Oft-bootlegged, very high quality soundboard recording of the trio version of Soft Machine from 3/29/69 (Hopper, Ratledge, Wyatt) recorded in Holland.
Recorded just after the band had finished recording "Volume Two", this is an exciting document of that band performing that material, but really pushing the needles into the red as they do so (the band was famously LOUD at that point in their life) as they rip and ROAR through the material in a way hugely different from the very polite "Volume II"....

Released for the very first time here is the Soft Machine's television broadcast, recorded for Germany's famous "NDR Jazz Workshop" on May 17, 1973. This performance was one of the earliest shows by the quartet of Roy Babbington (electric bass), Karl...

Ever wanted to take the Soft Machine plunge all at once for really cheap? Here is your chance. This has all of their classic CBS-era albums (Third, Fourth, 5, Six, Seven) in little slipcased box set. Very basic information (but there is a link to a website with full album credits), but here's what you need to know; this is the newly remastered versions from only a couple of years ago (meaning you get the best sound that these have ever appeared in and you even get the bonus track on '5'). If you want to...

By this time (1973), the band were pretty much a straight-forward fusion ensemble with many of their biggest quirks and oddities excised. And all the quirky old personnel too, with only Mike Ratledge remaining (for the time being at least). Hugh Hoppper left and is replaced by the great (but not as quirky) bassist Roy Babbington along with Karl Jenkins and John Marshall. The band is now 75% comprised of ex-Nucleus players, and while they don't sound like Nucleus at all, they also don't really sound so...

Licensed from SONY, this is a legit version that is sonically the exact same thing as the latest SONY issue, now out of print.
This was the last release that included bassist/composer Hugh Hopper, & the first that includes Karl Jenkins who replaced Elton Dean. Still on board are Mike Ratledge and John Marshall. Karl Jenkins (along with John Marshall) came in from Nucleus and the band begins to have a bit more of Nucelus' sound.
Originally released as a two lp set, the first lp was a live disc...

A archival classic of stoned, cut-up, tape loop, manipulated, concrete noise, organized sound craziness

"...well worth hearing, anticipating as they do many of the textures later utilized on Soft Machine Third." – Mojo...

Roy Babbington : Electric 6-string bass
Karl Jenkins : Soprano sax, baritone sax, oboe, electric piano

John Marshall : Drums

Mike Ratledge : Electric piano, organ

From their beginnings as a psychedelic rock band in 1966, sharing stages with Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, to being one of the originators of electric jazz/rock by early 1969, Britain’s Soft Machine were restlessly creative. The Dutch Lesson captures them..

OK, here it is. The landmark. The album. The first album by the 'classic quartet' lineup of the Softs (Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt). Four musicians, four side-long tracks (man, that must have seemed incredibly heavy in 1970 when this was released!).
Soft Machine were so sophisticated so early that I think that that may have actually harmed their chance for popularity in the long run. This received a lot of attention and good press upon its release, even here in the USA (I...

The second studio album by Soft Machine Legacy, and the first studio recordings by the current line up of the band: Roy Babbington-bass, John Etheridge-electric guitar, John Marshall-drums, Theo Travis-tenor sax, flute, Fender Rhodes...

SOL (Screams of Life, apparently) are a Brazilian band from the south of Brazil, consisting of Gue Martini - vocals, bass, guitar, acoustic guitar. Roger Canal - vocals, guitar, bass, acoustic guitar, escaleta, keyboards. Tetsuo Kakuta - percussion...

"As soon as Martial Solal sat down at the piano in the Theater Gütersloh for soundcheck, all the months of preparation and practice for this solo-concert, and the strain of the travel here from his home in Chatou near Paris seemed to disappear. "At home I don’t even make music, I just practice scales and things", he said, after explaining why he looks forward to play on a great grand piano on stage. "I have two pianos at home: I practiced for years on an old upright piano with a light keyboard touch...

"Hungarian prog band Solaris are back with their 5th studio album. What we have here is transcendant musicianship with all instruments working very well with eachother and having their time to shine. Their music is still filled with the beautiful melodies and occasional latin vocals (maybe a bit more this time around). The composition is top notch and the music flows so very well, you won't ever be bored listening to this album. Its mind boggling that 35 years after their debut this band is still able to...

Toti is a Spanish guitarist who was fronting the experimental early 70s group OM (band which actually accompanied Pau Riba on his legendary Dioptria album). After OM, he released some solo albums moving from jazz-rock to Spanish flamenco guitar. This o...

