Libros

Notes: What makes New Wave... New Wave? It's the catchall name of punk's poppy offshoot, born in the 70s simultaneously in the United States and United Kingdom. But how would you describe New Wave's context in the zeitgeist of the time, or explain how this new electro-rock made people feel? Well, that's precisely what DJ and author Steve Wide explains in this handy book. In these pages, Steve explains the social and music industry climates of the 70s and 80s, unpacking the influence of the punk genre on NYC-based groups like the Velvet Underground and New York Dolls. There's also a timeline on the usage of the term New Wave - for a long chunk of the 70s it was used almost interchangeably with "punk". There are breakdowns on the key record labels, DJs, producers, engineers and magazines - all of which stitched their own layer on the New Wave patchwork. There are deep dives into controversies, rivalries and messy band breakups. And lastly, there's a dissection of how ripples of New Wave are still felt today, in recorded music and across wider pop culture. If you, or someone close to you, is obsessed with the minutiae of the New Wave movement, then this book is a must-have.

Notes: During the late 1960s and early 1970s, as members of the performance art group EXIT, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher turned to creating outside of the gallery system and artistic conventions. Taking inspiration from eastern philosophy, particularly Buddhism and Taoism, they searched for ways to push beyond the boundaries of Western art practices and rationalities. This resonates with Redza Piyadasa and Suleiman Esa's 1974 manifesto and exhibition Towards a Mystical Reality, which likewise sought to find a way out of the limitations of modernist art practices and rationalities. Entry Points takes up Piyadasa's statement that art does not exist in time but only has entry points. What entry points might we find in the resonances between different attempts to utilize conceptual and performative gestures as a way to escape from the constraints one is faced with, aesthetically and politically?

Contains an essay by Stevphen Shukaitis, a dialogue between Shukaitis and Penny Rimbaud, and a recording of an improvised performance by Dharma and Awk Wah, "There is no authority but yourself... and there is no self", responding to footage of the Stop the City Protests.
52pp risograph printed artist book with CD. Edition of 200.

Bios: Stevphen Shukaitis is a cultural theorist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex. Penny Rimbaud, is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT co-founded the seminal anarchist punk band Crass. Dharma was the guitarist of The Observatory for the first 7 albums. In 2013, he released his solo debut, Intergranular Space.Awk Wah is the solo project of Shark Fung, a prolific Mandopop songwriter in his youth who later spent time playing drums in band like Engineered Beautiful Blood, Amino Acid Orchestra and I\D.

CD TRACKLISTING: 1. Dharma & Awk Wah - There is no authority but yourself... and there is no self (35:30)

Notes: "A series of shit dominoes forever falling onto each other; the bloodline never stops creating a firm continual history of behavioural mess."

It's comedy night on the terminal ward. Jason Williamson returns with thirteen all-new short stories from a grim and desperate world where everything is either 'knackered and shit or new and shit.' Sound familiar? Here you'll meet roaming loners, twats in fast cars, hard men telling porkies, strong women who know the score, various music maniacs and sex-addled, whizz-infested pub warts galore. But it's not all abject fucking misery, Williamson's characters come alive and somehow manage to conjure some happy days from the endless, panicked slog of caged poverty and bad choices. So settle down for some porn barks, crap nature, terrible housing and dogging hotspots. Life a la fuckin sniff innit.

Jason Williamson is, of course, in the Sleaford Mods. He is also the author of 'Grammar Wanker' (2015) and 'Slabs from Paradise' (2017).

Perfect bound book. 144 pages

Notes: Houghton Festival has become a symbolic reminder of the integrity and resilience of the dance and electronic music community in the face of sometimes challenging and unprecedented circumstances. This much is clear following the cancellation of the festival several weeks back...

Upon arrival each guest was due to be provided with a book showcasing the creative values and personality behind what has become much more than a festival. Whilst originally intended as a gift for festival attendees we are now happy to present this as a cultural offering: a book spanning 147 pages featuring hand drawn illustrations, photography, long form interviews, think pieces, musical reflection and beyond...

The annual is a collaboration between Ransom Note and Houghton.

