Before Eno. Before Talking Heads. It all began here!

“Recorded in 1976 at the York University Electronic Media Studios in Toronto, Ontario, Vernal Equinox is Jon Hassell's first recording as a solo artist and sets the stage for his then-emerging career as a trumpeter, composer and musical visionary. "Toucan Ocean" opens the album with two gently swaying chords and delicate layers of percussion that provide a cushion upon which Hassell unfurls long, winding melodic shapes. His trumpet is sent...

HANS HASSLER ACCORDION / GEBHARD ULLMANN BASSCLARINET / JÜRGEN KUPKE CLARINET / BEAT FÖLLMI PERCUSSION

"Hans Hassler, born 1945 in Graubünden, East Switzerland, is the true Swiss king of accordion. For over 30 years he has developed a style..

Hans Hassler: accordion solo
"Hans Hassler, born 1945 in Graubünden, East Switzerland, is the true Swiss king of accordion. Hassler inspires the listener with his playful virtuosity, a good sense of humour and a musical imagination without borders.
For Hans Hassler, performing on a variety of stages, to return to the studio as a soloist means adding something significant to anything which has already been played. It doesn’t necessarily have to be new or different; it has to be substantial. Hans...

Somewhere between progressive rock and electric jazz, with a bit of Catalunian lunacy thrown in for fun, resides HAT.

"Too much of it might be undesirable but a little psychedelia is good thing. The Catalan-based group simply called HAT offers..

Bill Gilonis is best known as the guitarist for the great post-Henry Cow band The Work, where he played guitar. He's lived in Switzerland for many years now, and this is the 2nd of his releases under the "Hat Shoes" name. It's a fairly left field but c...

This features the fantastic 'lost' Hatfield track "Your Majesty is Like a Cream Doughnut/Oh What a Lonely Lifetime", which was originally on the "V" sampler and has never before appeared on CD. The first half of the complete output by this Canterbury supergroup, bringing together members of Egg, Gong, Caravan, Matching Mole & Delivery. Phew! One of my all time favorite bands.

Recorded for Virgin Records in 1974, Hatfield and the North was the eponymous debut album by the band comprising former...

‘An album of perfection’-Progressive Rock Central.

Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate combine progressive/alt-rock, classical, experimental, electronic, and metal influences. This is their 6th album.
They have been developing a cult reputation after stepping in at the last minute to replace an injured band on the main stage at Hard Rock Hell’s 2017 Prog Festival, opening for Magnum, Focus and Carl Palmer - Hard Rock Hell magazine called them ‘unlikely stars who stole the show’, and eFestivals.

"In search of the sublime, contemporary electronic musician Steve Hauschildt has designed grids and panoramas of sound across multiple releases through the rise and dissolution of his former band, Emeralds, an American touchstone of 2000s home-recorded psychedelic noise music. Consistent with his solo work is Hauschildt’s ability to coil his craft in precise, varied, and distinctly physical forms. Gently spinning arpeggios converse with post-industrial decay. Sonic fibers sway like pendulums from static...

This is a great, engaging, and very smart while still being enjoyable, album of prepared piano music that fits somewhere between modern classical, modern composition and techno! Recommended!

“Volker Bertelmann – aka Hauschka – is a purveyor of imaginative, distinctive, prepared piano music. For him, music is not solely about its sound, but also a means to facilitate the exchange of ideas and foster meaningful interactions between individuals, revealing his fascination with human connection and...

An unbelievable price on the hard to find Japanese version of this great album!

"The third of three Hampton Hawes trio dates with bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Chuck Thompson (all reissued on CD) is on the same high level as his first two...

The year is 1973 and in South Africa, the stranglehold of apartheid and the oppression of its opponents is increasing all the time, the noose growing ever tighter. These were strange and scary times, when the law forbade marriages across the colour bar...

"The band's third and final release rounding off a trilogy of phenomenal Afro rock albums. This officially sanctioned reissue includes all the original songs plus 4 bonus tracks taken from the SA vinyl version of “Africa, she too can cry” and a rare...

