"After tinkering with a more (supposedly) commercially-oriented pop sound in the late 80's and early 90's, Pere Ubu reformed and came roaring back with this gem which, in my humble opinion, ranks right up there with their best. In some ways, this outing even tops the much-heralded masterpieces of their heyday (e.g. Modern Dance, Dub Housing, etc.) in that it is really, really TIGHT. Whereas many of their other efforts tend to meander a bit (not that that's necessarily a bad thing, mind you), this thing...

Fourth Ubu disc has Mayo Thompson of Red Krayola joining on guitar and changing and making the sound less overtly rock based. Still some great stuff here!

After a number of very good self-released 45's, Pere Ubu found themselves signed to a hip 'new wave' subsidiary of a major label (Blank Records - which only lasted two albums) for this, the premier release on Blank. I saw their tour for this album at B...

“Pere Ubu unveil their new album, 'Trouble On Big Beat Street', nearly four years after their previous record for Cherry Red, 'The Long Goodbye'.
'The Modern Dance' (1978) marked the end of Rock 'n' Roll. 'Trouble On Big Beat Street' marks the end of The Song. Pere Ubu ended with 'The Long Goodbye'. Pere Ubu begins again with 'Trouble On Big Beat Street'. If you missed the last 48 years then imagine a badattitude. Imagine Electric Light Orchestra - the version with Roy Wood - then add Muddy Waters...

Ivo Perelman - tenor saxophone
Matthew Shipp – piano
William Parker – bass
Bobby Kapp – drums

"Kapp is an excellent choice as Perelman's assessment is on the mark... 'he's very sensitive to time and space. He is dancing at the drum kit...' And while the frontline rolls along with the improvisational game-plan, Kapp's buoyant timekeeping faculties add a poetic quality to the rhythmic foundation along with Parker's resonating lines and fluid attack. The artists do what they do best by.

Ivo Perelman - tenor saxophone
William Parker - bass, shakuhachi
Christopher Parker - piano
Chad Anderson - drums

“In his ongoing search for a cosmic sound to expand the boundaries of the tenor saxophone , Brazilian Sound Wizard Ivo Perelman dialogues with Master Sound Magicians Christopher Parker , Chad Anderson and William Parker in a unforgettable tour de force performance.”

Ivo Perelman - Saxophone
Matthew Shipp - Piano

“One of the longest standing improvisational duos in music return to shake things up with a new approach to free improvisation. Short, beautiful, lyrical music made possible by a decades-long musical partnership.”

Ivo Perelman, tenor saxophone / Daniel Levin, cello / Torbjörn Zetterberg, double bass

"Soulstorm is a remarkable joint venture between gifted saxophonist Ivo Perelman, and two of the most distinguished string players around, cellist Daniel...

1981 Welsh psychedelic/folk rarity (call it "new weird Wales"), which has traditional elements, as well as a goodly amount of electric guitar to give it the psych balance. Nice male/female vocals, acoustic guitars, flutes and more are used in addition ...

"Welsh folk prog group Pererin are still not known to have released a 4th album in their career, and that's because it was only released on cassette, and most of the copies remained shelved without distribution. But it's a wonderful album and here we...

In the early 1980s, there was a small explosion of interesting and very unique progressive music coming out of Mexico. One of the paths being explored at that time was music that fused progressive music and ambient music with the instruments of pre-Hispanic Mexico; the sounds BEFORE the conquerors came and changed the continent hugely. The bigger names in the field were Suso Saiz and Jorge Reyes, but one of the first people to release a record that gained attention outside of Mexico was Luis Perez, who...

The 3rd release, probably their best, and a long time coming by this Italian progressive rock band firmly in the classic mold. The band are a quintet of piano and keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and vocals. Everything about this release says, "Yes...

Tom Arthurs trumpet
Benoît Delbecq piano
Jim Black drums
Miles Perkin double bass

“The “point in question” of the title of this album is always difficult to put into words. Miles Perkin, a Canadian double bassist and composer who is conquering the world bit by bit, prefers to do it musically, and this new opus gives you the entire picture of that fulcral point of a continuously reformulated question: what it is to write music for a band of improvisers? The conclusions you arrive.

(Finland)

“The second album by Finnish psychedelic rock formation PERMANENT CLEAR LIGHT, 'Cosmic Comics' will be released as a Digisleeve CD limited to 500 copies worldwide.
The Finnish formation PERMANENT CLEAR LIGHT around the guitarist and multi-instrumentalist MARKKU HELIN already advanced to high hopes of the Scandinavian psychedelic scene with their debut album 'Beyond These Things', which was released in 2013 and received brilliant reviews. After various singles and EP releases (e.g. on the British...

''Peron (melodeon) and Ferrero (fiddle) skillfully play the traditional dances from Occitan valleys in Piedmont (Northern Italy). From the fast currente e balet of Vermenagna valley to the more complex gigo, controdanse, tres-so of Varaita valley, her...

Really nice moody jazz but not just jazz album by this group led by drummer Perowsky and featuring 3/5ths of the Claudia Quintet as his group!

"No matter your scene, there’s a better-than average chance that at some point over the last twenty...

I saw these guys in France at the 2009 Rock in Opposition festival and they were good and the bassist was the incredible Philippe Bussonnet (of Magma and One Shot fame) who was incredible as always, and he appears here as well!...

Shawn was the leader and main composer of the great Boud Deun. Since that time, he's done a lot of work in a lot of fields, and this fine little record is his latest release. Watch the video and if you like that, you'll love the entire thing here!

"Think Frank Zappa unplugged. Persinger’s Holloween Baptizm is an eclectic arrangement of four guitar parts woven into a fine tapestry of some times off beat sometimes weird and always listenable arrangements. Often I listen and try to focus on one...

“The early works by Bo Anders Persson presented on this record were written between 1965 and 1967, before he started the experimental rock band Pärson Sound. The CD version is housed in a digipack sleeve including a booklet with in-depth, informative liner-notes and pictures. All but one track is previously-unreleased.
What is the origin of this strange, un-place-able music? What is its place in history, in the unfolding of important conceptual ideas, turning musical modernism into something wider...

"After many recordings for other artists and composing a few symphonies, Morris released this solo record in 2001, inspired by his love of astronomy, in which he plays all the instruments including percussion, electronics and keyboards. The work as a...

Guitarist/vocalist Luis Alberto Spinetta was the leader of Almendra, one of the bands considered as the originators of the Argentinian rock movement. After they broke up, Luis formed Pescado Rabioso. "The dreamy psychedelic cover -drawn by Jorge Visove...

"For their second CD for Tzadik this fabulous trio of sax, guitar and drums presents a new group of compositions that are inspired by sea slugs, microbes, dogs, arachnids, sick friends, deep-sea creatures and more. A part of a new group of bands out...

“Chamber Music is an ongoing series of site-specific sound works made entirely from a single recording of the empty space in which they are presented. An hour of “silent” room tone is recorded when no people are in the building; this is heavily filtered to extract drones derived from the room’s resonant frequencies. This is the only sonic material used, and there is minimal electronic processing involved. Airforms was made in 2013 as a birthday gift for Steve Roden, who provided two hours of empty room...