“Norwegian composer John Kaada and Mike Patton (Faith No More, Tomahawk, Nevermen) have partnered for Bacteria Cult, the first album from the musicians since 2004’s Romances.
“Working with John Kaada on this latest release was an honor and pure pleasure,” said Patton of resuming work Kaada. “His compositions have always resonated deeply with me and his orchestral arrangements for this project are harmonically dense and delicious! Each individual piece is so well constructed and inventively assembled...

A Christmas album that won't make you want to hurl. The foundation of the incredible vocal force that is Vrttin, the Kaasinen sisters lovingly present their favorite Finnish x-mas songs, arranged by JPP's Timo Alakotila, and performed with an all-star ...

The second album by the band best known for being guitarist Roine Stolt's first professional band. Kaipa were probably the premier symphonic rock group in Sweden in the 70s.

This was originally released in 1976 by Decca and it has not been in...

So, there once was a band called Kaipa in the 70s. It was co-led by Roine Stolt (Flower Kings) and Hans Lundin.
Sometime in the 2000s, the band reformed around Roine and Hans and eventually Roine left and Hans is still doing it under the name Kaipa
So, now Roine is presenting his version, as Kaipa Da Capo.

"New live record from 70's cult band Kaipa Da Capo.
Kaipa were a well know and very prolific band in Sweden between 1974-1980 - they recorded 3 highly successful albums for...

Krazily named new progressive / psychedelic Finnish band, who knocked it out of the ballpark on their third album Ruination and while this, their second, isn't in the same league, a lot of the same attributes that made Ruination great are here as well.
This is a more straight-forwardly shoe-gaze album, but it has more complexity than most of what I know from that genre and some great tunes and mesmerizing ideas. Conditionally highly recommended, but start with Ruination first!...

Henry Kaiser – guitar
John Oswald – alto sax
Paul Plimley – vibes
guests
Scott Amendola – drums
Tracy Silverman – 6-string fiddle

“The three leaders, on AT ONE TIME, Henry Kaiser, John Oswald, and Paul Plimley, have all worked with Cecil Taylor, both in performace and in workshops.
Here, they share their love of the late master Taylor’s music with a celebration of language and narrative strategies that were discovered/pioneered by the great piano maestro.
Two spec

Assembled by Henry Kaiser as his tribute to Derek Bailey - one of Henry's big influences as a player - this very nice digipack consists of about 65% unreleased material and about 35% released-but-often-rare material. It has a very amusing cover which i...

"One of Henry Kaiser's most favorite recording and performing formats is the guitar duet. He has been fortunate to record with many heroes of his, who became his friends; as well as with friends who have become his heroes. That’s what’s being celebrated here. Kaiser has selected some unreleased tracks for this release, as well as out-of-print items from various ancient and obscure recording from his past 40 years of album recordings. Recorded 1977 - 2017." ...

Henry’s latest [at this writing] is this fine overview of his solo work using digital time (delay/repeat) effects.

“More than 45 years ago I was one of the earliest adopters of studio rack effects to radically expand my guitars’ expressive capabilities. One inspiration behind this methodology was my love for solo improvisors who sounded like more than a single musician when performing live. Terry Riley, Evan Parker, Cecil Taylor, and Derek Bailey were early masters of this.
Equally inspiring.

"I have a great love for the feedback tape delay system that Terry Riley developed and named in the 1960’s: The Time Lag Accumulator. It is an amazingly expressive creative tool, and just one of the myriad of wonders that exploded from The San Francisco Tape Music Center. When Robert Fripp and Brian Eno later co-opted this twin Revox tape recorder technology and approach from Riley in 1973 - Fripp dubbed it Frippertronics - that co-opting kinda spoiled this simple long delay with feedback approach to...

State of the art solo, no overdubs, guitar solos for a wide number of different electric and acoustic guitars, all of which have their own voice and Henry allows that voice to speak clearly on each track. And a wonderful homage by Henry to John Fahey's Requia cover, used for page 4 of the booklet. Recommended.

"Research diver, underwater videographer, world traveler, film director and guitarist extraordinaire, Henry Kaiser has been a central figure in the Bay Area music scene since the late...

