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Yazmin LaceyTeal DreamsAMF Records
MoodymannBlack MahoganiPeacefrog
MoodymannBlack Mahogani IIPeacefrog
Alfa MistRouletteSekito
Sven WunderDaybreakPiano Piano Records
Chet BakerFive From '65: The Quintet Summer SessionsNew Land
Telepathic Fish: Trawling The Early 90s Ambient UndergroundVarious ArtistsFundamental Frequencies
Jackie MittooReggae MagicSoul Jazz Records
The Sabres Of ParadiseSabresonic (Remastered)Warp Records
Tippa LeeMeets The Naram Rhythm Section : Musically BadRed Robin
Chet Baker & CrewChet Baker & CrewWaxTime In Color
Yusef LateefInto SomethingWaxTime
Donnoya DrakeRocksteady BoyOriginal Gravity
Freddie ReddShades of ReddDecca / Blue Note
Sonny ClarkSonny’s CribDecca / Blue Note
Art Blakey & The Jazz MessengersThe Jazz MessengersWaxTime
Maxie, Scientist & BarnabasThree The Hard WayLantern Rec.
Mulatu AstatkeMulatu Plays MulatuStrut
Stars Of The LidMusic for Nitrous Oxide (30 Year Anniversary Remastered)Diggers Factory
Osmar MilitoNem Paleto, Nem GravataElemental Music
Mansur BrownRihlaAMAI Records
Paranoid LondonTalk Dirty / RevolutionNu Groove Records
John Carroll KirbyThe Luckiest Man in America OSTStones Throw Records
Antonio Carlos JobimThe Wonderful World Of Antonio Carlos JobimElemental Music
PeytonAuStones Throw Records
Constantine WeirContradictionItez
The Womack SistersIf You Want Me / I Just Don't Want You (To Say Goodbye)Daptone Records
Pharoah SandersMessage From HomeMusic On Vinyl
Eva LazarusWish I Didn't Miss YouNice Up!
Michael E. VealLiving SpaceJohn Coltrane, Miles Davis and Free Jazz, From Analog to Digital
Alice ColtraneMonument Eternal
SAULT10Forever Living Originals
Jose James / Ben WestbeechBrownswood Remix Editions 007Brownswood
CinemaCinema (Reissue)Discos Nada
Lady Blackbird vs Crooked ManCrooked Spirituals (SOTU UPFRONT EXCLUSIVE)Foundation
- Original Book (200g)£25.00Sold out Notify me when in stock
Rare USA small secondhand book in good condition - cultural anthropology case studies about the legendary street gang. This is 1978 edition with different cover and an extra bonus chapter!
Keiser lived with the Vice Lord gang on Chicago's south side as a participant observeror in one of anthropology's first venture's into urban anthropology. He details daily life and the gang's mores with empathy, and his interpretations of their culture contributed to the field of Black anthropology.
Michael E. VealLiving Space
Examines John Coltrane's "late period" and Miles Davis's "Lost Quintet" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography Living...
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Alice ColtraneMonument Eternal
Alice Coltrane (1937 2007) was a composer, master of various musical instruments, improviser, spiritual leader, and wife of John Coltrane. Throughout her...
- Book (250g)£18.99In stockAdd to Bag
Steve McQueenResistance
Resistance presents a century of activism, from the radical suffrage movement in 1903 through key moments including the Battle of Cable Street, the Black...
- Book (700g)£25.00In stockAdd to Bag
The princess of 72nd StreetBy Elaine Kraf
Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally,...
- Book (250g)£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
All Foursby Miranda July
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICKA BEST SUMMER...
- Book (400g)£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
No Logo: An insightful examination of advertising's impact on society and youth cultureBy Naomi Klein
By the time you’re twenty-one, you’ll have seen or heard a million advertisements. But you won’t be happier for it. This is a book about that much-maligned,...
- Book (400g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
Alayo AkinkugbeReframing Blackness
Since the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored.
In Reframing Blackness, art historian and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt,...
- Book (650g)£20.00In stockAdd to Bag
Dread, Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution
What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been...
- Book (550g)£19.99In stockAdd to Bag
Susan SontagOn Photography
Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs...
- Book (150g)£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
Jess Sah BiJesus-Christ Ne Deçoit Pas
Jesus-Christ Ne Deçoit Pas is Jess Sah Bi’s first and only gospel album. Fortunately, fans responded with enthusiasm: widespread radio airplay and concerts...
