"Maja Ratkje is a remarkable vocalist and composer based in Norway. Her work ranges from orchestral and chamber works to electronics, improvisation and creative combinations of all of the above. This special collection of Maja’s work showcases several...

"New York Days features Italy's highly inventive jazz musicians Enrico Rava and protégé Stefano Bollani, together with three leading American jazzmen: master drummer Paul Motian, bassist Larry Grenadier, and, in his ECM debut, saxophonist Mark Turner....

Enrico Rava: trumpet
Gianluca Petrella: trombone
Giovanni Guidi: piano
Gabriele Evangelista: double-bass
Fabrizio Sferra: drums
with Giacomo Ancillotto: guitar

"Since his return to ECM with “Easy Living” in 2003, the gran

Ada Rave tenor sax / clarinet and flutes on 4
Nicola L. Hein prepared guitar
Wilbert De Joode contrabass

"The Argentinian contribution to the universality of jazz is measured by everything Leandro “Gato” Barbieri gave to the music, and the gauge was put very high by the late saxophonist. Every sax player who emerged, after him, from the Buenos Aires scene had that extra challenge, and that’s the case of Ada Rave, who choose Europe – she’s based in Amsterdam – instead of the United States..

Gabriele Marconcini: Vocals
Samuele Santanna: Electric and Acoustic Guitars
Fabrizio Trinci: Moog, Synth, Organ, Piano, Fender Rhodes and Backing Vocals
Marco Geri: Bass
Francesco Carnesecchi: Drums
The new (fourth) album by RAVEN SAD has personality, depth and a rare narrative strenght, evoking infinite spaces and deep breaths. Thanks to the “Gilmour style” that Samuele Santanna, mind and heart of the band, has made of him over the years with all the resulting emotional...

"Allen Ravenstine, erstwhile eminence grise of classic-era Pere Ubu, was one of the best-integrated and least predictable pioneers of analogue synthesis in rock until, in the late 1980’s, he quit both the public and the musical arena to pursue entirely different interests. But he never lost his interest in, or his feel for, analogue electronics. A few years ago, with Pere Ubu’s current synthesist, Robert Wheeler, he recorded ‘Farm Report and City Desk - in the context of a documentary about modular...

First album by a UK proto-progressive outfit that was released in the fall of 1970. Their second album, Time Is, is a minor classic and this isn't as good, but if you want more by them and you dig that 1970 exploratory vibe...

This London-based quintet's ambitious and highly entertaining debut touches on psychedelia, progressive rock, jazz and pop, with imaginative arrangements and superb musicianship. Issued on the tiny Evolution label in the autumn of 1970, it sank without trace, with original...

"Active Vapor Recovery combines extreme Jazz, avant funk, liquid Americana and skronk blues. Think - James Brown meets Sun Ra on a front porch somewhere in rural Montana. The Scot Ray Quintet features Scot's amazing multiphonic trombone, Nels Cline on...

"TransCollaboration is the five year project of David Cooper Orton (England) and James H. Sidlo (USA). David and James started this project out of mutual interests in looping, having "met" on The Looper's Delight mailing list. Looper's Delight is an...

Siegfried Meier (guitar, flute)
Paul Döing (guitar)
Johannes Brackmann (bass)
Reinhold Stania (drums)
This is the sort of thing that Garden of Delights do so delightfully well; this is a previously unreleased album by a basically unknown outfit from 1975 who were a local, underground / experimental German outfit. But not only do you get the album, which was never released anyway, you get 20' of bonus live tracks. Yow.

"There is only one single laquer that exists of this (studio

A trio of guitars/vocals, keyboards & drums. "If you like Yes circa "Going For The One" then this a must."

Pete Jones - vocals & keyboards
Andy Wilson - guitars
Mick Wilson - bass
Paul Comerie - drums

“Featuring one of the UK's leading lights of progressive rock - Peter Jones (Camel, Tiger Moth Tales) who compliments the instrumental talent of the other musicians.
Three years after the bands last release, Red Bazar are finally able to release their new album, ‘Inverted Reality’. With Covid delaying the writing of new material, the band was desperate to get back into their Nottingham.