This new one sort of walks the line between Henry's meditative/trance guitar releases, such as "Everything Forever" and "Garden Of Memory" and the extended vocabulary on guitar he's developed as a solo free improviser over the last 40+ years!

"From the resurrected Metalanguage label comes a new solo guitar release; freshly recorded in December of 2017. All tracks are improvised with no overdubs; just long delays and no looping.
Immediately after returning from his 12th deployment to...

This has Henry on a number of guitars, most of them electric and showcasing his considerable skills and his unique voice on solo guitar. A number of the tracks I found extra-attractive, being variants of the echo-y/watery/spacy music that he used on...

Alan Licht - Guitar and Bass
Henry Kaiser - Guitar and Bass
Rick Walker - Drum
Mikko Biffle - Guitar and Bass

“One of the wildest concepts of any Kaiser record yet.”—Good Times

"Henry Kaiser has made records with many like-minded guitar experimentalists (Derek Bailey, Ray Russell, Nels Cline, Jim O’Rourke, Fred Frith), but Skip to the Solo, his first album with his longtime friend (and one-time student!) Alan Licht, a denizen of multiple underground New York music circles, i

This is an album of ambient guitar duos by these two great players! The first track is peaceful and calming (well, at least so for those attuned to this sort of thing) while the second track is much more ominous. Sort of like the dicotomy of ‘The Heavenly Music Corporation” vs “An Index Of Metals”

“Veteran of free improv and the avant-garde scene Henry Kaiser joins forces with fellow guitar shredder and member of the post-punk/math rock outfit the Messthetics for two side-long guitar...

Henry Kaiser: 1998 Montelone Radio Flyer 7-string guitar
Damon Smith: 1934 Romanian or German flat back double bass

"My third or fourth improv concert was with Henry. We started playing a ton after that and slowly started developing this acoustic duo music. It must have started settling in around 1998 because I remember it being strongly connected to this 7 string guitar. When planning his first trip to Houston to play I asked him very nicely if he could please bring that guitar. He did, and..

This is the previously unavailable music that was made for the documentary. It presents a wide range of guitar-oriented works by two great musicians whose breadth of work on the guitar is quite extensive. There's lots of acoustic stuff with an Americana..

Ian Brighton was one of the second generation of English improvisors. He is a guitarist who actually studied with Derek Bailey (apparently one of the few actually studied with Derek) and he released albums on the Bead label and worked with some of the better known names of the 1st generation of Brit-improv players.
He has been off the scene for 25 years and only recently began to perform again publicly.

"The background to this album has its roots in the year 1977 following their first...

"This is Henry Kaiser's personal favorite of his improvisational albums recorded in the last decade. He considers it to be some of his best guitar-playing ever! Kiku Day is a ji-nashi shakuhachi player from Denmark. She currently explores...

“Recorded in April of 2017, this guitar duet album is a particularly special and unusual one. Like Kaiser’s 1979 classic WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE duet album with Fred Frith, this Kaiser-Kutner recording breaks new ground in an unceasingly entertaining manner. Composed of duets on instruments with coursed pairs of strings, acoustic and electric 12-strings and 8-string bass, the music occupies very unique sonic territories.
John “Drumbo” French originally suggested that the two might find a fruitful...

"...The Celestial Squid is so special... Here are two of the greats....no, the greatest." – Jim O'Rourke

Guitar summits don't ascend higher than when legendary British free-jazz pioneer and longtime session ace Ray Russell...

Subtitled: Henry Kaiser remembers Toshinori Kondo (1948-2020), this is a collection of all previously unreleased recordings by this long standing duo, with the earliest recordings being from 1978 and the most recent being from 2020, which is the year Toshinori died.
In addition to the duo work (2 long pieces and 3 very short pieces), there are two long pieces as trios; one adding Greg Goodman on piano and one adding John Oswald on alto sax.
There’s a lot of ground covered here, but the opening...

"One of the most evocative and successful meetings of East and West reunites to weave their magic spell via kayagum, electric guitar and percussion. Invite the Spirit was a sensation when it was first released in 1983 and now over twenty years later...

A legitimate reissue of this great spacey, psychedelic album from 1972. A duo perform, & the final result is lots of guitars, flute, electric piano and old synthesizers & percussion plus some additional instrumentation, & lots of creepy spoken recitati...