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Includes five complete albums, most with bonus tracks!
Straight No Chaser
Underground
Criss Cross
Monk's Dream
Solo Monk

“Thelonious Monk (piano/arranger) began his illustrious relationship with Riverside Records on the pair of July 21 and 27, 1955, dates needed to complete the eight sides for Plays Duke Ellington (1955).
Monk commands a trio that also presents the talents of Oscar Pettiford (bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums) on all the tracks sans "Solitude," which appropriately enough features an unaccompanied piano. The delicacy and inherently intricate melodies that Duke Ellington is best known for are perfectly....

"Alternate takes on a Monk solo LP are a revelation, and this reissue of his 1965 Columbia solo LP is packed with seven of them, plus an additional bonus track!"

"The mystery and haunting angular beauty of Thelonious Monk's unadorned keyboard sides are the focus of Solo Monk. As if holding the history of jazz in his hands, Monk's solo recordings and performances from every phase of his career remain pure."-All Music Guide


This is the seventh album from this spacerock band from Switzerland working a heavy, modern version of the style, which includes plenty of stoner rock influence and also a lot of 1970-era Pink Floyd.

“Instrumental rockers MONKEY3 have buckled up for their next interstellar journey: nestled somewhere in between space rock, psych, stoner and progressive, this four piece is infamous for its onstage intensity that has crowned prestigious festivals such as Roadburn, Hellfest and Desertfest...

This is the eighth album from this spacerock / technical band from Switzerland working a heavy, modern version of the style, which includes plenty of stoner rock influence and also a lot of 1970-era Pink Floyd.

“Welcome To The Machine's musical themes are inspired by movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix, Sunshine, Solaris and 1984, while unveiling an intense mankind vs. Machines story that instantly launches the listener into deep space. Right from it's first tones, the album...

The Monks were a crazy, pre-punk reductionist rock band made up of five US soldiers stationed in Germany, who stayed in Germany after their discharge from the service and who recorded this one classic of primal rock music that was released in 1966. Think of Faust's "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl", but even more stripped down and you get an idea of what the Monks did. A real favorite here of mine and of the kids who work here. Some of you will really love this and some of you will not. Includes bonus...

This is the demo tape from late 1965 that got them their Polydor contract and led to their early 1966 album, as well as including their 1964 pre-Monks single.
It’s a little less primal and unhinged, but it’s also six months earlier! It’s still shocking to believe that anything even remotely like this existed in 1965
The Monks were a crazy, pre-punk reductionist rock band made up of five US soldiers stationed in Germany, who stayed in Germany after their discharge from the service and who...

Jan Garbarek – saxophone
Terje Rypdal – guitar
Svein Christensen – drums
+ other unknown musicians

This is the soundtrack for a Norwegian exploitation anti-drug film called ‘Heaven and Hell’ from 1969. This first time ever CD-release is produced based on original master tapes preserved and digitalized at Nasjonalbiblioteket.
This sounds exactly like what you would imagine a 1969 explotation film by these folks to sound like, with some of it going pretty out for 1969! Groovy, man

“MONO formed in Tokyo, Japan in the closing winter weeks of December, 1999. They played their first live shows at the top of the new millennium, and released their first album, Under The Pipal Tree, in 2001. Recorded live in one day on a razor-thin budget, Pipal Tree was an earnest introduction to the curious magic of a band that would eventually become synonymous with monstrously dynamic, contemporary classical rock music. To commemorate those austere beginnings – and celebrate their remarkable...

Nice collection of all of this great Japanese instrumental post-rock quartet (dual guitar, bass and drums) sampler, single and non-album tracks.

"Collecting all of Mono's rare and out-of-print non-album tracks, Gone perfectly...

Great and surprisingly popular Japanese instrumental postrock outfit who seem to get bigger and better sounding with each release!

"In association with the esteemed Wordless Music Series, MONO super-sized their already legendary live show with...

"Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, Mono return with their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal..

