CD box sets

Nearly worth the price for the first CD alone! And there’s so much more!

1. JAZZ WORKSHOP, BOSTON, MA - 22ND MARCH 1973 WBCN-FM, MWANDISHI

2. PAUL'S MALL, JAZZ WORKSHOP, BOSTON, MA - 13TH NOVEMBER 1973 WBCN-FM, WITH THE HEADHUNTERS

3. OMAHA CIVIC AUDITORIUM MUSIC HALL, OMAHA, NE - 17TH NOVEMBER 1975 KJSO-FM, WITH THE HEADHUNTERS

4. IVANHOE THEATER, CHICAGO, IL - 16TH FEBRUARY 1977 WXRT-FM, WITH JACO PASTORIUS

5. BREAD & ROSES FESTIVAL, THE GREEK THEATER...

Saddled with what I think is the worst name in the world, this is a band that I used to see in the bins in the early 70s, but never heard and never wanted to hear until I was tipped off that they were actually an extremely good psychedelic / proto-progressive trio!
This includes both of their 1970 studio albums, their first single, as well as a previousy unreleased studio album! Surprisingly great (or at least surprising to me!)

“These days, “prog rock” suggests music with flagrant classical..

OK! It’s not really 100% complete (see below), but there’s a wealth of great stuff and rarities here.

“The title of this boxed set is quite misleading, because Hawkins was a member of Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra for ten years from 1924, and recorded extensively with that outfit. At a conservative estimate, there are some 80 recordings which should have qualified for inclusion, yet not one appears (although his recordings with Fletcher's brother Horace do). Ignoring for a moment the disparity...

"The GWR Years 1988 - 1991 is comprised of all three of Hawkwind's albums originally released by the GWR label between 1988 and 1991 -
The Xenon Codex
Space Bandits
Palace Springs.

These recordings saw Hawkwind move into the 1990s with a trio of excellent albums recorded by slightly fluctuating line-ups.
Alongside Hawkwind Captain Dave Brock and long-time member Harvey Bainbridge, The Xenon Codex would be the last album of the 1980s to feature Huw Lloyd Langton on guitar, whilst...

Hawkwind have a lot of very, very good albums, especially their 70s run, but for me personally, this 1971 release – their second – is their absolute finest hour. All the moves that make Hawkwind Hawkwind are here, but here they were VERY freshly conjured...

“Recorded in 1971, the album was Hawkwind’s first true masterwork and saw them fully realise their unique brand of Space Rock and was greeted with acclaim upon its release in October 1971 and was the band’s first Top 20 hit. The record was...

· A DELUXE 11 DISC LIMITED EDITION BOXED SET OF THE CLASSIC 1973 LIVE ALBUM BY HAWKWIND
· THE ORIGINAL IS ALBUM NEWLY REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES
· WITH NEW MIXES FROM THE ORIGINAL 16-TRACK MASTER TAPES OF THE FULL CONCERTS AT LIVERPOOL STADIUM, SUNDERLAND LOCARNO & BRIXTON SUNDOWN BY STEPHEN W. TAYLER
· INCLUDES A REGION FREE BLU RAY DISC OF A STUNNING HIGH RESOLUTION 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIX OF THE THE ALBUM WITH THE COMPLETE VERSIONS OF BRAINSTORM, TIME WE LEFT THIS WORLD...

For some unfathomable reason, this fine 1975 album, their sixth, has never really been generally reissued and no one really has explained why. It certainly is not because of the quality of the material, because this is considered one of their finest by many and also considered the last of their string of total classics from the early 70s.

This release has the classic lineup of Dave Brock, Nik Turner, Lemmy, Simon House, Simon King and Alan Powell, and was the last album with Lemmy. This is newly..

"In response to the arguably self-righteous pronouncements made in the 1990s as to what jazz is and isn't, Julius Hemphill (1938?1995) spoke up as he had done throughout his career. 'Well, you often hear people nowadays talking about the tradition, tradition, tradition. But they have tunnel vision in this tradition. Because tradition in African- American music is wide as all outdoors.' This collection of music, this celebration of artistic collaborations that engaged Julius Hemphill throughout his life...

