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Piero Chianura : piano, keyboards,synths and structuring
Federico Zenoni : drums
Luca Formentini : landscape guitars
Stefano Castagna : monotron, e bass, and re-structuring

Rob Mazurek – cornet, electronics
Chad Taylor – drums, percussion, mbira, electronics
Alexander Hawkins – piano
John Edwards – double bass

At a time when the world is mired in divisiveness, a time of wall-building and fear-mongering, it takes visionaries to build bridges rather than tear them down. “This is protest music,” insists Rob Mazurek. “It always has been. That’s why it’s called ‘Underground’ - it’s not just called that for fun. We really...

Dan Phillips – guitar
Hamid Drake – drums
Mars Williams - saxophones and percussion
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Krzysztof Pabian - double bass

"Dan Phillips leads a quintet with muscle and a big Chicago sound and memorable compositions."-The Wire.

"Chicago jazz is the complexity of the postmodern sound with a predisposition for rump shaking. The Quintet rarely lowers the flame from boiling."-All About Jazz.

"Fans of both traditional and more adventurous jazz will fi

Rob Mazurek – cornet
Jeff Parker – guitar
Dan Bitney - drums and percussion
Matt Lux – bass
Brian Keigher – percussion
Jonas Munk - guitar, electronics
Jakob Skøtt - drums, percussion

“Chicago Odense Ensemble is a unique collaboration that came together in the winter of 2008 while Danish musicians Jonas Munk and Jakob Skøtt stayed in Chicago.
Via mutual friends, and a support gig for Isotope 217 in Millenium Park, a studio session was arranged for the two to impr

Steve Swell trombone
Gebhard Ullmann tenor saxophone and bass clarinet
Fred Lonberg-Holm cello and electronics
Michael Zerang drums

"More than 10 years of partnership between American trombonist, composer Steve Swell and German tenor saxophonist, bass clarinetist and composer Gebhard Ullmann after their successful first collaboration, The Ullmann/Swell Quartet featuring bassist Hill Greene and drum legend Barry Altschul continues now with a new version of the quartet featuring...

Recorded in concert at Molde Jazzfestival, Norway, July 20th 2007. Featuring: Joe McPhee, Peter Brötzmann, Kent Kessler, Michael Zerang, Johannes Bauer, Per Ake Holmlander, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love.

"Few debut albums can boast as consistently solid an effort as the self-titled Chicago Transit Authority (1969). Even fewer can claim to have enough material to fill out a double-disc affair. Although this long- player was ultimately the septet's first national exposure, the group was far from the proverbial "overnight sensation." Under the guise of the Big Thing, the group soon to be known as CTA had been honing its eclectic blend of jazz, classical, and straight-ahead rock & roll in and around the...

Ernest Dawkins : soprano, alto & tenor saxophones
Harrison Bankhead : double bass, cello
Hamid Drake : drums, frame drum

Rob Mazurek: cornet, electronics
Chad Taylor: drums, electronics

There's some really bad-ass, fat, Moog-like sequencers on some of this that sounds like old Heldon jamming with a trumpeter! Nice!

"This year marks a milestone for...

"Boca Negra is the 5th release of the critically acclaimed Chicago Underground Duo made up of Rob Mazurek (Exploding Star Orchestra, Isotope 217, Mandarin Movie) and Chad Taylor (Fred Anderson, Iron and Wine, Marc Ribot). The recording contains powerful..

Studying koto since the age of three, Mori Chieko is one of the worlds most versatile koto virtuosos. She has spent long periods in Italy, London and the United States, collaborated with Michael Galasso, and created music for dance, film and theater, i...

“The math-y riffs and beats could sound clinical (the band cites composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Charles Ives as influences), but the sweat and grime it takes to execute them is wisely left intact. Let your pupils dilate and your brain liquefy.”-PITCHFORK


“…keeping the "fuck you" spirit of punk rock alive, actualizing their very own genre defying, almost avant-garde psychosis.”-EXCLAIM



“In their 15 years of existence, CHILD ABUSE have become much more than a jarring name. The NY...

Chris Pitsiokos - alto saxophone
Susana Santos Silva - trumpet
Torbjörn Zetterberg - double bass

“Khimaira is a three headed monster. It has a lion head in front, a wild goat head on it’s back and a snake head at the end of it’s tail. It is the offspring of Echidna, the mother of all monsters. The group collaborates to produce eerie organic sounds, howling cries, whispered hums, disturbing wailing, shrieks that die off and reimerge with an intense fluidity. Yet there is an architecture

This record consists of live recordings of electronic music (on the Buchla easel), recorded live in the jungle of Hawaii. It is reminiscent in a lot of ways of Ariel Kalma’s classic “Osmose” release except that the music and the ambient / natural sounds occurred together and spontaneously! Highly recommended for fans of deep space/trance electronic sounds!