Latest from this very fine, long-standing Japanese post-rock band, obviously originally influenced greatly by Godspeed, but by now with their own distinct take on ‘the epic’!

“The conflict and correlation between dark and light is a universal theme with a historically rich history. Musically, perhaps no band in the 21st Century has mined that relationship more consistently or effectively than Japan's Mono.
Across 10 albums in 20 years, Mono have convincingly reflected the quietest and most..

"More structured and with a greater feel for dynamics than many Japanese noise rock releases, Mono's One Step More and You Die shows that noise rock shouldn't be afraid to explore quieter sonic spaces -- in fact, the opening track, "Where Am I," is dow...

“MONO began in Japan at the end of the 20th Century as a young band equally inspired by the pioneers of moody experimental rock (My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai) and iconic Classical composers (Beethoven, Morricone) who came before them. They have evolved into one of the most inspiring and influential experimental rock bands in their own right. It is only fitting that their evolution has come at the glacial, methodical pace that their patient music demands. MONO is a band who puts serious value in nuance...

Mono is a young instrumental band from Tokyo austere and intensetheir music is simple, beautiful and incredibly direct. Sheets of sound, lyricism, wailing guitars and pounding rhythms evolve slowly, morphing into a ritual of noise and ecstasy. What the...

Sometimes I quote from other reviewers because I am in a hurry or because I have to do too many of these and am at a loss for something intelligent to say and sometimes just because I am lazy. Sometimes, however, the reviewer says exactly what I wanted...

Another pretty great one from this Japanese quartet of dual guitars, bass and drums. There is some additional instrumentation (a string quartet!), but this is mostly the long, droning-yet-consistantly interesting work that we've come to expect from...

"What the hell? In April 2006, Mono released their instrumental opus You Are There on Temporary Residence and they toured the world in support of it. In September of the same year Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain is issued as a collaborative album...

Zappi W Diermaier - drums, keyboards, psalter, voice
Elke Drapatz - drumeffekts
Amaury Cambuzat - guitar
Uwe Bastiansen - guitar
Dirk Desselhaus - guitar, bass guitar

“An amazing release, if you like both Faust Nord and Faust Sud.”

Monobeat Original is the new project by Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, drummer and founding member of the legendary Krautrock band FAUST.
An odyssey of dark-tribal-ritualistic-krautrock with a cinematic bent. From the atavic to the post

Excellent second (and so far the latest) from this excellent stoner/space-rock offshoot of the equally excellent 35007.

“Monstereo serves catchy melodies and energetic rock songs rooted in 70s rock and psychedelia, the four-piece has served jam packed space rock for over a decade!
With this album Monstereo demonstrates their richest and broadest sound yet, with more keyboards, synths, and a variety of guitars, offering, teeth-grinding riffs, big choruses and rock-solid grooves!
The tracks on "In the Hollow of a Wave" represents the best of two worlds. Catchy melodies, heavy riffs and a big sound, combined with...

This is seven short to mid-length instrumental tracks of Brazilian symphonic rock by a studio only project led by multi-instrumentalist Alex Maraslis.

"...an outstanding CD..."-Eugene Chadbourne
"When the French-Corsican guitarist Jean Marc Montera came to Cologne in April 1998 to perform at the "Jack Pohl presents..." festival, we got the idea to record his impressive solo performance. Because he.

"It was in the early eighties, when ex-Crucis keyboardist Gustavo Montesano ended his participation in "Merlin" (a band founded with Alejandro De Michele, and with whom he recorded a disc), and decided to create a new project, which was to combine...


2 cds for the price of 1. These two discs represent some of Gen Ken Montgomery's sound art and compositional work from 1981-2001. Pondfloorsample is a collection of sonic explorations utilizing common devices meant to hold something other than sound. ...