Notes: About the photographer:

Yamamoto Masao started to photograph when he was 16 years old. He also studied painting but later chose gelatin silver print as his media. His first gallery show in the U.S. was in 1994 in San Francisco. In 1996 he had a solo exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. His works have been shown in Europe since 2006. Besides Japan, U.S.A., and Europe, his museum and gallery exhibitions were held in Moscow and Sao Paulo. Media coverage includes NY Times and other major art magazines.

Yamamoto lives in Yatsugatake Nanroku,Yamanashi Prefecture where he enjoys creating his work while being close to nature.

Fine Art Book, Ltd. to 2000 copies:

Hardcover book printed on Symbol Tatami White Smooth 135g/m2 // 96 pages (including 6 metallic/silver pages), 26cm x 25cm, 56 photos // Logo, slot and circle embossed // Hand-numbered, hand-stamped

Notes: Tim Lawrence's seminal book charting the history of American dance music culture and the birth of the DJ...

Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party in February 1970, Tim Lawrence presses the rewind button and tells the definitive story of disco - from its murky subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to the out-of-town networks that emerged in the suburbs and alternative urban hotspots such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New Jersey. Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of "Love Saves the Day" like liquid vinyl. They are interspersed with a detailed analysis of the era's most powerful DJs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin. "Love Saves the Day" includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including John 'Jellybean' Benitez, Michael Cappello, Ken Cayre, Alec Costandinos, Steve D'Acquisto, Michael Fesco, Rochelle Fleming, Francis Grasso, Alan Harris, Loleatta Holloway, Francois Kevorkian, Frankie Knuckles, David Mancuso, Vince Montana, Giorgio Moroder, Tom Moulton, Steve Ostrow, Marvin Schlachter, Nicky Siano, Judy Weinstein, Robert Williams and Earl Young. It also contains a series of specially compiled discographies and a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos.

Notes: This album changed the author, Johan Harstad's life.
In this book we get the smell, the sound and the feeling of the 90's, when MP released their 5th album, and we experience the impact it had on both Johan and the rest of us.
Harstad is documenting MP's story, from the beginning and all the way til' 1996. The recording in Atlantis studio, the inspiration and all the challenges. Half of the book is footnotes. Nerdy, technical, obscure and cultural references - just the way MP are.
Hardcover with dust jacket - Specially designed and signed by the author. Numbered 1000 copies limited edition.
Book of the Year 2013: Awarded by Natt&Dag

Quotes/reviews:
Adresseavisa (Trondheims local paper): "One of Norways finest authors writes about his intense relationship to Norways best band, and it's really good"
Dagsavisen (Norway's 4th largest newspaper): "The band's official story and timeline is mashed with the myths, and the result is one of the most precise books about music, and not least the experience and affiliation ever written"

Notes: From its birth in the vibrant Kingston ghettos through it phenomenal popularity in the 1970s to its iconic standing in today's global culture, reggae and its close relations - ska, rock steady, DJ, dub, dancehall, and ragamuffin - have taken the world by storm.

In the Reggae Scrapbook, scintillating words and images propel our appreciation of Jamaican music into the 21st century. Accompanying us on this journey is one of the men who introduced reggae to America and helped rock the world with its syncopated beat, Roger Steffens.

Through lectures, books, magazine articles, radio, and television, Steffens has shared his knowledge of reggae around the globe as the world's premier archivist and collector of reggae memorabilia. Here he traces reggae's history and roots, supplemented by an audio CD featuring interviews with such reggae greats as Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff and "Toots" Hibbert.

Divided into chapters on "Roots and Ska," "Rock Steady," "The Golden Age," "Rockers," "Digital and Dance Hall" and "Internationalization," and enhanced by sidebar features on historic figures, styles, and events, The Reggae Scrapbook is all you could wish for in a celebration of the rise of this irresistible musical and social force.

The Reggae Scrapbook also conveys reggae culture through a treasure trove of memorabilia, the cream of Steffen's collection of more than 30,000 photographs, 800 T-shirts, 3,000 buttons, 10,000 posters and flyers as well as innumerable, seven-inch singles and album covers, posters, postcards, and tickets.