“Anthony Child, AKA Surgeon, presents the second volume of recordings of Buchla Music Easel recorded in the jungle of Maui. Again, Childs is...

This is the 3rd album by the Bretagne, French band Children In Paradise. The sound is informed by the breathy vocals of their female vocalist and the dark, dramatic sounds & drones of the keyboards and guitars.
The lineup is
Gwalchmei-guitars
Dam Kat-vocals, guitar, keyboards
Stephane Roma-bass
Frederic Moreau-drums
with Loic Blejean-uilleann pipes & whistle

"Wonderfully dramatic, melodic Goth prog from Bretagne, France. The spooky yet sultry and ethereal vocals of

“Sound collage collaboration between Julian House (The Focus Group) from the Ghost Box label and former members of the indie band, Broadcast. Channeling of early collage work from The Hafler Trio with a distinctly formalist aesthetic dripping with ‘70s nostalgia as with all things Ghost Box.”-Karen Elliot

“Children of Alice have been quietly producing amorphous and intoxicating soundscapes as part of the Folklore Tapes collective for a number of years now, beginning in 2013 with Harbinger of...

A CD that presents a number of intriguing compositions from a composer I wasn't aware of. Very lyrical, yet still ''new music'', with performances by Relache, Guy Klucevsek, The Soho Quartet, Kathleen Supove, & more! [Experimental Intermedia]

“No doubt, this is surely the most experimental album you'll find on the A&M label [editor’s note: No, I would submit ‘Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh’ for that prize – but I digress...] I echo other reviewer's sentiments, in that it seems almost unbelievable the band were able to get this OK'd for release as their debut album for the label!
Sides 1 & 2 would have made for a fine, progressive leaning LP, with side 1 featuring country influenced, semi-commercial rock, and side 2's excellent progressive...

This never-released folk/rock/psych album really is good and it really is sort of astonishing that not a note of it was never released until now, especially considering the names involved (Bob Weston, later of Fleetwood Mac and small guest appearances by Rick Wright and Nick Mason (of Pink Floyd). File under: baffling!

"Previously unreleased and much raved about mystical UK female progressive folk rock album from 1969 that's in a similar vein to Fuschia with flashes of Fairport and The Trees...

Chimpspanner (now that's a name) is a project by technical metal guitarist Paul Antonio Ortez. On record, he plays all the parts, which he does well, but since he plays live with a real band, it's a shame that they don't appear here - this is my...

“In 2017 (and again in 2019) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer traveled to the Aland Islands (the worlds largest archipelago host to some 6,500 islands) in the Baltic Sea (between Sweden and Finland).
A serene and strange place where the sun doesn't set in the summer. This album is a slow motion storybook comprised of field recordings, improvisations, string arrangements, electronic treatments, and synthesizer melodies recorded during and after their time on the islands.”

"1998 release. "In ´92 and ´93 Chocolate Overdose released two very ambitious albums for WEA in Norway. However, the combination of a truly original band, a major label, an expensive producer, media hype and lack of immediate results once again proved...

Chrome Hill Duo:
Asbjørn Lerheim electric baritone guitar, electronics
Roger Arntzen double bass, electronics

Dōjō
Michiyo Yagi electric 21-string koto, electronics
Tamaya Honda drums

"A Norwegian jazz-rock quartet steeped in Americana that has spawned six albums and countless live performances, Chrome Hill has been an integral part of the lives of Asbjørn Lerheim and Roger Arntzen for over two decades. In 2014 Lerheim and Arntzen found an opportunity to visit Tokyo and...

"Chopteeth is Washington, DC's award winning 12-piece Afrofunk orchestra. The group explores the common groove between the funkiest, most hip-shakin’ West African and American popular music on the planet. The band has been described by The Washington...

“This is a split release by Dylan DiLella and CHORD. Two tracks of solo guitar by DiLella and three guitar duos by CHORD. Over 40 minutes of not-normal electric guitar music.

Dylan DiLella is a Brooklyn based guitarist primarily known for his work in Pyrrhon. This recording is the follow-up to his solo guitar debut Flayed Oration which was self-released in 2016.
DiLella's frantic yet atmospheric approach to solo guitar might bring to mind a variety disparate influences, such as Fripp...

