Live performances of improvised group play recorded in Cheltenham during October and December 1999 by Chris Trent. The trio comprises Simon Spencer on Bb clarinet, Mindy Lee alto clarinet and Chris Cundy on bass clarinet and soprano sax. [Slam]

"Singer, guitarist and harmonica player Fabrizio Poggi is back with a new bunch of songs, the fruit of intimate knowledge gotten from years of trawling around Italy’s folk music heritage. Accompanied by Roberto G. Sacchi on accordion, Marco Rovino on...

Verneri Pohjola - Trumpet
Tuomo Prättälä - Fender Rhodes
Teemu Viinikainen - Guitar
Mika Kallio - Drums
Antti Lötjönen - Bass

"Finnish trumpeter and composer Verneri Pohjola reinterprets the music of his late father, internationally acclaimed and revered prog-rock bassist and composer, Pekka Pohjola. One of the most anticipated albums to emerge from the Finnish progressive, rock and jazz scenes, it combines Pekka's music, adored in Finland and worldwide over the last four...

"French trio (bass/drums/keyboards), that know no limitations and prohibitions. Impressive and delirious, the trio combines raw madness and virtuosity, they dance and dash between the energy of punk, the beauty of chamber music and the chaos of a factory on the brink of explosion."

This combines Dins O Cuol, their 1st CD, from 2011 with a previously unreleased earlier album, L'Ire Des Papes, from 2008!
Typically great and typically wacky French new music/new rock/art rock by a trio of...

Antoine Arnera - keyboards, vocals
Boris Cassone - guitar, vocals
Benoit Lecomte - acoustic bass
Guilhem Meier - drums, vocals
Junko Ueda - satsuma biwa, vocals

“The Album
Unexpected encounter between Junko Ueda, eminent figure of the Japanese medieval epic storytelling, whose warm and profound voice summons the terrestrial energies, and the organic madness of the monster PoiL practicing with cosmic rock without net.
Poil Ueda detonnates the limits of rock and w

“Chris Poland is an American jazz fusion guitarist and creator/co-founder of the Heavy Jazz/Rock/Fusion power trio OHM.
Poland started playing from high school in New York, and later replaced Richard "Max" Maxfield in the rock/jazz group Welkin. In 1977, he moved to Los Angeles and formed the The New Yorkers with Robertino 'Pag' Pagliari, Gar Samuelson and Stu Samuelson. Poland and Gar Samuelson were then recruited by Megadeth and were crucial members of their early line-up. Poland worked on their...

"The title of this recording has multiple meanings for its composer, Larry Polansky (b. 1954). These are the generations... is a translation of the Hebrew title for the second work on the program, Eleh Tol'd'ot, the first words of the thirty-fifth verse of the first book (B'rey'sheet) of the Torah. Beyond referencing Polansky's Jewish heritage, the phrase reflects this particular collection of works on several levels. The compositions included stem from different generations of Polansky's musical output...

Needed reissue of one of the better known Canadian progressive rock albums.

"In 1972, Tom Rivest (vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, keyboard, percussion) and guitarist Richard Lemoyne (guitar, keyboard, percussion) decided to form a progressive...

First-time ever on legit CD for this lost/obscure/rare progressive rock band from Virginia Beach, VA. This was their only release, which originally came out on a tiny label in 1971!

"This was a great, lost find in terms of early progressive...

What do you call a Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention album that isn't exactly a Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention album? Well, in this case you call it a Jean-Luc Ponty album. This album, subtitled "Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa", includes Ian Underwood, Art Tripp, George Duke, John Guerin, Ernie Watts, Wilton Felder, Buell Neidlinger, Gene Estes and a bunch of other L.A. types. It also includes the original recorded version of "Music For Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra".

Ponty's first five albums for Atlantic at only $5.00 a pop; There's some terrific playing and musicians on these. You get: Upon The Wings Of Music, Aurora, Imaginary Voyage, Enigmatic Ocean and Cosmic Messenger.

