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I can't really describe this because it's basically indescribable, but I'll try. Por Por music is music for honk horns (think that horn on your old bicycle with a rubber bulb) that developed by truck drivers in Ghana. The music features vocal chants...

"Featuring the velvety vocals of Jennifer Charles and the imaginative arrangements of Oren Bloedow, this is an original blend of pop, funk and rock. Their first Tzadik CD, La Mar Enfortuna is a sensuous and lyrical interpretation of traditional Sephardic

"Labradford gradually developed their ambient rock excursions throughout the ’90s, growing from a duo to a trio and bringing more instrumentation to the mix. This is, to a certain extent, what all bands and artists must do to maintain relevance...

"Eight pieces like eight flashbacks to a bygone daily sonic life. A nostalgia-prone stroll down obsolescence lane. Eight pieces like eight memories and stories, true or fictional, happy or sad, in Technicolor or smell-o-rama. The pieces include:...

Includes Joane Hetu, M.F. Cote, Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay, Martin Ttrault & others.

''The fortunate encounter of three soundmakers - who are making music from collages, sound spaces & raw noises; interferences, pops, & frying sounds. It is based on extreme usuage of minimal sound material.''

Purely improvised music from keyboardist Labrosse & turntablist Tetreault. "Labrosse has given up referencial phrases and works only with abstract elements, while Tetreault has abandoned the use of lps & turned to the turntables intrinsic sound potenti...

A record based on improvisation, interactive listening & exploration. Using a hybrid set of elec. & acoustic percussion controlling a DAT deck, Cte is both rhythmical & melodic. Labrosse responds on sampling keyboard, creating melodies, only to break &...

All previously unreleased duets recorded between 1982-94, & featuring the soprano sax master with Derek Bailey, Bobby Few, George Lewis, Steve Potts, Roswell Rudd, Masahiko Togashi, Mal Waldron & others. [Felmay]

"The first in a series of recordings from Steve Lacy's cassette archive- authorized by Irene Aebi. When Steve Lacy passed away in June, 2004, he left behind an archive of more than 300 private recordings – mostly cassette tapes of concerts dating from...

Solo soprano sax works. ''Recorded at his home in Paris from February to April 1998, Sands is Steve Lacy's most personal and remarkable solo document, and explores a wide variety of musical and dramatic subjects. Portraits of close friends Barney Wilen...


This has a number of good titles by the great man that have been hard to find for a number of years. Lacy is someone I came late to, and for whom his huge discography is utterly overwhelming. But I've got a bunch now that I really treasure. So, if only...

Special price on this classic ESP release, recorded in concert October 8, 1966 in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a good band, all of whom would go on to some renown and all getting their first international recognition here: Enrico Rava-trumpet, Johnny...

This classy duo of Lacy-soprano sax & Waldron-piano have been working together for a long time & just keep getting better."The performances are uniformly excellent."-Richard Cook/Brian Morton 'Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD'. [Slam]

"One of the great soprano saxists of all time." - All Music Guide

"...a trombonist of such sweeping power and majesty that he transcends all styles." - New York Times

Until his death in 2004, soprano saxist Steve Lacy worked with...

"Yves Laferrière’s eponymous solo album, originally released on Le Tamanoir in 1978) is quite unknown and underrated. Laferrière was bassist for most of the stuff reviewed in the article to this point. On guitar is René Lussier (Conventum, Quatre Guita...

"Commissioned by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2007, “Espaço” is more than a wonderful jazz piano trio record. Architecture is the motive sustaining this geometric but organic music: the idea of regular and irregular structures, continuous and...

''Venosta & Mariani have long been concerned with manipulating & reconfiguring found musical objects, often using ethnic musics as source material. Rather than find music in the field, they have employed brilliant Flamenco guitarist Lagos. Eleven guita...

"This is an exciting display of 6 string prowess that really isn't classical, yet will inevitably become a classic. It is an amazing tour de force worthy of the California Guitar Trio. The efforst here focus on composers and players who are heroes to...

Very specially priced double album of non-laptop electronic music. "Lainhart's music rings true to the spirit of possibility that once defined electronic music. It brings with it a sense of past, present and future that transcends time, technology and ...

Greg Lake - The Voice of a Generation. From his initial days in the explosive London music scene of the late 1960s, through his time as founding member and voice of rock innovators King Crimson, and legendary British rock band, Emerson, Lake and Palmer...

''Bun-Ching Lam's extended composition '...Like Water' is an evocative and imaginative work, as sensuous as its title. A native of Macau, now living in NYC, Lam has studied composition with Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, and Robert Erickson, and has...

''For her second Tzadik CD, Lam has assembled some of the greatest traditional music performers of China and matched them with some of NY's most creative instrumentalists in creating a beautiful and lyrical meeting of western art music and Chinese trou...

Susana Santos Silva, trumpet, electronics / Gonçalo Almeida, double bass, effects and loops / Greg Smith, drums.

