This is where it all began for this very fine, modern-day RPI band! Includes four bonus tracks!

The homonymous debut of La Maschera di Cera, dated 2002, obtained excellent and unanimous acclaim at the time, and was hailed as the best Italian prog album since the legendary debut of Alphataurus: four long songs in perfect prog tradition, including the long title track stands out, which would take up an entire hypothetical first side of a vinyl record. Acoustic guitars and an incessant carpet of...

“La Maschera di Cera was founded in 2001 as a tribute to the sound of '70s Italian progressive rock, on the initiative of Fabio Zuffanti who gathered around him keyboardist Agostino Macor, drummer Marco Cavani (from his other band Finisterre), singer Alessandro Corvaglia and flutist Andrea Monetti.
They debuted in 2002, with a self-titled already displaying a great compositional and stylistic maturity, hailed as "the best Italian prog album since the Alphataurus era". The band, therefore, was...

“Originally released in a very limited capacity in 2001, Maserati's debut album finally gets reissued to commemorate the band's 20th anniversary. Remastered from the original master tapes by Josh Bonati, 37:29:24 featured Maserati's original lineup of Coley Dennis, Matt Cherry, Steve Scarborough, and Phil Horan, and includes many of the most placid and medicative moments in Maserati's storied catalog - a darker, more pensive night drive than they would come to be known for on their later albums.”

Latest (2015) release by this band who fuse post-rock, prog, classic, rock-oriented horror soundtracks, space-rock, disco and electronics. Think Zombi, Chrome Hoof, John Carpenter, Goblin! Good stuff.

"Maserati are a band obsessed with process. Specifically, they're obsessed with the process of marrying the past to the future - retro futurists hellbent on forging Krautrock and classic rock into one motorik, monolithic vehicle. Rehumanizer is the most accomplished product of that process to date...

Features the Masin track 'Clouds' as sampled by To Rococo Rot and Björk."

“Following the reissue of the entire recorded output of South London-based experimental act This Heat and it's successor, Camberwell Now, Modern Classics Recordings holds the lens up to a special split album created by one of the driving forces behind those groups - drummer Charles Hayward - in collaboration with Italian musician Gigi Masin, whose looping, rhythmic, electronic compositions have seen his cult following grow.

Nicolas Masson, tenor saxophone / Colin Vallon, Rhodes electric piano / Patrice Moret, double bass / Lionel Friedli, drums.

"Can you imagine a music born from the crossed influences of Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Warne Marsh, Black Sabbath...

Totally wonderful round up of all the 7” and EP titles that Geoff Leigh (ex-Henry Cow) released in the late 70s and early 80s. Quite wonderful arty-art-damaged post punk whatever whoo-haa! Recommended.

“Zig-zagged music, the specialty of MCCB. Across a wide spectrum of sound comes minimal electronics, jilted avantpop, artpunx, and progressive music. Some folk in there as well, somehow. This is a very fine collection of Leigh's various musings, and with it his sharp humor and immense talent shines...

Right after Henry Cow ended, Fred Frith moved to NYC. He played a little with people here and there and worked on his Gravity album, but Massacre - formed on Valentine's Day, 1980, and lasting until late summer 1981, was his first real post-Cow band. R...

"One of the first, longest running and most acclaimed improvisational rock ensembles in the world presents a special collection of live recordings culled from the private archives of guitarist extraordinaire Fred Frith. Hand picked for this release...

Simone Massaron-electric guitars, loops, Daniele Cavallanti-tenor sax, Steve Piccolo-bass & vocals, Elliott Sharp-electric guitars, Tiziano Tonori-drums

"[...] excellent debut album for a top level guitarist. [breaking news] is favoured by a...

Håvard Nordberg Funderud – guitar
Lauritz Lyster Skeidsvoll – saxophone
Karl Erik Horndalsveen - double bass
Martin Heggli Mellem - drums

“Master Oogway are four young musicians aged between 23 and 26. They met at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2015 with a common desire to play vibrant, improvised music with strong themes and room for spontaneity at a high energy level. Like many players on the young, Norwegian progressive jazz scene their instrumental skills are already highly...

Unbelievably great price on a great release. Mastermind were one of the very first of the new progressive revival bands who began to emerge in the late 1980s. They were a guitar power trio whose guitarist and leader (Bill Berends) used midi-guitar to...

