Bjork Archives by Klaus Biesenbach
$80.00 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Bjork is a contemporary icon whose contributions to music, video, film, fashion and art have influenced a generation worldwide. Here, now, is the ultimate celebration of this multimillion-selling superstar. Designed by top design studio M/M (Paris) as a slipcased world of wonders, this publication which ...Show more
Earth Dances - Music in Search of the Primitive by Andrew Ford
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Category: Classical/Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
All music is a synthesis of intellectual design and bodily urge. The human soul cannot make do with dancing alone - it will inevitably seek more fantastic musical designs, more complex patterns, more rarefied sounds. Equally, when the intellect dominates for too long, we listen out for music we can tap ...Show more
Gondola by Donna Leon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Of all the trademarks of Venice - and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs - none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. In Gondola, the internationally acclaimed 'American with the Venetian heart', Donna Leon, tells its fascinating story. First used in m ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
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Category: Classical/Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators--along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists--Byrne shows ho ...Show more
The Treasures of Queen by Harry Doherty
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Category: Classical/Contemporary
Queen were indicted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 and given their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002. The Queen musical We Will Rock You has been shown in Australia, Spain, the USA, Russia, South Africa, Germany and Japan, and has been seen by more than 5,000,000 people. The Trea ...Show more
Blue Note - Uncompromising Expression 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz by Richard Havers
$99.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Released to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the coolest and best- known label in jazz, this book celebrates over seven decades of extraordinary music from a company that has stayed true to its founders commitment to Uncompromising Expression. Tracing the evolution of jazz from the boogie- woogie and ...Show more
Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard by Tom Reynolds (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Love once inspired sonnets, plays, novels, and countless romantic songs. But romance can become obsession, and nowadays, love songs are creepier than ever. Even the Police's stalker anthem "Every Breath You Take" is a popular choice at weddings and funerals. In "Touch Me, I'm Sick," Tom Reynolds offers ...Show more
Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac, The Autobiography by Mick Fleetwood & Anthony Bozza
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Category: Classical/Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you." Mick Fleetwood has been part of one of the world's most successful and adored bands for over four decades. Here he tells the full an ...Show more
Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page
$89.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page is the photographic autobiography and visual history of the world's most iconic guitar player. With incredible attention to detail, Page has chosen hundreds of photographs representing significant moments in his career: from a schoolboy with a rock-a-billy quiff through his exte ...Show more
Bruce Springsteen Album by Album by Ryan White
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
For over forty years Bruce Springsteen has stood astride the rock 'n' roll stage like a musical colossus, his 18 studio albums - from the 1973 debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to 2014's High Hopes - the testament of a life dedicated to musical prowess and committed songwriting. This book examines ...Show more
A Little History - Photographs of Nick Cave and Cohorts 1981-2013 by Bleddyn Butcher
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
A stunning record of the amazing career of Nick Cave, one of the world's coolest musicians, by one of the world's most celebrated rock photographers When Bleddyn Butcher first saw The Birthday Party play, back in 1981, he was astonished. And then enthralled. He set about trying to catch their lightning ...Show more
Music In The Castle Of Heaven: A Portrait Of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner, John Eliot Gardiner
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Category: Classical/Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner distills the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as ...Show more