“Rediscovered and compiled for release shortly before her death in November 2023, Further Selections from the Electric Harpsichord presents a never-before-heard recording of composer and artist Catherine Christer Hennix's early magnum opus. Originally debuted in 1976 at the festival Brouwer's Lattice at Stockholm's Moderna Museet, The Electric Harpsichord has steadily mystified fans and students of Western minimalist music for it's implacable, transformative qualities, and the long-held, relative...

"Henriksen played in various jazz ensembles in his youth before co-forming Supersilent in 1997. His trumpet, augmented with effects and electronics, has appeared with David Sylvian, Terje Rypdal, Nils Petter Molvær, Jon Balke, Terje Isungset and Iain...

"Cosmic Creation follows and expands upon Arve Henriksen's 2013 album Places of Worship, a series of tone poems and mood pieces located around religious buildings and ruins. With Cosmic Creation he has gone beyond physical place to an audio...

“The Height Of The Reeds started as a commissioned work to the city of Hull, Great Britain´s cultural capital 2017. Composed by Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang, the work celebrates the longstanding seafaring relationship between Hull and Scandinavia. It was originally the musical companion to a sound walk that took place in April, May and June 2017. Those who took part could listen to the music on headphones while crossing the Humber Bridge. Initially intended for April only, the arrangement....

"With Towards Language, trumpeter Arve Henriksen is back with his trusted long-time musical partners Jan Bang and Erik Honoré. Also, an important part of the line-up is Eivind Aarset, the ECM associated guitarist extraordinaire. Towards Language is Arve's ninth album (eight on Rune Grammofon and one on ECM) under his own name. Asked to comment on his new album, and its title, here's what he has to say: "To express something on your own can be quite challenging at times. I have, for years, been in...

The last of the Henry Cow albums on Virgin, this includes their amazing final BBC session; 25' of Henry Cow perfection, a small taste of the famous shows that they performed with Robert Wyatt and a lot of purely free improvisation or prepared free improvisation, which is what they were doing live at this time.
This has been out of print for a bit now and is always in demand, and it has been remastered by Bob Drake and sounds significantly better to my ears!

"Originally released in 197

This features very strong playing & compositions coupled with a ''lightness'' of sound unlike any of their other albums; the closest Cow ever got to sounding like Hatfield & The North!

Nearly 8 years after the big box set by Henry Cow was unleashed on the world, they’ve made the sets available individually!

“Lindsay Cooper had joined Henry Cow for their Unrest album, replacing founding member/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Geoff Leigh. Trondheim is a recording of the band's May 1976 concert in Trondheim Norway, when Henry Cow was a quartet, immediately after Greaves departure from the band, and without singer Dagmar Krauss, who was too ill to perform at the time...

This is high quality live Swedish radio recordings from Goteborg (1975 - with John Greaves) and Stockholm (1977 - with Georgie Born). The sound is great here; Bob Drake worked from the original 8 track and stereo 2 track masters and you can finally hear Tim's follow-up masterpiece to "Living in the Heart of the Beast", entitled "Erk Gah". There's also some nice improvisations and other tunes and Fred's never otherwise released "The March", which is a really great one as well. Highly recommended...

Nearly 8 years after the big box set by Henry Cow was unleashed on the world, they’ve made the sets available individually!
Material from the very end of Henry Cow's existence, demonstrating where the group may've gone had it continued.
Mostly live with some studio outtakes, there’s still lots of surprises here (covering Thelonious Monk?)

“Assembled over 15 years, this collection gives for the first time some idea of the breadth and depth of Henry Cow’s work. Always very much a live band.

“You love great music, especially jazz, but you've grown tired of so much of the same old, same old? Tired of "waiting for the solo" on most jazz since the late 1990s? Tired of the discordant crap being passed off as "sophisticated"? Wondering what happened to the great jazz musicians who can compose a song you can groove to, play like nobody's business, but serve the music rather than an ego?
] Took me about 5 years to get my Esbjorn Svensson Trio out of my CD player, then it took a couple years to...

