Pretty thorough and even includes his 1949 recordings, which are very good and usually missed by these sorts of anthologies!

“Blind Willie McTell's releases have been anthologized a zillion times, in varying degrees of comprehensiveness. This set does the best job of any *currently* available at collecting not only his own pre-1950 releases, but tracks by others in which he provided guitar backing. There are some pre-1950 tracks that aren't in this set that are or have been available elsewhere...

Noted Scottish singer/improviser Maggie Nicols started the group in 1993. She brought together female singers from the different ethnic communities of Marseille. Scored mostly for duos, with some solos & larger groupings. [Stupeur & Trompette!]

Third, final, and probably the best album by this early Swedish psychedelic/progressive hard rock album, who formed in 1967. They toured the USA in 1970, becoming the first Swedish band to tour the USA and their records were released here and a great...

“No there is nothing wrong with your equipment—the music is supposed to sound like this!
Crawlspace is Medeski at his wildest and most imaginative. Using a huge array of electric and acoustic keyboards, synthesizers mellotron and early electronic gear, he has created a complex and trippy solo project that is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. New and uncharted sonic territory by a legendary musical master who has worked with everyone from The Meters, Irma Thomas and John Scofield to...

Media Banda is a superb & somewhat legendary Chilean progressive rock / fusion / contemporary music ensemble, descended from the also legendary Chilean band, Fulano.
After Fulano stopped, some of the musicians went on to MediaBanda
This is their fourth (out of five) from 2017. We have a very limited number here...

"The 15-piece orchestra ROOT DOWN brings together impressions and experiences of African music – more precisely, the melancholy music of homesick South African musicians in exile and the revolutionary protest music of self-conscious rebels....

In 1986, while Bruno Meillier was playing with the cream of the nascent New York Downtown scene (Ikue Mori, Tom Cora), after a stint with legendary French RIO avant progsters Etron Fou Leloublan), several miles upstate Dan Warburton was studying for Ph...

"Francisco Meirino is a sound artist based in Switzerland. His music explores the tension between programmable material and the potential for its failure. His interest lies primarily in what is not supposed to be recorded: the end of life of electronic devices, electrostatic noise, magnetic fields and the unconventional use of music hardware and sound systems and how to exploit these sonic failures in radically different ways in his sound pieces. His music combines intricate textures, sonic precision...

Myra Melford: piano and melodica
Mary Halvorson: guitar
Susie Ibarra: drums and percussion
Ingrid Laubrock: tenor and soprano saxophones
Tomeka Reid: cello

“Myra Melford has brought together in this unique quintet five outstanding female musicans. This first album is inspired by Cy Twombly; hopefully it won't be the last one.”

“In the world of improvised music, so-called supergroups sometimes feel almost quotidien. After all, there are so many remarkable artists in the

A progressive rock concept work by a new band from Menorca, which is a small island in the Meditteranean and part of Baleares Islands.
The band are influenced by 70s progressive rock bands and the Pink Floyd influence is the most noticeable, but I also hear bits of Camel and more.
The DVD included is a movie for which the CD is the soundtrack. Not sure I know what is going on with all of this, but it’s an ambitious debut and you can see an excerpt of the film and hear some of the music here...

Melissa were a band from Australia and Midnight Trampoline from 1971 was their only studio album. It's a pretty rare collector's item nowadays. This reissue includes a fascinating 16 page booklet and 3 bonus tracks (one track unreleased from the sessions and one pre-album single from a year earlier!)

“The style of the material is pretty diverse because the album includes elements from psych rock, early prog rock, folk and hard rock. Like some users have already mentioned the singer reminds Van...

If you like the sound of Charlemagne Palestine's piano works, Melnyk's album is not dissimilar, although perhaps a bit more 'romantic'. Really nice stuff. I had never even heard of him or this album until now...

"Single CD featuring recordings of Tuvan folk music and throat-singing from 1969 with liner notes by noted world music scholar Dr. Pekka Gronow of the University of Helsinki. With the advent of the folk music revival in the 1960s, a new interest in...

Sebastiano Meloni-piano, Adriano Orru-double bass and Tony Oxley-drums.

''Melt Banana is the defining band of New Japanese Hardcore...their songs combine compositional complexity and improvisational noise with the power of a locomotive going full blast through a brick wall. Recorded during their tour of the States in 1998,...

Sandro Amadei - keyboards
Stefano Amadei - guitars, Irish bouzouki
Alessandro Bosca - bass
Simone Caffè - guitars
Francesco Fiorito - drums
Emanuela Vedana - vocals
with
Stefano Cabrera - cello (5, 6)
Fabrizio Salvini - percussion (3, 6); flute (6)
Hanako Tsushima - violin (10)

“Melting Clock is a musical project born in the Faculty of Physics, University of Genoa, in 2001. At the time the group’s aim, which brought together experienced musicians and beg

Virginia Genta - amplified and processed sopranino saxophone
Michele Mazzani - electric guitar and electronics
David Vanzan - electronics
Matteo Poggi - electronics

“This recording comes from a memorable show the band performed during their first (and so far last) tour in France. The concert had been a heavy mass of around 90 minutes, of whom only a part was caught on cassette, as nobody remembered to flip side when it was time. Anyway what got recorded is here, and it's still...

Aaron Siegel, percussion/Matt Bauder,reeds/ Zach Wallace, bass.

"The music played by Matt Bauder, Zach Wallace and Aaron Siegel - the three sides of the group Memorize The Sky - is like a sudden cold dive on the sea in a very hot summer day...

"Only this disc's short length (34 minutes) qualifies as something worthy of complaint; otherwise, this is seminal blues piano, performed by a great player and singer, Memphis Slim. This 1959 session had everything: super piano solos, a strong lineup of horn players, clever, well-written and sung lyrics, and a seamless pace that kept things moving briskly from beginning to end. Other than Slim, instrumental honors go to guitarist Matt Murphy, a marvelous accompanist who was able to blend sophistication...

"Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last CD he will release. From now on he'll be releasing his music on LP only or on DVD to...

Ava Mendoza – guitar

“Ava Mendoza plays these songs. She makes them sing. Her technique is impeccable, but her playing is astonishingly expressive. She doesn't just bend blue notes; she wads them up into a ball and throws them up against a wall. She manipulates raw lightning, giving us a sound that is fluorescent and powerful enough to leave a trace of ozone in the air. Mendoza knows what she does better than almost anyone else on the planet, which is tell stories with her guitar.”

“Misha Mengelberg came to Chicago for two days in 1998, made some music in the studio and in concert with a host of musicians, and went home. Which leaves us with memories.
Fortunately there's this gem left behind, these two albums, containing a timeless message. Sounds that do not express, they signify, they exist.
Misha Mengelberg was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. A prominent figure in post-WWII European Jazz, Mengelberg is known for his forays into free improvisation, for bringing humor.

I can't say that I am particularly knowledgable about Brazilian music in general or even about progressive Brazilian music, but there is a definite strain of progressive Brazilian music, typified by the work of Hermeto Pascoal that I personally find...