"Palepoli begins with a pounding medieval drum, which turns out tobe the messenger of great things to come. Flute and distant children's voices appear shortly. Next the full band is faded in, playing at full power in a heavy, up tempo, folk rock parT...

"Forty years after the release of their second album titled "Preludio, Tema, Variazioni e Canzona" Osanna celebrate with the release of this new CD titled "Rosso Rock", recorded live in Japan at the Auditorium "City Club a" in Kawasaki on 6 and 7 November 2011 when Osanna performed for the first time with their new line up (Lino Vairetti guitar and vocals, Gennaro Barba on drums, Nello D'Anna on bass, Pako Capobianco on electric guitar, Sasa Prior on the piano, organ and keyboards and Irvin Vairetti...

In his heyday from the late 1960s to the end of the 70s, alto saxophonist Mike Osborne was one of the most distinctive saxophone voices in Brit-jazz (and when you are talking about a school that included Elton Dean, Evan Parker, Dudu Pukwana, Alan...

Mike Osborne - Alto Sax
Harry Miller – Bass
Tony Levin - Drums

“The Seventies should be acknowledged as a landmark period in creative music making in Britain and a potent influence throughout Europe. Whilst not economic paradise there was quite a bit of public funding beginning to come to jazz but the most important support was (and still is) the networks of dedicated individuals throughout the country that provided unstinting support and platforms for the artists.
A prime mover...

"“Eclipse” is the debut album of OSCILLOTRON. It includes 6 tracks of instrumental, electronic music made essentially with analog synthesizers. The intent behind the album was to create a soundscape reminiscent of old horror prog rock fleshed out...

"OSMOSIS is the pseudonym for Stéphane ALGUEMI, a young psychedelic rock musician from France. He managed to produce his first album from start to finish, at the age of seventeen. "The Drugs Inside" explores several musical genres, from hard-rock (Listen to the songs "Hard Blues" or "Obsession") to deep psychedelic (The eponymous song "The Drugs Inside"). This album also contains some great doom and stoner colors, especially with the tracks "The Moon Will Rise" and "Hit The Bong". The result clearly...

“The second release from this abstract trio who mingle hard electronics with acoustic and processed percussion. A more focused, subtle aesthetic here, I think, than on their last also excellent - CD. These are finely tuned and seamlessly integrated sounds that have been crafted and, importantly, performed; this is essentially played music that had been painstakingly reworked, and bears still the deep qualities of interactivity and immediacy that created it.”-Chris Cutler

"Improvisation is the...

CD comes with book

Excellent guitar, bass, drums post-rock power trio. Think Mono, Godspeed, Nought, etc. Virginia/DC based, but I've not seen them play (I'll have to look for them now that I've heard how good they are!). " The music shifts easily from melancholy uber...

Margaux Oswald grand piano
Jesper Zeuthen alto saxophone

"The promising Swiss pianist and the legendary Danish saxophonist share a special bond with music: united by a common ideal of beauty, they venture into the world of free improvisation. The duo's impressive concerts, in which Zeuthen's melodic fragments are enveloped by Oswald's resonant blocks of sound, have generated enthusiasm among lovers of improvised music.
Since appearing as a member of the Danish jazz-rock band Blue Sun in...

Really strong and interesting release (their second, although I never knew of them until just now) that combines art-rock, 21st century classical, avant-progressive and more. Stefano Giannotti, the leader behind this release, has been writing the music found here since 1992! This is solidly in the AltrOck sound, even though it wasn't released by AltrOck! Conditionally highly recommmended.

"Second chapter of OTEME’s discographic saga, the new CD L’AGGUATO, L’ABBANDONO, IL MUTAMENTO moves oblique...

"Originally released in 1971 on EMI Parlophone, this is South Africa's once-famous Otis Waygood and their third record, Ten Light Claps And A Scream. Emerging during the height of political and social tension in the white suburbs of Johannesburg, Otis...

Mega-rare electric blues rock band from South Africa originally released in 1970. Some of this reminds me of Canned Heat, John Mayall's Blues Breakers and The Electric Flag. The flute bits remind me of the first Jethro Tull album. By the way...there wa...

"2010 release from the Brooklyn-based Experimental Rock trio. Reality Has Got to Die showcases the band's mind-blowing ability to evoke the timeless Space Rock magic of Hawkwind, the Prog improv wizardry of King Crimson, the fuck-yeah of early...

minimum : maximum (1973): texts / sounds / pictures. An environment (Simultaneous concert in Stockholm and Bremen) for two organists: Karl-Erik Welin and Gerd Zacher, keyboard instruments
orient : occident (1977): for two woodwind-players and tape...

"Everyone is in seventh heaven with the newly born sounds of OU!

American producer and multi-instrumentalist Amy Denio has the pleasure of announcing the release of one of the most delightful recordings in the recent history of time...

"A new studio album from legendary German medieval prog-rock outfit Ougenweide. While countless Ougenweide epigones have sprung up out of the ground like mushrooms over the past decade, the originals took the same length of time to prepare their new...

This is the fifth album by this German folk rock band, which was originally a double live album and which all fits here on CD and is released on CD for the very first time...

"Our Solar System's third full-length via Beyond Beyond is Beyond is perhaps their most transparent and revealing, unobstructed by anything beyond the group's now-masterful commitment to eclipsing the expected. On "Origins," the music is at once rapturous, intense and mysterious. The opening half of Side A ("Vulkanen") offers an almost animal assessment of the power possessed by Our Solar System. With considerable ambience the opening suite finds its balance in a land with similar topographic features to...

For their 3rd and final album, Out Of Focus added many musicians on reeds and brass, in addition to their usual guitar, organ, sax, bass, drums lineup. This record, the well known "Four Letter Monday Afternoon", was released as a double album, but...

This 1986 release was the second by this Japanese symphonic rock and is widely considered one of their better releases.
Like so much of the 80s and 90s Japanese progressive scene, this has long been unavailable.
Now it's available again at a reasonable price, especially for a Japanese release, as a special blu-spec CD release!

"The second offering by japanese band Outer Limits. The album was released in 1986 and is a good follow up to the predecesor Misty moon from 1985. Not very much to

Tsikandilakis Antonis : piano
Neonakis Dimitris : electric guitar
Iliakis Yiannis : drums

"‘Outward Bound Trio' brings together three Crete-based musicians of diverse musical backgrounds but with common interests in exploring..

Ovales is a five-piece band led by Pierre Michel, a saxist who was formerly in the very obscure although pretty great mid 70s to early 80s avant-progressive band Bise de Buse. This is a energetic instrumental music performed by Pierre on sopranino...

“Tim Catlin formed the Overtone Ensemble in 2012 in order to perform works using his self-made "Vibrissa" instruments. The Vibrissa includes twelve vertically mounted aluminum rods that are longitudinally stroked with gloved hands to produce ethereal "singing" tones.
The long sustaining nature of the rods sound and microtonal tunings allow players a sonic palette of complex textures and harmonic complexity. Expanding from the instrumentation on their first album, these new recordings utilize...

"Italian group Overture began as Sons of the Rascals back in January 2010, but it's taken a name change, a tweaking of the original line-up and several years for the group to be ready to offer their confident self-titled debut in 2018, but the wait has been very much worth it! Containing five lengthy compositions, their music mixes the keyboard dominated colour of F.E.M Prog Band and La Coscienza di Zeno with the infectious youthful spirit of Unreal City - a big influence here. Controversially....