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"1994 saw the release of Todd's ground-breaking NO WORLD ORDER album, which was the first interactive album release utilising the recently developed CD-i format, allowing the listener to alter the playback of the interactive disc by selecting one of four pre-determined sequences prepared by different producers. Such an exciting concept gave birth to a unique and exciting tour, which saw Rundgren appear on his own on stage surrounded by keyboards, guitar and performing live utilising the latest technology. T

"Todd Rundgren's interests since the 1980s have encompassed a number of cutting-edge technologies, but the one that seems to hold the most revolutionary promise is Patro-Net, an online service that allows Rundgren fans a monthly subscription to his...

“Todd Rundgren's THE INDIVIDUALIST LIVE concert was filmed and recorded live during the summer of 2019 at Penn's Peak in Jim Thorpe, PA. Together with long time band members Jesse Gress, Greg Hawkes, Prairie Prince, Bobby Strickland and Kasim Sulton, Todd mesmerizes his audience for over 2 hours covering his illustrious career of hit songs much to the delight of his adoring fans!
The DVD has special features too, with interviews and amazing interaction between Todd and his fans, as he answers some...

Excellent, completely unexpected, techno-modern-yet-classic Todd album with all the quirks that made classic Todd albums!

"Absolutely stellar. A complete psychedelic throwback to the days of "Spark Of Life", but with sputtering, Flux:FX style...

“A gorgeous multimedia box set of live performances from Todd Rundgren's renowned prog rock project Utopia. These very special concerts were planned as fundraising events to help cover medical expenses incurred by founding Utopia member, and beloved Rundgren partner, Moogy "Mark" Klingman. This set covers two full length concerts, plus a 12-page booklet featuring photos and liner notes documenting these spectacular shows.”
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1. Disc 1: CD Highline Ballroom - New York, NY - January 29...

"“If, like me, you were one of those folks who snapped up each Utopia album on release day.... If you brought each of those albums home, tore off the shrink wrap and spent the next few days blissfully immersed in the Persistence Of Vision emanating from those groovy vinyl waffles.... Then just put this in your cart and go immediately to checkout. Prepare to be enthralled.
This concert, from May 22, 2018 in Chicago, is a feast for the eyes and ears. The band covers each and every era of its...

"Todd Rundgren's Utopia Live At Hammersmith Odeon 75 captures the iconic progressive rock band performing their first UK concert. While the concert recording has long been a fan favorite, it has never been commercially available until now."

The lineup is Todd Rundgren, John Siegler, Roger Powell, Willie Wilcox.

" Shout! Factory's 2012 disc Live at Hammersmith Odeon '75 marks the first official release of this heavily bootlegged show from Todd Rundgren's 1975 appearance at the London venue.

"Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the first official release of Todd Rundgren & Utopia's concert at The Old Waldorf in San Francisco in August 1978. The San Francisco concerts of August that year were part of the second tour that Todd had undertaken that year, and the first of 1978 with Utopia. Following a series of successful shows in the Spring of 1978 (which resulted in the live album "Back to the Bars"), Todd hit the road in August 1978 with Utopia to tour the United States, performing...

Jørgen Mathisen tenor and soprano saxophone, clarinet
André Roligheten tenor and baritone saxophone
Rune Nergaard double bass
Axel Skalstad drums
"Don’t trust the phonetic double sense of this CD’s title as something that will “ruin your day” if you take it home. And no, there aren’t any Germanic runes on auditory range, taking you to the Pagan mythical past of the European countries the same way a few Swedish and Norwegian doom metal bands do. It just happens that the composer and...

Gudny Aspaas / vocals
Rune Sundby / vocals, acoustic guitar, saxophone
Hans Petter Danielsen / guitar
Kjell Larsen / guitar, flute
Håkon Graf / organ, piano, vibes
Asle Nilsen / bass, flute
Thor Bendiksen / percussion

“Ruphus' first album is defintively a prog classic! The sound is outstandingly vintage and 70's in its best sense (wonderful mix, hot sound). The music is mainly complex heavy prog with Yes influences
. The Vocal parts are incredible and really poeti

This is a new band formed by 3 Italians living in London. They are greatly inspired and influenced by the classic greats of Italian progressive rock. They tend to highlight the more ethereal side - emphasising acoustic guitar and analog keyboards...

This 1976 album has many of their early classics and is still considered a genre-defining album by many, including me. How do I know? I count the number of people who use 2112 as a password!

I got my first record store job right about the time this album came out. I loved progressive rock, but 1977 wasn't a particularly good time to be a progressive rock fans and additionally, the store where I worked sold a lot of hard rock, which was only marginally my thing at the time.
But this album...well!!! It was something that the customers, my co-workers and I could all agree on! It rocked and it was progressive as could be. Even the artwork was brilliant! One of the greats of the era!....

This 1981 album delivered huge hits while still being a full-on progressive rock classic; YYZ is a tremendous instrumental work out and, anyway, even if you are sick of "Tom Sawyer", wasn't it cool to have a huge radio hit with such a blatant odd time ...

This 1981 album delivered huge hits while still being a full-on progressive rock classic; YYZ is a tremendous instrumental work out and, anyway, even if you are sick of "Tom Sawyer", wasn't it cool to have a huge radio hit with such a blatant odd time ...

“Digitally remastered and expanded three CD set. Celebrating 40 years of Moving Pictures! Featuring the 2015 remaster of the original album (available on CD for the first time) and the complete, unreleased Toronto concert from March 25, 1981.
Also included is a booklet with new illustrations by Hugh Syme, plus liner notes by Kim Thayil, Les Claypool, Taylor Hawkins, Bill Kelliher and Neil Sanderso.”

