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Portraits.

Artist's book: a journey through Tyrol landscapes with Bob Dylan.

An historical and sociocultural study on metal music, and the first sociological portrait of the movement in France.

An electric rock performance seen as an attempt to free literature from the realm of the book (illustration cover by Thomas Hirschhorn).

95 duotone photographs by Alberto García-Alix.

A collection of texts and interviews of artists, musicians and art critics (Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Bob Nickas...) based on the relationship between art, "rock" music and culture in the largest sense of the word.

A piece from an installation at the Centre Pompidou in Paris for the exhibition "Elysian Fields", with David Grubbs (guitar, electronics), John McEntire (drums), Noël Akchoté (guitar), Charlie O (organ) and Quentin Rollet (saxophone).

Created in the Musique Action Festival of 1999, this recording is a collaboration between two trailblazers of new music.The duo convey their strong sonorous density through short and intense compositions, in which improvised music meets progressive rock.

A tribute to Doug Sahm.

Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at Le Consortium, Dijon, and Kunstverein Hamburg in 1999.

A drone duo between David Grubbs on harmonium and Noël Akchoté on electric guitar.

A long americana-like piece reminiscent of John Fahey, inspired by a short story by Stephen Crane (with Steven Prina, Sacha Andrès, Yves Robert, Thierry Madiot, Didier Petit and Quentin Rollet), followed by a drone duo between David Grubbs on harmonium and Noël Akchoté on electric guitar.

Picture Disc version. A long americana-like piece reminiscent of John Fahey, inspired by a short story by Stephen Crane (with Steven Prina, Sacha Andrès, Yves Robert, Thierry Madiot, Didier Petit and Quentin Rollet), followed by a drone duo between David Grubbs on harmonium and Noël Akchoté on electric guitar.

An album of covers of French songs (Georges Moustaki, Brigitte Fontaine, Serge Gainsbourg, Léo Ferré, Jacques Brel, Nino Ferrer...) by The Recyclers (Noël Akchoté, Benoît Delbecq and Steve Argüelles) featuring Philippe Katerine, Ignatus, Sasha Andres and Irene Jacob.

Solo recording made at Instants chavirés. In 9 tracks, Noël Akchoté goes from pure noise to guitar hero solo worthy of Woodstock.

The second album by the improvisation trio Benoît Delbecq / Steve Arguëlles / Noël Akchoté (and the very first for the Rectangle label founded by Quentin Rollet and Noël Akchoté), recorded live in Quebec City and Vancouver during a tour of Canada in 1995.

Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.

Univers Zero's first new album since 10 years, a major new contribution to the discography of the band celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

With their sixth studio album, Oiseaux-Tempête unveils a new facet of its mythology through a dense work that carries darkness towards the light of day, that rumbles, calms down and warms up again. Like the silhouette of a lighthouse that reveals itself as its torch rises and shines, the powerful beauty of What On Earth (Que Diable) radiates into an expanding musical cosmos.

The crazy story of the mythical avant-garde rock band Etron Fou Leloublan (1976-1985), pioneer of the European movement Rock in Opposition.

A tribute to William S. Burroughs.

Monographic catalogue: for more than a decade, Israeli installation and performance artist Naama Tsabar subverts the gender roles associated with art and music, with a particular emphasis on rock'n'roll.

Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian Director Ala Eddine Slim. Fully instrumental, this immersive film score is also their most electronic album to date.

Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian Director Ala Eddine Slim. Fully instrumental, this immersive film score is also their most electronic album to date.

Oiseaux-Tempête's fourth studio album embraces the new, leaving aside the nomadic evocations of the previous albums to unfold as a twilight and prophetic orchestra around G.W. Sok's punctuated voice.

Available for the first time outside Japan, another epic album of symphonic schizophrenic avant-rock from legendary band Univers Zéro.

A total alchemy between the texts declaimed by the New York poet Steve Dalachinsky and the loops subtly arranged by the experimental rock band The Snobs. The CD is accompanied by a book of texts and images by Dalachinsky.

35 years after the release of their critically acclaimed albumVibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth the British dadaist group Hastings of Malawi have released a new album—an epic sound poem entitled Visceral Underskinnings. It is a 40 minute film without light that reflects on the human condition, on modern society, on the nature of telephony and electricity and an attempt to make sense of the world in which we live that provides no answers.

A panorama of the world of do-it-yourself fanzines.

A musical portrait of contemporary Beirut, as part of a trilogy dedicated to the Mediterranean Basin: a rich and complex work, intertwining acoustic elements with electronica, with the help of local musicians.

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.

First reissue of the 1981 album by the legendary Hastings of Malawi featuring a founding member of Nurse with Wound and Pat Simmons. Reissued on red vinyl, like the original pressing, this classic masterpiece sits on the end of a line from Dada through the Situationist International to punk rock.

An exegesis of My Bloody Valentine's noisy pop masterpiece Loveless.

This third Art Zoyd cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork and additional track.

This third Art Zoyd cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork.

This publication results from Braegger's “The Grateful Dead” paintings series, ink jet prints of colorful psychedelic marching bears on canvas. These bears were used as a logo by San Francisco Sixties rock band The Grateful Dead.

In thirty-two pages, Pierre Cecile tells his (fictional?) discovery of Sonic Youth's music.

The first survey of Ariel Pink's lyrics.

First anthology of Rosemary Trockel's collages, which are a key for a difracted and non-academic view on the whole work of this German artist known internationaly (German / English edition).

This second Art Zoyd cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork and additional bonus tracks.

Poems by Henri Michaux / images by Rosemarie Trockel, created exclusively for this book.

This cult album was no more available since years. Re-released with a new artwork and additional tracks.

First monograph devoted to the visual work of the New York alternative art scene mythical figure, a pioneer of minimalist electronic rock as the co-founder of the cult band Suicide.

First monograph devoted to the visual work of the New York alternative art scene mythical figure.

The first extensive survey catalogue of the work of a key figure of the extraordinary artistic ferment in the Canadian city of Vancouver and a pioneer and theorist of its internationally regarded tradition of photo-conceptualism.

Limited edition catalogue of the exhibition casting an eye over 25 years of multidisciplinary activities by legendary experimental rock band with plastic/visual artists, film-makers, designers and musicians.

A reflection on the tensions and social uses of contemporary forms of representation on the basis of an exercise in critical analysis focussing on the multifaceted artistic practices of two international artists (catalogue of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, April - June, 2009, with texts by the artists and four philosophers).

A giant zap through Warhol's television universe; a journey through the artist's obsessions, his fascinations, his loves, his surprises and fears.