Thursday, December 15, 2016

"Into The Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom" by David Toop

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ISBN: 978-1-5013-1451-3 Bloomsbury David Toop, for me, is the ideal artist who also writes profound and inspiring books on music cultur...
Monday, December 12, 2016

"Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism)" by Umberto Boccioni

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ISBN: 978-1-60606-475-7 Getty Publications Oddly enough, I feel nostalgic for the Futurists.  Which is as a movement in the very early ...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

"Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983" by Robert Bresson (New York Review of Books)

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ISBN: 978-1-68137-044-6 nyrb Once you see a film by Robert Bresson, you will never forget it.   It seems nothing is happening, but th...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Animals & more! -- Live Full Concert 1965

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et list: 0:00:38 -- Hey Bo Diddley -- Moody Blues 0:05:56 -- Go Now -- Moody Blues 0:09:30 -- Pretty One -- Freddie & the Dreamers ...

The Beatles - Decca Audition, January 1 1962

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The Fab 3 plus Pete Best, who is actually great here. In fact, the whole session is pretty fantastic. Besides the drumming (reminds me of...
Monday, December 5, 2016

"Notes on Glaze: 18 Photographic Investigations" by Wayne Koestenbaum

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ISBN: 978-1-932698-58-9 Cabinet Books "Notes on Glaze: 18 Photographic Investigations" by Wayne Koestenbaum I'm a f...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

"Almost Nothing With Luc Ferrari by Jacqueline Caux & Luc Ferrari (Errant Bodies Press)

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ISBN: 978-0-9827439-1-1 Errant Bodies Press "Almost Nothing with Luc Ferrari: Interviews" by Jacqueline Caux, with Texts a...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire documentary

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A very interesting documentary by Kara Blake, on Delia Derbyshire, a pioneer electronic British composer/musician who made music/sounds fr...
Monday, November 28, 2016

"Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, 1966 - 1973" Edited by Larry Austin and Douglas Kahn (University of California Press)

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In this very rotten year of 2016, I found a gem of a book, called "Source: Music of the Avant Garde, 1966-1973."   'Source...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

"Man Ray: Writings on Art" edited by Jennifer Mundy

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ISBN: 978-1-60606-458-0 Getty Publications As a kid, I loved Man Ray.  Almost the same way I loved Dali.  But, I outgrew them both. ...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

"Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, DADA, and Surrealism" by Philippe Soupault, Translated by Alan Bernheimer (City Lights Books)

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ISBN: 978-0-87286-727-7 City Lights Books "Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, DADA, & Surrealism" by Philippe Soupault;...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Tosh Berman banned from Facebook (Again)

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Once again, I have been temporary banned from Facebook for reasons that are beyond me.  For those who read my blog, knows this is tot...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

"The Thief of Talent by Pierre Reverdy & Translated by Ian Seed (Wakefield Press)

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"The Thief of Talent" by Pierre Reverdy & Translated by Ian Seed (Wakefield Press) 978-1-939663-19-1 When I first hea...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Dance Hall Racket (1954, Lenny Bruce, Timothy Farrell, D - Phil Tucker)

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An odd piece of cinematic history.  Lenny Bruce wrote and stars in this b-film.  Ed Wood related as well.
Friday, October 7, 2016

David Bowie - The Leon Suites Complete - 1994 (audio)

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The above is a demo for David Bowie's "Outside" album.   Unreleased at the moment.
Monday, October 3, 2016

Tosh Talks: Tosh Talks - Lun*na Menoh Sewing Machine Bolero

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Tosh Talks: Tosh Talks - Lun*na Menoh Sewing Machine Bolero : Welcome to "Tosh Talks."  I keep starting and stopping my little ch...
Friday, September 30, 2016

"THE EYE OF THE SIXTIES: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art" by Judith E. Stein

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978-0-374-15132-4 "Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art" by Judith E. Stein (FSG) S...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Mikrophonie I / Mikrophonie II

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Lately, I  have been listening to a lot of classical/electronic/musique concrete music from the 1950s & 1960s.  It puts me in a good...
Friday, September 23, 2016

John Cage - Water Walk

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John Cage​'s performance on "I've Got A Secret TV show in January 1960.
Saturday, September 17, 2016

"The Witkiewicz Reader" by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Edited, Translated, and with an introduction by Daniel Gerould

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"The Witkiewicz Reader" Edited by Daniel Gerould (Northwestern University Press) There is the joy of going to a used bookst...