"Maria Monti's 1974 LP Il Bestario is a rare item even in its native country. Monti is an Italian singer and actress with a noteworthy career, performing as a cabaret singer in the '60s, an ambitious avant-garde folk artist in the '70s, and starring in films by directors such Sergio Leone (Fistful of Dynamite) and Bernardo Bertolucci (1900) all the while. In addition to lyrics by the infamous poet Aldo Braibanti, Il Bestiario features arrangements and synthesizer from legendary avant-garde composer Alvin...

"“The absolute works together with the relative, like two arrows meeting in mid-air.” So wrote Chinese Zen ancestor Shitou Xiqian, in an eighth century poem known as “The Sandokai” – or “The Identity of Relative and Absolute.” There’s more than a faint...

Montreal Sound Matter-Montreal Matieres Sonore $13.00 "Montréal matières sonore brings together eight Canadian and international sound artists. The project began with a workshop on environmental sound collecting by Francisco López and led to the...

This has the troupe running through their best known material, nearly all of which have ended up in pop culture in one way or another...

Five classic albums by the Moodies, at just a hair over $5.00 each!
One The Threshold Of A Dream
To Our Children's Children's Children
Question Of Balance
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Seventh Sojourn

“Due to interpersonal strife, the Moody Blues called it quits between 1972's Seventh Sojourn and 1978's Octave. Presumably attempting to satiate hungry Moodies fans, Threshold released this vintage concert recording from a 1969 Royal Albert Hall show. The band was young and at the peak of its popularity, and they sound full of promise and ambition. Most of the songs come from their classic concept album Days of Future Passed and its two successors. Having not yet settled into a more comfortable ballad...

“The best-realized of their classic albums, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour was also the last of the group's albums for almost a decade to be done under reasonably happy and satisfying circumstances -- for the last time with this lineup, they went into the studio with a reasonably full song bag and a lot of ambition and brought both as far as time would allow, across close to four months (interrupted by a tour of the United States right in the middle). Virtually everywhere you listen on this record, the...

“Oddly enough, this was the group's poorest-selling album of their psychedelic era, taking a lot longer to go gold -- for all of their presumed connection to their audience, the band was perhaps stretching that link a little thinner than usual here. The material dwells mostly on time and what its passage means, and there is a peculiar feeling of loneliness and isolation to many of the songs. This was also the last of the group's big "studio" sound productions, built up in layer upon layer of overdubbed...


''Composer, theorist, inventor of musical instruments, and one of the most colorful characters of the 20th century music, Partch (1901-1974) broke with Western tradition and forged a new music based on a more primal, corporeal integration of the elemen...

Moon Duo are actually a new psychedelic / stoner / motorik-beat trio and they are led by the singer and guitar player of another fine modern psychedelic band, Wooden Ships.
If you are a fan of the things released by the Beyond Beyond Is Beyond label, this would fit RIGHT in and you will love this one.

"Meaning all things magick and supernatural, the root of the word occult is that which is hidden, concealed, beyond the limits of our minds. If this is occult, then the Occult Architecture...

"Following the Yin (feminine, darkness, night, earth) represented on Occult Architecture Vol. 1, Vol. 2 presents the Yang. Yang means "the bright side of the hill" and is associated with the male, sun, light and the spirit of heaven, and as such Vol. 2 explores the light and airy elements of Moon Duo's complex psyche."
"In production we referred to Vol. 1 as the fuzz dungeon, and Vol. 2 as the crystal palace," guitarist Ripley Johnson explains. "The darkness of Vol. 1 gave birth to the light of Vol 2..

" Shadow of the Sun is the result of a few months of Moon Duo wrangling with a new and unsettling way of being. Working both in a dark basement in Portland, and above ground in sunny San Francisco, these new sounds and songs veered dramatically from groove to groove, revealing sonic textures the duo had not previously explored. The song "Night Beat", with it's woozy dance rhythm, is an attempt at finding joy and acceptance on this new, shifting ground, while "Wilding" plays off the familiar Moon Duo...