Music to an imaginary nordic horror tale

Richard Olátúndé Baker: Adamo (Talking Drum), Percussion
Neil Charles: Acoustic Bass Guitar, Double Bass
Stephen Davis: Drums
Otto Fischer: Electric Guitar
Alexander Hawkins: Grand Piano, Upright Piano, Sampler
Shabaka Hutchings: Flute, Soprano and Tenor Saxophones

After the album "Togetherness Music", British pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins presents another musical panorama: An ensemble in which his trio with bassist Neil Charles and drummer Stephen Davis meets...

Alexander Hawkins: Piano
“Alexander Hawkins is a creative epicentre from the London jazz scene and is regarded in the UK as one of the most innovative musicians of the younger generation with a surprising radius of action. He plays with Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, Taylor Ho Bynum, Louis Moholo, Shabaka Hutchings and Elaine Mitchener. 'Iron into Wind' is the name of his new piano solo.
The phrase "Iron into Wind" evokes for him both the transience of improvisation and a fascination with solid..

Evan Parker tenor saxophone / Alexander Hawkins piano.

"Saxophone colossus Evan Parker is no stranger to the duo format with a pianist, and the recordings with the likes of Agustí Fernández, Sylvie Courvoisier, Matthew Shipp, Georg Graewe, Stan Tracey, Borah Bergman and John Tilbury are there to confirm it.

His encounter with Alexander Hawkins isn’t just one more experience in that context, however. “Leaps in Leicester” may put him in known territory instrumentally (after all, which...

"Those who claim that 1957 was a good year for the Newport are right on the ball: First of all, many great musicians were in the best of form; check out Basie's reunion with Jimmy Rushing, Lester Young and Jo Jones ( featuring Roy Eldridge and Illinois...

One of the band's classic albums for Charisma, reissued in an expanded edition with an entirely new second disc and a total of 12 bonus tracks and given the superb "Mark Powell treatment", with a booklet filled with photos and liner notes...

“Recorded live at Kozfest 2022 where Hawklords headlined the closing night of this quintessentially British festival at Axminster Showground, Devon, in the UK. A sold-out crowd packed the Daevid Allen Kozmik Stage to thrill to a set that included the title track of the band's 2012 recording debut, We Are One, and a heartfelt version of Ghost In My Machine from the 2017 SIX album, alongside Devil In Your Head from 2018's Brave New World, plus a twisted performance of One Way Trip from 2019's...

A beautifully remastered, bonus track & liner note filled reissue of the band's early best ! This one features all the old gang (Nik! Lemmy! Brock, Del!) plus the addition of Simon House on synths & violin.

I had a dear (now deceased) pal for many years who was a huge Hawkwind fan; got me into them, got me to understand them, got me to go see them (they were great - this was the late 80s). As I recall, this was their last studio album released before he...

This 1979 album finds the group at a peak - different than their early 'space punk' peak, but featuring good playing and pieces and Tim Blake on synths, at a peak nevertheless.

"Recorded, of course, during Hawkwind's 1979 U.K. tour, Live '79...

Bridget Wishart - vocals
Dave Brock - electric guitar, keyboards, vocals
Harvey Bainbridge - keyboards, vocals
Alan Davey - bass guitar, vocals
Simon House - violin
Richard Chadwick – drums

This expanded version of the 1990 album presents the original album of Palace Springs, which was two studio tracks along with a well recorded and generally excellent live album recorded at the Palace Tehatre in Los Angles, 10/10/89 and adds the equally good and spirited California Barnst

“Album #31 for Hawkwind. With so many years, gigs and albums (and former members) under the belt, how do you keep things fresh and interesting?
And when you’ve spaced rocked round the universe and back again a few times and turned things up to ten more times than you’ve had hot dinners, in the words of Nigel Tufnell, where have you got left to go?
Dave Brock’s chance meeting with songwriter and conductor Mike Batt at the US Embassy (applying for Visas apparently) sparked off an idea. Hence the...