"If you thought you heard the last from Stratos...you were wrong...this is a great CD that mixes prog elements and experimentation with no wave/punk rock ...and then adds a legendary Italian Rock singer (Demetrio Stratos) for good measure.
By using tapes from a producer friend who had taped one of Stratos' last concerts as a solo artist, the guys in the quartet found a new muse for their punky yet experimental misbehaviors.
A great, fun listen! They even do a cover of Area's Cometa Rosa!"

"Though Conifer has received quite a bit of critical praise they've somehow managed to live off the grid for the past six years. With Crown Fire, Conifer is finally getting the exposure they deserve. Mixing post-rock, Krautrock, metal and psychedelia...

Michael Attias, alto sax/Pheeroan Aklaff, drums/Sean Conly, bass/Tony Malaby, tenor sax.

"There aren't many jazz bands lead by the guy playing the bass, but the tradition is strong (remember Mingus?), so strong that we can feel it in the DNA of..

"6th CD in studio for CONQUEROR 5 years after the last STEMS. The band returns to the classical 5-piece lineup (with wind instruments), it is part of the line up Tino Nastasi on guitar (already in the 2nd and 3rd disc). "In Orbita" is a very troubled record in its writing, which started at the end of 2014 and continued until 2017, right at the beginning of the final recordings. Great classic Prog close to the classic sounds of Canterbury Sound. The band deals with the early stages of Juri Gagarin's life...

It's 1969, and Tony Conrad wants to take you Higher. Celebrated for the thrilling roar of his amplified violin, Conrad is a founding father of 'minimalism' and a giant in the American soundscape. Now Conrad's own Audio ArtKive imprint presents the firs...

The minimal masterpiece and always the rarest Faust artifact from the 70s. A fantastic work. Hugely recommended to fans of minimalism.

"Violinist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad started his career in New York in the early 1960s. As a member of the Theater of Eternal Music (a.k.a. the Dream Syndicate) alongside John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Angus MacLise, he participated in now-legendary and often legendarily loud drone performances with many pieces having no beginning and no...

"Responding to the big demand, the joint-venture between Colossus (The Finnish Progressive Music Association) and Musea proudly presents its brand new concept-album: The 7 Samurai "The Ultimate Epic"! Here's a progressive rock concept-album inspired by...

This is a compilation from this Swedish band's 2nd and 3rd albums. "Contact received surprisingly little recognition for their innovative albums. Hun Kom Over Mon (2nd album) marked a transition in style, introducing Swedish lyrics and extensive use of...

Second album from a heavy, instrumental progressive/technical metal outfit from Spain. Like fellow technically brilliant metalists Canvas Solaris, they lean relatively proggy and this is a good way into this small but vital scene for the more avant...

"Contraction was formed by musicians accompanying keyboardist Franck Dervieux on his ground breaking Dimension M" album in 1972, namely Yves Laferriere (bass), Christiane Robichaud (vocals), Michel Robidoux (guitar), and Christian St-Roch (drums). They...

"Controlled Bleeding announces its first proper studio album since 2002. Larva Lumps & Baby Bumps is a startling record: it flawlessly mixes industrial noise and prog rock into a beautifully stream-of-conscious work that is at once fairly brutal and lovingly serene. Features engineering by Martin Bisi (Swans, White Zombie, John Zorn) and a cover painting by Gregory Jacobsen (Lovely Little Girls)."

Great Canadian intricate, guitar-based music that is heavily influenced by folk music, as well as the Quebecois progressive scene at the time (this was released in 1977). Unavailable for years, then reissued on lp, then deleted, then reissued on CD, th...

I had never heard the amazing story of Connie Converse before this release, but there's a recounting on Wiki and it is basically the same as below, only longer. What a story!

"Connie Converse was a remarkable composer who worked in the 1950s and 1960s. By 1974, depressed over her lack of recognition and success, she packed up her belongings and drove off never to be heard of again. Little known in her lifetime, she is now viewed as a pioneer of the modern singer/songwriter genre. This exciting.....

It seemed to have taken Lindsay's death, recent series of tribute concerts and the ReR 'Rarities' compilation to reawaken people to her work, but at least they've reawakened!

Excellent CD of one of Lindsay's best extended works, with lyrics by...

"This double CD set collects together, amongst other things, all of Outtakes for Other Occasions and The Small Screen, both of which were never commercially released, all four pieces from The Classic Guide to NoMansLand, the subscription 7” Pictures...

“Mike Cooper wrote his final songwriter record, a suite of gloaming rock anthems performed with a spiritual jazz trio, while living on the Costa Tropical of Granada, Spain, an era when he was considering retiring from music altogether.
A chance encounter and a last-ditch record deal convinced him to make one last album, which he recorded in 1974 at Pathway Studios in London, with "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World," featuring the inventive South African jazz rhythm section of...

“Right from the start, it was not meant to be a one-off side project but the beginning of something truly unique and exciting. Their first live album 'Gizmodrome Live', builds on the foundation laid by the band's debut album and allows for even more unpredictable outbursts of creative energy. It perfectly captures their commitment to this band and the pioneering collaboration.
The fervent genius of Stewart Copeland on drums, guitars and vocals, the incredible bass and vocals of Mark King as well...

Cipher and Decipher is a brand new studio album by Copernicus, the conceptual concerns of the New York performer-poet who addresses The Universe itself. He is not distracted by everyday matters. He is not penning couplets about the changing fortunes...

"Is Copernicus celebrating The Universe, or observing its collapse? This ageless sage orates like a windswept preacher who has just witnessed visions of the apocalypse. Turner is rolling out swathes of Gothic Hammond organ, leading the ensemble in...

"It was 1984, and Copernicus was making the transition from being a performance poet to declaiming in front of a full-scale band of musicians. He'd started to play with the saxophonist Melody Peach, in poetry circles, and around the New York City rock...

"Copernicus explores worthlessness in direct conflict with his core philosophy nothingness. Always evolving, this album is mixed so the music plays a more significant role. It should be noted that the vocals of Sari Schorr are a crucial element in...

“In 1983 Tom and David recorded the album "Cargo Cult Revival" together which was released on Fred Frith's label Rift Records. For this first ever CD re-issue, it was remastered by Martin Bowes.

Tom Cora made his musical debut as drummer on a local US television programme. In the mid 1970s he played guitar for a Washington, D.C. jazz club house band. He took up the cello while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia and studied with cellist Pablo Casals' student Luis Garcia-Renart and...

"Funny how this recording grows on you over time. I have heard this often over the years and now for the last month have been listening to it almost daily. I feel (as another reviewer did) that in a hundred years, this may turn out to be one of the the...

The lightly Latin-flavored, slighly jazz/rock leaning 1972 classic that probably bankrolled ECM for the next 5 years. Chick Corea-electric piano, Joe Farrell-flutes, soprano saxophone, Flora Purim-vocal, percussion, Stan Clarke-basses, Airto Moreira...

“Crystal Silence launched one of jazz’s most long-lasting small groups, whose history would extend over more than 40 years.
On this 1972 recording Gary Burton and Chick Corea, brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, raised the bar for the art of the duo. As Billboard perceptively noted, “The lyrical qualities of both men are displayed to maximum advantage, while the material at hand includes some of Corea’s most durable compositions. Recorded in Oslo, the album may prove a classic, for its...