"After twenty years as one of London's top session pianists, arrangers and composers, the inspirational Geoff Eales has rediscovered his passion for improvised music in recent years. With three highly acclaimed albums to his name...

Earth and Fire were a very long lived Dutch band, who recorded from 1969 onward, with their best known work being in the early/mid 1970's. They were led by the Koerts brothers of Chris-guitars and Gerard-keyboards, and fronted by singer Jenney Kaagman....

This is an English language release of the group's first album, Jatekok. It may have existed before this issue, but I certainly never saw it before this CD version which just arrived! This includes two bonus tracks, "Sirens" and "The Tones Of Truth"...

Dave Arbus (violin, flute, saxophone), Jim Roche (guitar), David Jack (vocals, bass), Jeff Allen (drums).

"East of Eden from Bristol in England played elaborate progressive rock with saxophone, violin, and flute. Their only hit, "Jig-a-jig", is..

Great to see this very fine, early, UK art-rock classic reissued properly!

"East of Eden's second album, 'Snafu' was originally released in 1970 by Deram Records and saw the band take their particular fusion of jazz, psychedelia, world music...

"'The composer is therefore enjoined to accomplish the following: she must establish himself as a major instrumentalist, he must not wait upon a descending being, and she must become an interpreter, not only of her own music and career, but also the music of her contemporaries, and give a fresh new view of the known and unknown classics.' --Julius Eastman Just when you think you are grasping the breadth and quality of the music of Julius Eastman (1940?1990), a recording such as Julius Eastman....

Robert F. Graettinger was one of the strangest, most adventurous and little known composers and arrangers of the mid 20th century.
He was visible as one of Stan Kenton's arrangers circa 1948-1953, when Kenton had to let him go because his music was so unpopular.
His complete recorded work for Stan Kenton (about an hour) was all reissued on a (now out of print) CD called "City Of Glass", which I would highly recommend.
Graettinger was a tall thin man, born in 1923 who was famous among the...

''From Genoa harbor Echo Art welcomes their 15th birthday with a new recording together with some of the best musicians of ritual trance music: Gnawa du Maroc, Stella Chiweshe (Zimbabwe), Dervishes from the Sema Ensemble of Istanbul (Turkey) and Egschi...

5{and happily are once again) one of the US's best modern progressive rock bands. In the mid 1990s, they somehow found themselves signed to SONY and they released this album in 1995. It was their 3rd album and it was a great release for its...

A brief recap for those just tuning in:
Echolyn were one of the very first of the new progressive rock bands to emerge in the USA the very late 1980s, releasing their 1st album in 1990. Since then, with a small amount of time off for a ultimately...

"This 8-song tour de force begins a new chapter in echolyn history; released August 2005. All the dynamics of what make this band so unique are here. The album was written mainly around driving rhythms laid down by drummer Paul Ramsey and cut live in...

Ya GOTTA like flutes!
Michel Edelin (flutes), Sylvaine Hélary (flutes), Ludivine Issambourg (flutes), Peter Giron (double Bass), John Betsch (drums), special guest Nicole Mitchell (flutes).

"Edensong is a progressive rock quintet from New York City. The band's self-released 2008 debut "The Fruit Fallen" was hailed as a "masterpiece" by critics, and helped to pave the way for live shows and notable festival appearances throughout North America.
At over 70 minutes of new music, their 2016 followup, "Years in the Garden of Years" is even more ambitious than it's predecessor, and will be sure to appeal to fans of both classic progressive rock and metal. The concept album features an...

Bruno Pedroso (d), Jesus Santandreu (ts), Zé Eduardo (b)

"The project “A Jazzar”, by the Zé Eduardo Unit, was born from a comission by Cineclube de Faro, through its president Anabela Moutinho, after two shows held respectively in 1999 and...

A fine, 1960 session from a fine Los Angeles tenor man who was also one of the earlier West Coast boppers who never received his due. This session lay unreleased for 35 years! And it’s a minor classic of hard bop, larger ensemble writing!

“The liner notes written by Kirk Silsbee tell a tale easily as intriguing as the fine music on this CD. Producer Lester Koenig asked Teddy Edwards to assemble a large ensemble of lesser known jazz musicians from Los Angeles to record originals and new...

Eela Craig were from Austria and are lumped in with the German groups because...well, how many progressive rock Austrian groups were there anyway? The band was formed by keyboardist Hubert Bognermayer in 1971 and released a very rare first album that...

The first album by this legendary Canterbury trio of Dave Stewart (organ and tone generators), Mont Campbell-bass and vocals) and Clive Brooks on drums. Heavily influenced by classical music, Keith Emerson and the Nice and Soft Machine, they specialize...

The incredible 2nd album by this great early English organ/bass/drums trio they specialized in hypercomplex multi-time signature music.. This was their 2nd album and is from 1970. They specialized in hypercomplex multi-time signature music. This was...

Active and releasing records for at least 25 years, Egoband are an Italian four piece who formerly had a number of releases on Mellow. This is their first new release in 16 years!
Their music is a cross between neo-prog and Rock Progressivo Italiano, with especially strong keyboards.

"It took seventeen long years to Egoband to complete this return. Substantial exponent of the movement Italian neo prog with assets of three albums in the first half of the ninety and convincing and...

Marty Ehrlich, alto and soprano sax, flute / James Zollar, trumpet / Hank Roberts, cello / Michael Sarin, drums.

"Julius Hemphill really has a noble heir in Marty Ehrlich, and the fact that this multi-reed player includes a cellist in his...

Markus Eichenberger clarinet & bassclarinet
Daniel Studer double bass

"Improvisation assumes a fresh experience, an unfamiliarity with what is to come, a disruption of expectations. How much more intense and disorienting the experience becomes in the music of Markus Eichenberger and Daniel Studer. Each one has an impressive résumé of musical adventures, but as a duo their music expresses special qualities and asks challenging questions. Suspended offers no customary structures, no consistent.

"Mathias Eick’s intensely melodic trumpet occupies the centre-stage in this album of self-penned tunes which will appeal to an audience beyond “jazz”. Against the powerful backdrops offered by his sleek, modern band, driven by two drummers, he delivers...

Very excellent, early instrumental jazz rock band, somewhat influenced by the Mothers Of Invention, Soft Machine & their own "krautrockness". Featuring guitar, keyboards (Rainer Brninghaus!), sax, bass & drums, they released just 2 albums in their life...

Jewlia Eisenbergs radical setting of texts by Walter Benjamin, Asja Lacis and Gershom Sholem point to a whole new style of acappela vocal music. Drawing upon traditions from doo-wop to Meredith Monk, Eskimo throat singing, to Hebrew cantilation and mor...