“Mitten’s ‘post-minimal’ style is inspired by everyone from Wagner to Reich, and these grandly cinematic pieces are rich with pizzicato strings, sweeping violins, blaring trumpets and burbling modern woodwinds. His clever programming ensures you’re only occasionally reminded you’re not listening to a real, 100-piece orchestra.”-PROG MAGAZINE – March 2021

“The two-hour album comprises cinematic orchestral recompositions of all of the material contained on Twelfth Night's three seminal albums...

“This is the follow-up to Clive Mitten’s highly acclaimed first volume covering, in his own ‘cinematic orchestral’ style, some the music that inspired him in his earlier years, mostly dating from the 1970s. The double album includes some of the best-known artists and some of their best-loved songs, beautifully interpreted, in this the second volume in the series.
Clive studied piano and classical guitar at school. In 1978, at Reading University, he became a founding member of the progressive rock...

"The highly anticipated official reissue of holy grail album MKWAJU by acclaimed Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's MKWAJU Ensemble, sourced from the original masters.
Originally recorded in February and March 1981 and released by fabled Japanese avant-garde label Better Days (home of Ryuichi Sakamato's debut album, Yasuaki Shimizu's Kakashi (1982), Colored Music's self-titled LP, MKWAJU is the fruit of the collaboration between Takada's crew and world-famous composer/musical director Joe...

Joëlle Léandre: double bass
Fred Frith: electric guitar
Alvin Curran: piano, synthesizer, samples
Urs Leimgruber: tenor and soprano saxophone

"This is powerful music, even dangerous. Not just because of this quartet’s name - MillsMusicMafia (aka MMM) - which offers some irreverent tendencies among its musicians. It is dangerous because of its suggestive power on us, a power that transcends the music, forming it into a deep spiritual experience one that may motivate us to kick out...

The 3rd release by this acclaimed organized sound group from Colorado, & their first, classic, which is a high-water mark of churning sonic storms. This is some of their finest work.

"...reminiscent of peering through a mircoscope at a drop of pond water: There's a lot more going on than you'd ever suspect."-Option

"Mnemonists were the precursor to Biota, essentially the same band with a different name, and a slightly more alien quality to their stream of consciousness expression...

Lorenzo Cellupica - piano, organ, keyboards and vocals
Nico Fabrizi - tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, percussions
Eros Capoccitti - electric bass, percussions
Davide Ruffo - drums and percussions

“We can breathe air of summer in the music of this band originally from Sora (FR); known on the music scene initially with the name of “Yellow cake”, jazz fusion band.
In 2017 they released the first and self-titled album with the current name and musicians. After 4 years, the....

Bartok was one of THE greatest composers of the last century and his work in adapting and transcribing Eastern European folk music is sublime.

"Anyone who at any time in their life has heard a sensitive performance of a single work by Bartok, can feel that his works have some kind of more or less hidden message. That they are perfect acoustic crystalline structures, is of course what makes him one of the most important composers of all time, but for the listener, what counts, is the primary...

Hafez Modirzadeh - tenor saxophone (2-5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17)
Kris Davis - piano (3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 16)
Tyshawn Sorey - piano (2, 5, 8, 10, 14, 17)
Craig Taborn - piano (1, 7, 11, 13, 15, 18)

“Facets is saxophonist/composer Hafez Modirzadeh’s latest radical entreaty against the cultural hegemony of the Western notion of equal temperament and his argument that musicians should be free to explore a variety of tonal possibilities, even on piano. His 2012 release Post-Chromodal Out!.

"Scintillating ... a radical cultural exchange"-New York Times

"Thick with ideas and inspiration."-Los Angeles Times

"Post-Chromodal Out! represents the next step in Iranian-American saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh’s quest to create a...

M.E. (Blue Effect) were one of the very best Czech progressive bands of the 70s, led by guitarist Radim Hladik, who is still remembered fondly by many. This is the awaited issue of what I consider to be their best album. From 75, this is an all instrumental fusion/progressive oriented work with tasty guitarwork taking the spotlight. Also includes 2 bonus tracks! Start here with this minor classic & work backwards.