Very arty new-wave album from 1980 by Mayo Thompson and originally on Rought Trade, with guests like Epic Soundtracks, the Raincoats' Gina Birch, Pere Ubu's Allen Ravenstein, Laura Logic, etc. [Drag City]

“With a command of countless genres and a vast list of credits, composer/guitarist Jason Schimmel is a musical polymath whose talents know no bounds. A long time member of Trey Spruance’s legendary ensemble Secret Chiefs 3, his brilliant guitar work embraces a wide variety of traditions and styles, from blues, jazz and surf rock to Balkan folk and heavy metal. Visions of the Void is his masterpiece, an intense program of eclectic music that jumps quickly and seamlessly from one style to another. Years...

Even Helte Hermansen – Baritone guitar
Trond Frønes - Bass
Bernt André Moen – Rhodes
Torstein Lofthus – Drums and percussion

“Distilling order from a crushing whirlwind of chaos has been the stock in trade for Red Kite since the Norwegian jazz-rock supergroup joined forces in 2014. Apophenian Bliss, the much-anticipated follow-up to the quartet’s powerhouse 2019 self-titled debut references the tendency in the human brain to find patterns and connections even when none actually..

Fourth album for this band. They manage to sound rough-hewn in an attractive way, while executing some pretty interesting/complex musical maneuvers in a way similar to The Work, although they don't sound like them. I found parts of this reminiscent of...

Following on the enormous success of her Radical Jewish masterpiece Trilectic, composer, singer, bandleader and hellraiser Jewlia Eisenberg has created a rocking collection of songs about women, men, relationships, more women and romance. Performed by ...

"Ultra-rare recordings by '70s UK avant-rockers Red Square, the missing link between original free-noise practitioners like AMM, Nihilist Spasm Band, and Peter Brotzmann and post-no wavers à la The Blue Humans, Borbetomagus, Fushitsusha, and The Dead C. Named after the early Soviet Constructivists, Red Square is a pioneering free-improvising, avant-rock band. They bridged the worlds of psychedelic rock, noise, and avant-jazz, and many of the techniques and approaches to music that they helped to pioneer...

Rodrigo Pinheiro piano | Hernani Faustino double bass | Gabriel Ferrandini drums and percussion | John Butcher tenor and soprano saxophone.
"Known for the way they manage the energy factor, going from extreme subtlety, almost near-silence, to aggressive noise making, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hernâni Faustino and Gabriel Ferrandini, the members of Red Trio, brought sharp ears to their presentation with John Butcher as guest during last year’s Jazz em Agosto festival. “Summer Skyshift” is the recording of...

This is the 1st solo release by Mark Cawthra, formerly of Cardiacs, who plays all instruments and contributes all vocals and gives the album a full band feel. "After what seems like an eternity, finally the first album is finished and soon to be avai

"They say it's all been done before, so when an artist has a unique, hauntingly beautiful sound it's rare and Alec K. Redfearn, Eyesores and all, are one of a kind. That alone is a difficult feat." – Jessie Jayne

"If Can, John Cage, X, and my grandma’s polka records got in that machine from The Fly, maybe this would come out instead of a half Goldblum, half bug. Absolutely enjoyable and recommended."...

The Seizures is one of Alec's newest projects. Basically a more compact version of the Eyesores, it is easier for him to tour and gig with 4 musicians than 8 or 9. Of course. The group is:
Alec K. Redfearn- Vocal, Accordion and Ukulele
Chris Sadlers- Contrabass
Matt McLaren- Drums and Percussion
Orion Rigel Dommisse- Vocals
The music is very much what we expect from Alec; great songs, unusual instrumentation, morbid lyrics and wonderful performances. Highly recommmended, even if I...

Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores have been making uniquely rewarding music for over 15 years. They are one of the great uncategorizable, creative ensembles of our time, crafting a music that is distinctly theirs alone...