"Anneli Drecker's Revelation For Personal Use is very much a follow-up to the huge artistic success of Rocks & Straws, an ode to her native town and region, and again consists of songs based on lyrics by Norwegian cult poet Arvid Hanssen and translated to English by artist and writer Roy-Frode Løvland. Anneli has written the album's eight lovely songs, plays piano and keyboards, and has produced the album. It largely moves in the same musical landscape as the previous album, with the Arctic Philharmonic...

An amazing, newly lowered price on perfect copies of the Japanese mini-lp sleeve version of this classic fusion album, which is sadly completely and utterly out of print in every part of the world.

All good things must come to an end, and...

"Live recording of top Hungarian ethno-jazz group, Dresch Quartet, with their long-time friend Chris Potter."
"I got to know Chris Potter in 2008 via his Hungarian wife. He's one of those rare, great musicians who don't fill you with trepidation; they liberate you. We've played together both privately and in public several times. With his exceptional musicality, he was able to identify perfectly with the playing of our quartet, as this live recording clearly shows."-Mihaly Dresch

Nicole Mitchell flute, alto flute & piccolo
Marty Ehrlich clarinet, bass clarinet & alto saxophone
Keir GoGwilt violin
Michael Dessen trombone
Joshua White piano
Jim Black drums & percussion
Mark Dresser double bass & McLagan tines

“Ain't Nothing But a Cyber Coup & You is the second album by the Mark Dresser Seven, following the critically acclaimed 2016 Clean Feed release Sedimental You. Both records showcase playing by flutist Nicole Mitchell, multi-reed player

''One of the world's greatest virtuoso bass players, this CD features two of Mark's most important recent works. 'Banquet' is a double concerto for flute, bass and string quartet, featuring the Swiss flute vituoso Matthias Ziegler and Mr. Dresser himse...

Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone / Michael Dessen, trombone / Denman Maroney, hyperpiano / Mark Dresser, double bass / Tom Rainey, drums (1, 2, 3, 5) / Michael Sarin, drums (4, 6, 7).
As Robin used to say to Batman, "Holy great-player line-up!"...

"New York bassist Mark Dresser is on the cutting edge of extended instrumental technique, while 'cellist Frances-Marie Uitti's 2 bow technique (she plays with 2 bows in her right hand) has revolutionized the art of 'cello playing. Sonomondo is an album...

''When I saw Denman Maroney & Mark Dresser perform at Victoriaville in May of 2000, I was on the edge of my seat, breathless, agog. It had been a long time since a concert had drawn me in & held me in that way, and I was fascinated by the effortless me...

I really like Dreyblatt's work from this time period. He would have a small ensemble work with mostly re-tuned instruments which he would have them bow and strike according to his score, until the room fills with waves and waves of sound. I saw him abo...

"This is the long awaited release of one of Dreyblatt's most personal and major extended works. Created in 1991, it combined documentary photographs, films, texts and sound materials selected from archives and private collections with original music....

Great, jammy, post-rock, jazz-rock by a group who isn't very explicit about who aren't very explicit about who is in the group and what the instrumentation is. Having said that, I hear: guitar, trumpet, bass, drums, electronics/keyboards. A bit low key...

Classic 1969 recording by Brian, Jules and the Trinity. Great psychedelic/pop/proto jazz-rock, featuring Brian's fantastic Hammond B-3 organ, Julie's amazingly good vocals and a wonderous psychedelic air. Originally a double album, all 16 tracks appear here. A great period piece.

"The final collaboration between singer Julie Driscoll (by that time dubbed as "The Face" by the British music weeklies) and Brian Auger's Trinity was Streetnoise in 1969, an association that had begun in 1966 with...

On the heels of Kayo Dot’s 2016 album Plastic House On Base Of Sky, New York City based avant-garde musician Toby Driver sustains his inexhaustible output with a solo album titled Madonnawhore.
After exploring a retro-futurist noir sound on Kayo Dot’s 2014 album Coffins On Io then delving even further into electronic music with his aforementioned last album, Driver was eager to write a different kind of song.
Madonnawhore represents a foray into traditional songwriting, stripped of the...

“Drum Major Instinct is an experimental music duo from Asheville, North Carolina. Jeff Arnal plays (mostly) percussion and Curt Cloninger plays (mostly) modular synthesizer.
The Wire describes Jeff’s drumming as a “highly original concept" having "a balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour;” and Byron Coley says Curt's modular synthesis “moves like blocks of radioactive adobe being shifted around by architects in space suits.” But, of course, nothing is ever that straightforward...

Dry Ice were a short-lived British psychedelic / hard rock band that released one single on the B&C label (the precursor to The Famous Charisma label) in 1969.
This is the entirety of the 1969 sessions that produced that single, which is 11 songs – so basically an entire unreleased album PLUS a couple of demos! Supposedly, Ian McDonald of King Crimson appears in a couple places on flute, but if so, I must have blinked and missed it; in any event, he doesn’t have a lot of effect on the sound....

Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone / Steve Lehman, alto saxophone / Liberty Ellman, guitar / Matt Brewer, double bass / Damion Reid, drums.

"Universally hailed as the most innovative young saxophonists to emerge in recent years, Rudresh...

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Beautiful, mini-lp sleeve remaster of this classic Mexican psychedelic release.

"Also known as "Lost in My World": the "must have" debut album (1971) from psychedelic guru Armando Nava and his band, recorded after their failed trip to NYC did...

Justin Lumsden - guitars, vocals
Jonny Mitchell - drums
Ross McCrae - trombone
Sophie Sexon - vocals, flute
Lavinia Blackwall - vocals, piano
John Cromar - Hammond organ, electric piano
Julia Jeffrey - vocals

“Duke 72 is a Scottish/Australian collaboration, brainchild of guitarist Justin Lumsden and drummer Jonny Mitchell, conceived, written and performed during a nine hour session in Glasgow. The Mid Shires Herald does not feel rushed, it has that carefully put

Until Faces In Reflection was reissued last year (that was George's second MPS album - this is his third), I had forgotten how good some of his solo albums were. This is the 1st time that this has been issued on CD other than from Japan or in a big box set of all his MPS recordings. This one is from 1974 and has a touch more 'soul' influences on it than Faces, but basically it's a superior 1974 fusion album with the same great band as on Faces: George (multi-keyboards and vocals), John Heard-bass and...

“This is George Duke at his utmost, wonderful best! The players he uses are great! This is when Duke was the master of funky jazz back in the 70's.
Great up tunes with classic ballads that no man can do better. His band at that time were Alfonso Johnson (Weather Report) on bass, using a pseudonym, Leon "NDUGU" Chancler on drums, Daryl Stuermer on guitar),Ruth Underwood on vibes (a ex-Zappa bandmember).
An all star line up for an all star release! This is the best of George Duke you will hear.”...

IF you don’t have all the individual (and all mostly fantastic) albums that George put out for MPS, concurrent to his years with Zappa, here’s a fine best-of.

“The Best Of The MPS Years presents you all the classics and highlights of George Duke's time at the Black Forest label on one album.
A curious happenstance in 1966 triggered the partnership between MPS head Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and George Duke. Brunner-Schwer was in San Francisco to record the Art van Damme Quintet. After...

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I’ve had this great release since it came out in 1989.
This was the first collaboration between Pavel Fajt’s great avant-leaning, ROCK band (dual guitar, bass, drums) with the addition of Iva's terrific vocals. It's exciting to hear Iva really let loose with such a solid band behind her!

“This CD was actually recommended to me by a music librarian at my local library. At first, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it, since the very opening of the disc sounded a bit like “New Age” music...