M.E. (Blue Effect) were one of the very best Czech progressive bands of the 70s, led by guitarist Radim Hladik, who is still remembered fondly by many. This is their 1st album from '70 & is am early psych/prog Eastern Euro classic. Includes 7 bonus tra...

Surprisingly, this is a legitimate release of a huge rarity from Brazil that goes for huge money, and which, for once, is not only rare, but really good! This is very, very excellent psychedelic/proto-prog material, recorded in 1970 and performed on...

"Dieter Moebius (1944-2015) was one of the most important protagonists of avant-garde electronic music in Germany. He was a founding member of Kluster/Cluster (with Conrad Schnitzer and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and Harmonia (with Michael Rother and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and worked with several artists such as Brian Eno, Conny Plank, Mayo Thompson, Hellmut Hattler, Asmus Tietchens, Mani Neumeier, Arno Steffen, Jürgen Engler, Jean Hervé Peron, Zappi Diermaier, and Chris Karrer. In 2012, Dieter Moebius was...

"This album was made for the movie "Blue Moon" (1986). The original lp was released on Sky Records in 1986. Reissue with elaborate miniature paper sleeve of the original lp. Digital remaster version, limited 1,000 copies!!"

"In 1984, two years after their first album collaboration, Strange Music, Dieter Moebius and Gerd Beerbohm issued their second LP, Double Cut. It bore the same distinctive hallmarks as its predecessor, but this time around, the two musicians had...

"En Route was created in 1986, when the era of analog synths and rhythm machines seemed to be drawing to a close. Drum computers, samplers and digital instruments such as the Synclavier and Fairlight CMS would shape the immediate future of electronic...

This is a really great one, Krautrock fans. Don't miss this, which is somewhat unusual in the oeuvre and one of the late period great ones!

"Dieter Moebius and Conny Plank got to know each other through their work on Cluster's 1971 album and remained close friends until Plank's death in 1987. They made a congenial pair as musicians, as amply demonstrated by their first album as a duo, Rastakraut Pasta, originally released on Sky Records in 1980.

On this album, drums, electric guitars...

"The first release of Dieter Moebius and Karl Renziehausen, a painter. The original lp was released on Pinpoint Records in 1990. Reissue with elaborate miniature paper sleeve of the original lp. Digital remaster version, limited 1,000 copies!!"

"The second release of Dieter Moebius and Karl Renziehausen. The tracks were recorded in 1991-92 and released on Nova Era in 1992. Reissue with special miniature paper sleeve. Digital remaster version, limited 1,000 copies!!"

"17 years after Other Places, a sophomore album from these innovative musicians. Dieter Moebius (Kluster, Cluster, Harmonia), Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru) and Jürgen Engler (Male, Die Krupps) got back together to carry on exactly where they left off in...

One of the great ones from the Moebius axis.

"In 1983, Dieter Moebius (Cluster) and legendary producer Conny Plank teamed up for the third time, resulting in the Zero Set project, originally released on Sky Records. On this occasion, they...

"Many brightly shining planets orbit the twin central star of Cluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius). To be clear: as soloists Roedelius and Moebius have long since worked with all kinds of musicians whose congenial contributions add even...

"Dieter Moebius - one half of the legendary duo Cluster and the godfather of electronic krautrock - passed away in the summer of 2015. Bureau B are reissuing his final four solo albums. Following on from Blotch and Nurton, reissued in 2016, Kram and Ding now complete the quartet."

"If Dieter Moebius' previous album Kram was an irreverent mélange of bright synthetic textures, 2011's Ding might be considered Moebi's industrial album. There is a cyclical, mechanical feel to many of the pieces here...

"On the second album of his late solo work, 2006's Nurton, krautrock legend Dieter Moebius (1944-2015) searches for flaws and uses them as a creative impulse. As usual, he blithely ignores any mainstream expectations. In science, an experiment is defined as an attempt to methodically gain information by systematically varying parameters. The results then confirm or refute the hypothesis or the model of the experiment. In art, however, confirmation is not of interest. Far more exciting are the flaws. They...