RE/Search #15 Incredibly Strange Music Volume 2

Incredibly Strange Music (Volume 2) is a comprehensive guide to little-known yet amazing vinyl recordings and picks up where Volume 1 left off.

Enthusiastic, hilarious interviews illuminate the territory of neglected vinyl records ignored by the music criticism establishment of the time. Interviews include Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Rusty Warren, Ken Nordine, Korla Pandit, Yam Sumac, Juan Garcia Esquivel and Elisabeth Waldo among other.

Lavishly illustrated with reference sections, quotations, sources and an index, this is a comprehensive guide to the last remaining 'garage sale' records. Published in 1994 it marks the 15th release of RE/Search books which is possibly the ONLY surviving 70s punk publisher who never quit, V. Vale’s RE/Search continues to provide ‘Against-the-Status-Quo’ publications that stimulate the imagination and optimistic skepticism to this day.

Vale has been doing counterculture publishing since 1977, when he founded the Punk tabloid, Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first. It was published at City Lights Bookstore, where V. Vale worked, and was funded by $100 each from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Then in 1980, V. Vale launched RE/SEARCH, which is best known for its impact on the total world of underground culture.

And we've got plenty more RE/Search publications which we'll be sharing here on the site and on our instagram over the next few days. Including Volume 2 of Incredibly Strange Music and the companion CD compilation album for Volume 1.

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Publishers / Editors: Andrea Juno & V. Vale

Book Design: Andrea Juno

Condition: Excellent

Published 1993