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"Having collaborated with artists ranging from Sonic Youth to Yoko Ono to Bjork, Zeena Parkins proves it: The classical harp is really a rock 'n' roll instrument. Forget angelic choirs; Zeena is the Jimi Hendrix of the amplified harp. With more soar...

"Zeena Parkins is a keyboardist, harpist and composer who has worked closely with Fred Frith, Bjork, Ikue Mori and many others. Her brilliant work for dance has earned her three Bessie Awards, and her own bands have toured the world for over twenty...

''One of the most intriguing and inspiring of Zeena Parkins' long-form compositions, 'Maul' examines the lives and deaths of Jewish gangsters throughout the ages. Utilizing texts in the lost language of Rotwelsch, she weaves a complex tapestry of voice...

"A remarkable new CD of compositions from one of the world’s most radical harpists, who has worked with Bjork, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Bang on a Can and many many others. Including two dynamic new string quartets, a piece for sixteen feet and cello and ...

''A product of over three years of work, Pan-Acousticon is Zeena Parkins' most important and intriguing work to date, orchestrating sampling noise, classical strings, rock drums and homemade instruments into a new world of color, shape and texture. Co-...

“Every day over the course of a year starting in June, 2020, in something she refers to as a "domestic ritual," Zeena Parkins recorded solo electric harp performances in her home studio. The brilliant improvisor and composer had, like most of her peers, been sidelined by the pandemic; unable to tour, she spent the end of each day at the harp, playing until sunlight waned, inventing and discovering new soundscapes, keeping her musical self together while the world seemed poised to crumble.
Parkins's...

Two lengthy compositions, performed on her keyboards & harp + guitar (Chris Cochrane), violin, cello, drums (Ikue Mori), & voice. [Victo]

This is one of those albums that is impossible to classify stylistically, but it’s both really tuneful and also still experimental. Recommended!

“Zeena has been harpist, keyboardist, etc with Bjork, Skeleton Crew, News From Babel, No Safety and is an original stalwart of the Downtown NY scene. She is a pioneer of contemporary harp practices. Using expanded techniques, object preparations, and electronic processing she has re-defined the instrument’s capacities.
This 2013 album by a band she...

“'Triplicates' is a series of improvisations between Zeena, playing her singular electric harp, and Jon Leideker, aka Wobbly, performing on mobile phones, tablets, booper, and mixer. Their outputs are routed to a series of simple listening devices, machines designed to sing along with the melodies they believe themselves to hearing, although they are often fascinatingly wrong.
It quickly becomes difficult to determine the boundaries of each participant’s contribution: acoustic source, electronic....

How many nearly 50 year old albums still have the power to astound and confuse? This one still has that power. Not completely successful, but the successful parts are ungodly.

"Van Dyke Parks moved on from the Beach Boys' abortive SMiLE...

His first new solo album in over two decades!
"Legendary for his skill with arrangement as well as the rich sonic choreography of his productions, producer/songwriter Van Dyke Parks' unique voicings are never more densely detailed than on records...

“The entire original WDHA-FM broadcast of Parliament Funkadelic, live from the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey on 6th November 1978.
3CD Clamshell Box with Individual Card Wallets and Full Colour 8 Page Booklet. Killer track listing.”

“Good songs and for a live recording of 1978 also good sound quality.”

“Hot damn...this is it, Ladies and Gentlemen: the P-Funk Rosetta Stone of concerts by The legendary band Parliament/Funkadelic. It captures them in the midst of an Anti...

“Two never-released-before soundtracks by French award-winning composer, audio experimenter, electroacoustic, and musique concrète magician, and all-around sound visionary Bernard Parmegiani, sourced from the original reels, and with English and French liner notes. Les Soleils De l'Île De Pâques (1972), by French director Pierre Kast, is a sci-fi feature which secured itself a well-deserved place in the pantheon of mysterious cult films thanks to hallucinatory (and superb) cinematography, exploration of...

Matthew is - of course! - the charismatic leader of the great, dark, modern , progressive / symphonic rock band Discipline.

This is his 3rd solo album and, as you might expect, it sounds a lot like Discipline, minus the great band behind him.

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, I personally like Discipline more, but this release finds a unique talent we hear from too rarely, in fine voice and song.

'Matthew Parmenter - the main man behind renowned Detroit-based progressive rock.

