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The fourth release by Roberto Vitelli’s Ellesmere project and another good one.

“Stranger Skies” is the fourth recording chapter of the Ellesmere project by multi-instrumentalist Roberto Vitelli, musically and visually strongly linked to the previous “Wyrd” of 2021: from an iconographic point of view, in fact, the partnership with the famous illustrator Rodney Matthews, author of a wonderful cover painting that depicts two opposing worlds, a 'cold' one - linked to the first 4 songs of the album...


"Hot on the heels of their critically revered 2014, Krautrock-meets-Afrobeat longplayer 'Regions', Ellis Island Sound's Pete Astor and David Sheppard return with a brand new, seven-track mini-album. This time, however, the emphasis is less on throbbing, Neu!-beat-propelled blow-outs and more on intricate, highly melodic arrangements for guitars, keyboards and tuned percussion."

"Ellis Island Sound comprises the duo of Pete Astor (The Loft, Weather Prophets, Wisdom of Harry, etc) and David Sheppard (State River Widening, Snow Palms, etc). ‘Regions’ is the duo’s third album since their inception, it has already been described as “Afro-Krautrock” and “Teutonic High Life”. It is possible to detect the influence of Jean Bosco Mwende or King Sunny Ade’s guitars, along with polyrhythmic ensemble force of Fela Kuti’s Africa 70 and T-Funk-period Talking Heads. Sometime Radiohead...

Brian Ellis: Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond L-122 organ, Wurlitzer electric Piano, Minimoog, Moog Subphatty
David Hurley: congas and percussion
Michael Hams: drums and percussion
Patrick Shiroishi: alto and soprano saxophones (of Corima and Upsilon Acrux)
Paul Marrone: drums, percussion, guitar
Trevor Mast: bass

Solo endeavor by the guitarist / vocalist / keyboardist in Astra! This is definitely different than Astra, and, like it implies below, is more an electric jazz/rock alb

Very good album by the former guitarist for the very excellent, recently done, California progressive rock band Astra. This sounds like a cross between Astra, psychedelia, Bitches Brew and sometimes Magma. What's not to like??...

"Rarely has the feeling of late summer twilight been captured as well on record as on this collaborative effort by Southern California native Brian Ellis and South Carolina ambient producer Brian Grainger. This is the sound of two offbeat musicians zoning out with acoustic guitars, hand drums, flutes, and an array of vintage synthesizers and tape machines, brewing a mysterious, mellow kind of acid folk like it's never quite been brewed before. Though psychedelic in nature, this isn't yet another...

John Ellis was the guitarist in Peter Hammill's band for a number of years. This is an album of electronic/soundscape-type works, made to accompany an exhibition of painting by German artist Moishe Moser. Some of the paintings appear in the booklet. [S...

Bassist/composer Ellis works with saxists Glenn Spearman, Larry Ochs, Joe McPhee & Christopher Cauley, guitarist James Ruthier & drummer Donald Robinson in varous combinations. [Victo]



Liberty Ellman - guitar
Steve Lehman - alto saxophone
Jonathan Finlayson - trumpet
Jose Davila - tuba
Stephan Crump - bass
Damion Reid - drums

“Last Desert is guitarist Liberty Ellman's follow up to his critically-acclaimed Radiate (Pi 2015), which the Wall Street Journal described as "bristling with energy and innovation" and Downbeat praised as "unique, indelible and fully human."
Named #1 Rising Star Guitarist in the 2016 Downbeat Critics Poll, Ellman is perh

Liberty Ellman guitar
Steve Lehman alto saxophone
Jonathan Finlayson trumpet
Jose Davila tuba, trombone
Stephan Crump bass
Damion Reid drums

"Radiate is the long-anticipated new release from guitarist Liberty Ellman, his

"Liberty Ellman, one of New York’s most imaginative and unorthodox guitarist/composers follows up 1998’s Orthodoxy, which he released on his own Red Giant Records, with Tactiles. The Tactiles quartet is formed of Mark Shim on tenor, Stephan Crump on...

William Parker (double bass, shakuhachi flute, sintir, n'goni Kemlah n'goni, thumb piano)
Joe Morris (guitar, banjouke, banjo, double bass, fiddle, pocket trumpet, whistles)
Hamid Drake (drum set, frame drum, cymbals, gongs)

"Music made with improvisation, commitment, methodology, and love. Music made freely, by folks, for folks."

“Chronicles I is the first part of a retrospective of Eloy's band history, but it is no ordinary "best of" album. All the tracks were re-recorded in 1993 and cover Eloy's creative phase from 1977 to 1982.
"Chronicles I" is a brilliant album through and through. With barely any vocals at all, both, Frank Borneman on guitar and Michael Gerlach on synthesizer create atmosphere through sheer electronic mastery on each and every track. The reworking of the songs is symphonic rock with bite. The clarity...

Remastered edition of the 9th album by this popular German rock band who mix heavy and cosmic stylings together on their classic releases, of which this is definitely one. Overall quite excellent, heavy progressive rock. Another heavy-duty spacerock release. Includes two bonus tracks: Wings of Vision and a single edit of Silhouette. Really amazing that they were still popular playing this heavy progressive rock in 1980, but they certainly were!

