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"Paolo’s latest is an extraordinary collection of pieces that explore the full range of his highly modified, extended and prepared Sardinian guitar; and although it’s just him and electricity, it seldom sounds like fewer than 3 people...

"An amazing record. It's beautifully recorded and almost impossible to believe that such a layered and polyphonic music, with chords, percussion, lead lines, bass lines, harmonies, string sections and sometimes voice could all be produced by one person in real time, without overdubs or loops. But it is. The instrument, a specially designed and augmented Sardinian guitar (almost the size of a cello) is equipped with motors, pedals, individual string mic'ing, and extra appendages; and of course there are...

"Another extraordinary release by Sardinian virtuoso Paolo Angeli, this time featuring compositions by Fred Frith and Bjork – all played solo in real time (though when you hear it, it’s hard to believe it) on his highly customised and extended, electrified, giant Sardinian folk guitar. A tour de force of technique and at the same time highly musical; and there is so much going on here at any given time that it is difficult to relate what your ears tell you to just one Frankenstein instrument. Dense...

"Another extraordinary release by Sardinian virtuoso Paolo Angeli, this time featuring compositions by Fred Frith and Bjork – all played solo in real time (though when you hear it, it’s hard to believe it) on his highly customised and extended, electrified, giant Sardinian folk guitar. A tour de force of technique and at the same time highly musical; and there is so much going on here at any given time that it is difficult to relate what your ears tell you to just one Frankenstein instrument. Dense...

"This disc will play in stereo on a CD player and with film and 5.1 surround sound (or stereo) on a DVD player or computer. The music, as always, is prodigious, sounding like a small band, but played by one person in real time (as the film attests). In this format, you can also see the instrument close-to - a highly rebuilt and extended giant Sardinian guitar - with many sympathetic and extra strings, motor driven hurdy gurdy wheels, whirling strings, springs and other appendages, played, like a cello...

"This disc will play in stereo on a CD player and with film and 5.1 surround sound (or stereo) on a DVD player or computer. The music, as always, is prodigious, sounding like a small band, but played by one person in real time (as the film attests)...

Just as fabulous as you would hope!

“A meeting that had to happen: the clash of tradition and experiment has been the distinguishing signature style of both protagonists, and they aren’t holding back on this rather unusual record.
Paulo’s virtuosity - and his customised, cello-sized, extended and prepared Sardinian guitar - designed to do several things at once, some of them hardly believable – engages head-on with Iva’s extended violin and take no-prisoners vocalising. Professional....

Takumi Fukushima – violin, voice
Paolo Angeli – prepared Sardinian guitar, voice
Excellent album of duos; some a bit wild, others, very intimate and - dare I say - beautiful? Remember, Monk wrote a song called "Ugly Beauty"... After the demise of Volapük, I was wondering when I would hear Takumi again and I am happy to hear her here with Paolo who makes an excellent musical partner for her.

"This is Paulo Angeli’s fifth release, this time with ex-After Dinner, ex Volupuk violinist and....

"Enigmatic exemplar of subterranean overachievers, Michael Angelo Nigro, has long been known to sound-hounds searching for esoteric figures on the fringe. He was a man out-of-time, with unerring vision and dedication, principally known for his head...

Magnus Broo trumpet
Goran Kajfes trumpet, Maestro soundsystem for woodwinds pedal
Johan Berthling double bass
Konrad Agnas drums
Mats Äleklint trombone, sousaphone
Mattias Ståhl vibraphone
Alexander Zethson piano, Juno 106
Martin Küchen alto saxofone

"A band of many configurations, from trio to tentet, this time Martin Kuchen’s Angles work with a 8-piece format the formulas you already know of pathos, playfulness, energy and bliss, but in renovated ways bec

Mattias Ståhl, vibraphone / Magnus Broo, trumpet / Mats Aleklint, trombone / Martin Küchen, alto saxophone / Johan Berthling, double bass / Kjell Nordeson, drums.