Matthew is the leader of the now back-again Discipline, who released one of the greatest symphonic rock albums of the 90s.

"Matthew Parmenter has released his second solo recording, Horror Express (2008). A varied dreamscape full of shocks and..

"Ryan Parmenter, founder of the defunct but celebrated progressive rock band Eyestrings, presents his fourth solo album. Very much in the progressive rock vein of Eyestrings, Parmenter's 59-minute "One of a Different Color" is his first release since "Sad Men" (2009).
"Color" features the guitar work of David Dawkins on half of the 10 tracks, and features a musical "cameo" of Matthew Parmenter's (Discipline.) violin on the titular track.
Ryan Parmenter wrote, recorded, mixed, and produced the...

Ryan is the leader behind Eyestrings, who have put on a pair of the best purely progressive rock shows I have seen in the last few years. This solo album is a more 'pop with progressive touches' work.

"Ryan Parmenter happily releases The Noble Knave, his first proper solo album in 11 years. Composed of songs written between 1996 and 2006, the album is a collection of Ryan's favorites that fall outside of the realm of Eyestrings, his band since 2001.
The songs are often zany, poppy, and...

Andras Parniczky - guitar
Peter Bede - saxophone
Erno Hock - double bass
Istvan Balo - drums, percussion

"Bartok's profoundly original musical language, linked in different ways to folk music, has had an inspiring influence on many exponents of modern jazz. The Bartok project launched by jazz guitarist Andras Parniczky two years ago is thus not without precedent. Yet in many respects it takes a different tack on the composer's oeuvre, which transcends eras and musical cultures. Not..


Pérélandra is a collection of unreleased songs from the Maison Rose era. It was some line-up, even for the most open-minded: Emmanuelle Parrenin and her musicians, in 1981, opened for the Clash in Paris, at the Zénith! Unsurprisingly, the crowd roared the name of the English band as soon as the French musicians appeared on stage. Didier Malherbe responded with a saxophone improvisation with all the others joining in behind. If we believe the musician improvising, rather than following the cult playlist...

José Bruno Parrinha clarinet, alto and soprano saxophone / Luís Lopes electric guitar / Ricardo Jacinto cello and electronics
"The formation of a band is usually justified by the common conceptions and interests of its members, but in the case of this Portuguese trio we have an example confirming that the inverse idea can also be true. In fact, José Bruno Parrinha, Luís Lopes and Ricardo Jacinto couldn’t be more different from each other, be it in terms of backgrounds, vocabularies, used...

Emanuele Parrini violin
Samo Šalamon 6 and 12-string guitar
Vasco Trilla drums and percussion

"Eating Poetry is a great improvisation trio session of three fantastic improvisers from three different European countries. Samo Salamon (Slovenia) has this time played exclusively acoustic guitars – 6 and 12-string. Especially the 12-string guitar is a hugely underrated instrument in the improvising context. Naturally, names such as Ralph Towner or Marc Ducret come to mind, but still Salamon...

“This double-disc set compiles the 1971 LP and ten tracks from the unreleased follow-up, with liner notes and unreleased pictures.
After disbanding Gun, Paul Gurvitz reunited with former Londoners/Knack band-mate Brian Parrish. The pair were soon signed to George Martin's Regal Zonophone label, which led to the release of their sole LP—fully infused with the US west-coast sound—in late 1971. Martin produced a second album that was never released, featuring the talents of Mike Kellie (ex-Spooky....

Includes five complete albums:
Pyramid
The Turn Of A Friendly Card
Eve
Stereotomy
Gaudi

“On Earth, As It Is is the sixth album from multi-instrumentalist Duncan Parsons. Using The Lord's Prayer as a framework, the album explores themes of trust, anger, forgiveness, responsibility, temptation, and other elements of basic humanity via rock, folk, minimalism, jazz, and whatever else was lying about the studio. Taking cues from across the progressive canon, from the existential themes of The Dark Side Of The Moon, through diverse instrumentation, to the rock/acoustic, long/short track album...

This is a new recording - the first complete recording - of a classic era composition by the great, maverick American composer, Harry Partch, performed by the group 'Partch', who specialize in the music and instruments of Harry, including re-creating...

Short and very sweet; how can you NOT want a limited release of Andy covering Syd’s Floyd and the Bonzo’s?

