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...

Moondog was a mostly self-taught blind composer who was a fixture on streetcorners in Manhattan from the 1940's through the early 1970's, playing his compositions for whatever passersby would give him and also selling printed music. He befriended Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman among others, and my wife remembers cutting out of high school, hitch-hiking to NYC and seeing him on the street corner.
He belongs to that rare and wonderful American maverick composer school that produced Charles Ives and...

In the early 50s, Moondog released a number of EPs on various labels. Some of this material has been available on the compilation The Viking Of 6th Avenue, but this is the first time you can get the complete contents of these four early releases complete in one place and in order:
Improvisations At A Jazz Concert
On The Streets Of New York
Pastoral Suite / Surf Session
Moondog And His Honking Geese Playing Moondog's Music

"A musical film composed of eight "scenes", each representing a crucial moment of a family drama that has the end of everything we know as its backdrop. After the bucolic snowy landscape of After All, set in the not so distant Christmas of 2066, the madness of war is narrated in three moments (The Armageddon Parade/God's Will/The Power The Might) before the forced separation of Remember My Voice and the terrible experiences faced by the child protagonist of the second triptych of songs (Rain of Fire...

"Moonparticle is the music collective put together in 2017 by virtuoso guitarist/producer Niko Tsonev (ex-Steven Wilson, Lifesigns) featuring an extraordinary group of musicians: Pianist Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Robben Ford), Saxophonist Theo Travis (Robert Fripp, David Gilmour), Drummer Craig Blundell (Frost*, Steven Wilson), Violinist Samy Bishai (Natacha Atlas, Digitonal) and Vocalist Grog Lisee (Die So Fluid, Ozzy Osbourne).
Recorded between January and July 2017, Moonparticle’s debut was...

Camae Ayewa – voice / sound design
Keir Neuringer - alto saxophone
Aquiles Navarro - trumpet
Luke Stewart - double bass
Tcheser Holmes - drums
Steve Montenegro – electronics
Ada Adhiyatma – electronics / sound design

One of the very last shows I saw before COVID lockdown was this excellent group of free jazz + electronics + poetry / spoken word, led by Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother).
This group features great playing from the traditional ‘free jazz quartet’ and refer

"Touch.40 live at Iklectik. I received an invitation to perform at the 40th anniversary gathering, June 2022. Previous works for the label, 'Arithmetic in the Dark' and 'Isoladrone2020' illuminated the landing strip for a new work. It should be continuous -- a further play on moving and remaining. I wanted to balance the digital output of a CSound orchestra with an analog instrument and chose the Turkish saz, a sound I've loved and lived with for the last six decades. I prepared the ground for the live...

Released in 1984, this was the final recording the made as "A. More / Anthony More" (and his last solo album), this was his last 'indie rock' release of the late 70s/early 80s.
Moore was a classical composer, doing very avant garde/minimal music ala John Cage, etc in the very early 1970s, and then somehow he fell into the sphere of Faust and Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause, and formed Slapp Happy with Krause and Blegvad and collaborated with all of them. Then onto Henry Cow, then onto a solo career...

“R. Stevie Moore is a pioneer of home recording, a do-it-yourself musical aesthetic that took root and blossomed in the 1970s. RSM was an early adopter - since 1968 he's cranked out hundreds of album-length recordings as a growing cult discovered him over the decades. He's a pop craftsman who never feared cheap technology.
In the 2000s his catalog exploded across the internet, and while he remains a cultural outlier, future generations will discover him as well.
Every once in a while Stevie...

Kind of different from typical ReR fare, but then again, don't forget that the first Cuneiform release was a (very good, if I must say so myself) compilation of Stevie's work. His work is a precursor to things like lo-fi and indie pop, but it is really just R. Stevie Moore.

"Phonography was Stevie’s first LP release, and an out-of-the-blue masterpiece: terminally idiosyncratic but with all the compositional qualities of great pop. A gifted songwriter, R Stevie (son of Bob Moore, Elvis’ bassist)...

"This is a great list of track choices! Finally, not the hits again, but hidden gem obscurities. I dig it lots..." -R. Stevie Moore

"There can't be many who possess a back catalog containing more hidden gems and scarcely-touched-upon curios...