- Cassette Tape AFTA051CS£14.99In stockAdd to Bag
The Tribul'zationsMelody Babylon
The Tribulizations are a Brighton UK-based reggae vocal harmony duo living the rocker's life style! We pay homage to uk style lovers rock and spiritual...
- – Melody Babylon
- – Freedom Fighter
- – Politicians
- – Fade Away
- – Without You
- – One Step Forward
- – Just Let It Be
- – Fever
- – Social Riot
- – Rest In Love
- 1. – Melody Babylon
- 2. – Freedom Fighter
- 3. – Politicians
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Andy WarholFame
The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, fame and beauty.
- Book (100g)£3.00In stockAdd to Bag
Brasil IndomitoBrasil Indomito
- Original LP 14-1627£12.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print Colombian VinylIn stockAdd to Bag
Lizzy Mercier DesclouxDesiderata
NYC no wave/ze records scenester Descloux book of poetry, collages and moreIntroduction by Patti Smith
- Book (350g)£17.99In stockAdd to Bag
Louisiana CajunsTurner Browne
Excellent book - stunning black and white photography. Highly recommended
- Original Book (350g)£30.00Out of print Pre-Owned Original USA paperback bit of ageingIn stockAdd to Bag
Jackie DeshannonLove Forever - Demo Recordings 1966-1967
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon got her start singing gospel at home and in church as a child in her native Kentucky, and then singing...
- New 2×LP (Coloured Vinyl) RLGM18131PMI£35.99In stockAdd to Bag
Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop
FLIP THE SCRIPT showcases some of the best rappers currently making music in the UK. It has taken a significant amount of time for women to get recognition...
- Book (150g)£7.50In stockAdd to Bag
By Truman CapoteIn Cold Blood
The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of...
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Perfume
In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable...
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Audre LordeThe Black Unicorn
Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal...
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By John BergerWays of Seeing
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the...
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Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology
In Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit, Judith K. Brodsky makes a ground-breaking intellectual leap by connecting feminist art theory with the rise...
- Book (2.4kg)£29.99In stockAdd to Bag
The Velvet Underground, New York 1965–66 PHOTOZINEPhotographs by Adam Ritchie
Awesome small and beautiful new photo-zine of rare pix of the Velvet Underground in New York 1965-66. In the zone! Look there's Andy (hi Andy!), Lou,...
- Book (200g) ISSN 2752-5619£10.00In stockAdd to Bag
Jean-Paul SartreExistentialism and Humanism
Over the past sixty years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary...
- Book (150g)£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
Afro-American Short StoriesRichard Wright, James Baldwin, William Melvin Kelley, Langston Hughes, LeRoi Jones, Alice Walker
- Original Book (200g)£6.00Original Pre-Owned Out-Of-Print Small Paperback Book in Good ConditionIn stockAdd to Bag
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female...
- Book (300g)£7.99In stockAdd to Bag
Letter From Birmingham Jail
This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects...
- Book (150g)£3.00In stockAdd to Bag
Claire DedererMonsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
Pablo Picasso beat his partners. Richard Wagner was deeply antisemitic. David Bowie slept with an underage fan. But many of us still love Guernica and...
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Los JinetesSin Me
- Original 7"£7.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Original Unplayed USA 45sIn stockAdd to Bag
Catarino LeosMandamiento
Mariachi
- Original 7"£7.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Unplayed Original USA 45In stockAdd to Bag
by Silvia FedericiCaliban and the Witch
A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition...
- Book (600g)£10.99In stockAdd to Bag
George OrwellDown And Out in Paris and London
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld...
- Book (300g)£9.99In stockAdd to Bag
We Called It MusicEddie Condon
- Original Book (200g)£20.00Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print Paperback book, inside yellowing to pagesIn stockAdd to Bag
Miguel GallardoTu Amante O Tu Enemigo
- Original 7"£5.00Vinyl condition: VG+Sleeve condition: VG+Unplayed Original USA 45In stockAdd to Bag
Dancing (Know the Game)by Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing
Nuff moves, selectah!
