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"Since the mid-'90s, Seattle-based guitarist Bill Horist has been making music within and without convention in a wide variety of settings and genres and has worked with many notables in rock, experimental, and new music. He has played on dozens of...

“Paul Horn’s music is hard to describe, but it’s essentially peaceful and introspective. It is great that this 1972 recorded long play is now available on CD. "Inside II" shows Paul Horn's experimental side; the music combines diverse flute tonalities and moods with human and nature's sounds in a masterful way. It also includes some Bach melodies that makes this CD a must have master work for those interested in both introspective and experimental music.”

This is the fourth album by this extra-ordinary Baltimore band. As I have said before, it's hard to describe, but think of Beefheart guitars and drums with microtones and Steve Reichian & Terry Rileyian ideas and structures and that gives you a little bit of the sound.
You could also imagine a less note-flinging version of Upsilon Acrux and you wouldn't be that far off the path either. This album will either give you a headache or an orgasm.

“Horse Lords make music for the liberation of...

"At one point in the mid-'70s, Horslips seemed poised to become Ireland's answer to Steeleye Span. But they also had a shot at being the next Jethro Tull (only a better hard rock outfit), or maybe Genesis, or even Yes in their folkier moments. Those events never quite happened, but Horslips released half-a-dozen superb albums along the way, becoming Ireland's most acclaimed folk-rock and progressive band."-All Music

"The third album by this Irish quintet, Dancehall Sweethearts abandoned the overt Celtic-rock sound that defined their first two albums, Happy to Meet Sorry to Part and The Tain. Subtle folk touches are still present here but to a much lesser degree. Charles O'Connor's fiddle parts aren't as bold or traditionally based as on previous records and keyboardist Jim Lockhart doesn't accentuate Horslips' songs with tin whistle and uilleann pipes with the frequency of past recordings. So while this album...

"Get ready for the ride of your life through Irish folk-rock styles. The opening track of the group's debut album, with its pipes, button accordion, and percussion, could pass for any Chieftains record, but then the electricity kicks in on "Hall of Mirrors," and the rest is melodic rock, not so much folk-rock as folkish rock, recalling early Genesis. John Fean sounds like he's playing folk melodies even as he plays runs on his electric guitar on "The Clergy's Lamentation," and the group follows this with...

"At one point in the mid-'70s, Horslips seemed poised to become Ireland's answer to Steeleye Span. But they also had a shot at being the next Jethro Tull (only a better hard rock outfit), or maybe Genesis, or even Yes in their folkier moments. Those events never quite happened, but Horslips released half-a-dozen superb albums along the way, becoming Ireland's most acclaimed folk-rock and progressive band."

"Recorded at their triumphant comeback gig in the O2 arena in Dublin 2009, Live at the O2 has all the power and energy one might expect from the biggest band in Ireland throughout the 70's."

"Celtic Rock legends Horslips are joined by the Ulster Orchestra breathing new life into their stunningly melodic and powerful repertoire of folk and rock classics including Dearg Doom, Trouble With A Capital T and a moving rendition of Sideways To The Sun."

"Horslips return to the studio after decades of radio silence and bring an acoustic flavour to their inimitable repertoire of Irish rock and folk classics. Among the songs getting the reworked treatment are culturally important pieces like Trouble With A Capital T and The Man Who Built America."


"This classic album from the pioneers of Celtic Rock and Folk was remastered at Abbey Road and features original artwork and bonus material."

"'That which does not kill me will make me stronger' might well have been the motto that Horslips adopted after the release of The Unfortunate Cup of Tea, their 1975 release. That album, generally regarded as their weakest, somehow gave rise to this, perhaps their strongest. Returning to their original formula of rock & roll, folk, and prog rock, Book of Invasions rivals 1973's The Tain as their most consistent and creative, and established the band as that decade's preeminent purveyor of those three...

"At one point in the mid-'70s, Horslips seemed poised to become Ireland's answer to Steeleye Span. But they also had a shot at being the next Jethro Tull (only a better hard rock outfit), or maybe Genesis, or even Yes in their folkier moments. Those events never quite happened, but Horslips released half-a-dozen superb albums along the way, becoming Ireland's most acclaimed folk-rock and progressive band.
A concept album about an Irish emigrant who makes a success of himself in the US, this album is...

"At one point in the mid-'70s, Horslips seemed poised to become Ireland's answer to Steeleye Span. But they also had a shot at being the next Jethro Tull (only a better hard rock outfit), or maybe Genesis, or even Yes in their folkier moments. Those events never quite happened, but Horslips released half-a-dozen superb albums along the way, becoming Ireland's most acclaimed folk-rock and progressive band.
The most ambitious and successful of their early albums, Horslips' most progressive creation...

"This classic album from the pioneers of Celtic Rock and Folk was remastered at Abbey Road and features original artwork and bonus material."

