This long awaited release completes a trilogy of CDs documenting the young composer collective Rough Assemblage. Active in the early 1990s out of Mannes College of Music, this trio of like-minded musicians also included Norman Yamada (Being in Time, TZ...

"Rufen is the second installment in a trilogy of Qluster music, following on from the Fragen (BB 076CD/LP) studio album. In four impressive live recordings, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Onnen Bock unfold aural panoramas which can only be described...

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Very good 1970's-styled 'progressive hard rock' music from vocals, guitar, bass and drums. They get compared a lot to Captain Beyond, and that's actually a pretty good comparison, although there are a lot more interesting and 'musicially tricky' moves ...

Written by Gilbert Artman (Lard Free, Urban Sax), Quad Sax is a miniature distillation of the ideas of Urban Sax; 4 saxophones playingspacey, hocket-riddled music with some percussives. This is the only material available of Artman's fantastic Urban...

Quantum Fantay are a Flemish space-rock band, who formed in the early/mid 00s, and in the last 2-3 years have released 3 albums, all of which are excellent and which are propelling them into the international arena. This is their second album, which...

Finally a new release from this great Belgian spacerock ensemble. This was recorded live August 1, 2011 in Lokeren, Belgium. Synths, guitars, bass and drums - the basic building blocks for any spacerock outfit - are used to great effect here. This is...

Quantum Fantay are a Flemish space-rock band, who formed in the early/mid 00s, and in the last 2-3 years have released 3 albums, all of which are excellent and which are propelling them into the international arena. This is their second album, which...

Quartet Muartet (also listed as Qu4rtet Mu4rtet) are an instrumental fusion band from Turkey. The band consists of a keyboardist on piano/Fender Rhodes/synths, guitar, bass and drums. Their first album was entitled Nine Pieces. So, of course, their ...

“More than just a casual collaboration, Quartet Offensive is a crucible for new composition and a mutual admiration society of accomplished players.” - NPR’s “The Signal”

"Like the city this Baltimore quintet calls home, Quartet Offensiveis a...

"Amidst the unrest of the Russian Revolution, Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Visions fugitives op.22, a series of short pieces for solo piano. The Visions were ideas or sketches that he captured and then set down on paper before they faded from his...

"The stable 'Quartetto' that pianist Davide Mosconi, saxophonist Enzo Gardenghi, percussionist Marco Cristofolini, and cellist and violinist Gustavo Bonora brought to life beginning in the late '60s constituted the core of what would, in the early years..

Quartik are a new jazz/rock band from Quebec City. The instrumentation is guitar, bass, drums and vibes. They have been together since 2002 and this is their first album. They have been described as a cross between Brand X and UZEB, which is a pretty g...

"Two contemporary artists, each strong and distinct. Howard Skempton’s expansive canons offset Jo Kondo’s continuous hockets. Jo Kondo: “I am interested in words more than in sentences, in sentences more than in paragraphs, in paragraphs more than in a...

A string quartet performing 4 lengthy works by 4 Montreal composers. "Moving freely from avant-garde events to traditional concerts, the Quatuor Bozzini was characterized by the Irish Times as a group which gets its teeth into music: quiet or loud, fas...

This Italian band released their 2nd of two albums in 1974. This features keyboards, guitars, vocals/flute, violin, bass and drums. Definitely in the symphonic/classical vein, with a touch of fusion as well, this has been compared to early P.F.M., & th...

"Qui is the brainchild of Japanese guitarist Takashi Hayashi, who assembled an instrumental jazz-rock fusion band with progressive rock leanings. The trio included, guitar, bass, drums and some keyboards parts. After having released a first album...

Quiet Sun was the 1970 band of Phil Manzanera-guitar, Bill MacCormick-bass, Dave Jarrett-keyboards & Charles Hayward-drums & vocals. They played around & recorded demos, but the band died when Phil went to Roxy Music & Bill went to Matching Mole. Phil ...

Antonio Quijano bass; Paul Dunmall soprano & tenor saxophones, clarinet, chanter; Philip Gibbs guitar; Marco Anderson, piano; plus Jonathan Scott, djembe on track 6.

"The Antonio Quijano Quartet is an international collaboration that explores...

A trio consisting of Totoki Yukiko-female vocals, concertina (an old folk-style accordion) harmonium & percussion, Sasaki Emi-accordion, glockenspiel, psaltery, toys, percussion & vocals and Oguma Eiji-guitar & bouzouki. I didn't realize taht they were...