Nico Vascellari, monograph published by Mousse on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition in Museion, Bolzano (5.6-29.8 2010), including hundreds of photos that capture the spirit of his cathartic performances—from Cuckoo to Gnawing My Own Teeth Behind A Closed Door—the intense hardcore concerts of his band, Lago Morto, and his sculptures and collages, as well as the places and objects that have inspired him, it winds up with a photographic catalogue that is a selection of covers from his extraordinary collection of record albums. The catalogue includes texts by Letizia Ragaglia and Andrea Lissoni in Italian, German, and English.

D 26€
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Berlin Sampler – Le son de Berlin de 1904 à 2009, Théo Lessour

Sampler is a series of city music guides. It proposes new ways to see how music interacts with it’s suroundings, and new ways to discover a city. Berlin Sampler, the first of the series, was released in November 2009.

Music was an extremely important factor in the creation of the berlin identity. But it is strangely very often forgotten in many of the books about the city, and the knowledge of Berlin music history is most of the times way smaller than the one on art, movies, architecture… This book offers keys to listen to the city of expressionism, dada, silent movies, cabaret, Bauhaus, hyperinflation, nazi and communist dictatorship, cold war, Airlift, 68 riots and student protest, alternative movments, fall of the Wall and Love Parade. It helps discover music pieces that were often forgotten and put the famous ones in a new light, that shows the inner breathing of the city through history. : dada sound poetry, electronic music in the 30’s, german swing under the third Reich, free radical music from 68, DDR punk, the genius-dilettant movement of the 80’s, and the minimal techno…. there are many creatures in the berliner Zoo.

Ollendorff & Desseins Publishing

D 14€
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LeviGeyer, René Levi & Karen Geyer

Vinyl and booklet, 38min 44sec

Published by Edition Fink on occasion of the collective exhibition “Diaolog I” at Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal

Featuring Marcel Schmid and Text Andrea Domesle

D 50€
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Svart Metall by Grant Willing

Grant Willing’s ongoing photographic series Svart Metall is a meditation on the ineffable qualities of an unsubtle musical subculture, Black Metal. Though its sonic qualities are challenging even for some metalheads, its Nordic atmospherics and paganistic themes are arguably evocative for a diverse range of artists. The photographs are allusive of the themes black metal culture treats, and presented in a surprisingly informal way—printed on bleached newsprint stock. On this ephemeral paper, the photographs retain a stately quality but gain a more disorienting sense.

D 10€
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Efdemin. Chicago LP on Dial Records.
19€

Motto is pleased to carry several Dial and Laid releases in both Berlin and Zürich stores.

There Will Be Singing video by Jutojo.

Unit: Design/Research 01 – Ronald Clyne at Folkways
An anthology of Folkways album cover art featuring the work of Ronald Clyne.

D 10€
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Spin #3 – Action Time Vision, a paper about punk 7″ singles, with essays by Malcolm Garrett and Russ Bestley.

Ultraviolet Magazine, The “And Justice for All” issue.
This magazine was compiled by Nessie De Witte.

D 8.50€

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Foam – international photography magazine
PEEPING issue spring 2010/ # 22

published by Foam Amsterdam

218 pages
texts in english

D 20€

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