The first new one in some years from this very good, modern Germany psychedelic band; happy to hear from them again!
"The 2017 full-length by the German psych heads offers approximately 75 minutes of out-there rock sounds."

Super-great, mostly instrumental, German guitar/bass/drums psychedelic trio that has guests on keyboards in the right places and even some bits with Santana-fied percussion, but basically it's all just flowing and inspired guitar leads on top of a great..

"In the early 1970s pianist and composer Adegoke Steve Colson and vocalist Iqua Colson were both members of The Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the radical home of jazz music in Chicago, and spiritual home of the Art Ensemble...

Deinitely one of / the best Alice Coltrane release, and any coincidence to Christian Vander’s drum solo in 1974 being entitled ‘Ptäh’ is exceedingly unlikely to be a coincidence!

“Sometimes written off as an also-ran to her more famous husband, Alice Coltrane's work of the late '60s and early '70s shows that she was a strong composer and performer in her own right, with a unique ability to impregnate her music with spirituality and gentleness without losing its edges or depth. Ptah, The El Daoud..

"Alice Coltrane remains a singular figure on the fringe of American music but her appeal is growing. While Coltrane’s music is gaining wider acceptance there is an entire era of her recorded output that remains obscure, almost as if by design. Her four self-published, devotional albums of the eighties and nineties were recorded during a period in which she had withdrawn from secular life. They were manufactured and distributed in limited quantities amongst her spiritual community. Operating outside of ...

"Archive live release. This newly discovered live-recording of a performance of the Love Supreme suite is a revelation. Recorded at The Penthouse in Seattle on October 2, 1965, this recording transports the listener to a prime seat for piece of musical history.
While not studio-quality audio, the power of the performance shines through. [editor’s note: It’s much better sounding than one would imagine a audience recording from 1965 to sound like].
This version is also of the full suite and...

“In 1964, the National Film Board of Canada asked John Coltrane to record the soundtrack for a French-language film titled 'Le chat dans le sac" ("The Cat in the Bag"). Amazingly, no announcement was made that the iconic Coltrane was adding new performances to this film. In June of that year, Coltrane's Classic Quartet entered Rudy Van Gelder's studio and recorded five previously-recorded Coltrane originals.
For many years, viewers of the film who recognized the music thought that they were...

John Coltrane – tenor & soprano sax
Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet, alto sax, flute
McCoy Tyner – piano
Reggie Workman – bass
Elvin Jones – drums

Surprisingly high quality recordings surface over 60 years later and delight a new generation.

“Recently-rediscovered recordings capturing summer 1961 performances by jazz titan John Coltrane during his residency with a stellar line-up of musicians at New York’s Village Gate club.
The recordings, uncovered at the New York..

“Trane's two blazing performances at Newport in 1963 and 1965 have now been reissued onto one bargain CD! The 1963 performance, even though it featured Roy Haynes on drums instead of regular Elvin Jones, has long been counted among Coltrane's most fiery performances; it appears here with an unreleased extended version of Impressions. Jones is back behind the kit for the 1965 performance, which consists of just two tracks, One Down, One Up and My Favorite Things. Transforming music from a great artist.”

A 2009 release featuring: Ravi Coltrane-tenor sax, Luis Perdomo-piano, Drew Gress-double bass, E.J. Strickland-drums with guests Charlie Haden and Brandee Younger on one track.

"This album while having many sections that could be described as...

File Under: Avant/Industrial jazz/rock. The Dematerialized Passenger is Combat Astronomy's second full length release...masterminding this cult underground act, James Huggett (bass, guitar, electronics, programing) has built on the power and creativity...

Quite good and previously unknown to me, early new wave/art rock from NYC. Much better than I would have guessed due to their utter obscurity.
Best 70s snotty new wave lyric: "I hate Disneyland, Mickey wouldn't shake my hand!"
Conditionally highly recommended!

