Weve been trying to get this in stock for the last 2 years & finally succeeded! This is a live, heavy fusion session featuring Janick Top-bass, Eric Seva-saxes & Claude Salmieri-drums with guest guitarist Thibbault Abrial. Janick Top was the bassist in...

Solo album by this Italian drummer is a climax of his in-depth exploration of the instruments sound & mechanics...

How great to see In Cahoots bassist Fred T. Baker with Soft Machine/Eberhard Weber's Colours drummer John Marshall here on a set led by guitarist Joe Sachse!

"To composer/bassist Daphna Sadeh, Jewish Music is the cross-cultural patchwork quilt of the diaspora experience. Born in Israel, she has studied in New York and since 2002 has been based mostly in London where she leads her own ensemble and performs...

"Saena, is a new project by keyboardist, guitarist, composer José Luis Fernández Ledesma, joined by Margarita Botello (voice, keyboards), Adrián Zárate (drums), Hugo Santos (stick, bass) and violin maestro Alejandro Sánchez (ex-Decibel and Nazca)...

In the final months of 2004, John Zorn wrote over 300 new tunes for his popular Masada project, and he now initiates a new series of recordings featuring the best players out of the burgeoning Masada family in dynamic units performing compositions from...

Another amazing band of likely and unlikely bandmates on this record!

"Virtuoso pianist/guitarist/recording engineer/composer Jamie Saft has been a crucial member of the downtown scene since the early 1990s, both as sideman and as leader of his...

"Keyboard virtuoso, dub-master supreme, heavy metal guitarist, soundtrack composer, versatile arranger, master butcher and zonked madman, Jamie Saft has been responsible for some of the wildest and most soulful sounds heard on the Tzadik Jewish series...

''Guitars and beats, both electric and acoustic, mixed in dub...Jamie Saft's debut recording deals with the interaction of Black, Arab and Jewish cultures in his hometown of Brooklyn, NY. Featuring his longtime collaborators Jim Black and Chris Speedas...

"Their third and last album sacrificed some of their signature-sound in favour of clearer influences from other progressive rock bands, mainly Camel, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant and Barclay James Harvest. But "For All the Clowns" was still their best...

The art of Faiyaz Khan (1880 -1950) forms part of the singing tradition called khayal which because less tied to devotional classicism allows the performer space to improvise freely, unleashing the whole range of their emotional expressivity in the cre...

"Holy shit! This is one of the long, lost psych gems that I thought would never ever be reissued! Saint Steven was Steven Cataldo, onetime member of Ultimate Spinach, one of the greatest of all-time psych bands, from Boston. This was one of those recor...

Michel is a Christian Arab who lives in Israel. He's also a monster guitarist and this is a very unusual and very appealing jazz/rock album that blends elements of Arabic modes, scales and instruments with hot fusion. I still love good fusion after all...

Japanese keyboardist Motoi Sakuraba made his name in the band Deja Vu. This was recorded for a large scale video game, and I am sure that the game, like the music, must be very sweeping in scope! He performs with a guitarist and drummer...

Led by guitarist Kido Natsuki of Bondage Fruit, Salle Gaveau combines the art-music tango, as typified by the brilliant and famous work of Astor Piazzolla with a rock energy and zaniness. Using the same quintet musical configuraration as Piazzolla's...

This is a very electronic, laptop-based rendition of this seminal classic and very adaptable work. Very spacey, low-key ambiance gives this a feel like Klaus Schulze and Radio Massacre International doing their version of this great piece! Beautifully...

"Argentinean bandoneon master’s ECM debut album is a spellbinding solo tour de force, tracing an ‘imaginary return’ to the villages of Dino’s childhood, as elements of folk tunes and other root sounds are integrated into the floating rubato of tango."...

Dino Saluzzi, bandoneon
Anja Lechner, violoncello
Felix Saluzzi, tenor saxophone

"Cellist Anja Lechner and clarinet and sax man Felix Saluzzi both appeared as soloists on Dino’s orchestral recording “El Encuentro” in 2009, a shared...

Tarantera is the magical place where the tarantelle, traditional and of author, they are met with the organetto, similar instrument of the wind and the sun, than the breath of the earth it renders strong in the voice, and the rhythm similar to the wate...

This is a reissue of the Japanese limited edition release. This documents the current edition of Samlas, which features Lars Hollmer-accordion/keyboards/vocals, Coste Apetrea-guitar, Lars Kranz-bass and Tatsuya Yoshihida-drums/vocals. Dear Mamma is the...

Samla was the original band of keyboardist/composer Lars Hollmer. They blended progressive with bits of folk elements & more. This is an earlier, more overtly "progressive rock" disc than what came later, with some great melodies & great playing...

Samla Mammas Manna was the original band of keyboardist/composer Lars Hollmer and they were hugely popular in their native Sweden. They blended progressive with bits of folk elements & more. This is an earlier (their second), more overtly "progressive...

This is all five of the original releases by Samla/Zamla (six discs: Samla Mammas Manna, Maltid, Klossas Knapitatet, Schlagerns Mystik/For Aldre Nybegynnare (2 x CDs), Familjesprikor) plus Gregory Allan's collaboration with Samla, Snorungarnas Symfoni...

The very first Samlas album, from 1970 is early steps for the band. You can hear a lot of Lars' early somewhat Canterbury/Muffins styled Fender Rhodes work, along with organ & vocals in a more simplified format than the band took later. But you can...