“In 1972, Frank Zappa experimented with an "electric orchestra" concept which resulted in two albums: Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo. Celebrating the 50th-anniversary of this endeavor, Waka/Jawaka is available on 180-gram black vinyl LP.”

After Frank was thrown from the stage in London and broke his leg very badly, he was stuck in a wheelchair and couldn't tour for about 9 months. As Frank was always working, he decided to indulge himself in two larger-scale projects that wouldn't be practical...

Third album from a Belgian quartet of vocals, reeds, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums. Their earlier albums are sort of molded on the "1971 UK proto-progressive" sound, with a progressive hard rock edge and this has that as well, but in much smaller doses and this is the album where they begin to mix that sound in with a sound more reminiscent of early King Crimson (Court and Poseidon) mixed with the heavier sounds and proto-progressive vibe. Maybe a bit comparable to the excellent Diagonal album with...

“This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.”

“This record is one of the seminal recordings in Jazz and perhaps one of the most interesting developments in music as a whole. Cecil Taylor, along with Ornette Coleman, is considered the father of Free or Avant-garde Jazz. Together with "Conquistador" this album demonstrated what that Jazz was to be. Taylor reaches musical spaces previously...

“If the setting is right, magic will happen. And so, this record came into being. Sunburned Hand of the Man, three decades into their one of a kind run, still possess the ability to amaze, stupefy and astound - even themselves.
Recorded over a week at Big Blue, Adam Langellotti’s (Kurt Vile & The Violators) studio/house, "Nimbus" sees the band's amorphous lineup produce results such as high-test workouts, cryptic readings & a choice cover (Sun City Girls). A record that this band could only produce...

“Recapturing the melancholy of her early work whilst propelling it forward, she sketches scenes as we watch new colours, shapes and languages emerge and fill the frame. Love In Constant Spectacle sees her take measured steps towards a vivid, dreamlike record, that offers resolve in the face of life’s inevitability.
The foundations of Weaver’s sound are still evident – lush motorik drums, pulsating bass, custom modded synths and exotic fuzz pedals - but the stream is awash with scrabble piece poetry...

"Legit vinyl reissue of this 1971 Krautrock album, recorded in Köln and issued on Bacillus at the time. A couple of tracks like the massive 13-minute opening "Dirty Yellow Mist" and "The Executioner" reveal the secrets of early 70s psych/rock as well as anything to be named, w/ monotonous, spacey riffing grinding into the third mind zone. "My Solid Ground's first and only record presented the full atmosphere of psychedelia -- sometimes aggressive, sometimes melancholy. Superb guitars, hypnotical voices....

“More than 50 million records sold, LP productions in Hungarian, German and English, tours and festival appearances throughout Europe and Japan, at least 50 cover versions or adaptations of the world hit "Gyöngyhajú lány" - Omega are Hungary's number one rock export. In 2022, the band will be celebrating its 60th stage anniversary, making it one of the longest-serving rock formations in the world.
After a few trips into symphonic and psychedelic rock realms, Omega presented themselves on "III"...

Ding! Ding! Ding! This 1994 album comprised of live recordings produced by Brian Eno and featuring his band of J.A. Deane, Jean Philippe Rykiel, Michael Brook and Jon is probably my single favorite of his many really excellent recordings. If you don't know/own this one and you like his work, you should own this. It's been unavailable for a number a years and I was thrilled to see it return to availability. I love this stuff; NOBODY else sounds like this.

“From a night of music in Holland that's become legendary among NRG Ensemble enthusiasts, Hold That Thought presents a blazing concert of the quintet's unique sound. With Mars Williams and Ken Vandermark on reeds, Kent Kessler and Brian Sandstrom on basses (the latter doubling on trumpet and electric guitar), and Steve Hunt on drums, this incarnation of the band was arguably its tightest and mightiest, taking the inspiration of founder Hal Russell (1926-1992) and running with it. All the way.
The...

Rebeka Rusjan Zajc piano
"With her extraordinary debut album, Prelude, young Slovenian pianist Rebeka Rusjan Zajc (now residing in Amsterdam), announces herself as a precocious new talent, already forging her own distinctive art language, navigating the bountiful margins between non-idiomatic improvisation, jazz and classical music.
Across this disc’s sole extended piece, ‘Illusion’, she marshals a dynamic carnival of boundless extemporisation, full of instinctive runs and dramatically tumbling.

Signe Emmeluth alto and tenor saxophones
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten double bass (Minimoog on 'Pseudoscience')
Andreas Wildhagen drums
Jonas Cambien piano and Ace Tone Top 5 organ (soprano saxophone on 'Pseudoscience')
guest: Guro Kvåle trombone on 'Once Low Now High' and 'Good Frenemy'

"Maca Conu is the dazzling new band led by Belgian-born, Oslo-residing pianist, composer and improviser Jonas Cambien, an outfit whose eponymous new release clamours like an exploding kunstkammer of...

André Roligheten tenor saxophone
Thomas Johansson trumpet
Oscar Grönberg piano
Jon Rune Strøm double bass | Tollef Østvang drums and percussion

Scandinavian powerhouse Friends & Neighbors make an auspicious return with Circles, their sixth full-length release, brimming – as you might expect from an outfit borrowing its moniker from a lesser-known Ornette Coleman classic – with dexterous, hard-edged improvisations, unapologetically taking influence from the fearless New Thing movement..

Sérgio Carolino tuba
Alexandre Frazão drums
Mário Delgado electric guitar

"Marking two decades of continuous, eclectic evolution, TGB – the Portuguese power trio boasting tuba ace Sérgio Carolino, guitarist Mário Delgado and drummer Alexandre Frazão – take another captivating whirligig around their enigmatic universe of collective musical influences, filtering an impeccable sonic palette via the prism of Room4, the ensemble’s fourth stunning full-length for the Clean Feed imprint....