“Limited edition 4 tracks CDEP Release. 1967's Summer of Love has probably been written about, in retrospect, by more people than were directly affected by the original - assuming that something more than simply buying "A Whiter Shade of Pale" as a single is required to count as affected. The revolutionary fervour of 1968, the myriad demonstrations & upheavals in a variety of cities &...

Released as by "A.J. Partridge" in 2010, this is a fine example of instrumental music for old science fiction stories, which sounds nothing like XTC (and it shouldn't!). Conditionally recommended.

"A long time ago, in a library far away, (well, Swindon, actually), a shy schoolboy who loved books but was a slow reader, borrowed three science fiction books per week. He didn't read them. Instead, mesmerised by the covers, he imagined his own stories to match the cover paintings which he stared at...

Andy Partridge was, of course, the leader and main composer for XTC. If you don't already know this, then these sets aren't for you.

Fuzzy Warbles are a collection of previously unheard performances and compositions (both demo versions of songs you do know and unreleased songs you don't know) which were originally released in a big box and then re-released as individual CDs.

Now all 9 volumes are collected here and in two other 3 CD sets at very, very reasonable prices!...

Andy Partridge was, of course, the leader and main composer for XTC. If you don't already know this, then these sets aren't for you.

Fuzzy Warbles are a collection of previously unheard performances and compositions (both demo versions of songs you do know and unreleased songs you don't know) which were originally released in a big box and then re-released as individual CDs.

Now all 9 volumes are collected here and in two other 3 CD sets at very, very reasonable prices!...

Andy Partridge was, of course, the leader and main composer for XTC. If you don't already know this, then these sets aren't for you.

Fuzzy Warbles are a collection of previously unheard performances and compositions (both demo versions of songs you do know and unreleased songs you don't know) which were originally released in a big box and then re-released as individual CDs.

Now all 9 volumes are collected here and in two other 3 CD sets at very, very reasonable prices!...

Jonah Parzen-Johnson baritone saxophone & analog synthesizer
True story: The day this arrived and I was putting it into the shop, he was playing in DC and I suddenly put two and two together in my feeble brain and decided fate wanted me to attend and I went.
Great stuff; imaginative and like a cross between John Surman and Krautrocky sequencer electronics recorded live to two track without loops or overdubs.

"think it’s worthwhile for those of us who devote our lives to making stuff, to be.

You want large scale? Look at all these musicians! This is an insanely ambitious and BIG work.

"Danish drummer/composer Stefan Pasborg grew up in a household of ballet dancers, allowing him to have an intimate relationship with their lifestyle and performances. One of his first formative musical experiences was witnessing a performance of Igor Stravinsky’s legendary ballet, The Rite of Spring, by The Danish Royal Ballet. The experience embedded a love for Stravinsky’s work that...

This 1973 album was Hermeto’s first under his own name and even this early, his ‘universal music’ concept was in place.

“This is a work released from the beginning of the 90's by Pascoal, who participated in a number of jazz-works, and has continued to release the leader album from the 70's, all 16 songs 62 minutes of power work of the soul is the default.
After hearing this for the first time, I chose Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica as the next record to listen to. It is also a rare metamorphosis record produced by Frank Zappa, but I certainly feel that the experimental spirit that leads to it is homogeneous..

“This is Hermeto Pascoal's remarkable, self-titled debut album. Recorded in 1970 at A&R studios in New York, the album features certified North American titans including Ron Carter, Hubert Laws, Joe Farrel, and Googie Coppola, and Brazilian stars Airto Moreira and Flora Purim (who also produced the album).
While it was Hermeto's first album released under his own name, he had spent the decade or so prior making a name for himself in Brazil and internationally as a composer, arranger and...

Hermeto is a brilliant Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and composer and probably the most famous 'arty / avant' player to emerge from Brazil.
He has a long history of releases, stretching back over 50 years, but this is his first in many years and it's also a really great one.
Hermeto Pascoal appears here on a multitude of instruments, including flutes, keybaoards, not to mention a pot and bucket of water, sounds of geese and chickens, and also appearing are...