"Compiling the band's two singles, unreleased tracks, live material from the late 70's, and including a 20-page booklet full of archival images and liner notes by noted biographer Chris O'Leary, Come On is recommended for fans of...

“Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and French maverick Pascal Comelade relive The Velvet Underground -- a non-nostalgic reinvention of a musical legacy that takes an influential past into the future.
For the world premiere of his latest book Linger On: The Velvet Underground -- published by Eva and Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace Library -- Catalan music journalist Ignacio Julià wanted to relive the New York band's original dynamics, that creative friction between an American noise-guitar player and poet...

A simultaneously wonderful and exceedingly frustrating release, this collects some of the earliest and quite rare work by Pascal Comelade in his electronic music days, before he bacame the 'master' of toy piano and toy instruments. While it's great to ...

This latest release from the unique rock minimalist has tracks recorded over the last few years with a large number of different collaborators on each track.
Overall, it’s pretty obviously him, but much of this is more rock (with drums, even) – even if REDUCTIONIST rock – than I expected.

Unique music from a unique musician. Comelade is a French/Catalan musician who started in electronic music but for over 30 years has specialized in a personalized music that usually features toy instruments. Using simple tools, he always seems to be...

A unique and fairly singular talent with his own distinctive playful-yet-serious sound!

"Le Rocanrolorama Abrégé is a clear perspective on Pascal Comelade's musical universe; it can be considered an ultimate "best of" and a radical introduction to this chaotic and uncompromising instrumental music. Rocanrolorama Abrégé (abbreviated "rockandrolorama", in English) is the short version of the complete works and reworks of Pascal Comelade, published at the end of 2016 as a six-CD box set, in a...

Ciro Perrino – synthi EMS/AKS, Mini-Moog, ARP 2600, ARP sequencers, Eminent, ARP Omni-2
Roberto ‘Roby’ Rossi – chitarra basso
Marco Tudini – batteria
Alex Magazzino – chitarre, voce
Lady Mantide – piano Fender Rhodes, voce

After the dissolution of the classic one and done band Celeste, keyboardist Ciro Perrino formed St. Tropez, who never released anything at the time, and by 1979, he was leading La Compagnia Digitale, who featured 3 members from San Tropez, and who also never..

''The violin is a very important instrument in the traditional music of Northern Italy, it is the main instrument of many dances and styles. From Piedmontese curente to the great tradition of Val Resia, from scottish of Alps to the jigs of Bolognese Ap...

First-ever CD release!

“Amazing modal jazz session with a deep warm vibe to it and awesome mellow electric piano. Such a great lost gem!”

"This one sort of straddles the line between electric modal jazz and early jazz-rock/fusion styles. But unlike many albums of this ilk from the early 70s US jazz scene, this lacks any of the free and freaky elements that were in vogue at the time. Instead, it embraces a more reserved and melodic sound, reminiscent of certain "brit-jazz" works that were..

''One of the most original groups in modern Japan, Compostela blends folk musics of Eastern Europe with the tradition of Japanese chindon (street musicians who play at grand openings of supermarkets and pachinko parlors, dressed as geishas and samurai)...

Classic, DARK freak folk release from 1971 that didn't sound like anything else in the air at that time (and still doesn't). This also includes their very rare, non-lp EP of the same time.

"If you're lucky, very very occasionally, an album comes along which completely blows you away, and you know it will be with you for life. It goes on heavy heavy rotation, and your life BECOMES the album for a while, and you know you'll never be quite the same again. Many strange threads coincided which...

"Originally released 1980 on Reveal, Concept's 2nd album Supra Surge is not only the band's masterpiece but generally a masterpiece of psychedelic and acid rock. Hard to believe, but the recording date was in 1980. This could be a lost Amon Düül II...

Gebhard Ullmann, soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet / Michael Jefry Stevens, piano / Joe Fonda, double bass / George Schuller, drums, percussion and hammer whistle.

"If the axis of this band — now commemorating its 10th year — is...