"Into The Long Night is the second album by The Sonic Dawn, one of the most remarkable bands to come out of the new psychedelic wave in Denmark. Just a few seconds into this album, you will realize that you are in for a mind altering experience. "It's a trip! By taking the listeners to places they didn't expect to go, we hope to make them aware -- that they'll stop up and think about life for a minute. Awareness is the first step to change in the world," says guitarist and vocalist Emil Bureau...

“Sonic Liberation 8 celebrates 15 years as a creative music ensemble - joined by special guest artist Oliver Lake (World Saxophone Quartet) and the Classical Revolution String Trio.
This is their 6th release on Philly's High Two Recordings. The album is a collection of compositions & arrangements realizing the confluences of loft jazz, Afro Cuban Yoruba music, new chamber music.
Sonic Liberation 8 composed 5 new original pieces. On one track, Kevin Diehl, the octet's leader, recasts the Erik...

“Album formatted collection of underheard Sonic rarities from the legendary band’s 2000-2010 era, most for the first time on any physical format.
Essential for the band’s hardcore fans and for enthusiasts of instrumental rock.”

This is from 1986, which is exactly the time when I saw them and was pretty knocked out by them in this period, and shows this group at their most 'out rock', Glenn Branca-ish best. Conditionally highly recommmended.

"The slow-burn sounds of Sonic Youth's 1986 rehearsals to score Ken Friedman's spooky highway film Made In USA are yet another mile marker in the band's long and varied existence, now being issued as Spinhead Sessions (named for the North Hollywood studio used by SST label acts like...

Sonicphonics are led by percussionist/keyboardist/sampler Geoff Searle and always includes Jon Dobie on guitar and alto sax (ex B Shops For the Poor). Also included here is Adrian Northover on alto and soprano saxes and theremin. Lots of electronic sou...

“Since the days of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the guitar/bass/drums trio has been convened by visionary tone scientists as a laboratory for music of primal power and tonal subtlety.
ON COMMON GROUND features three such players. Mike Sopko has explored the frontiers of the guitar with Los Lobos and Dosh, Thomas Pridgen. Laswell, like Sopko a Midwesterner, here transmutes the industrial crash and hum of the region into music of muscular authority. Even followers of the protean career of...

"Solo is the first solo album from Papir guitarist Nicklas Sørensen. While there are certain similarities with the oeuvre Sørensen has created with Papir, it quickly becomes apparent that this is something quite different. Throughout Solo, the Copenhagen native explores his primary instrument, the guitar, as a generator of otherworldly sounds, as a compositional tool, and -- perhaps most importantly -- as a transmitter of pristine, cascading melodies. There's a peaceful, savory quality to the album that...

“The Adornment of Time is a monumental meeting between drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Marilyn Crispell, two titans of contemporary music. Recorded live at The Kitchen in New York City, the performance is the apotheosis of fully-improvised music, a dialogue between two artists who are masters at bringing compositional form to their improvisations.
Sorey, a 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, has been named by The New Yorker as "among the most formidable denizens of the in-between zone... An...

Tyshawn Sorey - Drums
Aaron Diehl - Piano
Matt Brewer - Bass

“Continuing is drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s highly-anticipated follow-up to Mesmerism and The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism, his two critically-acclaimed 2022 release that feature this avowed avant-gardist’s surprising forays into classic, swinging jazz. Those two prior releases were voted #4 and #5 best albums of the year, respectively, in the annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll of over 150 jazz critics. In two 4 ½ Star reviews.

"Oblique I is the highly anticipated new release from drummer Tyshawn Sorey, delivering what his fans have long been seeking: an album that combines his virtuosic playing with his compositional mastery. On each of his two prior releases as a leader, he...

Tyshawn Sorey drums
Cory Smythe piano
Chris Tordini contrabass
Chern Hwei Fung violin
Kyle Armbrust viola
Rubin Kodheli cello
"Drummer Tyshawn Sorey is widely considered to be among the most important young artists at the intersection between composed and improvised music. The New York Times has called his work 'gestural and philosophical', and his prior release, Alloy 'elegant and shadowy'. Not just known for his impossibly virtuosic technique and his mind boggling ability to.

