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Twilight of the Alchemists

encyclopedia of French progressive rock, experimental, electronic music, etc.
by Steven Freeman & Alan Freeman

From the writers of The Crack In The Cosmic Egg & A Fistful Of Spaghetti

Funding campaign

This book project is currently: "work in progress!"
with a planned publication date of November 2024

Info page: http://www.ultimathulerecords.com/twilight.html

 

 

 

Message from an Audion reader

 Hello Alan and Steve – Scott Cleveland here near Philadelphia PA. I was subscriber to Audion for many years, bought my Crack in the Cosmic Egg Book when it came it around 1998? Am a fan of a lot of the music you cover. I had all but written you guys off when Audion sort of dropped off, and talk of the new book on Italian Artists seemed so so long incoming and I thought it just fizzled. I recall a change of address of you store, and thought well another nail in the coffin. Glad to say I was 100% wrong though. When I heard Fist Full of Spaghetti was really coming out, I was on the fence on whether to buy it – thinking how much good unknown to me music could still be out there – Gotta say glad I bought it, and having a great time listening to all this old/new music. Great job on book, I feel like I know the format of how you catalog and describe things already so was able to dive right in. I bought it from Bandcamp along with the three Audions in hard copies – Gotta say I REALLY love the physical format of these printed versions – kinda hard paper cover, great color and printing – very sturdy I might say – will hold up very well overtime. If you are wondering if the readers like this type of hard copy edition – Well I am a big fan. I would love to see more printed old/new like this – I understand the PDF thing – I bought one issue in PDF and printed out and put in a binder – just not the same.

Anyway Thanks and keep up great work…

Scott

Audion 76 now available!

A tempter from the Made In Sweden article in Audion 76.

One of the most overlooked of Swedish fusion pioneers.

 

The magazine is available as a snazzy (colour throughout) pdf publication with optional free audio content, or as a limited printed edition (colour cover, black & white inside)

 

Basic info and purchase options here:

http://www.ultimathulerecords.com/audion.html#a76 

 

 

preview of Italian music book at YouTube

 A Fistful Of Spaghetti

The ultimate guide to Italian progressive rock, experimental, electronic music, etc. as a big weighty book. 500 copy print-run, now with over half of them sold. Don't miss-out!

https://youtu.be/KOXmsf4qvV0 

All the info you need is here:
http://www.ultimathulerecords.com/fistful.html
including
Bandcamp and Ebay purchase links

A FISTFUL OF SPAGHETTI
Our forthcoming Italian music book is nearing completion.
It is now paid for, and at the printers, awaiting them supplying proofs, with the tentative publication date of 15 November 2022.

The price will be £25 + p&p/shipping.

The book is liable to weigh around a kilo, so international shipping won't be cheap, unless we use surface. There may be the option to use USPS surface/air economy to the USA as well.

We have been running a funding campaign via the Ultima Thule web site. Information can be found here: www.ultimathulerecords.com/fistful.html and there is also a funding option via Bandcamp as well with a minimum of £1 donation, although to secure a copy of the book you need to donate at least £30. But, be aware that funding via Bandcamp will have both PayPal and Bandcamp fees deducted (a£30 payment usually results in £25.83 received here, as opposed to the usual £28.83). So, if you are going to do it via Bandcamp then it will be to your advantage to do it on Bandcamp Friday, this next week. Here's the Bandcamp funding link: audion1.bandcamp.com/merch/a-fistful-of-spaghetti-book-funding-campaign

 

all pre-orders will get a free bonus pdf publication, as listed here: www.ultimathulerecords.com/audion.html#italianscrapbook

More useful links...

Book taster preview: youtu.be/KOXmsf4qvV0

bonus pdf preview: youtu.be/NjFg7U8XBIc

pages from the opening section...

 

 

some picture pages...

 

some text page samples...

 

MPS - favourites from the Black Forest

essential for fans of far-out 60s/70s jazzy prog/psych underground sounds

article in the new Audion magazine

http://www.ultimathulerecords.com/audion.html#a70