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In Spacemen 3 Vinyl – Extended Edition, Danny Passarella assembles the definitive visual chronicle of Sonic Boom and J Spaceman’s recorded universe: a lavish, full‑colour archive of global pressings, ephemera and new interviews that turns their vinyl trail into a tactile, time‑spanning narrative. Spacemen 3 Vinyl – Extended Edition is a love letter to the grooves, labels, sleeves and hand‑made artefacts that carried Sonic Boom and J Spaceman’s music out into the world. Expanding and deepening the original volume, Danny Passarella charts the band’s vinyl story from 1986 right up to 2024, mapping how a cult psychedelic outfit from Rugby left behind one of the most obsessively collected discographies in underground rock. Presented in full colour and printed to a high standard, the book moves far beyond simple documentation to become a visual history of a band in constant sonic and aesthetic flux. At its core, the book is an exquisitely photographed survey of Spacemen 3’s physical output: LPs, 12"s, 10"s and 7"s from across the globe, encompassing original pressings, international variants and notorious bootlegs. Each release is reproduced with forensic care, foregrounding the work of the musicians, engineers, producers, graphic artists, photographers and fiercely independent labels who helped shape the group’s trajectory. From stark early Glas​s Records designs to later, more intricate packages, the pages reveal how typography, colour, printing quirks and wear all contribute to the band’s enduring aura. For fans and collectors, it functions as the definitive visual archive; for newcomers, it offers an immediate, tactile way into the Spacemen 3 universe. The Extended Edition adds a substantial tranche of rare and previously unseen material that pushes the project into deeper, more obsessive territory. Readers will find test pressings and label variants; original press releases and promo photos; gig and shop posters; misprints and artwork drafts that show sleeves in embryonic form; studio notes and handwritten lyric sheets that crack the door on the writing and recording process; a full Outer Limits fanzine feature; tour programmes and other pieces of paper ephemera that once lived in record shop windows, venue foyers or fan bedroom walls. Together, these fragments build a parallel narrative: the underground networks, scenes and micro‑economies that sustained the band far from the mainstream. Crucially, the book doesn’t only look backward through objects – it also listens to the people who were there. Spacemen 3 Vinyl – Extended Edition includes exclusive new interviews with key figures from the band and their label ecosystem: Sonic Boom, Pete Bain, Will Carruthers, Charlie Pritchard (Outer Limits), David Barker (Glass Records), Suzy Shaw (Bomp! Records), Dom Martin (The Great Pop Supplement) and Mark Lascelles (Runcible Records). Their recollections offer candid insight into the practical and emotional realities behind the artefacts: pressing plant adventures, artwork decisions, budget constraints, personal tensions and small triumphs that are otherwise only hinted at in matrix numbers and catalogue codes. Attention to detail extends to the new edition’s physical presentation. Every copy from the first print run comes with an exclusive A3 poster, turning the book into an instant centrepiece for any Spacemen 3 wall. The cover itself features a UV spot varnish finish that deliberately echoes the Glass pressing of The Perfect Prescription, mirroring the way collectors obsess over subtle manufacturing differences. In a landscape where streaming has flattened music into invisible files, Spacemen 3 Vinyl – Extended Edition reasserts the power of the record as a total object – sound, design, text and material history fused – and secures the band’s vinyl legacy between hard covers for the generations still discovering that taking drugs to make music to take drugs to really did leave behind some of the most beautiful artefacts of its era.

Eternal Rhythm: Conversations and Travelations with Don Cherry and Graeme Ewens is the book on Don Cherry we have been waiting for - not a biography written from the outside, but a portrait built from the inside, from hours of cassette-taped conversations recorded since 1979 by writer Graeme Ewens, a confidant, travel companion, and close friend of Cherry. Published by Ars Nova Workshop, this is an intimate, free-flowing document of one of the most unique and innovative voices to emerge from the Sixties free jazz movement. Through Ewens' vivid storytelling and Cherry's own reflections, Eternal Rhythm traces a life lived in constant motion - artistically, spiritually, geographically. From the pocket trumpet alongside Ornette Coleman to the organic music years, from Stockholm to Morocco to India, Cherry never stopped moving, never stopped listening, never stopped absorbing. What emerges here is unfiltered insight into the evolution and working life of a true musical nomad, a rich exploration of creativity without borders. For anyone who has ever spun Complete Communion, Eternal Rhythm, or Organic Music Society and wondered about the man behind the music, this is essential reading. Thread sewn, 200 pages, A5 format, printed in black and white and color. Highest recommendation.

Comprising more than 5,000 works of contemporary art dating from the 1960s to the present, the collection of the MUSEUMMMK für Moderne Kunst is one of the most important of its kind in the world. With canonical works by Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Lothar Baumgarten, Thomas Bayrle, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Miriam Cahn, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Marlene Dumas, Dan Flavin, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Ilya Kabakov, On Kawara, Roy Lichtenstein, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Rosemarie Trockel, James Turrell, Bill Viola, Jeff Wall, Franz Erhard Walther and Andy Warhol, the holdings constitute an important source for art-historical research.

Reprinted on the occasion of an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, this book presents the international Fluxus legacy through sound. With works by John Cage, Philip Corner, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, and others, it explores the interest of Fluxus artists in music and sound through performance, scores, records, and objects from the Luigi Bonotto Collection. Their public events challenged conventional form and content in music, and the approach to music scores was equally radical. Instead of traditional sheet music, they devised notational systems based on graphics, poetry, and the visual arts.