“Hardy Fox used to be composer for The Residents. He left the group when he didn't feel fit enough for touring and when he turned 70. Since then, he has released many albums under the name Charles Bobuck, switching to his real name Hardy Fox when his albums became more personal.
Hardy died in 2018 of a brain tumor. Since then, Klanggalerie keeps Hardy's music alive. We have a whole lot of archival music that will be released over the following years.
Ibbur is soundtrack music connected with...

“Hardy Fox was the primary composer of The Residents. He created an incredible body of work, using all kinds of names other than The Residents, amongst them Combo De Mechanio, Sonidas De La Noche, Dead Eye Dick, Charles Bobuck or Black Tar And The Cry Babies. Hardy first stopped touring with The Residents due to health issues. Soon afterwards, he left the group completely to concnetrate on his solo work. After several albums as Charles Bobuck (later only Bobuck), the name given to him when still a member...

“No surprise in comparing this release to the Rova Sax Quartet. It features Jon Raskin, a founding member of that ensemble, as well as fellow saxophonists Frank Gratkowski and Phillip Greenlief. Recorded on two dates, one in 2007 and the other in 2010, this intrepid trio gives their instruments a workout across nine tracks.
Honestly, limited-palette releases like this can be hit or miss. But in the right hands, three saxes can offer a broad range of pitches and textures. Such is the case for All At...

Leo Koperdraat – Vocals, Keyboards, Mellotron
Frank Urbaniak – Drums
Ed Van Haagen - Bass
Gareth Cole – Guitars, Backing Vocals
Brett Kull – Backing Vocals

“'Beyond Borders' sees Fractal Mirror exploring their progressive rock roots, with the seventeen-minute epic ‘Ashes’ in particular displaying all the hallmarks of a classic prog epic, though the more song-oriented stylings of previous album 'Close To Vapour' are still very much in evidence in the band’s sound....

Electronic studio experiments and IDM from 1999. FRU sound more relevant and of it's time now than they ever did. This album, long out of print, is available once again. A ten year anniversary re-issue on 1k recordings.
Tim Motzer - devices and...

“Denis Frajerman started as composer in the French experimental Band Palo Alto. With a strong interest in literature and orality as a musician, he collaborates regularly with storytellers and writers for radio sessions, oratorios, or records.
 Strongly linked to the work of Antoine Volodine, his first solo album, Les Suites Volodine was directly influenced by his writings. They both share a taste for haunting atmospheres, black humor, witchcraft. Volodine and Frajerman also worked on creations...

"Ryan Anthony Francis is a remarkable young composer who was born in Portland, Oregon, studied at Julliard and now resides in New York City. His work is brilliant and dynamic, combining the imagination of Ligeti with the minimal language of Steve Reich...

“Ex-Tangerine Dream artist Christopher Franke released his second and third solo efforts simultaneously, following the successful Pacific Coast Highway. First, The London Concert, recorded live at London's Royal Apollo Theatre in October 1991. While three tracks are versions of pieces from Pacific Coast Highway, the material is mostly new, starting with "Empire of Light," awith its powerful, hypnotic entrance into Franke's spellbinding world of sonic images, combining dramatic electronic and calming...

The complete recording by this early Spanish band. NOTE: The CD packaging indicates there should be 2CDs, but that is a typo, this is a single CD and all 14 tracks are on one disc.

"Franklin were one of the first underground bands from Spain...

This is a video CD. It says NTSC on the front.

Nick Fraser drums
Tony Malaby saxophones
Andrew Downing cello
Rob Clutton bass

"What do Anthony Braxton, Wynton Marsalis, William Parker and Dave Liebman have in common? The fact that they have played with a drummer from the Toronto jazz scene, Nick Fraser, one of those few cases of a musician so flexible that he can practice all the tendencies of this music. Or, when he is the band leader and composer, chooses to cross those different styles, as that combination enables his...

“The Fraternal Order of the All is guitarist Andrew Gold in a home studio overdubbing mode, making the record he always wanted to make back in 1967 and 1968. To call this album retro-flavored would be putting it mildly, as Gold's tongue is firmly planted in his cheek all throughout the record and attendant booklet, right down to the fake names for all the musicians.
With the exception of guest turns from Jimmy Caprio, Jimmy Herter and Graham Gouldman (who also produced one track and like Caprio and...

