"Strut continue their essential work with the Godfather Of Ethio Jazz, Mulatu Astatke, with the rest of official reissues of his early classics Afro Latin Soul Volumes 1 and 2 from 1966, recorded as by The Ethiopian Quintet."

The long awaited second album by this California spacerock/progressive rock band. What I really like about this is the blend of propulsive Hawkwind drive, the psychedelic exploratory feel and the progressive rock-isms. The band is:..

"Astral Son is the neo-psych-solo-project of the Dutch artist Leonardo. This is his second album A colourful soundscape like a fleet-footed dancing monument made of warm-hearted acoustic poetry, invites the listener into it's colorful world. A concept album full of wonderful songs blending into each other, so that the album appears as a complete work, like a psychedelic stage play - pictorial and enchanted. The sound is absolutely experienced and exalted but also saturated through a big dose of childlike...

"The Echo From The Purple Dawn is a brand new full length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators and field recordings Hasegawa has created an engaging and versitile album that...

Long unavailable, this is the group's very first album album from 1988, and the one that made their reputation!
Now it's available again at a reasonable price, especially for a Japanese release, as a special blu-spec CD release!

"The Japanese band - Asturias - (commanded by the multi-instrumentalist Yoh Ohyama) in his first studio work Circle in the Forest", presents a sonority that blends of New Age (influenced mainly by KITARO & MIKE OLDFIELD) and Jazz-Prog in the style of bands such as...

This new group is an instrumental power prog trio leaping onto the progressive scene. The project is the brainchild of guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Glenn Snelwar. Torn Between Dimensions, the band's debut recording, features Snelwar on guitar, mando...

Very good, previously unreleased garage/psychedelia/art-rock.
"The follow-up to the acclaimed Flashback finds Athanor (the duo formed by Greg Herriges and Rick Vittenson) digging deeper into their archives and coming out with an amazing set of...

"Born of a time when jazz musicians crossed in to the world of rock music, Atlantic Bridge was a quartet featuring Mike McNaught (piano, electric piano), Daryl Runswick (bass, bass guitar), Jim Philip (flute, soprano sax, tenor sax) & Mike Travis (drums). All four musicians were seasoned players on the London jazz circuit, but sought to expand their musical horizons.
Influenced by the experimentation of Miles Davis on his album Bitches Brew and by the work of British musicians such as Keith Tippett..

One of the very best concerts I've attended in the last five years was a show by this tremendous, free-bop leaning Scandanavian quintet consisting of
Håvard Wiik, piano
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass
Fredrik Ljungkvist, trumpet
Magnus Broo, trumpet
Hans Hulbækmo, drums
Dig Mingus? Ornette? Braxton? Empirical? Dolphy? You'll love this. Hugely recommended to aficionados.

"Since their inception in 2000, the Scandinavian ensemble Atomic has garnered widespread acclaim for..

Fun release of psychedelic rock from this band who released four singles on Decca and have been forgotten for many, many years. "The complete output from the prime era of this epochal band, taken for the very first time from the original Decca/Deram ma...

Michaël Attias: alto saxophone & piano

“Échos la nuit , Michaël Attias' first solo album, was twelve years in gestation and recorded in a little over an hour. The reverberation is from the room and the sympathetic resonance of the piano strings set into vibration by the sound of the saxophone and intricate pedal-work.
There are no overdubs: the alto is played with the left hand, the piano with the right. “But”, as Anthony Coleman quotes in his liners, "on this disc, it’s more like what Duke.

Michael Attias, alto saxophone / John Hebert, double bass / Satoshi Takeishi, drums and percussion + Russ Lossing, piano on track 4.

"The three-night residency of Michaël Attias' Twines of Colesion in the 2008 edition of the Coimbra's Jazz ao...

Michaël Attias, alto saxophone / Tony Malaby, tenor and soprano saxophones / Russ Lossing, piano / John Hébert, bass / Satoshi Takeishi, drums, percussion. .

"Graced individually by a list of partnerships that includes Anthony Braxton...

“To interpret a place, to inhabit a space…Décor sonore is the meeting of music with the sounds that fill our daily lives. A sonic window that opens on a place, a moment. It’s a collection of short stories as true-to-life as they are fantastic. This is...

"Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the classic 1970 album by the legendary progressive rock group.

Along with Genesis and Van Der Graaf Generator, Audience were one of the key bands on the roster of the Famous Charisma Label in the...

This is apparently an authorized-by-Brian collection of rare live recordings from 1968 from the Piper Club in Rome and their appearance on "Ce Soir On Danse" from Paris! Quite good sound for the time period.

"In May 1968, Brian Auger and the Trinity & Julie Driscoll were part of an international rock 'n' roll disaster. That fiasco created a stash of urgent, commanding recordings, capturing a golden moment that took half a century to reach the wider world. A year after Monterey Pop but a year....

“A heavy, oft-sampled slab of Bay Area history, and a psych funk masterpiece that cannot be denied. Aura formed in 1974 and played extensively throughout Northern California. By 1976, the band recorded their first and only album at Pacific Recording Studio in San Mateo.
The original title of the album was meant to be “Sativa”, but out of fear that promoting the joys of marijuana would be too controversial, the band omitted the title and just left it as “Aura”. Over the ensuing decades, the Aura...

"Shadow Border is the second album from Dutch progressive rock band The Aurora Project. Their 2005 debut, Unspoken Words, brought them much acclaim in the worldwide progressive rock community. The band has twice been invited to perform at...

Hans Hjelm: guitar
Gustav Nygren: guitar
Mikael Tuominen: bass
Jonas Yrlid: drums
guest musicians
Jesper Skarin: percussion (all tracks)
Per Wiberg: keyboards (all tracks)
Jakob Sjöholm: guitar (First Train)

“Automatism is a Stockholm-based instrumental rock band. The music is based on psych rock, with some added herbal, progressive and modal jazz elements.
In 2018 their debut album "From the Lake" was and the follow-up album "Into the Sea" was relea

"A driving and rocking Jewish masterpiece from this out of control maniac based in Paris. A killer CD of New Jewish Rock with plenty of shredding, tight arrangements and a touch of Klezmer Madness, with special guests David Krakauer and Gary Lucas...

"The Village to the Vale, by the Brighton-based band Autumn Chorus, is one of the most interesting debut album of 2012. Try to imagine a green and pleasant landscape, really old-Brit, or the magnificent sound of a cathedral, and you’ll get the point of...

PROMO

Robbie Avenaim - prepared typewriter
Chris Abrahams - synthesiser
Jim Denley - bass flute

“Although Weft is the first release for this trio, the three musicians - Jim Denley, Robbie Avenaim and Chris Abrahams - have been playing together in various groups and contexts for decades—often meeting at Chris’ house to converse, drink tea and play/record music. The line-up for this particular session comprised bass flute, Waldorf Q+ Synthesiser and typewriter. The combination of instruments..

Top-tier, early 70s Afro-centric, jazz/electric jazz from Chicago that features many of the Chicago/AACM trademarks including inside/outside playing and little percussion instruments for one thing, but also more spaciousness and sorta rootsy/soul-jazz...