“Jan-Olof Strandberg is one of Finland's most famous bass players.
The Works is a 4CD - box with a 36-page booklet that features following musicians (among others):
Paul Jackson, vocals, bass & keyboards

Jan-Olof Strandberg, bass (4,5,6 string bass,fretless bass & upright bass)
Sami Virtanen, guitar
Jukka Gustavson, keyboards & vocals
Jartsa Karvonen, drums & percussion
Michael Manring: fretless hybrid bass
Matias Kupiainen: guitar
Juhani Aaltonen, flute

"Originally released in the USA, 1974/1976. The Strange were an underground art-rock band from Olympia, WA, close to the Canadian border. Tom Hackett, Robert Rensel, David Chamberlain, Rick Rackleff plus Mike Pitcher, Don Morris & Carl Dexter recorded...

S.I. is the jazz group of Deus Ex Machina's keyboardist Fabrizio Puglisi (here he plays just piano) along with saxist/flautist Mauro Avanzini, bassist Nicola Vernuccio and drummer Daviano Rotella. This is modern jazz through & through - you'd never kno...

Ricardo Santhiago – guitars / lap steel
Gustavo Santhiago – keyboard / flute
Gabriel Golfetti - bass
Giovanni Lenti - drums

This is a very good instrumental progressive rock release by a very young band (aged between 17-21 years old).

“Our influences range from 70's prog, to classical Hindustani, modern jazz and Brazilian music. While our instrumental sound is complex, it is very accessible.”

“For fans of Gong, Camel, Nektar, Canterbury Sound, Pink Floyd...

“This Esoteric Recordings expanded edition has been newly re-mastered from the original master tapes and features four bonus tracks, including an early version of the song Joey and Me (later to feature on the band’s 1978 album Deadlines), two out-takes from the album sessions and the song Heartbreaker (a different composition from the song featured on Burning for You), from the 1977 Intergalactic Touring Band concept album project .
The release restores the original artwork and includes a new essay...

“Recorded at The Manor studio, Oxfordshire in the Spring and Summer of 1976, the album was the band’s first for the newly formed Oyster Records (established by Deep Purple member Roger Glover). For the recording sessions the line-up of Dave Cousins (vocals, acoustic guitars), Dave Lambert (vocals, electric guitars), Chas Cronk (bass, guitars, vocals) and Rod Coombes (drums) was augmented by Robert Kirby (mellotron, electric piano & French horn), John Mealing (keyboards) and Rupert Holmes (piano...

From their earliest beginnings as a straight folkie band to their mid period as progressive folkies with Rick Wakeman in the ranks to their later, very much progressive rock period, and then back to folkie roots, the Strawbs have always been a cult fav...

"This first volume has tracks recorded for the BBC (Top Gear, Peter Starstedt, Sounds of the Seventies, Sequence) from 1968 through 1973. Occasionally there is a bit of chat from the DJ, but its not overly intrusive-rather it gives more of a feel for...

It’s now, what? Almost 55 years since their very first recordings? Dave Cousins is joined by Dave Bainbridge, Dave Lambert & Blue Weaver and this very much has their 70s sound intact.

"Settlement is Strawbs’ umpteenth album and the follow up to The Ferryman’s Curse which was a superb prog record released in November 2017, but unfortunately associated with the untimely demise of producer Chris Tsangarides a month later. This record too is similarly tinged with sadness as it is dedicated to...

"The Ferryman's Curse, the first Strawbs album of new material in eight long years. It is produced by the legendary Chris Tsangarides, whose studio is littered with diamond, platinum, and gold discs by the likes of Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest and guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen.
The Ferryman's Curse, the title track of the album, is the epic sequel to The Vision Of The Lady Of The Lake, from Strawbs album Dragonfly, rated by producer Tony Visconti as one of his Top six productions alongside albums by...

Pianist / composer Frank Strazzeri was a journeyman jazz musician. This is three rather scarce albums [Taurus, Frames, After The Rain] from the early – mid 70s, which have Frank on Fender Rhodes and Moog on the third album, are nice examples of the wide reach of electric jazz by 1973-1975!

“Frank Strazzeri was also a foundation of the LA scene, subsidizing his jazz life with stints with Elvis Presley (go figure!!!) Maynard Ferguson and Les Brown along with a thriving studio life. Here, he plays...

Co Streiff: Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Tommy Meier: Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
Christof Gantert: Trumpet
Ben Jeger: Piano, Accordion
Christian Weber: Bass
Fredi Flükiger: Drums

"After her successful duo album

Co Streiff: Alto saxophone, Soprano saxophone / Russ Johnson: Trumpet / Christian Weber: Bass / Julian Sartorius: Drums.

"What cements the relationship of Swiss saxophonist Co Streiff and American trumpeter Russ Johnson, is a shared aesthetic,...

"This is a collaboration between Angel (containing members of Mum and Pan Sonic) and Strings Of Consciousness. This dense and droney construction echoes platinum reflections with warm fluidity and delicate detail. The more attention you'll bestow on...

“Pauline Anna Strom (October 1, 1946 – December 13, 2020) was an American electronic music composer and synthesist. Strom made seven recordings between 1982 and 1988 including three LPs and four cassette tapes.
Though Strom’s work developed during the dawn of San Francisco’s influential new age and ambient scenes, her music remains non-programmatic, an adventurous tangent diverting from the era’s ideological tropes.
Echoes, Spaces, Lines collects Trans-Millenia Consort, Plot Zero, and Spectre...

This exceptional debut release from Food drummer Thomas Strnen and Supersilent keyboardist Stle Storlkken is a most welcome addition to the Rune Grammofon catalogue. Thomas Strnen is a regular member of several bands, most notably Food, Maria Kannegaar...

"Stuckfish are back and they are here to fulfil all of your long-awaited prog-rock fantasies thanks to the release of their newest album, ‘Days of Innocence’.
The album has got all the hallmarks of previous Stuckfish albums that fans have come to know and love, with its philosophical fantasy vibes taking you on a sonic journey into a world of your mind’s creation.
From an opening pop-styled track that has a slowly building tempo to ease you into your voyage to piano-style ballads that raise...

“Did Swans Ever See God? is the fourth studio album by Submarine Silence (Side Project of the founding members of 'Moongarden', Cristiano Roversi, keyboards and David Cremoni, guitars) which reconfirms Guillermo Gonzales on vocals and, indispensable and very welcome guest, Valerio Michetti, otherwise drummer of ' Oblique Grace '.
Absent from the scene since 2016 (Journey through Mine, Ma.Ra.Cash Records), they return to delight us with an album that continues the long journey that began in 2001 with...

Submarine Silence seemingly came out of nowhere a dozen years ago with their debut album, which was all instrumental and extremely Genesis sounding.

For their first release since that debut, the group has changed and it now features...

The encounter of two great geniuses of the Carnatic (South Indian) musical tradition, L. Subramaniam and his violin is probably the best known musician of South India in the west. His style departed from the very traditional way of playing to add more ...

"A Dance That Empties is Travis Laplante's latest album-length composition, written for Subtle Degrees, a new two-musician ensemble consisting of Laplante (tenor saxophone) and Gerald Cleaver (drums). The duo's uncategorizable sound evokes everything from contemporary classical music, avant garde jazz, minimalism, technical metal, and sacred world music. Laplante is also the founder/composer of saxophone quartet Battle Trance and the ensemble Little Women.

A Dance That Empties is an...