Nick Broste, trombone / John Beard, guitar / Greg Danek, bass / Nate Lepine, flute / David McDonnell, alto saxophone and clarinet / Partick Newbery, trumpet and flugelhorn / Dylan Ryan, drums and vibraphone.

"The density of the “assemblages of..

Very rare hard rock/progressive album by an Italian trio of guitar/vocals, bass and drums that was only released in Germany on a tiny label and never reissued until now.

"A very pleasant music style overall, at times close to harder New Trolls, but Hero are mainly influenced by the hard-prog style of the british bands of the Seventies released on the historic Vertigo label. This nice CD reissue was licensed by band members and is packaged in a gorgeous papersleeve CD including a detailed booklet...

Joe Hertenstein, drums / Pascal Niggenkemper, double bass / Thomas Heberer, quarter-tone trumpet.

"Jazz is the new nomadism – it is played “on the road” – and it is also an immigration factor. HNH, the debut recording of drummer/composer Joe...

"Handmade is the 1st CD by Frank Herzberg, a German bassist who has lived in Brazil for almost 2 decades. His trio is completed by Zé Eduardo Nazário, one of the most active drummers in Brazil (Hermeto Pascoal, Egberto Gismonti, Grupo Um, Pau Brazil...

“All In Good Time is the latest step in Monika Herzig's ongoing mission to elevate women composers, players and bandleaders. This fourth outing under the banner Sheroes, an all-female band spearheaded by pianist, prolific composer and arranger Herzig, is simultaneously a celebration of the group's 10th anniversary and a salute to their perseverance. "This group has pushed quite a few boundaries and inspired similar formations and initiatives," said Herzig. "However, change takes time and we're seeing...

"The band were co-led by Dominique Weeks and Cass Davies, two of the prime movers in London's underground music scene during the 80's, here joined by Catherine Jauniaux and Tim Hodgkinson. Though many fans have likened them to a melding of Harry Partch with The Residents, Het performed music which defies categorizing, other than to say that it was a unique and intense product of its time and place: Complex, highly percussive, primal, densely orchestrated, angst-ridden, artful,meticulously constructed and...

“Nouvelle musique d’hiver” consists of four movements in which musicians improvise from a canvas and compositional design. - 1. Joyeux temps; evocation of the first snowfalls and the Holiday season - 2. Être dans le vent; a tribute to wind and fire...

Satirist, social critic, stand-up comedian. This DVD contains everything your parents hate, everything the chruch preaches against, everything the government fears. Enjoy! 3 1/2 hours long!

Mélissa Acchiardi - banjo prepared drums, synthesizer, vocals
Aëla Gourvennec - cello, vocals

At it’s best, this charming duo sound like an a French, female, indie pop take on the Skeleton Crew esthetic of being a two-person 'one-man band'! Conditionally recommended.

“These are songs with everything you can put in them: lyrics, sounds, timbres, funny, startling, suspenseful. There are those that have been lingering in the back of our throats for too long, those that knock on doors...

Hot on the heels of their excellent performance at NEARFest 2004 comes the 3rd (?) release by this Finnish spacerock band, which is housed in a really nice and clever cardboard art-sleeve (be careful opening it so you don't hurt it!). Dual guitars, key...

Quite excellent spacerock album by this previously unknown to me Finish band. Guitars, keyboards, flute, bass & drums, with touches of wordless vocals and other things going on (I can't be too specific, because they were so busy making a nice package o...

“British guitarist Mike Cooper collaborates with Hifiklub, a French instrumental ensemble from Toulon, for an impressive musical reading of Robert J. Flaherty's 1934 silent film Man of Aran.
Since 2007, French quartet Hifiklub has been building a protean work that evolves through an impressive series of collaborations. The band's catalog is wide and far-reaching, and includes more than 130 collaborations with such renowned musicians as Lee Ranaldo, Alain Johannes, Jad Fair, Fatso Jetson, R. Stevie....

"A fabulous release by this Canadian instrumental band that blends latin, r&b, soul, film soundtracks, jazz and more into moody and infectious grooves. Bret Higgins is no stranger to Tzadik, performing on the 2014 release Zebrina and performing with....