Jim Baker piano and ARP-2600
Steve Hunt drums and percussion
Jakob Heinemann double bass

“Running the gamut between daring twelve-tone interplay, nuanced lyricism and extra-terrestrial synth manipulation, Horizon Scanners announces the arrival of a captivating new Chicagoan piano trio, one steeped in the Windy City’s illustrious jazz history, but determined to write its own distinctive chapter.
 Steve Hunt (drums and percussion) and Jim Baker (piano and ARP 2600 synth) were both...

Joana Sá piano, electronics & others

"Part of a broader, fragmentary project composed by several autonomous but complimentary outputs such as the (expanded) book ‘a body as listening - resonant cartography of music (im)materialities’ (Sistema Solar / Teatro Praga), the virtual installation www.abodyaslistening.com, the solo performance ‘a body as listening’ and the lecture-performance ‘Are you there? - resonant cartography of music (im)materialities’, this is composer-pianist Joana Sá’s first...

“Singer and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland's hard-to-categorize music is filled with wonder, compassion, and hope. Beginning his recording career in the early 1970s with two self-titled albums of poetic jazz-folk, he spent many of the following decades working in children's television.
This, his second, was issued by GRT in 1971. The album was recorded with an impressive cast of notable jazz musicians, including flutist Jeremy Steig, guitarist Lenny Breau, drummer Terry Clarke, and bassist...

It’s all good stuff, but the two 20’ pieces, Knee Deep In Ghosts and A Sleep In The Deep, are both totally beautiful...

“The baritone guitar is a guitar with a longer scale length, typically a larger body, and is tuned lower than a regular guitar - often pitched halfway between the lowest note of a bass and and the lowest note of a regular guitar.
Henry Kaiser has been playing baritone guitars for over 30 years and this is his first solo album that is all baritone. All solos here are free-..

Harry Beckett-trumpet/flugelhorn
John Surman-baritone and soprano sax
Mike Osborne-alto sax
Alan Skidmore-tenor and soprano sax
Frank Ricotti-vibes
John Taylor-piano/Wurlitzer electric piano
Chris Lawrence-bass
John Webb-drums

This is the first and only time that this GREAT album from 1970 has been reissued legitimately and also it was extremely well done.
"Vinyl audio remastered & cut from the original master tapes by Gearbox Records. Flip-back LP sleeves

The Who's quite amazing 1971 studio album was (and is) played too much on classic rock radio, but that doesn't make it any less of a tremendous feat. It's also their most progressive rock oriented disc, what with Pete's use of keyboards and Terry Riley influences. “Super Deluxe Edition contains 10-CDs all remastered from original tapes by long time Who engineer Jon Astley as well as a Blu-ray Audio disc with newly made Atmos & 5.1 surround mixes of the original album and 14 additional tracks by Steven...

“Acclaimed guitar duo Loren Connors and Alan Licht celebrate their 30-year collaboration with the release of their eighth album - At The Top Of The Stairs.
Across the decades, their improvisations turned increasingly abstract and atonal, while still maintaining complex, ethereal arrangements. The harmonious blend of Licht's meticulously crafted feedback and harmonic patterns with Connors' ghostly blue tones remains the core sound of this partnership.
At The Top Of The Stairs was recorded live...

“Recorded in 1975 at the Winterland Theatre, the Majestic Wakeman is captured at his best on this timeless radio broadcast. Taken from the early stages of Wakeman's solo career, this album captures him in his freshest period, at a time when his flamboyant playing style was most respected.
This recording features a great show with tracks from Six Wives, Journey and Myths. Sound quality is superb and The English Rock Ensemble and Rick are in fine form. Included are stunning versions of "Lancelot and...

“Sound collage collaboration between Julian House (The Focus Group) from the Ghost Box label and former members of the indie band, Broadcast. Channeling of early collage work from The Hafler Trio with a distinctly formalist aesthetic dripping with ‘70s nostalgia as with all things Ghost Box.”-Karen Elliot

“Children of Alice have been quietly producing amorphous and intoxicating soundscapes as part of the Folklore Tapes collective for a number of years now, beginning in 2013 with Harbinger of...

"Look is a concentrated soundscape experience inspired by Japanese synth guitars from the 1970's. An exciting excursion from his previous singer-songwriter material, this release fits in line with similarly groundbreaking records such as Brian Eno's "Music for Airports".”

“Blake Mills earned a reputation as producer and guitarist who prized authenticity in his work, which is what makes this 2018 album Look so startling. Consisting of five tracks of wordless, formless ambient music, Look is...

Myles Boisen: guitar
Krystyna Bobrowski: bowl kelp
David Caldwell: tenor saxophone
Brian Christopherson: drums
Jeremy Keller: guitar
Gino Robair: sampler, tapes, theremin, space voice mask
David Tohir: backbone
Kirk Udvardi: alto saxophone
Scott Vance: rasta bass

“This is an album of electro-acoustic improvisation. The featured instrument is the backbone (which is short for feedback trombone), an invention of my friend Scott Vance & myself..

Released on Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos surround sound

“2023 was the year of the Artrockers from RPWL: 'Crime Scene', the eleventh studio album and the nineteenth overall, entered various charts after it's release: it even reached a remarkable 18th place in the German album charts! This was followed by a fantastic long European tour through eight countries with many sold-out venues. On the last studio longplayer 'Crime Scene', the Bavarian Artrock institution focused their attention on the morbid...