labor haunted and structured by the historical experience of slavery.
Charlemagne Palestine - The God Bear Archives 1 (2 CD)
2023
Matière Mémoire
Unreleased tapes from the 70s and 80s.
Eric Thielemans - Double Consciousness (vinyl LP)
2023
Matière Mémoire
Over the course of 40 minutes, the guitar treatments of composer, multi-instrumentalist and label head (Black Truffle) Oren Ambarchi (he also plays an audobon bird call) and the percussive work of Eric Thielemans perfectly merge in an outstanding improvisational session.
Josh Mason - An Anxious Host (vinyl LP)
2023
Students Of Decay
Josh Mason's first vinyl outing since 2019, a pivotal release thoroughly shot through with the humidity, warmth, and "end of the line"-ness of the state of Florida.
 Starving Weirdos - Atheistaregods (vinyl LP)
2023
Discrepant
More than a decade after the release of "Land Lines", the mythical Humboldt County, California based duo of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay reappears seemingly out of nowhere with "Atheistsaregods".
Annea Lockwood - Homage to Annea Lockwood (book + CD)
2023
English edition
Recital
currently out of stock
A book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood.
Suzanne Langille - Let the Darkness Fall (vinyl LP)
2023
Recital
(last copies available!)
The first vinyl edition of Let the Darkness Fall, a forgotten corner from the vast discography of Suzanne Langille & Loren Connors, joined here by David Daniell and Andrew Burnes (of the Atlanta-based group San Agustin).
Sun Ra - Interview with Charlie Morrow - New York, 1989 (vinyl LP)
2023
Recital
A newly unearthed recording of an interview between Sun Ra and composer, sound and intermedia artist and Fluxus associate Charlie Morrow recorded at his New York studio in 1989. This outstanding voice-only recording develops more like a kaleidoscopic sermon than any standard interview.
Inge Bondi - Ernst Haas - Letters & Stories
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Writer Inge Bondi sheds fresh light on the life of her close friend and colleague, the Austrian American photographer Ernst Haas (1921–86), an early innovator in color photography, whom she first met in New York's Magnum offices in 1951.
Brown W. Cannon III - North
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Through powerful portraits and incredible surf scenes, Brown W. Cannon III's book NORTH chronicles the lives of surf people—and the community around them—along the North Shore of O'ahu, Hawaii.
Richard Kalvar - Selected Writings
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Damiani - Photography
The American and Parisian photographer, member of Magnum Photos, known for his street and everyday life photographs taken on the spot, celebrates the public use of the written word through a series of images of graffiti and inscriptions on signs, clothing, banners, gravestones, etc., produced over more than 50 years.
Florence Montmare - America Series
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The first monograph by Swedish-Greek-American photographer and artist Florence Montmare showcases images made in 2021–22 while traveling across the United States from east to west (and back), to meet the minorities who make up today's America.
Mayan Toledano - No Mames
2023
English edition
Damiani - Photography
A photographic tribute to the LGBTQ creative youth who is currently contributing to Mexican culture.
David Robbins - High Entertainment
2023
English edition
Reliable Copy
High Entertainment by David Robbins argues for a category of cultural production that combines the experimental ethos of art with the accessibility of entertainment.
Jason Kahn - All Along the Way (book + CD)
2023
English edition
Editions (Jason Kahn)
370-page book + CD chronicling of a solo tour through North America in 2022, exploring the state of the DIY experimental music scenes.
Mary Jane Leach - Woodwind Multiples (vinyl LP)
2023
Modern Love
"Woodwind Multiples" features four pieces for multiples of the same instrument: four bass flutes, nine oboes, nine clarinets, and seven bassoons. Each piece works closely with the unique sound of each instrument, combining pitches that create other, sometimes unexpected, tones, primarily combination and interference tones, as well as rhythmic patterns.
Kathy Acker - Love, Emily (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Slow Moves
The restored and remastered vinyl reissue of a sound performance by American writer Kathy Acker and French noise/experimental band Nox, published in 1987, with a poster and a previously unpublished set of documents, letters, texts and photos.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy -
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An overview of the work of the Paris-based American artist, through a series of exhibitions, installations and performances over a dozen years, three essays and two interviews.
Ahmed Abdullah - A Strange Celestial Road - My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Ben Vida - The Beat My Head Hit (vinyl LP)
2023
Shelter Press - Records
currently out of stock
Where Ben Vida's music has previously explored the sound of text at the outer register of electronic composition, here, in collaboration with the Yarn/Wire quartet and the vocalist Nina Dante, the voice and the words it works to inhabit are placed back at the time-scale of a song.
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