"Party Intellectuals is the debut recording from Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, a post-everything band combining the energies of two masters of downtown New York mayhem: guitarist/vocalist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, John Zorn, Robert Plant, T-Bone Burnett...

''From brilliant surf guitar to perverse improvisation to Cuban rhythms, this eclectic compilation of his cinematic music displays the full range of his talents and the sick depths of his mind....listened as an album without the visuals, suggests a twi...

“With his new album Songs of Resistance 1948 - 2018, Ribot—one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed guitar players—set out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with appropriate ambition, passion, and fury.
The eleven songs on the record are drawn from the World War II anti-Fascist Italian partisans, the U.S. civil rights movement, and Mexican protest ballads, as well as original compositions, and feature a wide range of guest vocalists, including Tom Waits, Steve...

"What is Spiritual Unity?

Spiritual Unity is a group formed by guitarist Marc Ribot dedicated to re-creating and re-imagining the music of the great saxophonist Albert Ayler, one of the pillars of modern jazz. Ribot (Lounge Lizards, Los Cubanos

“Connection is the 5th full length album from trio Ceramic Dog, and it's also their best. Marc Ribot, Shahzad Ismaily and Ches Smith have created a work that doesn't resolve the tension between their punk/new music/free jazz points of departure and the pop ambitions they've always buried beneath the surface... so much as push to the breaking point.
Tracks such as "That's Entertainment" devours/deconstructs the Hollywood standard's psychotic cliches, while "Ecstasy"-whose Boogaloo inflected groove...

Totally SMOKIN' electric jazz trio set from this band of equals. Grimes and Chad sound great together and this is one of the best things I have heard out of Ribot. Includes two late period Coltrane tracks (Sun Ship & Dearly Beloved), two by Ayler...

Herb Robertson - Trumpet, Little Instruments; Jason Ajemian - Bass: Andrew Barker - Drums; Edward Ricart - Guitar.

Ed's a pal from the DC-scene, although he's blown this coop for Yellow Springs, OH. While he was here, he enlivened DC greatly...

Paolo Ricca : Fender Rhodes piano
Diego Mascherpa : clarinet
Andrea Manzo : bass
Maurizio Plancher : drums
with
John Etheridge : guitar

This will bring a smile to the face of anyone who enjoyed Perigeo, Bella Band, and other classic era Italian jazz/rock bands.

"The Paolo Ricca Group is the band formed by the pianist, keyboardist and composer Paolo Ricca in 2006. The new cd "Mumble", came out in 2018 and sees beyond the consolidated basic training (which include

An early (1986-87) and great one from this US synthesist, and probably his closest work to 'spacey electronics'.

"As the title implies, this reissue - originally recorded in 1987-88...crosses the bridges between mathematics and music, applying these relationships to the rhythm, melodics, and the very tonal constructs of the musical foundation itself. By using just intonation, Rich has eschewed the traditional western scales in favor of the more mathematically pure. Then, by applying some of the...

Steph Richards - trumpet, flugelhorn, resonating water vessels
Joshua White - piano, preparations, percussion

‘"A virtuoso of otherworldly trumpet sound" (Jazz Times), Steph Richards takes takes a literally transformative experience (Richards was six and a half months pregnant during the session) and shapes a concise, visceral album both in concept and in practice, exploring a more immediate connection between her body and her work. "This record expresses the idea of breathing one breath...

Geoffrey Richardson is highly regarded for his distinctive viola and flute playing in the legendary Canterbury band Caravan, but his career has also seen him as a key member of the Penguin Café Orchestra and as a guest musician on countless albums by artists including Bob Geldof, Murray Head and many others.

On The Garden Of Love, Richardson explores rock, folk and classical influences, playing violin, viola, flute, cello, acoustic and electric guitar, ukelele, banjo, mandolin, keyboards, tenor...

Legit limited edition (1,000 made!) reissue of a very rare, private press, mucho-expensive, late period (1981) progressive rock album from small-town France. It's been cleaned up very nicely and this great set includes four bonus tracks and unreleased....