Tyshawn Sorey drums
Christopher Tordini bass
Cory Smythe piano

"Verisimilitude is the latest in drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey’s continuing effort to shatter the jazz piano trio tradition by extending the form to encompass the influence of the likes of Feldman, Debussy and Xenakis.
One of the most in-demand drummers in improvised music – he has in recent years collaborated extensively with the likes of John Zorn, Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, Claire Chase, George Lewis, and Roscoe...

“Sorry For Laughing is a project by Gordon H. Whitlow who is also a member of legendary US avantgarde collective Biota.
In 1986 Gordon H. Whitlow released a cassette under the name Sorry For Laughing: "The compositions stem from my beginning days with the avant-garde recording ensemble Biota, shortly after completion of the Bellowing Room LP." Now, Gordon reactivated the project and changed it from a solo effort into a new supergroup: he is joined on See It Alone by Edward Ka-Spel of Legendary...

This was the album before Contemporary Music, which we also carry for $2.00 and which is a fine instrumental, rock album. This has vocals, and is definitely not as strong to me. but quite a bit of it is as good as Contemporary Music, even if not as...

This is the debut album formed by the ex-The Watch players Ettore Salti (guitars) and Fabio Mancini (keyboards). This is all-instrumental symphonic rock with a definite early/mid 70s Genesis feel.

"First album for the Italian band formed by...

Nick Obando - sax
Eli Wallace - keys
Aaron Levin - drums

"Sound Etiquette revisits an old, forgotten virtue from the earliest days of electric jazz, when an amplified keyboard alongside acoustic instruments played with pure instinct was synonymous with timbre-rich fuzziness and freedom."—Something Else!

“Sound Etiquette, the first calling from a brilliantly inventive trio based out of Oakland, CA, imagines a universe where the small-minded distinctions of musical genres becom

Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone
Dave Douglas, trumpet
Lawrence Fields, piano
Linda May Han Oh, bass
Joey Baron, drums

Saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas debuted their extraordinary Sound Prints quintet on Blue Note Records in 2013, the year of Wayne Shorter’s 80th birthday, and from the outset the group had a joyful but somewhat imposing mandate: to lift up Shorter’s legacy through the writing and performance of new music conceived in his risk-taking, fearlessly.

“The Peyote Dance, by Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith, is the first in a triptych of albums, collectively titled The Perfect Vision, to be released over the next year. Each take their inspiration from the writings of three emblematic French poets: Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud and René Daumal, and their necessity to travel to different lands to acquire a new vision and perspective on themselves and their artwork. Recorded in the Sierra Tarahumara of Mexico, The Peyote Dance, retraces Artaud's...

"The self-titled debut album by New York City's the sours offers eleven original songs that range from cutting, slice-of-life observations, to raw, diaristic confessions. This acoustic project is the brainschild of singer/songwriter Sarah Schrift...

“They’ve done it again! ‘Another World’ is once more a masterpiece of musicianship and production. It’s been five years since their last offering ‘Civilisation’ made such a big impression on the music press and fans alike and now the boys of Southern Empire have put together their stunning new album. Featuring their unique mixture of prog, classic rock and jazz, the addition of impressive new vocalist Shaun Holton takes it to the next level.

Sean Timms: “I am incredibly excited to have Shaun on...

A solo guitar album (classical guitar with a piezo pickup) by the guitarist of Ne Zhdali, and utterly different from that ensemble. "Between March and August 1997 'Surfing In My Bed' was recorded on a 4 track-recorder. It documents Leonid Soybelman's m...

Philip Gelb (shakuhachi), Pauline Oliveros (accordion), Dana Reason (piano), Matthew Sperry (bass).

"Matt and I first met while we were attending the music school at Florida State University. We became roomates in 1990-91 and remained close...