Special while they last! This is $6.00 off the usual price! Toti is a Spanish guitarist who was fronting the experimental early 70’s group OM (band which actually accompanied Pau Riba on his legendary Dioptria album). After OM, he released some solo...

Toti is a Spanish guitarist who was fronting the experimental early 70s group OM (band which actually accompanied Pau Riba on his legendary Dioptria album). After OM, he released some solo albums moving from jazz-rock to Spanish flamenco guitar. This o...

Torgim Sollidd-trumpet, flugelhorn, drums
Jan Garbarek-tenor & soprano sax
Bjørn Alterhaug-bass, vocals
Ole Jacob Hansen-drums
Knut Riisnaes-flute, tenor sax
Erling Aksdal-piano
Alf Kjellman-tenor sax
Lars Martin Thommassen-trumpet, flugelhorn

I had never previously heard of Torgrim Sollid or this album, but it’s actually a real winner.
This is the first reissue of any sort, of a 1975 album of jazz and folk-influenced jazz. In a lot of ways, this reminds me

Good album of purely improvised rock music that feattures the amaaaaazing guitarist Nels Cline, along with Woody Aplanap & Ken Rosser (guitar), Richard Derrick (bass) and Bob Lee (drums). It was recorded at two different gigs; one in 1997 and one in 20...

“Som Imaginário are the stuff of MPB mythos. Integral to Brazil's Clube Da Esquina movement in the early 1970s, a heady blend of progressive rock, folk, psychedelia, jazz, and traditional Brazilian rhythm flows through the three studio albums the band recorded between '70 and '73. Flying the countercultural freak-flag amid the context of military dictatorship, the Brazilian prog lords shared much of the sense of experimentation and bountiful fuzz bequeathed by their tropicalismo forbearers. But armed...

Günter Baby Sommer Drums, Percussion, Voice

"Günter 'Baby' Sommer is at the height of his musical career. After 'Song for Kommeno' (Intakt CD 190) Sommer, one of the architects of European jazz drumming, now presents his Solo masterpiece...

Günter Baby Sommer drums and percussion
Raymond MacDonald alto and soprano saxophones

“Gunter Baby Sommer, born in Dresden, is one of the pioneers of European Free Jazz.
In a prolific career spanning over 50 years he has developed a unique approach to percussion and a captivating highly personalized style that has taken him around the world, collaborating widely and delighting audiences with charm and virtuosity. He has also developed and made his own exceptional instruments and has an

Antonio Lucaciu: Saxophone
Simon Lucaciu: Piano
Robert Lucaciu: Bass
Günter Baby Sommer: Drums

“Günter Baby Sommer is at the height of his musical career. The Dresden jazz innovator, who together with the pioneering generation of jazz has unbounded drumming and developed his own sound, presents a refreshing album with a cross-generational quartet with the Lucaciu brothers. “The other three members of the quartet are two generations younger. Günter Baby Sommer’s music and presence...

Savina Yannatou: Voice / Floros Floridis: Soprano Sax, Clarinet, Bassclarinet / Evgenios Voulgaris: Yayli Tanbur, Oud / Spilios Kastanis: Bass / Günter Baby Sommer: Drums, Percussion.

"A homage to the Greek village of Kommeno where, in 1943

"The Original Delta Blues is a really fine distillation of the label's..highlights ...of blues legend Eddie "Son" House's 60s recordings.

These 55 minutes of music feature Son House and his National steel guitar, which he played with a slide, and Columbia have managed to include all of House's essential 60s songs.

The powerful a capella spiritual "John The Revelator" is here, as is the slashing slide guitar workout "Pearline", the sarcastic "Preachin' Blues", the bitterness of...

David Torn electric guitar, live looping
Stephan Thelen tritone guitar
Bernhard Wagner tritone guitar
Christian Kuntner tritone bass
Manuel Pasquinelli drums, percussion

“...a hypnotic groove fest, twenty-second century cyborg dance music for those enhanced organisms manning that space station.” – All About Jazz

“The music created by SONAR harnesses elements of rock, jazz and contemporary classical minimalism and fuses them to create a distinctive musical language.

"Alan Sondheim was the young, exuberant leader of a pack of improvisers in their communal loft in Providence, Rhode Island. Undaunted by attempts to categorize electronic music as the province of academic tinkerers, a cold, unfriendly realm, with its...