This is how a real artist goes out. Salut, David.

"The album features musical assistance from Tim Lefebvre, Mark Guiliana, Donny McCaslin, Ben Monder, Jason Lindner, James Murphy and longtime producer Tony Visconti."

“Instead of being a one-off comeback, 2002's Heathen turned out to be where David Bowie settled into a nice groove for his latter-day career, if 2003's Reality is any indication. Working once again with producer Tony Visconti, Bowie again returns to a sound from the past, yet tweaks it enough to make it seem modern, not retro. Last time around, he concentrated on his early-'70s sound, creating an amalgam of Hunky Dory through Heroes. With Reality, he picks up where he left off, choosing to revise the...

“Even though it contained no hits, The Man Who Sold the World, for most intents and purposes, was the beginning of David Bowie's classic period.
Working with guitarist Mick Ronson and producer Tony Visconti for the second time Bowie developed a tight, twisted heavy guitar rock that appears simple on the surface but sounds more gnarled upon each listen. The mix is off-center, with the fuzz-bass dominating the compressed, razor-thin guitars and Bowie's strangled, affected voice.
The sound of...

I miss Lester and his music and his humor (and labcoat). And this was a fun, unexpected album when it appeared on ECM in 1981.

"Lester was pomo before there was pomo. The Amazon.com reviewer says that its suspended between "kitsch and concerto.".

"21 years after No-Man's debut and 10 years after Bowness's previous solo release My Hotel Year, Tim Bowness returns on the Inside Out label with his ambitious second solo album, Abandoned Dancehall Dreams...

"Tim Bowness, one of the most expressive voices in contemporary music returns with the second chapter of his brand new, solo sonic experiments. Released roughly a year after Abandoned Dancehall Dreams, Stupid Things That Mean The World can be seen as...

"Idiolalla is actually a vocal illness, a made-up language infection. DB Boyko and Christine Duncan are turning gibberish into improvised poetry, while Jean Martin accompanies them by hitting multi-timbered objects. These three virtuosos have delivered...

Gary Boyle was the guitarist and leader of Isotope. This, his 1st solo album, wriginally recorded and released not too long after Isotope ended and continues in a similarly 'plugged-in jazz' way, which will be good to hear for fans of Isotope! Never...

Steve Stevens – guitar
Tony Levin – bass
Terry Bozzio – drums

“3 virtuosos of progressive rock join forces on this mythic 1997 studio album! This album has been heralded as one of the most unique and mesmerizing recordings of it's time with each track being wholly improvised and performed by this immensely talented trio!”

John Carter-clarinet
Bobby Bradford-cornet
Don Preston-piano, synthesizer
Richard Davis-bass
Andrew Cyrille-drums

“Clarinetist John Carter and cornetist Bobby Bradford teamed up many times during a 25-year period. Nearly all of their joint recordings were issued under Carter's name, but this CD is an exception. Carter's often intense flights on clarinet served as a contrast to Bradford's mellower sound. What is unusual about this set, which also includes bassist Richard Davis an

This reissues a stupidly obscure, really quite good, early jazz/rock/kozmigroov album by an Englishman, which was recorded in Belgium and released only in the USA, and featuring great personnel. Now read on (dot dot dot).

"Originally issued in late 1969 on Probe -- the legendary label that also issued classics by Soft Machine, Morgen and The Litter -- this lysergically-tinged jazz album was recorded in Belgium, where keyboardist Scott Bradford, legendary saxophonist Nathan Davis...

“Not much is known about Don Bradshaw-Leather, but his self-released 1972 LP 'Distance Between Us' is certainly one bizarre egg. It's not without reason that it is included in the infamous Nurse With Wound list of Steven Stapleton's favourite weird records. The four lengthy tracks here are dense, swirling and hellish tapestries of blurred instrumentation, squawking voices and seemingly no layout of progression from point A to point B in various movements (i.e. it's all one giant progression, but almost...