"The particularly dynamic and inventive Portuguese jazz scene has a new front with the trio Lama. Curiously enough, the project was..

"Remixed and remastered for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Andrew Lamb’s New Orleans Suite is a testament to the continued power and relevance of jazz, pouring out a wide range of emotions for listeners: shock, anger, sadness, and hope...

"This recording is a collection of 11 spontaneously improvised pieces using Lambert drawings as graphic scores, each seeking to combine visual and musical expression into a single, cohesive language. Named after the trips to Los Angeles and Pernes...

"These rare recordings made between 1970-1973 are now available on CD for the first time. Transferred from the original master tapes this recording finds saxophonist and free-jazz legend Byard Lancaster playing his trademark sound in a live setting. At...

"Originally recorded and released in 1979, this recording finds jazz musician Byard Lancaster in a solo setting playing on a variety of instruments that includes piano, flute, piccolo, bass clarinet, voice, soprano and alto saxes and percussion...

In early 2003 Jonn Buzby relocated to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and reformed Land of Chocolate. The new line-up features lead guitarist John Covach, a long-time prog veteran who is also one of the leading experts on the history of progressive rock....

This is the second effort of a four-piece band fronted by ex-Finneus Gauge drummer Jonn Buzby, now handling lead vocal and keyboard duties. There is also guitar, bass, drums and backing vocals. The music is overall somewhat closer to Echolyn than Finne...

This is the debut effort of a four-piece band fronted by ex-Finneus Gauge drummer Jonn Buzby, here handling lead vocal and keyboard duties. The album also features ex-echolyn drummer Jordan Perlson and was recorded at the studio run by echolyn guitaris...



Their seventh full length album in seven years, Brocade is a turning point for Landing, one that simultaneously harkens back to their roots as hushed drone rockers while journeying onwards into starkly minimalist, utterly cosmic terrain. Reverting inwa...

The 2nd full length from this lo-fi spacerock outfit, which feature guitars, synthesizers, bass, drums, electronics, etc. all heavily processed into a very pleasing bunch of shoegazer soundscapes! They've toured with Windy & Carl, and this is comparabl...

"First ever CD reissue of this little known classic from founding Philip Glass Ensemble member Richard 'Dickie' Landry. Following two jazz LPs issued on the Chatham Square label (which he co-ran), Dickie Landry released Fifteen Saxophones, a set of 1974..

Mark Whitecage, alto saxophone, clarinet / Adam Lane, double bass / Lou Grassi, drums.

"In addition to being a superb bassist, Adam Lane is a composer with superior skills. Drummer Lou Grassi and saxophonist Mark Whitecage are better known as...

Nate Wooley, trumpet / Taylor Ho Bynum, trumpet / David Bindman, tenor, soprano sax / Avram Fefer, alto sax, clarinet / Matt Bauder, tenor sax, baritone sax / Reut Regev, trombone / Tim Vaughn, trombone / Adam Lane, bass / Igal Foni, drums...

"Adam Lane is doing some magic. If you didn’t noticed, here’s a new opportunity you shouldn’t miss. And why? Because the bassist, composer and arranger is taking the big band format in jazz (in this case a septet) some steps beyond. You know there’s not m

"Starflowers is the fascinating debut recording from Norwegian vocalist and kantele player Sinikka Langeland. The album is a brilliant confluence of folk music, sung poetry and Nordic improvisation. A folk singer from Finnskogen, Norway's `Finnish...

Sinikka Langeland, vocals
Arve Henriksen, trumpet
Trygve Seim, soprano and tenor saxophones
Anders Jormin, double-bass
Markku Ounaskari, drums

"Further adventures at the interstices of folk music and jazz-rooted improvisation

Pierre Langevin and Pierre Tanguay worked together within Strada (an ensemble dedicated to popular middle-ages repertoire). On this album we find them taking a very ludic and disarming turn towards modernity. An armada of objects and small instruments,...


"This 2-CD set features Maneige co-founder and composer Jerome Langlois performing live in a number of settings. The first disc is the Molignak ensemble's performance at FMPM 2006. This group featured three ex-members of Maneige, the bassist of Octobre...

"This 2-CD set features Maneige co-founder and composer Jerome Langlois performing live in a number of settings. The first disc is the Molignak ensemble's performance at FMPM 2006. This group featured three ex-members of Maneige, the bassist of Octobre...

Jerome was a founding member of the very fine Quebecois band Maneige, writing and performing on their 1st two albums, which were some of the band's highlights. For the last 30 years, he's been doing soundtrack-type work, and it reflects that, but it al...

New, sealed copy. Back of digipack is dented.

Lansky records source material (spoken voice, blues harmonica, electric guitar), & then converts it into digital form where he can process & transform these raw materials via computer. [New Albion]

Lanvall is the leader, guitarist and main composer of the prog-metal band Edenbridge. Having said that, this originally appeared in 1994 and is a soft, instrumental symphonic rock-styled album that will definitely appeal to fans of the mellow side of...