What you will hear on Sanjog is nothing other than pure Indian music played to perfection by three masters of their instruments: Madhuri Chattopadyhay on violin, Subroto Chowdury on sitar and Shanka Chatterjee on tabla. Raga Desh has the typical featur...

“Christina, singer with the band Magenta, releases her 3rd solo album ‘Bar Stool Prophet’. The album features guest appearances by Steve Hackett, Steve Balsamo, Peter Jones and fellow Magenta players Chris Fry, Dan Nelson and Jiffy Griffiths.
The songs were written by Christina along with Robert Reed (Magenta, Sanctuary and Cyan), who also produced and mixed the album. The new album follows on from her two previous releases ‘Broken Lives and Bleeding Hearts’ and ‘The Light’.”

Reissue of a rare album from Davey & LaDonna's early US improvised/out music label TransMusiq. Davey, of course, is one of the greats, and his longtime partnership with LaDonna yielded a large number of worthwhile albums and concerts. "Stunning surreal...

"Christmas was formed in 1969 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, out of the ashes of the cult underground psychedelic band Reign Ghost. In July 1970, Christmas released an independent self-titled debut that brought some media attention to the band and a contract with the Daffodil Records label. In December 1970, less than six months after the release of the debut, Christmas released their debut Daffodil Records album entitled Heritage.
Christmas was comprised of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Bob...

"Recorded live at Massey Hall in Toronto on September 23, 1971, this album features a set by the Oshawa-based band Christmas. The album contains two songs from the Heritage album, "Point Blank" and "Blues on an Iceberg"; one 18-minute, 36-second piece entitled "Beyond the Fields We Know" that was to eventually end up on the Lies to Live By album; and a previously unreleased medley of early material called "When Night Falls" that includes the Christmas cheer, a direct takeoff of the famous Fish cheer...

"Lies to Live By is essentially the third album release by the Canadian band Christmas. After the release of the Heritage album, they were beset with management and label problems over the direction of the band's next album. The music scene in Canada was in disarray and bands such as April Wine, the Guess Who, BTO, and Chilliwack had hits with commercial hard rock songs.
The Heritage album was a start in the right direction and the label wanted the band to continue with hard rock but make it more...



This is the third release by this group from Lyon, France, part of the very vibrant and exciting French scene that is currently churning out amazing bands and records.
Chromb! are a little less noisy than some of the other bands in this scene (Ni, Poil) and a little more melodically oriented/song oriented, while definitely not being wimpy in any way.
Great melodies, great playing from all four musicians and surprisingly good vocals from a band with a slant towards the zaniness that only the...

First release by this unique French quartet, consisting of
Camille Durieux – synthesizers, rhodes, piano, backing vocals
Guillaume Gestin – drums, backing vocals
Lucas Hercberg – bass, dictaphone, fx pedals, backing vocals
Antoin

Antoine Mermet : saxophone, synthétiseur, delay, voix, composition
Camille Durieux : synthétiseurs, voix
Léo Dumont : batterie, voix
Lucas Hercberg : basse, voix, composition

“CHROMB! has been making CHROMB! for ten years, five albums and many concerts. And CHROMB! is music. The band is driven by four heads, propelled by an overflowing imagination, electrically powered and impervious to classification.
Sometimes its mother is jazz, since CHROMB! looks like her in photo

Léo Dumont - drums, percussion, objects
Camille Durieux - keyboards, synths, vocals
Lucas Hercberg - bass, synth, vocals
Antoine Mermet - alto sax, delay, synths, vocals

This is the greatly awaited fourth release by this group from Lyon, France, part of a very vibrant and exciting French scene that is currently churning out amazing bands and records!
Chromb! are a little less noisy than some of the other bands in this scene (Ni, Poil) and a little more melodically oriented/song

Until they imploded (which didn't take very long, actually), San Francisco's Chrome were a cool and punky blend of crazy sounds, noise, psychedelic guitar excess and raw energy, coming across like a mix of The Stooges and Hawkwind.

"The complete ALIEN SOUNDTRACKS saga now available on one mind-bending disc of experimental dystopian sci-fi rock from the spaciest San Francisco-based proto-industrial legends Chrome! Originally released in 1977, the landmark ALIEN SOUNDTRACKS has been widely...

“Special CD edition of the super deluxe 1982 box set from San Francisco art rock legends Chrome!
This limited edition piece contains all 8 of the classic albums produced by the core duo of Helios Creed and Damon Edge including 1977’s Alien Soundtracks, 1979’s Half Machine Lip Moves, 1980’s Red Exposure, 1982’s 3rd From The Sun and more PLUS bonus rarities including the Subterranean Modern tracks!
All discs come in their own sleeve along with a stunning 88-page booklet of rare photos and...

