"A crazy collaborative jazz-rock unit out of the new generation of Downtown improvisers, Hypercolor is a bizarre trio that blends Beef- heart, Sonny Sharrock and ’80s punk with contemporary classical orchestral textures, spastic world music rhythms...

Third album from a Belgian quartet of vocals, reeds, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums. Their earlier albums are sort of molded on the "1971 UK proto-progressive" sound, with a progressive hard rock edge and this has that as well, but in much smaller doses and this is the album where they begin to mix that sound in with a sound more reminiscent of early King Crimson (Court and Poseidon) mixed with the heavier sounds and proto-progressive vibe. Maybe a bit comparable to the excellent Diagonal album with...

"With its cathedral-like, richly resonant acoustics, the new Hypnotic Brass Ensemble album Book Of Sound is a brilliant expression of this interplanetary principle. The album is by turns urgent and contemplative, funky and reflective, varied in its textures; but entirely of one piece. Underpinned by concepts of earth's place in the cosmos, held in place by meditation, swirling with notions of history, science, theology, ancestry, there is a rich conceptual brew here. The album rings with what back in the...

One of the lesser known but great Chicago jazzers performs with the very excellent and hipster-loved Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, which is comprised mainly of his children!

"Approaching his eighty fifth birthday, legendary jazz musicianPhil Cohran..

This B-movie concerns the attempts of a Vietnam vet to avenge the death of his policeman brother at the hands of a violent, drug-dealing biker gang.
Its rare soundtrack is a hip grab-bag of '60s sounds, with plenty of fuzz guitars and bongos to keep genre aficionados happy. It makes its long-awaited CD debut here, together with background notes.
Featuring artists such as The Arrows, Davy Jones & The Dolphins, Somebody's Children, and The Sunrays.