This is a French-only Blue Note release by this Swiss-born pianist who leads a band consisting of fine if unknown French musicians on trumpet, bass, drums and percussion. It's recorded and mixed by Jan Erik Kongshaug at Rainbow Studios, so you know it...

“Sahari may be Aziza Brahim’s best album to date. The 2019 album finds the Sahrawi artist, whose emigration to Spain lives on in her music, showing further advances even beyond the brilliance of Abbar El Hamada. Never truly a desert blues singer, there were always touches of that style in her slightly weathered but elegant voice, and that has been played against elements of Spanish and flamenco to give Brahim something truly fascinating and unique.
Sahari moves Brahim even further, and the listener...

This is a never before released live gig in excellent sound, from 4/74 by this jazz rock band who played flute, organ/electric piano, saxes, bass, drums & vocals. I can hear elements of Supersister at times, & maybe even a little bit of the Mothers...

The great second album (of 3 great ones and then a number of not so great ones) by this Swiss band who operated in Germany and are thought of as being a 'krautrock' band and who were in terms of the music and the spirit, if not actually of German...

"Three old hands out of Soft Machine, Gong and Henry Cow stretch already flexible musical material into one shape after another, then tie it in knots and generally have a fun with it. High quality recordings combined with seat-of-the-pants playing..."

Bob Bralove - keyboard
Henry Kaiser - acoustic and electric guitar, bass, and electronic percussion
Chris Muir - electric guitar and modular synthesizer

"POSITIVELY SPACE MUSIC is a 2-CD album that explores many aspects of SPACE MUSIC.
Historically speaking, many different sub-idioms and approaches to music have been nominated as SPACE MUSIC. A few of these landmarks would include: Sun Ra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gyorgi Ligeti, The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Forbidden Planet...

"The Most Dense, Cacophonous Branca Symphony Yet Is Finally Available Again!! Ensemble Performers Include Branca Guitar Army Veterans Stephan Wiscerth & Miriam Mcdonough (God-Like Rhythm Section), Al Arthur, Evans Wohlforth, Han Rowe (Foetus Inc.), Jon Bepler & Tim Sommer (Atlantic A&R Guy Who Signed Hootie & The Blowfish... Go Figure!) On A Variety Of Uniquely Exquisite Branca-Engineered Mallet Guitars, Re-Fretted Guitars And Electronic Harpischords."

"Recordings of Branca's music cannot fail...

“The Third Ascension is the first release from avant guard composer Glenn Branca since his death in 2018. The Glenn Branca Ensemble will commemorate the release with the first posthumous live NYC performance of his guitar music at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on what would have been his 71st birthday on October 6th, 2019. This is a return to the 4-guitar, bass and drums format of his legendary 1981 release The Ascension as well as 2010's The Ascension: The Sequel. The recording is a live performance by The...

“In July of 2022, just one month before Jaimie Branch’s death sent shockwaves around the world, the trumpet player and composer was in Chicago at International Anthem (IARC) studios putting finishing touches on an album. It was a suite of music she had composed and then recorded with her flagship ensemble, Fly or Die, over the course of a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.
In her wake, the album was near complete, with only mixing tweaks, final titles, and...

Jaimie Branch: trumpet, synths, electronics
Isaiah Collier: soprano & tenor saxophones, percussion
Gilles Coronado: electric guitar
Tim Daisy: drums

“All the music that ever was and ever will be is here now. It exists in a cloud just above our heads and when we play, we pluck it out of the ether for a lil’ while before sending back it up.”-Jaimie Branch

This is Unorthodox Behaviour, Livestock, Moroccan Roll, Masques, Product & Do They Hurt, all complete, with some bonus BBC tracks as well!

"All of the albums use new remasters and, surprisingly, are dynamic and sound quite nice. We get four BBC sessions as bonus tracks. We get a nice little booklet with credits for the albums but not the extensive sleeve notes I woud have liked on recording the albums. Still, it's a nice package and compact."-Wayne Klein