“You can expect a beefy rock album, freak style. I think that Cooking with Pagans finally has the sound and energy of Freak Kitchen live; the energy and rawness. It is anything but overproduced, stripped down, drums, bass and guitar. To the point.”...

Freak Kitchen is a amazing cross between technical metal and humor. The players are excellent and versatile. This is for folks who like groups like Morglbl...but with an even crunchier vibe. I saw them play a gig with Morglbl and it was like seeing...

Antonio Cotardo: Flutes and Bells
Paolo Pacciolla: Daire, Jembak, Bells, Mbira and Voice

"The Italian duo of Cotardo and Pacciolla – known as ‘Free Dot’ – describe their music as “free from definitions of pre-established limits in which...

Short and pretty great.

“Since 1966, the Free Jazz Meeting (now known as the SWR New Jazz Meeting) has taken place annually in Baden-Baden, Germany.
This disc presents performances that were broadcast over south-western station SWR from the second of these events which took place from December 16 through December 18 in 1967.
The four pieces by different line-ups of major free jazz musicians from several countries.”

1. ANDALUSIAN PROVERB
Jeanne Lee - vocals...

New studio recording from the Free Music Ensemble. Recorded in Oslo Norway in October 2004. This is the groups second studio recording for Okkadisk. Ken Vandermark: reeds; Nate McBride: bass; Paal Nilssen-Love: drums. [Okkadisk]

"Free Nelson Mandoomjazz are a three-piece band formed in Edinburgh playing an experimental blend of doom metal and free jazz.
Influenced principally by artists such as Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Sun Ra, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler and Wayne Shorter, they term their music doom jazz.
The band formed when all three members met through playing for the same blues band. Paul Archibald (drums) and Colin Stewart (bass) started discussing musical influences, and the concept of Free Nelson...

An interesting period piece and yes, they are attempting to fuse jazz and rock. Reasonably quite ok sound for 45 year old, non-professional recordings.

"Featuring the earliest recordings of the young Larry Coryell, this short-lived quintet is widely acclaimed as the first jazz-rock band of all time. Though their landmark 1966 album captures their intense, psychedelic music well, those lucky enough to have seen them in performance maintain that their true power was only communicated live. Taped...

Lori Freedman Bb & bass clarinets
Scott Thomson trombone

Scott Thomson and Lori Freedman first played together in Toronto in 2006 where they immediately identified shared musical affinities: dynamics of tone and timbre, heterodox lyricism, the internal propulsion and forward motion of openly improvised material, freedom of expression, and play. Their instant rapport led them to record Plumb (2007, Barnyard Records), the first recording in Thomson’s and a notable addition to Freedman’s...

Andy Nixon - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Pete Riley - Piano, Synthesizers, Organ

Our fourth album release “The Chronicle Of Stolen Souls” has actually replaced this year’s intended album release due to the unfolding world events of 2022, not least the war in Ukraine. The current political language is reminiscent of what we thought to be a bygone era of power politics and serves as a frightening reminder of the worst situations of the last century. We can only hope for peace, not a...

"This is Freedom's Children's first album, recorded in 1968 in South Africa for EMI. This album has all the wonderful excesses of early progressive rock; the deep meaningful poetry, spoken words, majestic organ-playing, sound effects, choirs, long...

This album is the only release by the band who later metamorphosed into Smokin' Granny. "...Freehand establishes itself as a band with a clear focus on (mostly electric) guitar...the music on Thinking Out Loud has the quality of flowing by easily. Ever...

Chico Freeman: Tenor Saxophone
Heiri Känzig: Double Bass

"A magic duo: Chico Freeman, 65, saxophonist, clarinettist, flute player, composer from Chicago, an eminent improvisor and Heiri Känzig, 58, born in New York, the Swiss double bass..

There is definitely a touch of a Brazilian take on Nik Bärtch’s ‘Zen Funk’ happening here, although he may have arrived to those ends by a very different path. In any event, another Brazilian winner!

“Amaro Freitas is a Brazilian piano player and Sankofa is his third CD with his trio. His trio has Amaro on electric piano, Jean Elton on acoustic bass and Hugo Medeiros on drums and percussion.
Amaro has a special sound and style and he is one of the new highlights of brazilian music. Some peopl