"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...

“The second release in an ongoing series that will reconstruct the legacy known and the legacy damned of the most overlooked and under-documented American free rock unit, Dredd Foole and the Din.
During an era of peak corporate control on popular music, when guitars were in the closet, improvisation was in retreat, and the flames of fire music were dimming, Dredd Foole and the Din emerged as part of a new underground kicking against the pricks, holding the line with the firmly clenched spirit of...

This is a new copy, however the sleeve has some dents and creases. 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...

"Mark Dresser is a remarkably innovative bassist who has few equals in the downtown jazz scene. He's carved out this reputation through his work in Anthony Braxton's great quartet from the '80s and early '90s and through countless sideman gigs with...

''From the lyricism of 'Air to Mir', commissioned by the Library of Congress, the textures of 'Spin X' for two basses and two percussionists, to the virtuosity of his own solo bass music and more, Marinade displays the full range of Mark Dresser's comp...

Nicole Mitchell soprano and alto flutes
Marty Ehrlich clarinet and bass clarinet
David Morales Boroff violin
Michael Dessen trombone
Joshua White piano
Jim Black drums and percussion
Mark Dresser contrabass

"Mark Dresser makes music in a vast variety of settings and contexts, but the dauntingly prolific bassist always seeks to create space for the unpredictable play between form and freedom. On his new album Sedimental You, slated for release in early November, 2016

"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 saw Arnold Dreyblatt & ensemble in 1983 (40 years ago!) at New Music America and he totally blew me away. He would have a small ensemble work with mostly re-tuned /microtonal instruments which he would have them bow and strike according to his score, until the room fills with waves and waves of sound.
It was and still is a singular sound. No one comes close to sounding anything like this.
Now it’s 40 years later and he has a new ensemble, including Oren Ambarchi & this sounds very much like...

"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....

Arnold Dreyblatt: Double Bass Viols with Excited Strings
Ruth Charloff: Double Bass Viols with Excited Strings
Randal Baier: Midget Upright Princess Piano Forte
K. Mason Hill: Portable Pipe Organ
Michael Hauenstein: Hurdy Gurdy

I saw this band or a very similar version of this band a couple of years later, but, most importantly, in a similar space; in a large, old, very reverberent building, where the overtones (the main point of this music) builds and continues to floa

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...

A reissue of Julie's first solo album, before she became Julie Tippetts, but still in a proto-version of the style that she would develop to a peak on Sunset Glow. This has a great band: Julie's voice and acoustic guitar with : Jeff Clyne, Mark Charig, Jim Creegan, Elton Dean, Nick Evans, Brian Godding, Karl Jenkins,Stan Saltzman, Trevor Tompkins & Keith Tippett, among others. A classic of 1969 art/progressive/song and unavailable for a long time on CD!

“Recorded in 1969, but not released until...

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...

Stephen Drury (p).Franz Liszt Preludio (0:54) * Molto Vivace (2:18) * Feux Follets (4:16) * Allegro Agitato Molto (4:58) * Chasse - Neige (5:31)Karlheinz StockhausenKlavierstuck IX (11:21)Charles IvesThe Celestial Raillo...

DUAC is Otine van Erp, accordion and Ronald van Overbruggen, accordion.

"Music was written by three Dutch composers in cooperation with the accordionists.Improvisation played an important role , and to emphasize this way of making music, a seperate piece of the Norwegian composer K.Hvoslef was added to complete the project."
1) Hadante (F. Mommers) 2) Fantasy (K. Hvoslef) 3) Dantecco (F. Kerkhofs) 4) Il Pezzo Rotto (F. Crijns)

Recorded at Tafelbergstudio, March/april 2000,

This has Andre, (Conventum & 4 Guitarists), leading a 16 piece band: string quartet, sax quartet, guitar quartet, piano, & 3 percussionists. [Victo]

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More than decent second division British progressive hard rock. This was their sophmore effort, originally dating from 1973. Duffy's style was a rather personal blend of psychedelia, prog and hard rock, revealing influences from Deep Purple, Uriah Heep.

“The classic 1973 album by the UK progressive/hard rock band Duffy. The band was formed in London in 1970 and began performing and Europe and recorded their debut album, Just in Case You're Interested, for the German Ariola label in 1971.
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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.”...