Asbjørn Lerheim baritone guitar
Atle Nymo tenor saxophone
Torstein Lofthus drums
Roger Arntzen double bass

"That’s not news now: Scandinavian jazz is in love with Americana, importing aspects of Country & Western and Appalachian folk, and even using its instruments, in projects gradually difficult to categorise. Each project still individually unique, and like their fellow countrymen Huntsville, who mixes banjo and pedal steel guitar with Indian tabla machine and shruti boxes...

Asbjørn Lerheim baritone guitar
Atle Nymo tenor saxophone
Torstein Lofthus drums and vibraphone
Roger Arntzen double bass

"The band Chrome Hill is back, and wow, what a record they have made! Once again with the kind of attitude of a fearless newcomer: “This is Chrome Hill”, says the cover title of this new opus. But Chrome Hill is far from any newcomer! Asbjørn Lerheim, Atle Nymo, Torstein Lofthus and Roger Arntzen keep changing the parameters and inner aspects of their music..

"Are Chrome Hoof the best live band in the UK...?" – headline from The Quietus

"...has the subtlety of Can, the pomp of Pentagram and Sabbath, faithfully reproducing the looping musical themes of Magma and Goblin..." – Don’t Panic

"...a dizzying, many-limbed whirlwind of space-funk, soul, prog, jazz and titanic doom." –NME

"...a mind-blowing energetic mix of math-rock, prog, funk, disco, and psychedelia [with] some hints of jazz & metal.” – The 405<

"Are Chrome Hoof the best live band in the UK...?" – headline from The Quietus

"...has the subtlety of Can, the pomp of Pentagram and Sabbath, faithfully reproducing the looping musical themes of Magma and Goblin..." – Don’t Panic

"...a dizzying, many-limbed whirlwind of space-funk, soul, prog, jazz & titanic doom." –NME

"...a mind-blowing energetic mix of math-rock, prog, funk, disco, & psychedelia [with] some hints of jazz & metal.” – The 405

"The Chronicles of Father Robin is a Norwegian prog-rock supergroup, with members hailing from Norway’s symphonic prog kings Wobbler, the ever non-definable Tusmørke, seasoned post-rockers The Samuel Jackson Five and the elusive prog gem that is Jordsjø. “The Songs & Tales of Airoea”, 30 years in the making, is a cohesive triple concept album with 18 songs set in an alternate archaic world for over a period of three decades.
The Chronicles of Father Robin (TCOFR) emerged from the remains of the...

"The Chronicles of Father Robin is a Norwegian prog-rock supergroup, with members hailing from Norway’s symphonic prog kings Wobbler, the ever non-definable Tusmørke, seasoned post-rockers The Samuel Jackson Five and the elusive prog gem that is Jordsjø. “The Songs & Tales of Airoea”, 30 years in the making, is a cohesive triple concept album with 18 songs set in an alternate archaic world for over a period of three decades.
The Chronicles of Father Robin (TCOFR) emerged from the remains of the band...


“THE TRIP, an Italian-British band originally formed in London in 1966, became the starting point of "progressive" in the history of Italian music.
50 years after the release of the masterpiece "Atlantide", the birth of Furio Chirico's The Trip , a new formation led by Furio Chirico following the original breakthrough of 1972, with the participation, alongside the drummer Furio Chirico, of brilliant musicians such as Paolo “Silver” Silvestri (Hammond, synthesizers and vocals), Giuseppe “Gius” Lanari...

This is the second of two albums made by this French fusion band in the later half of the 70s, and it marks the first time ever out on CD!

“A French jazz band that released two fusion records with pronounced funk sound. They were a kind of supergroup, with four members previously in Moravagine, flautist Denis Barbier, keyboardist Olivier Huntman, saxophonist Pierre-Jean Gidon and the drummer Mino Cinelu, the latter also being a much-travelled session musician and in bands as diverse as Gong and...

"With a sonic portfolio that boasts commissions for the Xenon classic pinball machine, the sounds for the Meco Star Wars theme, the Atari TV commercials and the electronic sound effects in the original Stepford Wives film (amongst many others) the mutant electronic music CV of Suzanne Ciani is proof that in a 1970s commercial world of boys toys, monopolized by a male-dominated media industry, a woman's touch was the essential secret ingredient to successful sonic seduction. A classically-trained musician...

The first release on Fading, a new subsidiary of AltrOck, who aim to release high quality music that is more squarely in the progressive rock/symphonic rock vein, as opposed to their more usual eleclectic/avant-garde releases. They picked a good one...