For ONE C-note plus, you get everything. Studio, live, outtakes, etc etc etc. Most of you already have this, but if you don’t already have this, it’s a fantastic deal.

Also, just thought I would mention that once upon a time, I got a ride back to London from Guilford Civic Hall, after the show, with the band in the van on the cover on the box!

“17 CDs, 1 DVD and 250 pages of histories, testimony commentaries and photographs - in a sturdy box.
This collection brings togethe

This box collects recordings from 1950-2016 by the master of Musique Concrete!

“This is a wonderfully produced box set of some of the most incomprehensible music ever created. That's not a criticism, it was meant to challenge our notions of the form. And in that he succeeds.
I have to say that I think you need to have listened to both 20th century "classical" music and 21st century progressive pop to really appreciate how Henry's manipulation of sound scape has become the way we now think...

Newly lowered and extremely attractive pricing on this excellent box set. Hugely recommended to fans of 70s electronic sounds!

Philippe Besombes is a French electronic musician of the 70s and this reissues four of his works from the 70s, both solo and with his group Hydravion.
The two solo releases, Libra (1975) and Ceci Est Cela (1979) have both been previously released on CD by MIO, but they have been out of print for a decade. These include the bonus tracks that were on the MIO...

Here are the five albums that launched a hundred US freak folk bands: The Incredible String Band, The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, Wee Tam and The Big Huge.

This is the three legendary albums by this very, very experimental, very very early avant group (1967-68) exploring sound collage, mixed media and much more. NOT on the NWW list, probably only because they were too obscure for them to even know about them!

"This three-disc box collects Number One Intersystems (1967), presenting the correct side sequence and (for the first time) the original tracks' sub-section divisions; Peachy (1967), with (for the first time) the correct track separations...

"Formed in 1970, JADE WARRIOR were one of the most original British bands to emerge during the Progressive Rock era. The first incarnation of the band featured TONY DUHIG (guitars) and JON FIELD (flutes, percussion), both of whom had been in the psychedelic group JULY, and GLYN HAVARD (bass, vocals).
Signing to Philips’ progressive Vertigo label, the band recorded their self-titled debut album in March 1971. A remarkable work, ‘JADE WARRIOR’ would be the template upon which the band would build their..

This Steven Wilson remix and expansion was previously part of a huge box set with vinyl and more, which some people didn't want or need.
Now you can buy it in a more digestible size. This is the same packaging (ie NICE hardbound book) as the other Jethro Tull Steven Wilson sets.

Disc: 1

1. Aqualung (New Stereo Mix And Mastered By Steven Wilson)
2. Cross-Eyed Mary (New Stereo Mix And Mastered By Steven Wilson)
3. Cheap Day Return (New Stereo Mix And Mastered By Steven

“Jethro Tull’s 1970 classic Benefit will be celebrated in a brand-new 4CD/2DVD set, featuring remixes by Steven Wilson, an abundance of previously unreleased material, packaged within a deluxe hardback book, containing 100 pages of commentary from numerous contributors alongside hordes of images of the band creating and performing their first million-selling album.
Following the successes This Was (1968) and Stand Up (1969), Jethro Tull returned in 1970 with their third studio album in as many years...

"Jonesy are one of the great British Progressive Rock bands of the early 1970s who, despite recording some of the most impressive and intelligent music of the era, sadly failed to make a commercial impact. The band was formed in 1971 by guitarist John Evan-Jones, who emigrated to Australia with his brother Trevor in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, the Jones brothers had formed the band Chaos And Co and had enjoyed success. Returning to the UK in 1969, John forged a career as a session guitarist but by 1971...

July are best known for their self titled first album, which is a classic UK psychedelic album which has double interest for 60s/70s music fans due to its high quality, as well as featuring the first appearances by Tom Newman (UK engineer famous for many great Virgin albums) as well as Jade Warrior's Tony Duhig and Jon Field (the soul and heart of that band).

“Released by the Major Minor label in 1968, the self-titled July album has long been acknowledged by genre enthusiasts as one of the...