Algumia is a precious Mediterranean jewel; like the coral necklaces so typical from this beautiful town. If you've been to Alghero at least once, you know it's a place totally different from any other place in Sardinia with the sea, the people, the langua

Markus Reuter: Synthesizers, Samples, Treatments, Soundscapes, Field Recordings
Tobias Reber: Electronic Rhythms
Raphael Preuschl: Basses
Gary Husband: Keyboards
Andi Pupato: Percussion
Brian Krock: Saxophones and Flute
Luca Calabrese: Pocket Trumpet
Aralee Dorough: Flute
Colin Gatwood: Oboes
Charlotte Pelgen: Vocals
Zoey Gley: Vocals
Graça Cunha: Vocals
Lisa Fletcher: Vocals
Deborah Carter Mastelotto: Vocals
Pat Mastelotto:

"Great sound, great artwork - so thanks once again." – Robert Wyatt

Bill MacCormick – bass
Dave MacRae – electric piano
Phil Miller – guitar
Robert Wyatt – drums, vocals

Formed by drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt after he left the pioneering UK jazz/rock Soft Machine in 1971. The band was exceedingly active for a band that lasted less than one year, recording two albums and playing dozens of shows throughout Europe.
In 2001, Cuneiform released...

"In October 1974, the first number of L'Indépendant du Jazz, a small self-produced magazine DIY -- before punk supposedly invented the concept -- was launched by Jef Gilson, Gérard Terronès, Jean-Jacques Pussiau, and a few other specialists of a different kind of jazz in France, it looked at the already long career of Jef Gilson and in detail at the album with saxophonist Philippe Maté: 'The 'Workshop' is, with Philippe Maté (alto-sax), an undeniable success. Maté is genuinely 'the' most inventive French...

Japanese-only CD release of the incredible, first full-length album by Material, which somehow ended up being released in the USA on a major label.

When this was released in 1981, it was one of the very earliest of the 'downtown sound' albums...

"This DVD contains various recordings made during a 16 year span, including live and studio recordings featuring many of my favorite musicians, plus lots of solo drums. I am happy that all of this material is recorded at all. It would have been a shame to set my hair on fire without being able to see it after..." –Morgan Agren

"...influenced by Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Earth Wind & Fire.... the Mats/Morgan men integrate everything and make it their own. – Audiophile...

If you ever wanted a sampler of what Mats/Morgan do, this is the right place.

"35 years of work converted down to 2.5 hours of music! These are our favorite tracks! (All remastered!)
When I was 14 years old I received a telephone call from a lady that was organizing a concert in a little village outside Umeå, Sweden. She asked me if I could join this blind pianist named Mats Öberg. She knew about me and believed that I might be the right one for Mats. Same musical taste maybe, and same age...

Keyboardist Mats Öberg and drummer Morgan Ågren have been playing together since their childhood. They were 'discovered' at a very young age by Frank Zappa and are legendary in their native Sweden and beyond. Trends and Other Diseases is a reissue of...

Live was Mats/Morgan Band's fifth album, the first by the extraordinary expanded lineup of the group (Mats, Eric Carlsson and Robert Elovsson-keyboards, Jimmy Agren-guitar, Tommy Thordsson-bass and Morgan-drums) and the first that I heard by them...

Two lengthy works by this young composer. One is for mezzo-soprano voice and chamber orchestra, while the other is for guitar, Concert & Celtic harps & Percussion in Pythagorean tuning. [New Albion]

Jun Matsue is a Japanese guitarist sorta in the Jeff Beck vein and I first heard of him from his excellent guest work on the first Machine and the Synergetic Nuts album. MSN informed me that he has a solo career and they sent me a sample of this solo a...

Matta Gawa are a DC-based guitar/drums duo who I saw many times until Ed moved to Ohio, which either means that this is the final release from MG, or that they will just have to work as the distances allow. In any event, Sam's blend of hardcore roots and free-music influences on drums and Ed's explorations of the full sonorities available to the guitar + boxes makes for good listening.

"Tambora is the second full-length from the Washington DC-based 'free rock' drums+guitar duo Matta Gawa. Named...

Excellent and somewhat surprising album by this UK folkie, working with a jazz quartet and really showing off his vocal chops and lyrical prowess. Daring and successful!

"This is the debut release by UK-born/Netherlands-based singer/songwriter...