“On a balmy Brazilian night in February, 1981, a crowd gathered in Rio de Janeiro's Gávea neighbourhood under the iconic dome of the city's Planetário (Planetarium). Alongside musicians like Helio Delmiro and Milton Nascimento (who were in the audience that night), they were there to see the great "Bruxo" (sorcerer) Hermeto Pascoal live in concert, with his new band formation which would become known simply as "O Grupo" (The Group). On the Planetário Da Gávea recordings, Hermeto is cast as the "sorcerer"...

This set features the five great albums that this early German jazz/rock/progressive band released between 1972 and 1976. The albums are: Passport (aka Doldinger), Hand Made, Looking Thru, Cross-Collateral and Infinity Machine. As far as I am concerned, this is everything you will ever need, for only $6.00 per CD, by this very sample-able, early, fusion outfit who had a unique voice.

"Stefano Pastor-violin, percussion, vocals, Stefano Calcagno-trombone, Piero Leveratto-double bass, Maurizio Borgia-drums. On “Transmutations”, Pastor’s second CD, the ten tracks take material from diverse sources – Mozart to Ornette Coleman, pop to Co...

Stefano Pastor ~ violin, viola, vocals, mandolin, guitars and percussion.
"Incredible solo and overdubbing by the Italian master. Slam Productions presents the new CD of Italian violinist and multi-instrumentalist Stefano Pastor, showcasing Pastor...

"New solo album by Italian violinist Stefano Pastor, winner at Top Jazz 2010 and 2011, where Stefano makes a strict recapitulation of the lengthy research that brought him to his own playing, thus each sound on this CD, except for the vocals, comes...

Stefano Pastor violin, synthesizer & Ari Poutiainen violin.

"A very original CD by Italian violinist and multi-instrumentalist Stefano Pastor, winner at Top Jazz 2010, and Finnish violinist and educator Ari Poutiainen. The violin duo is a rarity.

Stefano Pastor violin, George Haslam baritone sax, tarogato, Claudio Lugo soprano sax, Giorgio Dini double bass.

"The Quartet was assembled by Stefano Pastor specifically to record some of his compositions and other improvised pieces, making...

Stefano Pastor: violin, flugelhorn, percussion.
Kash Killion: cello, sarangi.

"Italian violinist and multi-instrumentalist Stefano Pastor with the amazing cello-player (also a real master in playing Indian instruments) Kash Killion. A disc..

“Once they heard him play, few people disagreed with Jaco Pastorius' assessment of himself as the 'greatest bass player in the world'. His meteoric rise in 1977 to the bass chair in Weather Report and his work with Joni Mitchell, established him as a major player on the jazz and rock scenes.
Broadcast by NHK radio at Shinjyuku Koseinenkin, Tokyo on 22nd May 1983, this is a rare example of his eclectic Word of Mouth small group having fun with a variety of musical styles. Given his status Jaco could...

"Jaco Pastorious was recognized more for his innovative Bass playing than his compositional skills. When you mention his name, most people talk about his masterful technique on fretless bass and his flamboyant stage presence. "Word of Mouth Revisited" she

“Jaco Pastorius established himself as one of the greatest electric jazz bassists before forming a big band, Word Of Mouth, in the early 1980s.
Taken from a National Public Radio "Jazz Set" broadcast of a concert at the Kool Jazz Festival in New York Lincoln's Center on June 27, 1982, this set features versions of songs from both Word Of Mouth albums.
Also included is "Mr. Fone Bone", a composition by Word Of Mouth member Bob Mintzer that would never be issued on a Pastorius album during...

“In a little over a decade, Jaco Pastorius made enough recordings to last several lifetimes. A true force of nature, “Jocko” – as he once called himself – and his “Bass Of Doom” cut a path through jazz, pop and rock music with a series of solo albums and game-changing collaborations with artists as diverse as virtuoso guitarist Pat Metheny, glam-rock icon Ian Hunter,fusion pioneers Weather Report and visionary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell.
Recorded by Bob Bobbing, a friend and musician from...

“Once they heard him play, few people disagreed with Jaco Pastorius' assessment of himself as the 'greatest bass player in the world'. His meteoric rise in 1977 to the bass chair in Weather Report and his work with Joni Mitchell, established him as a major player on the jazz and rock scenes. Broadcast by NHK radio at Shinjyuku Koseinenkin, Tokyo on 22nd May 1983, this is a rare example of his eclectic Word of Mouth small group having fun with a variety of musical styles. Given his status Jaco could have...