"...constructed from a diverse and unfashionable set of instruments, Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores are as bizarre as they appealing. This is wonderful stuff -- brave and experimental, yet warmly human. Make room on your folk revival shelf for....

Alec K. Redfearn – electrified accordion, vocal, Realistic MG-1, loops, ceremonial bell, combo organ
Ann Schattle – French horn
Christopher Sadlers – contrabass, loops, vocals
Matt McLaren – drums, percussion

Eleven chimes usher listeners into the world of The Opposite, the 8th album by the hypnotically eclectic Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores. Eight songs later, another set of eleven chimes release us from the music’s hold. In...

Last five copies in existence!

"The Eyesores are an accordion-driven, gypsy cursed band that specialize in funeral marches and hypno-drone trance music, among other, equally odd things. The Eyesores are bad ass motherfuckers in an entirely new way. Recommended." - The Noise.

This one is a little bit different and also rather special. A huge nine-piece band (accordion/vocals, guitar, French horn, violin, electronics, alto sax, string bass/vocals, drums and percussion), they...

“Conceptually derived from the work of Japanese minimalist composer Satoshi Ashikawa, I have composed an album which hopes to engage, enrich and reflect the listener's surroundings, an Environmental Music"-Gareth Quinn Redmond.

“Working with Still Way as a base for inspiration, Gareth Quinn Redmond takes Ashikawa's meditative sound designs to more dramatic and lyrical landscapes, gracefully instilling his personal touch into the master's melodic patterns and presenting six pieces which blend and..

Alan Reed: Vocals, 12-string, bass pedals
Tudor Davies: Keyboards (Arco)
Mark Spencer: Guitar, vocals (Twelfth Night, Galahad)
Daren Callow: Guitar, vocals
Jennifer Clark: Bass (Horse)
Henry Rogers: Drums (Touchstone)

"This is the debut album from Alan Reed and his band, featuring a selection of Alan’s solo material as well as some Pallas classics. The performances were recorded on the band’s UK dates in 2017.
The album captures the infectious energy of a band enjoy

"Jimmy Reed's second album was a little bit different from his first, but not in a way that detracted from its value. Oh, as with most blues albums of the period, it consisted mostly of previously released single sides, in this case that he'd recorded and released over the prior seven years; but three of the dozen songs here were new to listeners when they showed up on Rockin' with Reed. And, of course, that opens several possible lines of inquiry -- were the later tracks held back for an anticipated...

“In January, 2022, Mike Reed brought together some of the most creative figures in Chicago's experimental and improvised music community -- cornetist Ben LaMar Gay and poet and spoken word artist Marvin Tate -- both of whom worked on his 2017 project Flesh and Bone, and who sporadically joined him in an improvising trio -- along with the members of Bitchin Bajas (multi-instrumentalists Rob Frye, Cooper Crain, and Dan Quinlivan).
He called the new group the Separatist Party, a name he had...

Greg Ward (alto saxophone), Tim Haldeman (tenor saxophone), Jason Roebke (bass), Mike Reed (drums) with Ab Baars (tenor and clarinet), Eric Boeren (cornet), Joost Buis (trombone), Guus Janssen (piano), Oscar Jan Hoogland (piano), Michael Moore (alto...

Rob Reed is the leader of Magenta and the Kompendium project, as well as other projects.
This is the second of his sincere and loving tributes to the music of Mike Oldfield, the person whose music who originally inspired Rob to become a musician!
Rob plays most of the instruments along with the great Simon Phillips on drums, and Anghard Brinn contributes wordless female voice. Helping with the technical duties are Simon Heyworth and Tom Newman, both of whom were involved with many of the classic.

Rob Reed - various instruments
Simon Phillips - drums
Troy Donockley - various instruments
Les Penning - recorder
Tom Newman - bodhrán

"Robert Reed’s new solo album, 'The Ringmaster Part One' is a follow-up to the successful Sanctuary series. Again, Rob has collaborated with Tubular Bells producer Tom Newman and multi-instrumentalist Les Penning on the album, along with drummer Simon Phillips and multi-instrumentalist Troy Donockley.
The Ringmaster albums will be released

Joshua Bruneau (trumpet), Jonathan Barber (drums), Rick Germanson (piano), Nat Reeves (bass).

"Nat Reeves has built a successful career touring the world with some of the most important figures in jazz in the last half-century, beginning with...

Theo Bleckmann: voice, live electronic processing/John Hollenbeck: percussion, crotales, vibraphones/ Gary Versace: piano, accordion, keyboards

"Since 2002, Refuge Trio has explored delicate, playful music while the members’ unique voices also..

