Issue Four
The fourth and final issue of Man is the Animal. Dedicated to the memory and enduring influence of Jhonn and Peter.A5, perfect bound. Approx 76pp.
Contents
Wear Sensible Shoes: Cobbling Together the Coil Guided Walk of LondonBy Ben Waddington
There's Honey in the Hollows: Looking Back on Horse RotorvatorBy Madeleine LeDespencer
A Conceptual Portrait of Jhonn BalanceBy Barnaby Darling
The Dreamer is Still Asleep: Coil as Mystical ExperienceBy Patrick Petterson
Sun, Pan, Moon: Three Paintings for …
Sentencessayes (Book)
Published on the occasion of the Hanne Lippard's exhibition "Rita, sagen Sie jetzt nichts! Goldrausch 2012" 15. September - 13. Oktober 2012 Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord, 10551 Berlin
Alain Pierre – Quitte à me tromper (Book)
A stark and contemplative tribute to composer and intellectual Alain Pierre (1948-2024) by Belgian artist Tim Onderbeke. Published shortly after Pierre's passing, this volume collects 69 black-and-white photographs taken on June 1, 2016, at Pierre's residence and studio, located behind the iconic VRT building in Brussels. Presented without captions and arranged in a purely figurative sequence, the photographs document Pierre in his most natural state—moving through his home, engaging with his ar…
Architecture educates! – Au contact de l'art (Book)
BIlingual Edition (Texts in French and English) An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
"Under the acronym of STEM, education in the many disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics has been harnessed to the relentless demand of the neoliberal economy for knowled…
Volume ! n° 21 1-2 – Les Fabriques sonores du Sud global (Magazine)
BIlingual Edition (Texts in French and English) Double issue of the journal of popular music studies, with a feature on the sound factories of the global South, and a look back at the 20th anniversary of Volume!. Volume! The French journal of popular music studies is the only peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of contemporary popular music. It is published biannually by the Editions Mélanie Seteun, a publishing association specialized in popular music. The journal is in French…
Aphex Twin (Magazine)
*Czech Language Only* New collaborative zine by Štěpán Adámek & Miloš Hroch. Dive into short essays about Aphex Twin's music, background, ideas, videos and more by The Wire contributor Miloš Hrouch which are accompanied by unique and wild pastel drawings by Štěpán Adámek. Edition of 120 copies. Comes with sun glasses.
0.01s (Book)
*2025 stock* 0.01s, Perich's companion to 1-Bit Symphony, is a voluminous synthesis of sound and computation in book form, giving a tangible mass to the code behinds its music. Digging even deeper into the basic operations of computation, 0.01s captures the inner workings of 1-Bit Symphony over the first hundredth of a second after it is switched on. In just 0.01 seconds, its processor executes 80,000 computational cycles, enough information to fill a 695-page book with austere tables of numbers…
Ambient Japan Issue
*Japanese Language* Japanese Ambient and Environmental Music featuring Haruomi Hosono / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Hiroshi Yoshimura / Susumu Yokota / Hiji Hatakeyama / Mei Tei / SUGAI KEN. Interview David Toop / Spencer Dolan / ZAK.
Father Yod and the Source: Brotherhood #1
YaHoWa! The 70s commune, The Source Family, were at the very center of the Age of Aquarius, and devoted their ways to music, love, magic, and harmony. Seven chakras open, astral bodies take flight, and Father Yod ushered in a new wave of mysticism. From California restaurant owner and lead musician in Yahowa 13, follow the spiritual path of Father Yod and The Source Family in this psychedelic retelling of their esoteric journey.
Nick Drake: The Life
Experience the definitive biography of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a foreword by Gabrielle Drake and over 75 photos, many rare or previously unseen. In 1968, Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK’s hippest record label, Island. Three years later, however—havi…
Ennio Morricone Master of the Soundtrack
The first major work dedicated entirely to the discography of the maestro Ennio Morricone. Unique in its genre, Ennio Morricone: Master of the Soundtrack originates from the idea of the collector, author, and cinema expert Maurizio Baroni. Baroni draws on his own archive to give life to a rich selection highlighting over fifty years of a prestigious career, largely unseen before, which includes handwritten scores by the maestro himself, the original album and single cover sleeves from his soundt…
Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins
Jazz legend Sonny Rollins will celebrate his 80th birthday this fall, and Saxophone Colossus will be published to mark this occasion and honor his incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation combines the images of John Abbott, who as Rollins’s photographer of choice for the past 20 years has captured the saxophonist at home and at work, and the essays of Bob Blumenthal, a jazz critic who has chronicled Rollins and his art for nearly four decades. Sonny Rollins has been at the center o…
Roxy Live: Under Exposed: One Fan's Unseen Concert Photos
2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music’s eponymous debut album, which the band are celebrating with a North America and UK tour, their first in over a decade. To coincide with this milestone, we are proud to present a one-of-a-kind historical document and celebration of one of the most beloved and enduring bands of our times. Documenting the band from their heyday in 1973 right up to Roxy’s last live performance in 2019 – more often than not from the photographer’s pit – and punctuated by…
The Andy Warhol Diaries
The classic, scandalous, and bestselling tell-all-and-then-some from Andy Warhol—now a Netflix series produced by Ryan Murphy. This international literary sensation turns the spotlight on one of the most influential and controversial figures in American culture. Filled with shocking observations about the lives, loves, and careers of the rich, famous, and fabulous, Warhol's journal is endlessly fun and fascinating. Spanning the mid-1970s until just a few days before his death in 1987, The Andy W…
Closer You Are. The Story Of Robert Pollard And Guided By Voices
The authorized biography of Robert Pollard, indie rock icon and founder of the music group Guided By Voices. Robert Pollard has been a staple of the indie rock scene since the early ’80s, along with his band Guided By Voices. Pollard was a longtime grade school teacher who toiled endlessly on his music, finding success only after adopting a do-it-yourself approach, relying on lo-fi home recordings for much of his and his band’s career. A prolific artist, Pollard continues to churn out album afte…
Side by Side
Selected and arranged by the authors themselves, and featuring an introduction by Jarvis Cocker, Side by Side presents the lyrics, poems, writings and drawings of innovative musician Robert Wyatt and his creative partner, English painter and songwriter Alfie Benge. As a founding member of influential English rock bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole, and with a solo career which has lasted for over forty years and seen him collaborate with a diverse range of artists including Bjork, Brian Eno, C…
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
A new, definitive biography of the iconic and mysterious singer, Warhol superstar, Velvet Underground collaborator: influential solo artist Nico. You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone is a new biography of Nico, the mysterious singer best known for her work with the Velvet Underground and her solo album Chelsea Girl. Her life is tangled in myth–much of it of her own invention. Rock and roll cultural historian Jennifer Bickerdike delivers a definitive book that unravels the story while making a con…
Re-Sisters: The Lives And Recordings Of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe And Cosey Fanni Tutti
In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who influenced the likes of Aphex Twin and the Chemical Brothers. While researching Delia’s life, Cosey became immersed in Derbyshire’s story and uncovered some fascinating parallels with her own life. At the same time Cosey began reading about Margery Kempe, the 15th century mystic visionary who wrote the first En…
In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
It was the year that saw the release of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and of debut albums from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. The year of the Summer of Love and LSD; the Monterey Pop Festival and Black Power; Muhammad Ali’s conviction for draft avoidance and Martin Luther King Jr’s public opposition to war in Vietnam. On its 50th anniversary, music business veteran Danny Goldberg analyses 1967, looking not only at the political influences, but …
Blank Forms - Vol. 10: Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue (Book)
A detailed look at the elusive work of a French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic composition Eliane Radigue