Remastered edition of the 5th album by this popular German rock band who mix heavy and cosmic stylings together on their classic releases, of which this is definitely one. Overall quite excellent, heavy progressive rock. This was a massive seller when ...

“The twentieth studio album of the most successful German art and progressive rock band Eloy. It is also the third album of a unique trilogy, designed by band mastermind Frank Bornemann as a rock opera about the life and fate of the national heroine and saint Jeanne d'Arc, who in the Middle Ages caused the turn in the hundred-year war against England in favor of the French king, and ultimately ended at the stake.
Already the first two albums entitled "The Vision, the Sword and the Pyre, Part 1 & 2"...

Remastered edition of the 6th album by this popular German rock band who mix heavy and cosmic stylings together on their classic releases, of which this is definitely one. Overall quite excellent, heavy progressive rock. "Ocean (1977) continued Bornema...

Remastered edition with 1 bonus track of the 4th album by this popular German rock band who mix heavy and cosmic stylings on their classic releases, of which this is definitely one. This is a big, full blown concept album about time travel, with all the grandiousity one would expect from a 1975 release!

"RA was the beginning of a new era for Germany's most successful art and progressive rock band ELOY. The previous formation had split up completely. But band's founder, singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer Frank Bornemann was still bursting with ideas that he wanted to pursue on the hitherto so successful path.
In keyboardist Michael Gerlach, he finally found a like-minded partner who was able to find his way into the band's musical visions and create soundscapes with his perfectly suited...

Remastered edition of the 8th album by this popular German rock band who mix heavy and cosmic stylings together on their classic releases, of which this is definitely one. Overall quite excellent, heavy progressive rock. This one puts them back in heavy Floydian territory. It includes two bonus, non lp tracks: Child Migration and Let The Sun Rise In My Brain.

"2017 album from the German prog rockers. The Vision, The Sword and the Pyre is a rock opera about Joan of Arc. Composed, directed and produced by Frank Bornemann, the work is dedicated to the life and acts of the late Middle Age French heroine Joan of Arc, canonised in 1920, and combines unique musical complexity with absolute and unbiased historical precision. Eloy aside, Frank Bornemann is an acclaimed supervisor and producer of well-known bands of different musical stripes (including Scorpions, Guano...

"It's finished! Frank Bornemann, the grand seigneur of German art and progressive rock and mastermind behind Eloy, has completed his opus magnum on the story of Joan of Arc just two years after the appearance of the first part. Impressive, and at the same time touching, this work leads us through the fascinating story of this legendary figure of the Middle Ages. In relation to it's complex thematic form and historical accuracy, the author has received support from the Centre Jeanne d'Arc in Orléans...

Amir ElSaffar: trumpet
Ole Mathisen: tenor saxophone
John Escreet: piano
Francois Moutin: bass
Dan Weiss: drums

Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar’s Alchemy continues his investigations of tonal systems of other cultures within a jazz...

I actually saw this group at the Iraqi Embassy in 2011 and they kept a mostly Iraqi, non-jazz audience completely spellbound with this compelling blend of jazz and traditional Iraqi music. Only in DC, right? Right!...

"Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar put his New York career on hold six years ago to immerse himself in the music of his father’s ancestral past, the Iraqi Maqam. Already an accomplished jazz and classical trumpeter, having performed with esteemed art


Emmett is the keyboardist with three unique and great UK bands: Chrome Hoof, Guapo & Knifeworld (of course! you KNEW this!).
This is his fourth solo release under his name.
Emmett Elvin – Electric & Acoustic 6 & 12-string Guitars, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion, Recorders
with:
Alex Thomas – Drums
Sarah Anderson – Violin, Viola
Anna Tam – Cello
Beverley Crome – French, Tenor & Baritone Horns
Daniel Friend – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Chloe Herington – Bassoon...

Emmett Elvin plays keyboards with Chrome Hoof, Guapo and Knifeworld. That's right now and all at once and he's made this great solo album too!
Emmett Elvin: 6 & 12-string guitars, resonator slide guitar, piano, recorders, percussion. mandolin-banjo..

Emmett Elvin is best known for playing keyboards with Chrome Hoof, Guapo and Knifeworld.

“Emmett’s third album sees a change in approach, playing most of the instruments himself – alongside the drumming powerhouse that is Alex Thomas (Chrome Hoof, Squarepusher, Badly Drawn Boy) – and also sees a greater focus on vocals than on either 'Bloody Marvels' or 'Assault On The Tyranny Of Reason'.
As Emmett says: ‘Having of late been sorely beleaguered by testy whimbrels I decided the hour was ripe...

“This incredible album features Kahil El’Zabar with an extended ensemble of woodwinds, brass, strings and an array of Afro-percussion, showcasing extraordinary players such as Corey Wilkes, Tomeka Reid, James Sanders, Josh Ramos, Miguel de la Cerna, Ernie Adams and Hamiet Bluiett (to whom this album is dedicated, as this was his last recording).
El’Zabar developed the initial inspiration for this project from his musical origins in the above mentioned documentary, and later added new works that...