“Critically acclaimed synthesist / multi instrumentalist STEVE MOORE (ZOMBI) presents the score to the 2019 feature film "Bliss". From pulsing, panic-inducing freneticism of tracks such as "The Bite" to calm and contemplative melodies and guitar leads endearing the listener to the film's lead character,"Bliss" sees STEVE MOORE at his most dynamic, intense, and nuanced.”

Synthesist Steve Moore is one half of the noted 70s-inspired, synth/prog duo Zombi. In addition to the five albums released by Zombi, he has a prolific and thriving solo career, releasing music that ranges from electronica/dance to...

“This is Thurston Moore's seventh solo album, and features musicians Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine) on bass and backing vocals, Jon Leidecker aka "Wobbly" (of Negativland) on electronics, James Sedwards on guitar, and Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley, as well as Jem Doulton, alternating on drums. "Hashish", the first single from the album, is described by Moore as "an ode to the narcotic of love in our shared responsibility to each other during isolation." The song includes a video with footage from...

"An epic outing on electric guitar, recorded in November 2013, as part of an evening of music and film at the Art Institute of Chicago. The CD features a single magnificent improvisation, ranging from brittle, delicate passages to full-throttle flame-throwing. Performing an accompaniment to James Nares’ brilliant film Street, Moore played with his back to the screen, letting the sounds and images converge and diverge of their own accord. The result was an extraordinary stand-alone live recording that...

Thurston Moore, guitar
Frank Rosaly, drums, percussion

"Guitar hero Thurston Moore and improvising drummer Frank Rosaly met for a first encounter in 2012 at the Neon Marshmallow Festival, at the Burlington in Rosaly's hometown, Chicago. The results were monumental. The slow build of Moore's gigantosaur sound and Rosaly's clamorousness and gradually escalating propulsion made for an idea match over the course of an electrifying 35-minute piece, the thunderous conclusion of which left no ear...

Drummer/composer Moorefield leads his 9 piece ensemble (three guitars, trumpet, trombone, alto and tenor saxes, bass and drums) through a set of brilliantly written instrumental art-rock. This is forward-looking, innovative music by an avant big band t...

Jon Eberson – guitar
Brynjulf Blix – electric piano, synths, organ, keyboards
Pål Thorstensen – bass
Espen Rud – drums

Moose Loose were an excellent, instrumental jazz/rock rock band that only lasted a few years and produced two albums in 1974 and 1976.
This is an amazing archival discovery in excellent sound that – for me – blows their two (quite good) studio albums away. Eberson and Blix just tear it up. If you like 70s electric jazz, this is a must-own...

Moraine's most recent metamorphosis highlights their reoccurring theme of unbridled invention – undeterred by convention and delivered convincingly, with abandon! Brushing all preconception aside, Dennis Rea and company courageously initiate...

Take a bunch of old, traditional English ballads, a young man who loves them but also loves electronica and this is what you get. Not for traditionalists, but then again, neither was Fairport Convention...until one day it was! Conditionally recommended!

"This is just folk music from the point of view of someone that has heard hip-hop and The Smiths and Radiohead and S-Club"-Jim Moray

"This the lowdown on Moray: the man is only 21 and has un undying love for old, traditional English folk...

''Saracenia is the land, real and fantastic at the same time, that La Moresca is painting with his music. From the first approach to the traditional music of Naples, to the researches of Mediterranean sounds, the band is moving along our sea shores: th...

Luiz Moretto – violin & rabeca
Alípio C Neto – tenor & soprano saxophone, Brazilian bells, whistles
Francesco Lo Cascio – vibraphone, percussion
Gianfranco Tedeschi – double bass
Marco Ariano – drums, percussion

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plaintively beautiful without, thankfully, sentimentality- Bruce Coates/Rubberneck [Slam]

Lee Morgan (trumpet)
Bennie Maupin (tenor sax)
Harold Mabern (piano)
Jymie Merritt (bass)
Mickey Roker (drums)

“One of the greatest trumpeters of the post-bop era, Lee Morgan died aged only 33 in 1972. This recording was made for FM broadcast in the summer of 1970, only one month before he recorded his classic 1971 album Live At The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach.
It showcases some of the best music Morgan's group ever performed, and is presented here in its entirety.”

"A mistaken but widely-held view of Japanese music is that it consists of two completely separate and non-communicating areas: on one hand the disposable J-pop music scene based on Western models, on the other the traditional classical music world with...