First-time ever on CD for this Sky Record title from 1978. At the time, this was the height of modernity in its Kraftwerk-ness. Now it still is fine but boy-oh-boy, synthesizer technology sure has changed!

"Bureau B reissues Wolfgang...

“Two years after «Rien Faire», their first eponymous album, the trio (bass, keyboards, drums, vocals) from Lyon delivers their latest contribution to the revival of songwriting made in France. Nine small surrealist poems whose soft consonant sounds blossom through falsely naive melodies and which, in spite of their complexity, resound like so many evidences.
A pop of goldsmith coiled in a rough and noisy case considering the stripped arrangements, borrowed of roughness and of a gracious beau

Excellent modern jazz from this Quebecois saxaphonist & his rhythm section who are neither avant gardists nor neo conservatives. [Victo]

"EvoRevolution - the seventh full-length album by Italian bassist and composer ALBERTO RIGONI. After the release of six albums between 2008 and 2017, Italian bassist and composer Alberto Rigoni (soloist, co-producer of Vivaldi Metal Project, founder of Bassists Alliance Project, ex-Twinspirits) is now going to release "EvoRevolution", an Instrumental Prog/Rock/Ambient concept album which features worldwide known drummer Marco Minnemann (The Artistocrats, Paul Gilbert).
"EvoRevolution" consists...

Originally released in 1975, this is a classic progressive rock album that is very much of the time and the scene. It was a double-album with gatefold sleeve and giant 24 page booklet (all of which are reproduced in this package) the album is even...

“Airbag co-founder, songwriter and lead guitarist, Bjorn Riis is ready with a new studio album titled “Everything to Everyone”. It features six striking tracks, all dealing with human emotions and the fear of losing one self in the constant effort to meet every, often perceived, expectation. “I was inspired by Dante’s Inferno when I started to write. A bit pretentious perhaps, but I’ve always been fascinated by that very personal journey and the search for some kind of piece or redemption, while being...

“Gyan Riley is a virtuoso guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn whose unique work expands the rich legacy of classical guitar music with influences from minimalism, flamenco, bossa nova, collection of music for solo guitar. Fluid, compelling, and beautiful, this is music you will return to again and again.”
Gyan Riley: Guitar

"A reissue of a recording first released in 1983, For Four on Two Two is Howard Riley's ninth solo piano album (he made roughly one a year from 1972 onwards) and, as Dave Ilic pointed out in his original liner-note (expanded by a Wire article in autumn 1983), it is a prime example of the power and vitality consequent upon Riley's 'orchestral-style use of the piano'. Riley himself, in the above-mentioned article, throws more light on his approach: 'playing in groups – you were expected to fulfil a...

Recorded live in the fine acoustics of the Holywell Music Room. "Musically the objective is spontaneity. With this in mind, there is no prior discussion or rehearsal. This recording contains all the music we played on 13th March, 2002..."-Howard Riley ...

"One of the most influential musicians on the planet, Terry Riley is the father of both minimalism and the downtown scene, having incorporated improvisation into his work from as far back as the early 1960s. This project, a musical dream diary, was...

Two of Terry's rarest albums, both film soundtracks and both quite good, finally reissued for the very first time since the early 1970s! Les Yeux Fermes is aka Happy Ending and is quite nice, while Lifespan suffered from one of the worst-ever pressings ever heard, so it's great to have it in this form. Recommended to fans and the curious!

"After changing the world in the late '60s with In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air, legendary American composer and father of minimalism Terry Riley abandoned...

A series of pieces for guitar, multiple guitars, and guitar in ensemble, performed by David Tannenbaum with Gyan Riley-guitar, Tracy Silverman-violin & William Winant-percussion. Beautiful, & very different for Terry. [New Albion]

“The Lion's Throne bears witness to the performances that the legendary composer Terry Riley and Italian singer Amelia Cuni did together in the United Kingdom and Italy between 1999 and 2006. Riley, whose remarkable body of work seamlessly integrates a lifetime of devotion to Indian classical music into the western classical tradition, collaborates with Cuni, a singer trained in Dhrupad who, like Riley, experiments with Indian singing in a variety of ways.
In these recordings, Riley plays piano or...