Marc Atkinson: Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals
Iain Jennings: Keyboards and programming
David Clements: Bass Guitar (extra guitars & keys on #6)
Alex Cromarty: Drums
Martin Ledger: Guitars
Anne-Marie Helder: Additional Vocals

“The 70 minute/13 track album has been almost 2 years in the making and has been put together by the same creative team that released their debut CHROMA in 2020: Iain Jennings (Mostly Autumn) keyboards, Marc Atkinson (Riversea) vocals...

Kelly Mynes: Drums, Percussion, Moon Screech
Mike Murphy: Electric Fretted and Fretless Bass, Vocals, Percussion, Earthen Grumbles
John Allday: Electric Piano, Organ, Synthesizers, Virtual Orchestra, Vocals, Mercurial Chant
Dave Webb: Electric Guitars, Metal Toolbox, Shovel, Primordial Grunts
Michael Trew: Lead & Backing Vocals, Flute, Acoustic & 12-String Electric Guitar (5), Percussion Experiments, Barbaric Yawps

Seattle prog band Moon Letters, are back with their 2n

John Allday: Keyboards, Vocals. Trumpet
Mike Murphy: Bass, Vocals, Trumpet
Kelly Mynes: Drums, Percussion
Michael Trew: Vocals, Flute
Dave Webb: Guitars

Very, very good, well-played and also well-sung retro-progressive rock from Seattle! I hear influences from classic UK progressive rock like Yes, Camel, Genesis and also traces of Happy The Man.

"With this debut album, Moon Letters clearly shows their worthiness to take a place among the top tier of America

"New live album from Swedish prog rock sensation Moon Safari. Recorded at the band's performance at the classic Baja Prog festival in Mexicali, Mexico. The album features some of their classic tunes as well as pieces from their latest studio release...

“I must confess this is my first exposure to Crothers' music. What is most attractive to me is the obscurity of her antecedents. With words, Crother's makes sure you know of her debt to Tristano. Sonically, there is additional debt to Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk and Andrew Hill. Certainly you'll hear others, though probably not any one clamouring atop the other. Whoever you hear, you will hear them assimilated by a consummate musician and wonderfully able operator of the instrument....

Jemeel Moondoc: alto saxophone
Matthew Shipp: piano
Hilliard Greene: double bass
Newman Taylor Baker: drums

"Jemeel Moondoc and his bandmates are masters of the terrifying art of communicating how they feel, an art which, of course, takes both great intelligence and great discipline…
A fire burns in Jemeel Moondoc’s music and once it was ignited it keeps spreading; it’s the flame you can also feel in the playing of Matthew Shipp, Hilliard Greene, and Newman Taylor Baker...

“The Zookeeper’s House, is Moondoc's first studio album in over a decade. It features a fantastic collection of players: trombonist Steve Swell, trumpeter Roy Campbell (in his final recorded appearance), pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist Hilliard Greene, and drummer Newman Taylor Baker.
They’re not all heard together. Shipp appears on the disc-opening title track and the nearly 13-minute ‘One for Monk and Trane’; the horns are on ‘Little Blue Elvira,’ ‘For the Love of Cindy,’ and a version of Alice...

“'Blues for Katie' opens with Greene's simple figures and simpler variations allowing Moondoc space to breathe. No pyrotechnics in his blues, this is straight soul, almost dipping into a sound like southern gospel. It's a lovely opener and one that Moondoc lends to Greene for a quick solo with a few snapped strings before he closes the spiritual.
'Spiritual Melody (Swing Low, Deep River, Wade In the Water)' carries the gospel sound a bit further - no surprise, given the title. This is a more isolated..

I believe that this Prestige (yes, the jazz label) album was Moondog's first full-length album, recorded in NYC in 1956.

" By the standards of the mid-'50s, or indeed or any era, this was so far-out and uncommercial that it's difficult to believe it was even released. Moondog, by this time well known as a New York street musician, drives these pieces along with maraca and clava percussion, often in odd time signatures. The percussion lines are the backbone for unusual melodies, often Asian...