"Greetings Earth-o-nauts.
The worm has (re) turned! And this time the Regal Worm (Jarrod Gosling of I Monster, Cobalt Chapel) is tackling The Hideous Goblink.
An album painstakingly created by one solitary man ensconced in his darkened, tiny sky parlour of awe, wonder, and heaps of dusty old gear.
Regal Worm’s mission is putting a ‘ggressive’ back into progressive. Getting grubby with the ghosts of the old gods.
The Hideous Goblink reveals a distinct sense of urgency, expressing...

Alejandro Domínguez: Guitar
Arturo García: Bass
Miquel González: Keyboards
Marc Illa: Vocals
Eric Lavado: Drums
Xavier Martínez: Guitar

“Regna is a symphonic prog rock band hailing from Barcelona. In late 2023, the band is set to unveil its debut full-length LP, CINEMA. An honest and concise album where the band aims to showcase all facets of its DNA and gather everything they have learned from their previous work, the conceptual EP Meridian (2015).
The album has

Somehow, this very excellent album of mostly acoustic systems music was released by Rough Trade in the mid 80s. I’ve had it and it’s crap pressing for decades and decades and am finally able to really hear it!
Highly recommended for fans of minimal music / systems music.

“Regular Music were early instigators of the UK post-systems movement whose work straddles the spheres of rock, minimalism and post-punk.
The band was formed in 1980 by composer/performers Helen Ottaway, Jeremy Peyton..

“Composed for a video art exhibit [and book] by Gerhard Richter that involves a series of halving and turning of a stripped pattern into pixels and back, Steve Reich's music has a built-in rhythmic base in which to play. The metered notes, half, quarter, eights, sixteenths, offered by Ensemble intercontemporain in the acoustic wonder of Philharmonie de Paris-Cité, named for Pierre Boulez, produce an engaging melodic pattern. This is a concert recording to add to the magic. The instrumentation is what...

Despite their being quite popular at the time, and despite Achim's long history in music, being a big name in the "Beat-era" with The Rattles and then later being a early pioneer of the Krautrock sound, most of his great albums from the 70s have not....

Active from the early 70s until about 2010, Hans Reichel was a guitarist and instrument builder who built a number of very wonderful and unique guitars during his lifetime.
He has a relatively small number of solo albums (which is where I think he shines the brightest) and this one, from 1981, is probably his masterpiece. Impossible to describe (NOTHING else sounds like Hans’ guitars) and noisily beautiful. Highly recommended.

“Subtitled some more guitar solos, Bonobo Beach was German....

New solo album by the fantastic accordionist of The Claudia Quintet and many other projects. "A veteran of countless Tzadik projects led by (among others), David Krakauer, Marc Ribot, Roberto Rodriguez and Anthony Coleman, accordionist Ted Reichman ste...

First release by a monster axe-slinger + rhythm section who burn up a batch of Dregs-inspired toons. OK, ok, like some others, I guess this isnt the most original release in the catalog, but he really cooks, & those of you whose ears perk up when you h...

This album features the leader on drums with Arthur Blythe-alto sax, Michael Keith-trombone, Les Walker-piano, David Wertman-bass, plus guest appearances from Chris Capers-trumpet, Melvin Smith-guitar and Charles Tyler-baritone sax.

"“The second album from the legendary Steve Reid as a limited edition CD.
Drummer and composer extraordinaire Steve Reid’s Rhythmatism is one of his deepest and most radical of albums of all time and features some of the heaviest jazz players – Arthur Blythe...

"Chicago-based cellist and composer Tomeka Reid, a mainstay on the Windy City scene and an important contemporary member of the A.A.C.M., was commissioned to create original music for the first documentary to chronicle the Imagists, Chicago’s hometown post-surrealists who exhibited together starting in the mid-1960s. Reid composed theme music for the film and made a wide range of multi-track improvisations based on moods, creating a tableau from which the film drew as it unwound the artists’ circuitous...

I just saw this great band a couple of weeks ago. How can you possibly go wrong with
Tomeka Reid-cello
Mary Halvorson-guitar
Jason Roebke-double bass
Tomas Fujiwara-drums
?? - answer: you probably can't!

"Over the last decade or so Chicago cellist and composer Tomeka Reid has emerged as one of the most original, versatile, and curious musicians in the city’s bustling jazz and improvised music community. Her distinctive melodic sensibility, usually braided to a strong sense

“The Mouser, an intimate session between Chicagoan- now-New-York-based cellist Tomeka Reid and Italian drummer Filippo Monico (who has worked with Giorgio Gaslini, Mario Schiano and others since the early ‘70s) recorded in Milan, Italy, is unstructured play at its best. Imaginative and daring, the two dive into the margins and depths of the cello and drums to uncover a much richer instrumentation and aural palette than one would expect from a duo.
“Let’s play,” Monico says earnestly on the first...

Drummer and composer Xavi Reija is a completely new name to me, but this is a really great album of advanced and interesting power trio jazz/rock that really knocked me out. Also appearing is guitarist Dusan Jevtovic and bassist Bernat Hernandez. Check...