Photographer Peter Simon presents a stunning collection of evocative images, from reggae's rough beginnings to the latest festivals, providing a stunning visual accompaniment.

Notes: This edition includes an essay about the essence of improvisation by Joan La Barbara, Lee Gamble looking at neural networks and vocal simulation systems, an untitled anecdote from Ghedalia Tazartes (RIP) and Stine Janvin on the necessity of singing, plus much more.

"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."

-Extract from the editors' foreword

Fourth issue of Shelter Press' (in association with INA GRM) annual publication series 'Spectres', this time themed around Voice.

Featuring contributions from 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 and Ghedalia Tazartes

256 pages, Thread sewn softcover, Bilingual edition French/English (all content included in both languages).

Editors: Francois Bonnet and Bartolome Sa

Notes: Since their debut demotape «Maiden Voyage» in 1990, Motorpsycho has released 21 studio albums, four live albums and a bunch of 7", 10" and single tracks.
They have an enormous fan base all over the world, but still, no-one knows so much about them. apart from that they're releasing an average of one fantastic album a year.
Regarding Motorpsycho's exhibition at Rockheim, Trondheim October 16th, 15 out of Norways finest authors, musicians and music journalists will dive into the world of Motorpsycho.
Who are their fans, why do they sound the way they do, their megalomaniacal visions, their music, album sleeves, lyrics, their working ethics and last, but not least: How do they manage to keep their mysitique after 25 years on the road?
15 authors is writing about 15 different songs from 15 different albums. Among them x-MP-drummer Hakon Gebhardt, famous novelists and die hard fans Johan Harstad and Lars Ramslie, historians, fans, musicians, professors - all tell their story, and editor Marius Lien makes them all fit together.
The book contains the largest MP-discography ever, put together by Kjell Arne Sandvik and Petter Flaten Eilertsen and a foreword by Bob LeBad.

The 15 authors who contribute are:
Kristopher Schau (musicians), Marius Lien (author), Lars Ramslie (author), Anne Lise Frokedal (musician), Hedvig Mollestad (musician), Synnove Engevik (professor), Synne Overland Knudsen (musician), Espen Hauglid (writer), Stian Stakset (librarian/writer), Hakon Gebhardt (artist), Nils Henrik Smith (author), Johan Harstad (author), Audun Vinger (music journalist), Stina Stjern (artist), Arvid Skancke-Knutsen (music historian) and Morten Haugdahl (music historian).

Hardcover special edition cover with colour print and dust jacket - Specially designed by Kim Hiorthoy.
Numbered 1000 copies limited edition.

Quotes/reviews:
Dagsavisen (Norways 4th largest newspaper): "A staggering second look at Motorpsycho"

Notes: This is the first book of it's kind, and could not be more perfect for an RSD launch. Over 700 rare paper and plastic record store bags from the UK - dating from the 1950s onwards together in one sublime graphic and historic ride through British record shopping. We have the shop where Dusty worked, the first shop to sell ska (a Jewish store in Stamford Hill!), where Bowie cut his msucial teeth, where the Beatles met Epstein, where The Cartel began - there are so many stories, hundreds of shops and all these beautiful bags, put together by one of the UK leading crate diggers and one of the UKs leading grpahci design teams. This 230 page full colour book will be launched on RSD, and we are making 1000 copies with a special-die cut slipcase just for RSD shops, that will not be available anywhere else. PLUS a foreword by Jon (England's Dreaming) Savage!!!

Notes: Across the past ten years, Crack Magazine has established itself as a visually ambitious music press. Its vast photography archive is a capsule of innovation at the intersection of music and visual culture. Alongside a run of iconic covers with legendary figures music figures, the magazine has also been an outlet for boundary-pushing coverage of underground creative communities. As such, it's a snapshot of the thriving music scenes of the past decade.

The Crack Magazine Archives features behind-the-scenes insight from the Crack Magazine family, stunning design and iconic shots of SOPHIE, J Hus, Jeff Mills, Dean Blunt, Slayer, A$AP Ferg, Helena Hauff, M.I.A., IDLES, Dave Thom Yorke, Fever Ray and so many more.