"Martin Küchen is naive and desperate, and maybe only because of that one might...

Johan Berthling, bass / Kjell Nordeson, drums / Magnus Broo, trumpet / Martin Küchen, alto sax / Mats Äleklint, trombone / Mattias Ståhl, vibes.

"Like Axel Dörner in Germany and Ernesto Rodrigues in Portugal, among others, Swedish alto (and...

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten double bass
Kjell Nordeson drums and percussion
Martin Küchen tenor and soprano saxophone

"After concerts and recordings as Angles 10, Angles 9, Angles 8 and Angles 6, here is back the original Angles line-up, Angles 3. It was 2004 and for a gig at the Glenn Miller Cafe it's mentor and saxophonist, Martin Küchen invited two Scandinavian musicians now living in the United States (respectively, Austin - Texas and San Diego - California), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and...

Johan Berthling double bass
Magnus Broo trumpet
Eirik Hegdal baritone saxophone
Goran Kajfes cornet
Martin Küchen alto - and tenor saxophones
Mattias Ståhl vibraphone
Andreas Werliin drums
Alexander Zethson piano
Mats Äleklint trombone

“Wonderful news, folks: Angles 9 are back. The modus operandi is the same as ever, enabling infinite possibilities: suggestive melodies and a vibrant rhythmic pulsion. You’re familiar with it by now, but it so

Alexander Zethson, upright piano, grand piano / Mattias Ståhl, vibraphone / Johan Berthling, double bass / Andreas Werliin, drums / Magnus Broo, trumpet / Mats Aleklint, trombone / Goran Kajfes, cornet / Eirik Hegdal, baritone and sopranino saxophones...

Pablo Ledesma, George Haslam, Mono Hurtado, Paul Hession. Passionate jazz over the ethnic rhythms of the Chacarera, Milonga, Vidala - and improvisation with guests Lol Coxhill, Elton Dean, John Edwards and Lukax Santana. Recorded London March, 2001...

Studio recording by the Anglo-Kuopio Quartetnamely George Haslam-baritone saxophone and tarogato, Mikko Pasanen-piano, Jarmo Hiekkala-double bass and Paul Hession-drum Set. Recorded in Kuopio, Finland, September 2003. Five tracks of improvised music of...

“The dark, impossibly intense dirges, industrial noise onslaughts and banshee-like free jazz wailing heard throughout Anguish could be an imposing soundtrack for a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future.
This powerhouse, inter-generational offering and RareNoise Records debut brings together an unlikely gathering of members of the New Jersey-based experimental hip-hop group Dälek (electronic musician and vocalist Will Brooks with guitarist-keyboardist Mike Mare), the Swedish free jazz group Fire!...


This reissues the first Anima lp, which originally came out on Ohr in 1971, and must have filled many unsuspecting, tripping 'heads' with bummers, dude. "The duo of Paul and Limpe Fuchs were amongst the most experimental to emerge out of the late-60s a...


This Swedish band, consisting of four musicians with backgrounds in death metal, love Goblin so much that they even stole their font and their over-all look for the CD package!

This is a reissue of the band's very first release and even this...

"This superb radio broadcast, recorded in Paris 1965, features all the Animals smash hits. Legendary line-up: Eric Burdon (vocals), Dave Rowberry (organ and keyboards), Hilton Valentine (guitar), Barry Jenkins (drums), Bryan "Chas" Chandler (bass)."

“Ground breaking, genre defying instrumental trio, ANIMALS AS LEADERS have announced their highly anticipated new, fifth album, 'Parrhesia'. Their first new full length album since 2016's 'The Madness Of Many'.”

Lotte Anker, soprano alto and tenor saxophones / Rodrigo Pinheiro, piano / Hernani Faustino, double bass.

"Improvised music is one of the few fields where something like this can happen: having a new band with people we never imagined together...