“Emanation's One Soul, One Body, One Spirit is an obscure Spanish Black Drone project with a mixture of experimental black ambience and drone industrial dirges that is heavily inspired by the field of spiritism and séances along with other, more esoteric leanings, crafting a ghostly soundscape that gradually evolves into a kind of blackened hypnotic noise metal.
Even from the start, this puts off an unmetallic vibe. The title track creeps out across the first few minutes in a hazy cloud of murky...

"The band Kissing Spell changed their name to Embrujo in early 1970 due to the political climate in Chile and conditions being less than ideal for a band with an English name. "Embrujo" is Spanish for "spell" or "bewitched," and their album came out on Ar


Hey! It’s well over 50 years later, Christian Burchard’s daughter has taken the band’s reigns, and you know what? Embryo has STILL never released a bad album! Easily recommended to their fans.

“The late Christian Burchard, who founded the Embryo ensemble in 1969, loved the slogan “Auf Auf,” German for “Up, Up,” or “Keep On Going.” Anyone with anything more than a passing interest in the German Krautock scene of the 1970s and 1980s knows that Burchard followed that intent all around the world...

A great archival release from Garden of Delights, this captures the band live at a High School gymnasium on September 23rd, 1971 as recorded by Radio Bremen, not long after the release of their 2nd album, Embryo's Rache. This catches them sort of in be...

The definitive edition of this is studio album from 1972, with Christian Burchard-percussion, Edgar Hoffman-soprano sax/violin, David King-bass & Sigi Schwab-guitars. On it you can hear them between their early Krautrock phase & their soon to be fusion...

"Embryo - they are these crazy creative musicians playing really weird stuff."-Miles Davis.

"Embryo - real krautrock based in Germany, connected worldwide."-John Peel.

"Embryo is not so much a musical style, but an attitude. It's about the serious study of traditional music. And it's the wish to bring the world together via music."-Nick McCarthy, Franz Ferdinand (with Embryo from 1999-2002)

"100 years of dada and a half-century of Embryo - Two good reasons for Embryo to celebrate

"Professionally recorded in February 1976, it was released on LP in 1977 (April 0003), but has not previously appeared as CD. The gig had taken place in a town near Munich. The album features the jazz-rock typical of Embryo, influenced by ethnic music...

Embryo are famous for their excursions into world music and collaborations with musicans from all over the globe, but this, their very first album, originally released on the Ohr label in 1970, is a stone classic Krautrock album. And this is the first time it has been issued on CD from the original stereo master tapes!! Highly recommended!!

Rache was a the second Embryo album, originall released in 1971. This moves away from the psychedelic krautrock sound of their first and into more original territory. This includes 2 bonus tracks.

"Literally the birthplace of a new type of...

This is a real favorite of mine and has been out of print on CD for many years, so it is a great pleasure to see it available again!
After recording several albums in the early 1970's, from late 1971 to late 1972 Embryo recorded two albums of jammy rock/jazz fusion, which their then current label refused to release because they thought that the band's 'rock' output had more commercial potential.
So the band sold the rights to Brain, who put them out and where they were rightly greeted as....

"The seventh Embryo LP, recorded in the summer of 1974, has a distinct funk touch. The title has nothing to do with surfing or surf music but refers to the musicians' traveling from gig to gig. "Surfin" is often considered one of the weakest and most...

Christian Burchard (voc, vib), Roman Bunka (voc, g), Butze Fischer (dr), Michael Wehmeyer (key), Uve Müllrich (b). Nearly all never-before released live recordings!

"From 1975 until 1978, Embryo played at the Vlotho ”Umsonst und draußen” festival every year. Their concert from July 1977 on the sports ground, figuring as festival site, in front of about 26,000 people was recorded professionally by Ulrich Wilkening, operating the soundboard.
The recording has been preserved till this day....

Never-before heard or released live show by Embryo, which finds them still in their rock/jazz-rock phase and this is great. Excellent live bootleg sound; it won't win any awards, but it's perfectly listenable and it smokes, with some really fine...

A GREAT idea and pretty sympathetic to each other's style, although I think this generally sounds a little closer to Embryo than NNCK. Includes a 24 page booklet. "New York mavericks No-Neck Blues Band and Munich-based Krautrock band Embryo explore the...

“‘In Time’ is the fifth studio album from The Emerald Dawn, following their critically acclaimed album ‘To Touch the Sky’. With lush keyboards, soaring guitar, exquisite flute and haunting saxophone, all underpinned by one of the most highly rated rhythm sections in progressive music, ‘In Time’ explores the different ways in which time can be experienced: moments that we would like to last forever, time’s seeming elasticity, and its relentless progress.”

"Sharing social circles and spiritual ideologies with artists such as Iasos, Connie Demby and Deuter, whilst splitting label release schedules with Laraaji, Laurie Spiegel and Wendy Carlos, the unique Florida-raised soul mate duo known as Emerald Web released their privately pressed debut LP at an axis where post-prog rock met proto-new age and ambient electronic music. At the turn of the 1980s, Bob Stohl and Kat Epple embarked on a ten-year spiritual journey playing at planetariums and laser shows above...