"Keletigui Traoré was already a respected professional flutist and saxophonist when he was invited to join the Syli Orchestre National in 1959. In the mid '60s he and several other members of the national orchestra formed a dance band called Orchestre...

“5 CDs of live material; one per year from 2014-2018. Packaged in a full color rigid slipcase housing three full color gatefolds and including a 24-page booklet with never before seen photographs.”

Disc: 1
1. Hoodoo
2. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One
3. A Scarcity of Miracles
4. Level Five
5. One More Red Nightmare
6. Interlude
7. Banshee Legs Bell Hassle
8. The Talking Drum
9. 21st Century Schizoid Man
10. The Light of Day

"Heaven and Earth is the most comprehensive boxed set in the series to date, covering just over a decade in King Crimson’s extensive history.
It presents the most complete account of the ProjeKcts series with concerts by P1 – 4 & the sole studio recording of P2 in addition to a huge selection of ProjeKct albums and related recordings.
When the Double Trio line of Fripp, Belew, Levin, Mastelotto, Bruford, and Gunn wanted to develop new material at the end of the THRAK-era in 1997 they broke...

• FORMAT: 2CD & 2 x Blu-Ray/boxed set
• 2 x Blu-Ray discs include:- All new 2023 mixes in Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD MA Surround (5.1) & 24/96 LPCM stereo.
• Elemental mixes, instrumental mixes and 30th anniversary master in 24/96 LPCM Stereo.
• Complete 1973 recording sessions in 24/96 LPCM Stereo.
• 2 CDs include:- the 2023 mixes in stereo & instrumental forms, elemental mixes and selected master reels.
• Packaged in two gatefold sleeves with booklet in a rigid exterior slipcase...

Yes, it's overkill, but it's kind of magnificent overkill, as it includes every recording there is by this band and much more. Read below to see what is included in this insanely deluxe set. The live performance DVD is beyond revelatory, as is the Session Reels and Alternate Takes discs. Now out of print and no more are to be made.

Larks' Tongues in Aspic - The Complete Recordings
Disc 1 - CD:
The Zoom Club, Frankfurt
October 13, 1972
Disc 2 - CD:
The Zoom Club, Fr

“On (and off) The Road presents a complete overview of this enduringly popular line-up. All three studio albums are presented in remixed stereo editions on CD (Discipline in its 2011 mix), as are the final concerts from each year of touring. Two further CDs present newly edited & extended takes from the ‘Champaign-Urbana’ sessions for the band’s proposed third album & a ‘making of’ CD which provides a fascinating audio insight into the studio recordings. New Stereo, 5.1 Surround, original stereo editions...

"Between April and July 1974 King Crimson embarked on a tour of Canada and America which has come to be recognised as one of the most powerful series of concerts performed not just by Fripp, Cross, Wetton and Bruford but by any band of the era...

"Norway's Grand Old Lady of jazz, Karin Krog turns 80 in May 2017, and the Odin label honours her with a superb 6 CD box set overviewing her outstanding career.
Krog's 2015 'Don't Just Sing' anthology on Light in the Attic, was on of that year's surprise underground hits. Karin Krog is one of the great jazz singers. Few others worked within so many different areas of the music and fewer still could have done so with the same assurance, commitment and elegance. Like her peers such as Jan Garbarek...

This is not EVERY everything that Fela recorded, but it’s pretty damn close.
“The Complete Box Set contains 29 CDs and one DVD spanning Fela’s entire career from Koola Lobitos in the late 60’s to Underground System in 1992.
The box set also contains 'A Slice Of Fela’, a DVD documentary with live performances from Berlin Jazz festival and Glastonbury and a booklet."

“Saxophonist/guitarist/composer/music historian/ provocateur Allen Lowe spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few besides Jaki Byard, Beaver Harris, Steven Bernstein, and Air have ever done, intertwining blues, early jazz, bebop, and the avant-garde.
A prolific composer who was incorporating American roots music into his jazz decades before it was hip, he has led project bands featuring a broad array of jazz greats ranging from Doc Cheatham, Randy Sandke, Joe Albany, Don Byron, Ken....