"An entertaining collection of outtakes, alternate versions, early cuts and oddities ("Come Back Beatles" and "The Fab Four-Four" are from a single done as a lark.) Notable for alternates of "Dearg Doom" and "King Of The Fairies" (a pair of concert favorites) and the inclusion of "Green Gravel." Shows off the Horslips mix of rock and Celtic very nicely."-AllMusic


"Wayne Horvitz’s esteemed stature in modern music as a prolific composer-performer is undeniable. On American Bandstand, Horvitz and co. provide the listener with a diversion or intermission from previous Horvitz-“Zony Mash” releases as they tone things down a bit while pursuing refined elegance on delicately melodic and altogether stirring pieces such as “Ben’s Music” and the gently understated “Tired”. Horvitz and guitarist Timothy Young continue their enticing blend of richly stated chord voicings and...

Mastermind of Zony Mash, The President and veteran of countless projects with Bobby Previte and Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz has been making music since the mid-1970s. Delightfully varied and endlessly listenable, this compilation of soundtracks for tel...

“Pianist Horvitz adds keys and electronics to his palette in a program of his haunting, emotionally resonant compositions. His longtime collaborators, Seattle bassist Geoff Harper and drummer Eric Eagle, are right there in the zone with him as they sometimes take the music into avant-jazz territory, sometimes keep it inside. It's a subtle record of grace and beauty (Horvitz calls it "textural and contemplative"), one that repays close listening. The audiophile recording was done at state-of-the-art...

Wayne Horvitz: Electronic Processing
Eyvind Kang: Viola

Koehne Quartet
Petra Ackerman: Viola
Melissa Coleman: Cello
Anne Harvey-Nagl: Violin
Joanna Lewis: Violin

"A new CD of classical compositions by the mastermind of Zony Mash, The President, Pigpen, the NY Composers Orchestra and countless other bands. Blending a profound knowledge of jazz and popular musics with a soaring lyricism and arranging/production skills that have graced CDs by Bill Frisell, Eddie..

"A sad melancholia that also strangely exudes hopefulness are the juxtaposing emotions expressed by pianist Wayne Horvitz and his Four Plus One Ensemble on this, their second release collectively. The music, composed by Horvitz while spending two months in central Italy, is quite neo-classical and modern chamber in stance and style, but also borrows on film noir, improvised jazz and third stream, electronica and rock musics. With violin and viola played by Eyvind Kang, trombonist Julian Priester, sound...

"The unbelievably prolific Haruomi Hosono is one of the major architects of modern Japanese pop music. With his encyclopedic knowledge of music and boundless curiosity for new sounds, Hosono is the auteur of his own idiosyncratic musical world, putting his unmistakable stamp on hundreds of recordings as an artist, session player, songwriter and producer. Hosono's solo career would take many twists and turns from this point forward, with forays into exotica, electronic, ambient, and techno, culminating...

"Hard rock (UFO, Deep Purple, Cream) meets progressive rock (Yes, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant) in an almost perfect amalgamation for this style. Heavy rock guitar parts with intricate playing and many progressive rhythm and mood changes but always keeping the music moving with a driving beat. If you like your complex prog mixed with straight up hard rock, then this is a great album. If you don't like good structure with your prog or prefer avant garde or electronic music then you may not care...

"Høst came from the small town of Knapstad in Norway, originally formed in 1971 by guitarist/songwriter Svein Rønning, bassist Johnny Myhre and drummer Stig Berg. Myhre left the group at its early days and three new members joined, Bernt Bodahl (bass), Ronny Gyllensten (guitars) and Geir Jahren (vocals).
In 1973 the band started gaining fame through local live gigs, but again two line-up changes occured, Berg and Gyllensten left and were replaced by Knut R. Lie and Odd Inge Olsen respectively, the...

This is a pretty impressive staging of this major work, which is all there for you to see on the DVD part of this set! "The great dream of Fabio Zuffanti since he began writing the music on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The rime of the mariner...

The latest Hostsonaten release; Hostsonaten is headed by Fabio Zuffanti, who is responsible for so many good, Italian prog releases: La Maschera di Cera, L'Ombra Della Sera, Finisterre, projects under his own name, and Hostsonaten!

"The idea of..

“...The band's interest in Reinhardt and his burning, exuberant Gypsy brand of swinging jazz has always been serious, but mere revivalism is not the aim. These cats are jazz musicians first and foremost and the music they make, whether directly written or previously recorded by him or not, is filtered through their collective ability as jazzmen -- in arrangement, tempo, harmony, and yes, swing. After all, the word Detroit is in their name.
... there is a highly original reading of Miles Davis'...

"The Rome based group Hot Tune was formed three years ago and initially performed as an acoustic band with a repertoire that went from jazz standards to pieces from the Balkan tradition, Arabic music and original compositions. Nine original pieces and...

