“The magic and the voice of Edward Ka-spel (Legendary Pink Dots) meet the ambient and psychedelic prog of Italian duo Motion Kapture, formed by Stefano Rossello (Bahntier, Ketvector) and Filippo Corradin (Bahntier, Lingams & Yoni). Alien Subspace captures and transports us into electronic synth spaces where guitars and basses are dilated in order to catapult us into eclectic stories and visions that only the inspired and melodic voice of Edward Ka-spel knows how to create. The songs are enthralling and...

"First ever collaboration between Edward Ka-Spel (from The Legendary Pink Dots and Tear Garden) and Steven Stapleton (from Nurse With Wound). It's been years they both wanted to work together and Bisou Records made that happen when they offered them a side on this split LP. The other side is the first musical meeting of Colin "the master of drone" Potter and French sax player Quentin Rollet (The Red Krayola, Mendelson, Nurse With Wound, Prohibition, David Grubbs, Thierry Müller, Ilitch). That first take...

Sylvain Kassap: clarinet, clarinet bass
Benjamin Duboc: double bass, voice

“Kassap and Duboc take their listeners across a tightrope of carefully balanced, masterfully evolving free conversation.”

Achim Kaufmann, piano / Robert Landfermann, double bass / Christian Lillinger, drums.

"Don't let the picture fool you: these three German musicians may be quite young, but they are real masters at their respective instruments. Achim Kaufmann...

Ketil Vestrum Einarsen
alto & soprano flutes, tenor horn, treated flute, hulusi,electric piano, saxxy, spektrals, EWI synthesizer
Rhys Marsh
voices, electric guitar, acoustic piano, bass guitar, Fender Rhodes, Mellotron, drum.

First time ever on CD outside of Japan.

“Ryo Kawasaki's groundbreaking Jazz Fusion album "Ring Toss" is set for an eagerly anticipated reissue on both CD and digital formats, bringing his seminal work to a new generation of listeners and longtime fans alike.
Originally recorded and produced in 1977 by Kawasaki and Hank O'Neal, this influential album features eight tracks and is being re-released by the renowned Chiaroscuro Records, showcasing Kawasaki's visionary talent and profound impact..

“An album 20 years in the making, the first solo work from former Yes member Tony Kaye.Marking the events and the journey that followed the world changing moments of 9/11, End Of Innocence is designed to be listened to in it's entirety. Featuring Dani Torchia who Kaye met in the wake of 9/11 who has written and performs on the album. Tony Kaye retired from Yes in 1996, and came out of retirement the week following the events of 9/11 and began to write this album, the power of it's music helped Tony to...

"...multi-instrumentalists Toby Driver and Mia Matsumiya lull you into a dream state with a small cavalcade of instrumentation, plying an almost noir sensibility at once moody and contemplative, bristling and demure. An unclassifiable masterpiece."

"Kayo Dot warned that Coffins on Io, their new album, was going to be different. In the PR-cast baited hook that accompanied the original announcement, leader Toby Driver said as much: "Basically the vibe that we're going for here is inspired by 80s...

"Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. From chamber music to progressive black metal, from goth to jazz and avant-garde classical, Kayo Dot is undeniably experimental and utterly unclassifiable. Since it's inception in 2003, the band has released seven full-length albums, including their debut Choirs of the Eye (2003), the conceptual double-album Hubardo (2013) and most recently Coffins on Io (2014, The Flenser). On Plastic House on Base of Sky, Kayo Dot fully embraces Coffins on Io's electronic...

NEARfest 2006 will get off to a rousing start with the fiery symphonic fusion Japanese quartet KBB. Led by the alternately subtle and searing electric violin work of Akihisa Tsuboy, contrasted with the outstanding Keith Emerson- and Dave Stewart-influe...

''Enigmatic'' noise-making musician/guitarist Haino is the man of the moment in certain circles. This is performed mostly on hand percussion & ''impassioned'' vocals. I dunno; I thought this was pretty much a big wank! [Tzadik]

“Hypnotic guitar playing swirls throughout this superbly melancholic folk rock LP, privately issued in ‘76 alongside Crooked Oaks debut.
Brilliant songs that edge towards Roy Harper. Dave Keir provides the sleeve notes. the LP is characterised by stunning, exquisite finger picked guitar of the highest order, the compositions are deep, dark and magical, infused with a sense of sorrow.”

Aly Keita: Balafon
Jan Galega Bronnimann: Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone
Lucas Niggli: Drums

"Aly Keita is one of the grand masters of the balafon, the West African xylophone. The Ivorian musician fits the balafon in interaction with artists such as Joe Zawinul, Omar Sosa and Jan Garbarek. Together with the Swiss clarinetist Jan Galega Bronnimann and Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli Keita mixes the traditional African repertoire with Western jazz, Improvisation and...

Rodd Keith was the musical auteur of MSR's send-us-your-lyrics record label (aspiring songwriters send in their poems [& their $] & get back their poems put to ''music''). America's most wretched lyrics transformed by a churn-'em-out sensibility. Total...

"Guitarist/composer/conductor/vocalist Derek Keller was born in Philadelphia and now resides in La Jolla, California. A former student of Roger Reynolds, George Crumb and Brian Ferneyhough, his work is intense and remarkably colorful. Blending diverse...

Last chance to pick this up, as Fallout have gone bust. Last copies and available at a bargain price!

"East Coast singer-songwriter Peter Kelley made two superb albums, of which this is the first. An atmospheric blend of bluesy downer folk and...

Mike Keneally's first album in well over two years is also the recorded debut of the tight and powerful Mike Keneally Band: Mike on guitar, keyboards and lead vocals, Rick Musallam on guitar and vocals, Bryan Beller on bass and Nick D'Virgilio on drums...

"Mike's classic '90s Immune releases are now safely home at Exowax Recordings, the label co-owned by Mike and his manager Scott Chatfield. "This album is the sound of someone who can't believe he's finally being allowed to make a real live solo album...

PROMO

“Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney are two are musicians who have established themselves as powerful voices working at a unique intersection of contemporary composition, improvisation, and Asian traditional music forms. Either individually or as a pair, they have worked in contexts ranging from performances of traditional Persian and Javanese music to collaborations with Sunn O))), but their work together as a duo most clearly represents the central concerns of their diverse practices: a music of the inner....

Kenso have been making great progressive jazz/rock albums for 35 years. This 1992 release was the band's seventh album and their second live album and it's another killer, solid release of 50% jazz/rock and 50% symphonic rock.
Kenso are a band with a zillion live albums, but having seen them (lucky me!) I can kind of appreciate why they have done this, as they are absolutely monster's in a live setting. Like most of their work from the 80s and 90s, it's been unavailable for a long while...

Lucie V – Vocals
Chris Egan – Reeds, Woodwinds, Wind Synth
Danny Chang – Guitars
Rik Loveridge – Hammond Organ, Synths
Phil Warren – Bass
James Hall – Drums

“The follow up to last year’s The Last Harvest see’s this Canterbury scene inspired band gain a couple of new members (drummer James Hall and woodwind player Chris Egan). It was recorded over a 40 day period, where the band worked quickly and, according to the press release, discarded anything that didn’t fit. What you