Guitarist Poole contributed a great track to our "156 Strings" compilation, so it is a real pleasure for me to hear more by him! "Minds Island features Rod Pooles just intoned acoustic guitar with the remarkable voice of Sasha Bogdanowitsch, whose word...

"Originally recorded in 1969 for Orfeon Records in Mexico, this unbelievably awesome set of psychedelic rock was shelved for decades, due in large part to its fantastic (though probably poorly chosen from a commercial standpoint) title Society Is a Shit. With the exception of a humorous, traditional-sounding acoustic number presenting the record in Spanish, this record is 100% pure, mind-expanding psychedelia sung mostly in English. It's got all the factors you'd expect from a psych record of the period...

The crazed, loud, ‘77 Iggy / Bowie tour (with David only performing on watery / phase shifted keyboards) is one of the highlights of Iggy’s mid/late 70s period, with all the recordings that document this tour, no matter how good they are, sounding kinda poorly defined in terms of instrumental separation, and loud as fuck. Yeah, baby.

“Iggy Pop, live at the Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA on April 15th, 1977. The Iggy/Bowie period is a sharp document of hedonism and salvation. Two rock stars...

"A new trio recording from Odean Pope, which includes legendary drummer Sunny Murray and bassist Lee Smith. Fascinating music which effortlessly spans a variety of jazz genres. From straight ahead post-bop to intricate improvisations, these well...

PROMO

Nice reissue of Popol Vuh's seventh album, which was used as the soundtrack to the Hertzog film and which includes a booklet of photos and more. This includes a bonus track (total time 7:16) that has never been heard before.
This features Florian Fricke on piano, the great Daniel Fichelsher on guitar and drums and Djong Yun on vocals.
How can such a low-key band be so cosmic? That question is one of the great wonders of the universe (and one of the great space-out/innerspace albums of all time).

3rd and 16th albums. The 3nd album, from 1973 is the beginning of a LONG line of classic trance-inducing, spacey, acoustic discs. [High Tide]

This consists of tracks recorded while the bands was working on Fear of a Blank Planet, and as someone in a very positive way said when hearing them, "These are outtakes?". Robert Fripp adds some significant lead guitarwork to one track the whole thing...

One of Porcupine Tree's great, late prime discs of Pink Floydian space rock.

“Past and Present is the third solo album by Kimmo Pörsti (The Samurai of Prog, Paidarion, Mist Season, Bernard and Pörsti). The Past is presented by 5 songs which were released on different occasions between 2004 – 2016), some of them now completely reworked. The Present comes alive by 6 new songs composed by Kimmo (with the help of Rafael Pacha) and one by Jari Riitala. As with Kimmo‘s previous album “Wayfarer”, music ranges from symphonic prog to groovy fusion instrumentals, not to forget some...

"The only common factor of all the musical and sound experiences led by Michel Portal is the improvisation and his demand : putting himself constantly at risk , throwing himself away. Even his movie music, even his interpretations of classical music...

Le Porte Non Aperte (The Unopened Doors) are a young, retro-progressive rock band from Italy who are making their debut here with this very strong release.

The group is a quintet of Sandro Parrinello - vocals, Filippo Mattioli - organ...

"Portico Quartet stake claims to territory occupied by Radiohead, Cinematic Orchestra and Efterklang.”-The Guardian

“Portico Quartet return with Memory Streams, their fifth studio album and one that continues the journey that first started with 2008's Mercury nominated debut Knee Deep in the North Sea. It's a creative path that has seen the band embrace new technology and explore ambient and electronic influences alongside minimalism, jazz and beyond. It is a process that has encouraged change...

Maurizio Di Tollo - vocals, acoustic guitars, drums, additional keyboards, samples
Cristiano Roversi - keyboards, bass pedals, additional guitars & samples
Stefano Zeni - acoustic & electric violins
Marco Remondini - cello, saxophones
Elisa Minari - electric bass
Erik Montanari - acoustic & electric 6- & 12-string guitars
with:
Tiziano Bianchi - saxhorn
Faso - 6-string electric bass
Massimo Menotti - acoustic guitar

“Il Porto di Venere is a new band, mak