An insane price on 5 albums by one of the greatest bands of all time. You get the three fantastic releases by the original band (The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire and Between Nothingness and Enternity - albunms that just are bursting with...

“Legendary blues guitarist from Canned Heat, Harvey "The Snake" Mandel, presents this deluxe limited edition box set that includes 5 classic solo albums from 1968-1972 plus a bonus vintage concert recording from 1968 that features guests Jerry Garcia & Elvin Bishop! Each of these albums showcase Mandel's innovative, hugely influential playing that earned him a place alongside not just the Heat but also The Rolling Stones, John Mayall and others! All 6 CDs come individually packaged in it's own cardboard...

“Snark Horse is a book of 70 highly-detailed one-bar compositions by pianist / composer Matt Mitchell and percussionist / composer Kate Gentile designed to incite inventive, multi-directional improvisation. It is also the name of a revolving cast of musicians – including Mitchell and Gentile – who have performed this music in various combinations since 2013....

“A collection of three extended compositions by Thurston Moore recorded between 2018-19. This collection represents a period of reflection on spiritual matters, collective musical friendships, and a time and space universally, without words or languages to distract from meditation.
"Alice Moki Jayne" is a new composition from noise guitar explorations honoring Alice Coltrane, Moki Cherry, and Jayne Cortez. These female partners of jazz musicians brought spirituality into the lives and music that has..

"Angels And Daemons At Play is the fourth installment in the ongoing Motorpsycho luxury box-set reissue program. While almost every Motorpsycho release is, in one way or another, a step forward, backwards, sideways, or most often everything at once, Angels And Daemons At Play, originally released in 1997, is probably their first coming-of-age album. Following on the heels of 1995's more streamlined Blissard, AADAP is the typically stubborn response from a band refusing to be categorized. Thus, it is...

Three GREAT albums (one never before heard or even known to have existed!) plus an amazing book that sets the scene for the Catalonian progressive scene just after Franco. Chris / ReR have really done a great job on this. Hugely recommended, even if you have two of the CDs already, because the unreleased disc and the booklet are both amazing!

“This box collects and restores two legendary and totally great mid-70s releases, met at the time with extravagant critical acclaim but few sales outside of..

"Formed in Australia the late 1980s by Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton, the NECKS have been hailed by the New York Times as 'one of the greatest bands in the world.

"Entirely new and entirely now...They produce a post-jazz, post...

Definitely not ‘professional’ recordings, but seems like soundboard tapes and much better sound than I was expecting, honestly, so this can be conditionally recommended!

“Spectacular five CD box set of vintage unreleased live recordings capturing one of the best live prog rock bands ever, Nektar, in their prime and at the height of their powers!
Three incredible concerts spread across five discs, this box set not only features the band's best loved songs from Remember The Future to King Of...

One of the most interesting and inside / outside ‘radical’ series of releases in the very early 80s were the handiwork of English dub producer Adrian Sherwood. Here are some of his most popular and most recognized releases!

“An anthology set of the group that launched the On-U Sound label with the first album and single, New Age Steppers were a collective with an evolving line-up, built around the driving forces of Ari Up (The Slits) and producer Adrian Sherwood. Their records featured...

"Dense 11 disc retrospective of Pauline Oliveros' early and unreleased electronic work including her very first piece for tape made in 1961. The majority of these pieces have never before been released. Organized chronologically by studio this set not only documents Pauline's earliest electronic music but it also functions as an early history of electronic music itself. Extensive liner notes including essays from Pauline Oliveros, Alex Chechile, Ramon Sender, David Bernstein, Corey Arcangel and Benjamin...

"A four-hour work, recorded at Jim O'Rourke's studio, Steamroom, between 2017 and 2018. Detailed and delicate electronic layers, processed instruments, and ambiguous field recordings come together in a slow-moving, fascinating kaleidoscope with multiple reflections and wrong turns, always in a constant state of flux. The finely crafted art of subterfuge. The four-CD set To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye is a hypnotic, multi-faceted, labyrinthine piece which flows as slowly as a river while....