François Houle clarinet
Marco von Orelli cornet/trumpet
Samuel Blaser trombone
Benoît Delbecq piano
Michael Bates bass
Harris Eisenstadt drums

“This album pays tribute to and celebrates the memory of Ken Pickering, my best friend, mentor, and supporter of my work from the moment we met back when I first moved to Vancouver in 1990. The compositions were not intended as a suite but as the pieces emerged it became evident to me that there was a hidden narrative binding th

“Acclaimed Canadian clarinetist François Houle's new international project is rhythmically driven, with Gordon Grdina's incendiary guitar playing matched by Mark Helias's fluid bass lines and Gerry Hemingway's propulsive, unconventional drumming. Following a rigorous compositional process, ''RECODER'' was designed to highlight the musicians' infectious virtuosity and to tackle ideas inspired by a wide range of influences, from Miroslav Vitous, Olivier Messiaen and Jimmy Giuffre to Anthony Braxton...

“This new international chamber-jazz trio with classical and avant leanings features beautiful tunes and tasty improvisation. Canadian clarinetist François Houle, British pianist Alexander Hawkins, and NY-based Canadian drummer Harris Eisenstadt are highly regarded leaders and genuinely sympatico.
The program features original compositions by all three plus pieces by Steve Lacy, Andrew Hill and Charles Ives. The group first came together for the 2014 Vancouver jazz festival and played some wild...



Greg is well known in "tapping circles" (Stick and Warr guigar) as an excellent player, and he is! This is a collection of live solo improvisations recorded between October, 2003 and December, 2004. The seven selections are from several small-venue con...

This comic by bad-boy artist Matt includes a CD with music by Nash and him reading the story. "Canadian rocker Nash the Slash has a quandry: how can he do two concerts that are scheduled at the same time? The solution: a robot duplicate of himself!...

Before joining Yes, Howe had nearly a decade's worth of experience with other groups under his belt. This is a first-rate 25-track compilation of his '60s work, with six previously unreleased cuts, starting in 1964 with the raw R&B/beat band the Syndic...

"Two CD set containing a pair of albums by the British prog rock guitarist best known for his work with Yes and Asia. Turbulence is his third studio album, released in 1991 through Relativity Records. It was Howe's first solo release since 1979, with his band including former Yes drummer Bill Bruford and former Ultravox keyboardist Billy Currie.
The Grand Scheme of Things was released in 1993. The album features seven vocal tracks and nine instrumental tracks using instruments including dobro, steel..

"The first release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell (he wrote the second version of the Doctor Who theme tune for BBC-TV) and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the...

"The second release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the names Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ithaca, Agincourt, and Friends...

This is a great, great set, but it is not what it says it is. The subtitle is ‘Chess Records Outtakes, Demos, Alternates 1948-1963’, but since Wolf’s first recordings are from 1951, that is obviously not so.
So, what is here? A lot of previously released (but only on ‘collector’s labels and collector’s compilations’) alternates and outtakes and etc from about 1953-1963. These are mostly lp releases NOT released by Chess, that I actually had no awareness of until I started researching what was...

A reissue of the 1971 album by the lead singer of Affinity. What's probably the most interesting to readers here is that the band is: Chris Spedding-guitars, Karl Jenkins-electric and acoustic piano, oboe, Jeff Clyne-bass and bass guitar and John Marshall-drums. In other words, 2/3rds of Nucleus and in addition to this, 8 of the 11 songs are co-written by Karl Jenkins and Linda Hoyle! Includes notes from Linda about the making of the album.

“It probably isn't surprising to learn that Hoyle's solo...

"Linda Hoyle released her debut album Pieces Of Me in 1971 on the famous Vertigo label having fronted previously the band AFFINITY. Now some 44 years later she has recorded as a follow up a fresh stunning new album with a stellar cast of musicians...

"A new recording by the band that pioneered laptop ensembles over twenty years ago coupled with an historic overview of their recordings, unreleased tracks and video clips of the band in performance. Functioning in the West Coast tradition of composer as

“One of the finest trumpeters in jazz, Freddie Hubbard, recorded live at the legendary Hamburg venue Onkel P's Carnegie Hall in 1978. The album 'The Love Connection' had just been released and its title song also starts off this live recording.
Hubbard's band adopted some aspects of Blakey's "Messengers" strategy. By featuring young up-and-coming musicians, such as saxophonist Hadley Caliman, the then 23-year-old bassist Larry Klein - who would later work as a producer and accompanied songwriters...

You get his first six albums as a leader: Open Sesame, Goin' Up, Hub Cap, Ready For Freddie, The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard, Hub-Tones, as well as two albums with his participation from the same period...

Freddie Hubbard : trumpet
George Cables : Fender Rhodes
Junior Cook : saxophone and flute
Kent Brinkley : bass
Michael Carvin : drums

“The first-ever release of the mesmerizing live performance by Freddie Hubbard and his quintet recorded in Paris at Maison de la Radio (ORTF) on March 25, 1973. Featuring Hubbard with George Cables on Fender Rhodes, Junior Cook on sax/flute, Kent Brinkley on bass, and Michael Carvin on drums, the group interprets four Hubbard classics in deep...

Late 1970 session - one of two really good ones he made for CTI - of 'electric jazz' from famed trumpeter Freddie, plus a great band: Herbie Hancock-electric piano (anytime you see the following calculation: Herbie+late 60s/early 70s+electric piano...