I am selling two thirds of my music collection on Discogs.
That's everything you see here, which is stored in dessicated packaging in my basement.
The smaller quantity which I am keeping is upstairs in my study.
I catalogued the whole collection of 6,000 items during lockdown.
This is all wonderful stuff, but it has been in storage now for a while.
Maybe there's something you'd be interested in?
Please check my seller terms at the top right here for any questions.
“Intensely researched, latticed with surprising connections and correspondences, these essays expand and deepen our awareness of the links between music and the numinous. The S-Word is an illuminating book about illumination.”Simon Reynolds,author of Energy Flash and Rip It Up and Start Again“You'd nearly mistake it for an uncomfortable topic instead of an invisible one, but Matthew's book confronts it head on: even in the hands of secular musicians who strip their practice down to pure aesthetics, what we're responding to in so much of all of this new music is devotional. Or it could be, if you're interested in listening.”Jon Leidecker,Wobbly“Discussing the spiritual connections and interpretations of music can be something daunting for both readers and writers — where does one stop and one end? The collection of pieces that make up ‘The ‘S’ Word’ show that Matthew Ingram can balance his own particular perspective and experiences with wider considerations of what the spiritual can mean, casting new, unexpected light on deeper areas and suggesting paths of further exploration for the curious.”Ned Raggett,AllMusic
"...an amazing book..."Erik Davis,author of Techgnosis and High Weirdness
"What an amazing overview. You covered it all! I will definitely reccomend to everyone."Ramón Sender,co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center
It is available as an eBook globally here and is for sale as a paperback book in the UK only too. The price reflects the fact that it is 260 pages long and has cover-to-cover colour photography so is reasonably costly to print.
It's one copy only each. Send one of the following to my Paypal account: alias@hollowearth.org
Standard Delivery: (£25 + £3.35) = £28.35
Recorded Delivery: (£25 + £4.45) = £29.45
Copies will be signed. And include your address!
SMALL NUMBER OF COPIES NOW AVAILABLE (10.1.23) SOLD OUT. Reprint coming Autumn 2025.
TLDR:- music geeks only
- ebook available globally. [NB You don't need a Kindle only the free app]- Paperback only available in the UK.
- One copy per person.
- Costly to produce.- Delivery will not be instantaneous be quite quick.
Presenting my latest piece of work the comic book "TPM".
This is an eighty-page long "graphic novel" which tells the story of one Dennis Overton who finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of psychic marketing.
I first had the idea in April 2018 when I went to interview Stan Grof in Basel. Grof has a fascinating conviction in the reality of the psychic experience; to the degree that one starts to ponder whether certain things might be possible. In my working notes TPM stood for "Transpersonal Marketing", "Transpersonal" being the Grof-ian buzzword, but it morphed into the name of the agency itself with only echoes of this original meaning remaining. I suppose this is akin to how the acronym KLF always meant a number of different things: Kopyright Liberation Front, Kings of Low Frequency, Kevin Likes Fruit, etcetera.
The comic was also inspired by the research that I did after finishing "Retreat" around the areas where New Age thinking collided with business - that fascinating nexus of self-help, therapy and marketing. If you're interested in a full reading list look at Myers' bookshelves in the comic - it's all there. EST, Werner Erhard's cult, was obviously of interest here; but also the British therapy cult Exegesis run by Robert D'Aubigny which, remarkably enough, I came within a whisker of getting involved with in the late eighties, aged 18.
My nanny had been involved with the group, then trading as Programmes Ltd, and had told me that she thought she could get me work with the record producer Tony Visconti who allegedly had connections with them. I remember visiting Visconti's studio at the time and marvelling at a tiny transistor radio perched on the mixing desk through which they would test the music. I spent a week waiting around at said nanny's house for the call to come (classic cult strategy apparently), visiting Exegesis' HQ in the mornings where they would do a "Positive Telephony" dance before starting the day's telemarketing.
And obviously there's a healthy dose of insights from my twenty years working at the coalface of advertising. Any similarity to persons living or deceased is purely coincidental...
Writing and drawing a comic book as large as this is no mean undertaking. To start off one has to block out the entire script in boxes. Then there's the character design; I needed all the characters to look very different so as to make the complex story as clear as possible. I started by only being able to execute one page of eight frames a day. I thought this was slow, but I found out recently that comics legend Alex Ross works at a speed of ten pages a month. Eventually I got this up to two pages a day. It was difficult putting aside clear days to dedicate to the process and in total the whole production took two years.
The comic's biggest formal innovation is the absence of speech bubbles - this is something of a feat as, you will notice, apart from a few place and time cues, the book is 100% dialogue. That's what comics are innit.
There is a digital copy available for immediate download at Amazon. This was built in Kindle Comic Creator and works very well. You can see a preview there too.
There is also a small first edition print run. Signed naturally! I've had very favourable feedback from everyone who has seen the comic, it's funny and full of surprises, so I hope that you will buy one.
Send money to Paypal address alias@hollowearth.org. Prices for one copy as follows:
UK
Standard: £13.61
Tracked: £18.79
EU
Standard: £16.30
Tracked: £21.17
USA
Standard: £19.46
Tracked: £23.91
Very limited copies remaining. SOLD OUT OCTOBER 2022. No longer available at Amazon. Reprint coming Autumn 2025.