Lotte Anker, Soprano, Alto and Tenor Saxophones / Sylvie Courvoisier, Piano / Ikue Mori, Electronics

"Of the three, Anker has the deepest background in jazz; after studies at Copenhagen University Rhytmic Conservatory, where she came in contact.

First ever reissue from the original master tapes!

“Reissue of the 1970 krautrock classic. The timing was right: Five years earlier would have been too early, five years later would have been too late. But Annexus Quam from Kamp-Lintfort near Düsseldorf came along with the right music at the right moment.
The seven-piece band formed in 1967 as Ambition Of Music; they were what was then called a "beat group." In 1970, working with a local trombone choir led to a dramatic change of direction...

“A calming, atmospheric, original, refreshing psychedelic experience that you'll never EVER forget.”

“Interesting, a change from the norm. Billy James is Ant-Bee. This is his third album and is about 50 minutes. The sound quality is very good, especially for an CD from 1997.
This album contains appearances by Daevid Allen from Gong, Jim Sherwoood, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston and Roy Estrada from the Mothers of Invention and a couple of members from the Alice Cooper band (when Alice Cooper was...

This is one of the most vividly surreal albums I've ever listened to and I ain't complaining about that one damn bit.

“Ant-Bee indeed is left in obscurity, his recorded work are reflective of the psychedelic era of the 1960's. Primarily Ant-Bee's début, 'Pure Electric Honey' is mainly a psychedelic pop album in substance, which makes it easier to listen to, due to the sounds and melodies, that are excellently performed and palatable to anyone. Though after the first song (excluding Intro)...

José Lencastre tenor and alto sax
Jorge Nuno guitar
Felipe Zenícola bass
João Valinho drums

"Everything happened before the Covid-19 pandemic silenced all live music in Portugal. A new trio with saxophonist José Lencastre, electric bassist Felipe Zenicola (from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and drummer João Valinho premiered in December 2019 at Fábrica do Braço de Prata, one of the main jazz venues in Lisbon. Some days later, when they went to studio, it was already as a quartet...

“Taking the electric music of Miles Davis as its starting point, Anthropology Band is about finding the atmosphere through a deep rhythm, a searing blues run, a delicate melody, or a cascading solo statement. Band leader Martin Archer has kept the music as simple as possible – often driven by the bassline – and the structures loose, to enable this who’s who of UK creative musicians to let the music breathe in a different way each time it is played. There are multiple chordal instruments in the centre of...

A very lively electric jazz / jazz-rock ensemble with lots of room for improvisation, but also with strong themes to base it all on.

“Anthropology Band live in 2022 at the Newcastle Festival Of Jazz And Improvised Music and at Café Oto, London.
The band's current 8 piece line up was on fiery form for both gigs, playing a mixture of both old and new material to full houses. With the electric 70s music of Miles Davis as its starting point and the improvised abstraction of AACM as its end point.

A Norwegian band with a heavy take on progressive rock. Reminiscent of Sonambulist, but possibly even heavier!

"Once again we turn to Norway for a fresh take on an old sound. With amps turned way up, Anti-Depressive Delivery blend classic...

"Now under the leadership of Dario Iscaro, this Prog Fusion outfit presents personnel changes in its line-up (now consisting of guitar, bass, drums, & trumpet). The band also shows an about face in its musical direction, albeit without losing essence...

Søren Høi – drums
Laust Moltesen Andreasen – guitar
Mads Ulrich – guitar
Janus Bagh – bass

No machines were harmed in the making of Relics, Antistatic’s first full-length release. In fact, no machines were used, beyond those necessary to record this young Danish quartet’s music. The precision and intricacy of the band’s carefully stacked rhythms might suggest that loopers and drum machines played some part in Relics’ creation, an

“Antler is a mostly acoustic and sometimes electronic ensemble of indeterminate membership. The styles it explores range from lurid americana to atonal chamber music. A wide variety of instrumentations have passed through the project since its inception in 2009, but the guiding principle has remained the same: honor the flash of creative vision as it shows itself in the moment, and leave all other concerns aside. The secondary principle is the privileging of acoustic foundation and traditional...