For the 1st 30 days of its release, we have it at a new, special price!

Beautiful little box featuring big music from performers such as Bill Cole, Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake, JD Parran, and many others.

"An astonishing 3CD...

“A newly remastered boxed set comprising the two original Archive Collection albums by celebrated composer and Genesis founder member Anthony Phillips.
Aside from his work as a solo artist, Anthony has been a composer of music for television for many years, going back as far as 1976 and those compositions form the backbone of these collections.
In March 1998 Anthony issued the first volume of 'Archive Collection'. Due to the popularity of the release, a second 'Archive Collection' volume was...

“A 5 CD set clamshell boxed set comprising the four original “Missing Links” albums by celebrated composer and GENESIS founder member ANTHONY PHILLIPS.
Anthony has worked with his archivist Jon Dann to prepare this new boxed set edition of this wonderful music, compiling a new additional CD 27 track CD of previously unreleased and rare archive material, “Extra Links” exclusive to this set.”

Anthony was a founding member of Genesis and was a very important part of their formative years; when he left due to stage fright, the rest of the band was very unsure he was replaceable. After a number of years, he came back with this, his first solo...

A terrifically fun blast from 1974 that I adored when I was in High School. Refugee was the rather short lived progressive rock keyboard power trio of the then unknown Patrick Moraz on a gigantic assortment of keyboards (I seem to remember that the original album on Charisma had a listing of all that Patrick used) along with the two 'refugees' from The Nice, Lee Jackson on bass and vocals and Brian Davison on drums. Despite this fine start, the band was not to exist more than a year because shortly...

“A newly re-mastered and expanded 3CD clamshell box edition of the classic album, “A Song for All Seasons” by RENAISSANCE. Newly re-mastered from the original master tapes this edition features 15 bonus tracks, including a further two CDs comprising the entire concert recorded at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia on 4th December 1978, appearing in full on CD for the first time, with an additional 55 minute’s worth of unreleased tracks.”

"Given its date of release (1978), A Song For All Seasons...

"This is a release of a newly re-mastered and expanded 3CD clamshell box edition of the classic album, "Novella" by Renaissance.
Recorded in late 1976, the album featured the epic 'Can You Hear Me?' along with the classic tracks 'Midas Man', ' Touching Once (Is So Hard to Keep)' and 'The Sisters'.
Because of record company issues, the album was released in January 1977 in the USA, but appeared in the UK and Europe in August 1977. "Novella" was a top 50 hit album in the USA and the band's...

The band's fifth album from 1974, and definitely one of their greats, including tracks like "Running Hard", "I Think of You", "Mother Russia" and more. Their sound is firmly in place, the songwriting team of Michael Dunsford and Betty Thatcher are cranking out classics, everyone plays strongly and Annie sings beautifully. The slight folk influences from before are pretty much gone, but the strong classical and progressive rock sounds remain.

“This is a release of a newly re-mastered and expanded..

“In the late 1980s The Residents embarked on what many fans still consider their greatest live project. "Cube-E - The History Of American Music In 3 E-Z Pieces" spanned almost four years and proposed to do nothing less than its title suggested, telling the story of American popular music, from its birth around the campfires of a non-existent Old West to its death at the hands of Elvis and the British Invasion, all in three easy pieces.
Performed on TV and on stage around the world between 1987 and...

"Jon Rose is one of the most productive, original and focused people I know; he’s also an extraordinary musician and an inspired composer. To mark his 60th birthday we are releasing this 3 CD box of previously unreleased works ranging from radio...

"In May 1978, Todd Rundgren performed a series of concerts at The Roxy Theater in West Hollywood, California with a band comprising members of The Hello People (Bobby Sedita, Larry Tasse, Greg Geddes and Norman Smart) along with keyboard player Moogy Klingman, bassist John Seigler and drummer John Willie Wilcox.
This clamshell boxed set includes the entire set from the 23rd May concert over two discs, along with a third disc comprising other soundboard recordings made by Todd during his residence...