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        Two-Headed Doctor

        Two-Headed Doctor

        Two-Headed Doctor

        Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris

        by David Toop

        ISBN: 9781913689605

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: November 7, 2023

        A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.
        Earlier

        Earlier

        Earlier

        by Sasha Frere-Jones

        ISBN: 9781635901962

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 24, 2023

        Sasha Frere-Jones's evolution as a writer and musician with the deceptively casual intelligence that marks all of his work.
        The Shrine Thief

        The Shrine Thief

        The Shrine Thief

        by W. A. Mathieu

        ISBN: 9781949597295

        Publisher: Terra Nova Press

        Pub Date: July 25, 2023

        A renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.
        69 Exhibition Road

        69 Exhibition Road

        69 Exhibition Road

        Twelve True-Life Tales from the Fag End of Punk, Porn & Performance

        by Dorothy Max Prior

        ISBN: 9781913689636

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: February 14, 2023

        A vibrant, wry, and engaging account of life as an adventurous, queer young person in late 1970s London discovering themselves as an artist, and an individual.
        Harry Smith

        Harry Smith, revised and expanded edition

        Harry Smith

        American Magus

        Edited by Paola Igliori

        ISBN: 9781635901641

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: November 29, 2022

        A privileged look into the life and artistic practice of the experimental filmmaker, music anthologist, and enigmatic polymath Harry Smith.
        Foreground Music

        Foreground Music

        Foreground Music

        A Life in Fifteen Gigs

        by Graham Duff

        Introduction by Mark Gatiss

        ISBN: 9781907222825

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: December 31, 2019

        A chronicle of a lifetime's passion for gig-going, by one of British television's most respected writers.
        To Be Nothing

        To Be Nothing

        To Be Nothing

        Conversations with Knut Hamre, Hardanger Fiddle Master

        by Benedicte Maurseth

        Foreword by Jon Fosse

        Translated by Bruce Thomson

        ISBN: 9781949597059

        Publisher: Terra Nova Press

        Pub Date: October 8, 2019

        Dialogues between student and master about music, learning, teaching, the healing power of art, and the art of life itself.
        IrRational Music

        IrRational Music

        IrRational Music

        by Elliott Sharp

        ISBN: 9781949597004

        Publisher: Terra Nova Press

        Pub Date: February 12, 2019

        A memoir and manifesto by a pivotal figure at the junction of rock, the avant-garde, and an ever-widening spiral of art, theater, film, and dance.
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