“Otis Rush was perhaps a somewhat lesser known name among the legends that came out of Chicago Blues and its storied history. But his unique electric guitar playing demonstrates a perfection with his touch and feel of the instrument.
Rush passed away September 29th of 2018. 'Otis Rush: Live in Boston, April 1973' leaves behind a worthy document, a testament to his talent. Rush, a skillful guitarist, influenced many British greats from Peter Green to Jeff Beck to Jimmy Page. Rush is also an emotive.....

One of my big musical heroes of all time, George Russell is probably best known as an educator, but he's one of the great theorists AND composers of jazz, whose lively and great experimental work reaches back to Dizzy Gillespie and the bop era. One of....

This has been out of print for some time and while pirate editions are out there, this Japanese release is directly off the master tapes and sounds fabulous. Truly one of the biggest deal jazz and/or creative music albums of the 1950s, in my world! Includes two alternate takes, not on the original 1957 release. Great sounding, big budget, late 50s studio recording as well.

One of my big musical heroes of all time, George Russell is probably best known as an educator, but he's one of the great...

One of my big musical heroes of all time, George Russell is probably best known as an educator, but he's one of the great theorists AND composers of jazz, whose lively and great experimental work reaches back to Dizzy Gillespie and the bop era. One of the first composers to combine jazz and classical (he wrote a very famous piece called "A Bird in Igor's Yard" in the mid 40s, he released a handful of amazing albums while based in the USA, before heading off to Europe in 1964. This is essentially...

Ray Russell – guitars
- with -
Eric Baldwin – found sounds, sequential creativity
Georg Baldwin – bass, Chapman Stick
Chris Biscoe – tenor clarinet & soprano saxophone
Mo Foster – bass
Nic France – drums
Simon Phillips – drums
Ralph Salmins – drums
Jim Watson – keyboards

Frank Zappa famously characterized music as sculpted air, a notion Ray Russell parlays into another dimension...

Ray Russell - guitar
Harry Beckett - trumpet/flugelhorn
Tony Roberts - saxes
Nick Evans - trombone
Daryl Runswick - bass
Alan Rushton - drums

This fabulous set is a previously unreleased live-in-studio [no audience] session recorded at the Aeolian Hall 2, New Bond Street, London on January 2, 1970.
This is a the entire session, including the material that was cut because of time constraints and also alternative takes, preserved in excellent condition and we can

Like contemporaries Sonny Sharrock and Terje Rypdal, Russell makes it sound as if the guitar is not enough, as if he's reaching for something wilder, something that can't be contained within the 6 string cage-Jim O'Rourke...

Ray Russell is a U.K. guitarist who has been working since at least the mid 60's and has produced a large body of work, both as a solo artist/leader and as a sideman with some very popular artists. This collects a previously released live album, never before on CD, alongside a CD's worth of wild, unreleased material.

"The English free jazz improvisation scene of the late 60s and early 70s was an incestuous breeding ground. Robert Fripp was producing albums by Keith Tippet, Brian Eno was using...

"Rustichelli-Bordini were an unusual duo of keyboards and drums that released a little known and incredibly good album in 1973 before disappearing.

The origins of this duo lay in a group called Cammello Buck, formed in 1971, which even...

Rutman is an expatriot MA. composer & sculptor who performs on his steel cellos, bow chimes, etc (essentially huge steel structures played with bows. This reissues a very good late 80's album + a bonus track. "Rutman (b. 1930) has been building and...

"I had the idea to write songs for a jazz band that had elements of Black Sabbath, the Cure, Jaco-era Joni Mitchell, and free jazz. I intentionally made the free playing and the composed sections less compartmentalized. The idea is to have a really...

"Dylan Ryan is a drummer adept at combining his jazz skills with adventurous rock, resulting in music that maintains the cerebral and viceral qualities of both." – JazzTimes....

"Dylan Ryan is a drummer adept at combining his jazz skills with adventurous rock, resulting in music that maintains the cerebral and viceral qualities of both." – JazzTimes....

"Jessica Rylan (you may know her better as Can’t) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more “classic” in nature than her work as Can’t. Inspired by...

“This album is the sophomore effort from Rymdstyrelsen, Stockholm's most loved spacerock act. The emotional charge of the music owes as much to '70s hard rock as to the current space trend, and they somehow turn this into an advantage. This interstellar crusade comes armed with long intense tracks, wailing fuzz guitars and a wealth of analogue synthesizers. The title song is an absolute epic into crystal meth dementia while tracks like 'White Dwarf' owes as much to NWOBHM as to mid-'70s Hawkwind...

Imo, Terje is one of the greatest jazz/rock guitarists of the present era. Unfortunately most of his greatest stuff is not available in the USA and with the $$ as weak as it is against the Euro, we weren't planning on bringing them in...

"This isn't a "typical" Rypdal CD, so I can see how some of his fans could be disappointed as the reviewer below. But it's still evocative music that deserves thorough listening. Not as lyrical-orchestral as his classic opus "Whenever I seem to be far...

The first Rypdal album that I was able to get excited by in some years, this presents Terje's performance at the Vossa Festival and his tribute to Bitches Brew (Vossbrygg translates as Vossa Brew) and it is a really good one. With Rypdal's wonderful gu...

"Recorded in 1978, this album represents some very fine improvisational interplay among these three brilliant musicians. The first four tunes certainly verge towards the atmospheric, each formed around basic melodies that expand, ripple, disappear...

Terje Rypdal Electric Guitar, Keyboards
Bjørn Kjellemyr Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass
Audun Kleive Drums, Percussion

‘“His sound is one of the most original and immediately recognizable on the planet,” Guitar Player magazine has noted, identified by “a majestic, echoed, singing tone with precisely articulated vibrato and nearly endless sustain, and a string-like attack via volume-pedal swells.” There is plenty of Rypdal’s signature sound on Blue in the stripped-down context of the...