Author: Anneke

L’Ambassadeur des Ombres – Star of Evil

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The name L’Ambassadeur des Ombres goes back to the French science fiction comic Valérian et Laureline. The series’ sixth episode in particular had an inspiring effect on Jörg ‘Joggy’ Müller, who founded the band together with René Glofke: L’Ambassadeur des Ombres, Ambassador of the Shadows. This title heralded darkness and morbidity and would serve as the name for a band project branching out from the East Berlin post-punk…
€ 12.00

Herbst In Peking & !The Same – Welt der Wunder

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Alien Levi, spaced-out dub producer from the interzone, has delved into the back catalogs of HERBST IN PEKING & !THE SAME, and the result is presented by Peking Records & Moloko Plus with the album Welt der Wunder (World of Wonders). In Levi’s magical hands, dub versions, remixes, and reinterpretations of well-known…
€ 15.00

Herbst In Peking – Faust am Meer

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Herbst In Peking, named after Boris Vian’s novel, was formed by Rex Joswig in East Berlin in 1987. The anti-authoritarian stance and fierce criticism of the GDR regime of this punk band led to an official ban in 1989. While Rex Joswig ran his Grenzpunkt Null radio show from East Berlin after the GDR had collapsed, his band steadily assimilated influences…
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New arrival from Moloko+: Harold Norse – Autostop! (Hitching through Italy on $2 a Day)

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If you only know one photograph of the Beat Generation, you know this one. It’s the single most famous picture of Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac. But who took it, when, where, and why? What are its secrets, and how can it be a crime scene? Whatever you think you know is almost certainly wrong, so to unravel its mysteries and find out where all the bodies are buried, follow in the footsteps of the world’s most dedicated…

New Sea Urchin chapbook: Văz (Restored Cauls)

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Sea Urchin’s Văz compiles nine watercolour portraits of people who were born with a caul (part of the amniotic sac wrapped around the baby’s head). In folklore around the world the rarely occurring cauls were considered omens of good fortune. ‘Caul bearers’ were also thought to possess supernatural powers and the ability to see ‘beyond the veil’, between this world and others. However, in Romanian folklore…

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