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A “man” tells his fabulous past as an ape, from his capture to his adaptation to the world of men, to the members of an Academy of Sciences. This edition of A Report to an Academy, a short story by the great Kafka, is accompanied by a musical piece especially written by Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron, Quentin Rollet, and It could be Worse).

The 4th album of Babils—an atypical six members Brussels underground band, mixing rock, new wave, psyche, kraut, experimental and repetitive music. Ji Ameeto is the first recording without the late Michel Duyck.

The words of Guillaume Belhomme inspired American musician Daniel Menche to create a 20-minute composition (mastered by Andrew Liles) which recalls the atmosphere of the French writer's text: a train on the move, a glass, the color of blood...

In September 2015, Japanese legend Keiji Haino played with two of Belgium's most active and valued musicians: keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin and drummer Teun Verbruggen. The Miracles Of Only One Thing is a deep and intense testimony of this meeting.

Monograph featuring series of paintings made by the French-American artist between 2013 and 2016 and based from photographic documents originating mainly from sexploitation films of the 1960s. The volume also includes two essays and exhibitions views.

Influential musician Andrew Liles releases a dark and fantastic literary work relating to childhood and sufferings, illustrated with six images and a sound piece.

The Punk Scene in France: Forty Years of History.

A selection of trucks—coaches, tow trucks, merchandise trucks—drawn with ballpoint pen and pencil by underground legend Wesley Willis. Compiled from different notebooks, this series highlights an essential and almost obsessive motif in the visual work of the Chicagoan artist.

An overview of the fruitful long-standing collaboration between Amelia Cuni, specialist of Indian dhrupad singing, and minimalist experimental musician Werner Durand.

Nik Emch and Laurent Goei teamed up to form Minimetal back in 1994 and have been making sound-performances ever since. The publication contains 13 hours of their music, videos and 307 photographs—a collection gathered together in this photobook.

A luxurious artist book by Michael Manning gathering a selection of 100 digital drawings, each from four distinct series of paintings.

A complete documentation on Marnie Weber's first feature film, a strange kind of carnival that emerges from the American cultural repressed.

On the occasion of the republication of eight texts by Charles-Louis Philippe (1874-1909), Nurse With Wound (here, Steven Stapleton & Brian Conniffe) wrote "Music for Miscellaneous: A Piece of the Sky Is Missing", an unreleased mini CD included in the book.

The comic strip adapted from the eponymous novel by Costes.

A 48 pages book of drawings by Costes, with all the lyrics of the 10 songs that are on the accompanying CD.

The duo's second recording in the “Mind Travels” Series: Petitgrand's sumptuous melodies meet Geins't Naït's hypnotic industrial collages to form a listening experience both immersive and singular.

The duo's second recording in the “Mind Travels” Series: Petitgrand's sumptuous melodies meet Geins't Naït's hypnotic industrial collages to form a listening experience both immersive and singular.

The first live recording of the duo formed by Gerome Nox (sound) and Black Sifichi (spoken words and texts).

A tale on the search for an ancestral relic that has the power to annihilate the universe. At the crossroads of an adventure novel, a science-fiction narrative, and a punk story.

L'art de la fuite is a selection of first recordings originally released on selftitled homemade tape in 1995. Mainly composed with turntables and prepared records (with various other sources), these recordings have laid the foundation for his future work as turntabilist / improviser / composer. 20 years later, this unique blend of musique concrète and post-industrial still sounds fresh today.

A visual history of rock music and its subcultures in Switzerland in the last 50 years.

Albert Oehlen's collages (artist's book): a spatial and temporal journey into the tradition of artistic representations of domestic interiors, from the great names of art history to the artist's own works.

First vinyl edition of one of Aidan Baker's masterpiece, first released in 2006. Three long and wonderful ambient titles, plus a live version of the eponymous title as a bonus. The artwork, designed by Francis Meslet, intensifies in the most admirable manner the depth of this dizzying music.

The first release in the “Mind Travels” Series, Je vous dis is a melancholic and sometimes terrifying record. Resembling the soundtrack of a situationist film, it is a true work of the mind, complex, poetic, and elegant, even in its darkest moments.

The first release in the “Mind Travels” Series, Je vous dis is a melancholic and sometimes terrifying record. Resembling the soundtrack of a situationist film, it is a true work of the mind, complex, poetic, and elegant, even in its darkest moments.

Large format album showcasing the autobiographical and reflective poetry of Sylvain Courtoux. These hybrid texts featuring visual collages and typographic experiments are accompanied by a recording of noise music entitled Dead By A Thousand Sources.

Anne Van der Linden's drawings and paintings from 2008 to 2014.

The novel by Jean-Louis Costes in a deluxe edition, illustrated by Anne Van der Linden—the crazy epic of Costes' grandfather at the beginning of the 20th century: a Cossack in Russia, a legionnaire in Morocco, a convict in Guyana and a collaborator in 1940...

Issue 01 of the zine edited by Jacopo Benassi et Federico Pepe (Le Dictateur): a series of photos taken by Benassi during an evening of performances and concerts at Btomic in La Spezia (Emidio Clementi & Corrado Nuccini, Little Debbie, Khan, Nicole Boitos, Lori Goldston, Z'ev, El Vez, C.J. Ramone...).

Konrad Smoleński, an active participant in both the independent music scene and the visual art scene, combines punk rock aesthetics with the precision and elegance typical for minimalism. This book reflects on the artist's practice in the context of his most challenging and conceptually complete effort to date.

First monograph.

A visual music history of the last decades, presenting the work of a unique photographer to a broad public for the first time (texts by Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Mark Cunningham, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht...).

Costes's first novel.

Novel.

Loulou Picasso's paintings about childhood and adolescence.

Special issue: five new projects by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Federico Pepe, Luigi Presicce, and Nico Vascellari (limited edition).

An autobiographical tale in which the author tells the story of his addiction to a powerful sleeping pill.

A story built on dream fragments inspired by subcultures (video games, Z movies, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez).

A droony ambient join venture between Le Dictateur and artist/musician/fashion designer Canedicoda (ultra-limited edition).

A selection of comics and paintings by legendary cartoonist Gary Panter. Including unpublished works from the Jimbo and William & Percy series as well as Smoke Wagon's complete comic strips, Panter's collaboration with Marvel comics on Omega the Unknown, and sketchbooks from 1979 and 2009.

Third album by Cocoon, the solo project of Clair Obscur's leader Christophe Demarthe.

As in mythological tales, the characters in Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings are mortals, animals, angels and demons, all coexisting in a lascivious Pandemonium. Vivid colors and rough strokes render well the grotesque essence of these bestial & erotic scenes whose symbolism could be compared to Frida Kahlo's surrealistic language.

Novel.

Comprehensive monograph.

First monograph on Californian artist / musician's surreal-oriented universe (collages, sculptures, costumes, performances, music, films and videos), with essays by Doug Harvey, Stéphanie Moisdon and a conversation between the artist and Mike Kelley.

A collection of texts about noise music: gesture, act, concept and performance.

Sixteen visual artists give their vision of Clair Obscur's album We Gave A Party For The Gods And The Gods All Came.

Soundtrack for an exotic elevator, innocent muzak, only a priori, an orchestra with sequins and cheap junk (the soundtrack of Pierre Beloüin's eponymous installation).