This is a high-quality pirate edition of this never-reissued, very obscure Krautrock rarity.

"From 1971. A very strange 'paycheck' project for Conny Plank and Achim Reichel's Gorilla Musik production company. Wonderland-esque German rock with...

"Two Portuguese, a Belgium, an Italian and a Czech: this is a true European combo. Combo? Well, not the conventional one: there are two drummers, João Lobo and Marek Patrman, and two horn players, Daniele Martini and Toine Thys. The band leader, Hugo...

Robert James Moulding - Vocals, Bass Guitar, Guitar, Percussion, Additional keyboards
David Eaton - Keyboards, Guitars, Vocals
Douglas Skene - Guitars and Vocals
Dean Bennison - Guitars, Slide and Vocals
Steven Eaton - Drums...

Anyone's Daughter were a late-period symphonic-rock band, releasing their first album in early 1979 on Brain, just as the scene was beginning to wind down a bit. They were a fine band, but their timing was quite poor and - especially as time went on...

One and only release by this Chicago band that was a complete dud upon its original release and is now very highly regarded as a psychedelic masterpiece of the late 60s. Note: I have been informed that there is a mastering error on this release...

Completely charming album that should appeal to folks who love the more acoustic-based 'avant/progressive-yet-tuneful' stylings of L'Ensemble Raye, Feliu i Joan-Albert, 3 Mice, etc. This has definite Italian as well as South American folk influences...

Completely charming album that should appeal to folks who love the more acoustic-based 'avant/progressive-yet-tuneful' stylings of L'Ensemble Raye, Feliu i Joan-Albert, 3 Mice, etc. This has definite Italian as well as South American folk influences...

"In 2010, I was searching for old records in the city of Quetzaltenango in Guatemala. I found myself in a dusty basement which had been in another time the warehouse of Iximché, a rock-o-la machines distributor. It was an exciting discovery, two big rooms full of old 45s but also dust and rat's dung. Among some incredible finds, I found two strange private 45s which had been released by local drink company. The song titles, 'Brujería' ('Witchcraft') and 'Transmutación del iniciado' ('Transmutation of the...

"Rites of Passage is the new solo album from progressive fusion legend Coste Apetrea. The album came about as a result of the response Coste got with the band ”Samla Mammas Manna” who are the band Coste has played in and been working with since 1972 e...

"'The legendary Aphex Twin returns bringing the heat once more! One of the most spectacular and critically lauded artists in the world, the Collapse EP is one surely not to be missed!!! For nearly three decades Aphex Twin has reigned as The God of Electronic Music. His tunes have packed dancefloors, soundtracked late night sessions and highlighted festivals around the globe. The emotional crescendos he manages to sculpt from his melodies take the listener on a roller coaster of feelings. Also known...

“Erlend Apneseth is one of Norway's foremost Hardanger fiddle players and folk musicians. After being widely recognized with the award-winning and critically acclaimed Erlend Apneseth Trio, he now returns with an acoustic solo album. This is the first time since his debut album Blikkspor (2013) that he has put the soloistic performance in focus, and this time the unique acoustics in Emmanuel Vigeland's Mausoleum sets the scene for his improvisations and compositions. "The Hardanger fiddle is....


“Apostle are a quintet of seasoned musicians from Yorkshire (UK), who have – collectively and individually – shared a stage with Budgie, Kaiser Chiefs, Magnum, Gary Moore and Martin Barre among many others!
Taking their influences from bands dating from the 70’s to present day (Led Zeppelin, Marillion, Rival Sons, Deep Purple,Pink Floyd etc…), the band truly have a unique sound, mixing great rock riffs and melodies with a twist of prog!
The band originally formed as The Apostles of Chaos, but...

A former student of Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Applebaum straddles the two worlds of modern classical complexity and improvisational insanity. As one would expect, this first CD devoted to his work is an eclectic compendium of homemade electro-percussion,...