- Original Book (250g) 0715805088£10.00Secondhand small pamphlet/bookletSold out Notify me when in stock
Pump up the Volume: A History of House Musicby Sean BidderChannel 4 Books
- Original Book (500g) 9780752219868£15.00Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print Paperback Book in Good ConditionIn stockAdd to Bag
The Speed of SoundA Memoir by Thomas DolbyFlatIron Books
Based on his meticulous notes and journals, The Speed of Sound chronicles Dolby’s life in the music business during the eighties. With humour and a considerable...
- Book (500g) 9781785783173£8.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Complete Guide ToDisco DancingWarner Books
- Original Book (400g)£12.00Second-hand original paperback book in good condition
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Babylon NYC: From Beat to Punkby Victor BockrisOmnibus Press
Hell, Ginsberg, Warhol, Debbie harry, Patti Smith ... interviews and photos - groovy NYC.
Out-of-print edition edition secondhand paperback
- Original Book (650g)£10.00Original UK paperback
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Rebel Radio The Full Story of British Pirate RadioPluto Press
Rare out of print Pluto Press first (and only) edition book about pirate radio in Britain written in 1985.
- Original Book (200g) 9780745300559£30.00Secondhand paperbook in good condition, ex-library, stamp insideIn stockAdd to Bag
Gotta Go Gotta FlowLife, Love, and Lust on Chicago's South Side From the SeventiesCity Files Press
£20 OFF !!!! DELUXE IMPORT USA HARDBACK BOOK. MORE THAN 60% OFF. A GREAT BOOK!!!
AWESOME BACK - wicked photos Chicago black club life in the 1970s. Accompanied...
- Book (1.3kg) 0991541820£35.00 £15.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Life And Death On The New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983By Tim Lawrence
Here we go .. massive NYC dancefloor 500+ page book by the excellent Tim Lawrence - who wrote Love Saves The Day and also has written for Soul Jazz...
- Book (900g) 9780822362029£24.00In stockAdd to Bag
Brian EnoMusic For Films - Half Speed MasterUMC / Virgin EMI
2018 version - 'half-speed' remaster at Abbey Road Studios.
Originally released in 1978, 'Music For Films' is a compilation of material recorded over...
- – Aragon
- – From The Same Hill
- – Inland Sea
- – Two Rapid Formations
- – Slow Water
- – Sparrowfall ( 1 )
- – Sparrowfall ( 2 )
- – Sparrowfall ( 3 )
- – Quartz
- 2. – Aragon
- 3. – From The Same Hill
- 4. – Inland Sea
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- 2xLP + Download Code ENO2LP9£16.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Brian EnoAnother Green WorldEMI
The last album by Eno. After this he became Brian. The change was significant. Out goes the surreal, playful, avant pop of previous albums and in comes...
- – Sky Saw
- – Over Fire Island
- – St. Elmo's Fire
- – In Dark Trees
- – The Big Ship
- – I'll Come Running
- 1. – Sky Saw
- 2. – Over Fire Island
- 3. – St. Elmo's Fire
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- New LP (180g) ENOLP3£27.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- CD ENOCDX3£7.99In stockAdd to Bag
Brian EnoDiscreet Music - Half Speed MasterUMC / Virgin EMI
2018 version - 'half-speed' remaster at Abbey Road Studios.
Ambient music ground zero; first released in Britain in 1975 on Eno's own Obscure Records...
- 2xLP + Download Code ENO2LP5£23.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
ShadowsA John Cassavetes FilmBFI
Set in the jazzy, beatnik underground of 50s New York, John Cassavetes' first film features a score by Charles Mingus, improvised performances, a gritty...
- DVD/Blu Ray BFIB1125£9.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Joy Division: JuvenesKevin Cummins
***The definitive collection of the Joy Division photographs of Kevin Cummins, including interviews with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris....
- Book (1.5kg) 9781788402712£30.00 £20.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
James Baldwin: Artist on Fireby W.J. WeatherbyMichael Joseph
A portrait of James Baldwin tracing his development from the ghettos of Harlem to Paris and back to America where his active participation in civil rights...
- Original Book (900g) 9780718134037£20.00Out of print UK 1st edn. hardback w/dustjacketIn stockAdd to Bag
Hold On To Your DreamsArthur Russell And The Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992Duke University Press
If you are in anyway interested in Arthur Russell then you have to buy this book! 400-odd pages of seriously researched stuff - this is Arthur Russell's...
- Book (650g) 9780822344858£24.99In stockAdd to Bag