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Notes: The artist MINAMIRYOHEI has cut up and reorganized fragments of all kinds of materials from paintings, drawings, collages, photographs, installations, and videos, and put them into a printed book.

MINAMIRYOHEI has been presenting installation works that focus on "the texture of something to be sensed," which drifts in a "place" composed of a wide variety of elements such as paintings, sculptures, videos, sounds, photographs, lights, ready-made objects, and garbage, and which would be degraded if put into words.

It is a search for "a feeling of being tickled by the other side of the atmosphere," and "A bOOk" is a new attempt to make the phenomenon of representation appear in the "place" of printed matter.

Notes: Calling all parents lost in Kids Book Land! Gabba Gabba, We Accept You is a children's picture book telling the story of a misfit kid who grew up to be a punk rock hero. The challenging times that Jeffrey Ross Hyman endured before becoming Joey Ramone speak to young folks navigating the complexities of growing up, via teachable punk stuff: being your own person with your own compass, embracing uniqueness, etc. Jay Ruttenberg & Lucinda Schreiber light the tale righteously with plain-spoken language, lyrical design and colorful illustrations, finding unexpected depths on every page.

About the inspiration for this book, Jay says,

"My daughter just turned 11, so I've spent recent years in children's book land. I think I've read her 97 books about Abraham Lincoln and 12,984 about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It occurred to me that a lot of the life lessons I've been trying to teach her weren't learned through my family or school, but through punk stuff: the importance of being your own person, following your own radar instead of a group's, embracing uniqueness, etc. The Ramones, and in particular Joey, seemed like the perfect embodiment of that. So my big hope for the book is that it tells the story of Joey Ramone, but also, in kind of the biggest way, of what punk rock means, and how it might help a little kid wade through difficult social waters and be their own unique person."

Gabba Gabba We Accept You speaks in well-grounded and wise verbal and visual language to inform and affirm children - young ones and the adult children alike - that their individual personalities have an inspired and inspiring place in the world. In the process of becoming and being a person, there's no one set of rules. The sooner we all know that, the sooner we'll find ourselves in a much better place.

Notes: Following Wild's acclaimed 2024 book "A Mirror Of Broken Dreams: The Progressive Rock Revival 1981 To 1983", A Playground Of Broken Hearts is the second of two books which provide the definitive account of the intertwined stories of the six bands which led the progressive rock revival: Marillion, IQ, Pallas, Pendragon, Solstice and Twelfth Night.

For A Playground Of Broken Hearts, Wild interviewed over 80 musicians and other participants in the 1980s progressive rock scene. The book also includes in-depth profiles of many of the other bands involved in the era: Abel Ganz, Airbridge, Comedy Of Errors, Electric Gypsy, Galahad, Haze, It Bites, Jadis, Janysium, Lahost, The Lens, Liaison, Multi Story, No-Man, Pride Of Passion, Quasar, Tamarisk, Trilogy and Twice Bitten.

The book features over 300 photographs and illustrations, many of which have either been previously unpublished or are very rare, and a foreword by Progmagazine editor Jerry Ewing.

Notes: Kenso, led by guitarist Yoshihisa Shimizu, debuted in Japan in the dark days of the 80's when progressive rock was in the doldrums worldwide and continues to shine with brilliant iridescence to this day.

This collection was produced by the band in 2000 and sold in very small quantities, and consists of rare studio footage from the recording of their albums, as well as footage of their heated live performances at various venues from 1983 to 1999.