“Out of the savage suburbs of Oslo comes the brainchild of Trond Gjellum – drummer & main man from the legendary Norwegian prog rock band Panzerpappa. Suburban Savages are back with their third album, Demagogue Days, and continue to distinguish themselves as a playful ensemble with a willingness to expand the boundaries of pop and rock. The result is unique: The catchy simplicity of pop music mixed with the mind-blowing complexity of progressive rock. With a direct and to-the-point delivery of power...

Ray Suhy - guitar
Lewis Porter - acoustic piano & Fender Rhodes
Brad Jones - bass
Rudy Royston - drums

Really tasty jazz/electric jazz album from a fabulous guitarist known for his work in death metal but who has deeply studied jazz. Maybe a bit reminiscent of Bill Connor’s trio solo albums, but with a cleaner tone and strong keyboards.

"There is music that seemingly possesses mystical qualities, transcending the temporal; qualities that musicians seek in order to reac

Good, interesting, musical and unique. I really enjoyed this one; I hear a lot of things mixed up together, but what comes out is very much theirs. Highly recommended.

"Brooklyn based Lily Maase is a guitarist and composer of powerful originality..

Keiji Haino - guitar, voice, flute, taepyeongso
Aaron Turner – guitar
Nick Yacyshyn – drums
Brian Cook - bass

“Post-metal power force Sumac based around Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom) follow up their collaboration with Keiji Haino, American Dollar Bill -- Keep Facing Sideways, You are too Hideous to Look at Face on (2018), with another monolith -- heavy and experimental at the same time.”

"Another acid folk delicatessen from The Village Thing catalog, The Sun Also Rises was recorded by Graham Hemingway (vocals, guitar) and Anne Hemingway (vocals, dulcimer, glockenspiel, vibes, percussion). They were occasionally joined by John Turner...

"Sulatron Records is very proud of releasing one of THEE neo-psych bands from UK: Sun Dial! After doing the CD reissue of "Mind Control", Sulatron Records now release the new studio album of the neo-psych veterans: "Made In The Machine" is kind of a follow up of "Mind Control" - it explores the same themes but delves even deeper into the surrealistic worlds of sci-fi and space rock, including hints of early kraut and dark psych music. But it still retains the classic elements of the well known Sun Dial...

One of the great 70s Ra releases, this is one of the few that came out on Impulse in the early 70s that was not a reissue. I've owned the lp for years and have waited and waited for a CD issue. Here it is!

"One of a handful of albums Sun Ra released on the legendary Impulse! label in the early '70s, Astro Black provides a comprehensive picture of where the Arkestra was around the time, drawing to the end of their ultra-free period and beginning to investigate more traditional jazz forms, and even.

This is a pretty great archival find and release and is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping that Mr. Stollman would find and release as he reactivates ESP and goes through the archives. Hey college students!...

Recorded March 10, 1963, Choreographer's Workshop, New York City.

A special 2-CD reissue of the hyper-rare El Saturn LP, recorded in 1963, early in the Arkestra's NY period, paired with a full disc of extra material. Loaded with John Gilmore, one of the greatest & rarest slabs of Sun Ra vinyl, on disc for the first time!"

Great package, good liner notes, with the usual crazy Sun Ra-related stories (which always seem to revolve around Ra trying to fleece a fan or a label - believe me, I've heard a few myself) and excellent live sound and music.

"Two related classic Saturn LP reissues on a single CD, both recorded at the Detroit Jazz Centre - in 1980 and 1981 respectively. They share an excellent sound quality and great playing - there's a classic version of Rocket No.9 and plenty of otherworldly Moog and...

Recorded at The Teatro Cilak, 1/23/1978, Milan Italy - Sun Ra: piano, organ, Moog, Crumar Mainman, vocals, John Gilmore: tenor sax, drums, vocals, Luqman Ali: drums, vocals, Michael Ray: trumpet, vocals, June Tyson: vocals...

It’s a minor thrill to hear Ra on a Rhodes for an entire show, which I don’t believe is documented elsewhere.

“This Sun Ra 1980 solo set at Haverford College has been kicking around the internet and in the digital libraries of Ra collectors for years, though it has not previously been properly mastered or commercially issued. Like many events in Ra's history, this gig has a story that goes beyond the music. Ra's presence onstage that night came about through an unforeseen chain of events that...

“The definitive edition of Sun Ra’s classic ‘Lanquidity’ album from 1978, featuring the widely distributed version of the album alongside alternative mixes by Bob Blank originally released in limited quantities for a 1978 Arkestra gig at Georgia Tech.
Recorded overnight at Bob Bank’s Blank Tapes on 17th July 1978 after the Arkestra had appeared on Saturday Night Live, the album is unique in the Ra catalogue. “Most critics felt that it was more of a fusion-inspired record,” explains Michael Ray. “As...

"I have always thought orchestra. I play that way, even when playing the piano."-Sun Ra

“Considering the monumental depth of Sun Ra's recorded oeuvre, there are surprisingly few solo piano albums. Monorails and Satellites Volumes 1 and 2 were the first commercial LPs of the artist's solo keyboard excursions.
Recorded in 1966 and released on his Saturn imprint in 1968, Volume 1 featured seven idiosyncratic originals and one standard ("Easy Street") delivered in Sunny's singular manner....

"A big band studio recording made a month before Sleeping Beauty and released by Saturn in 1979 consisting of three quite different pieces: On Jupiter, which is a vocalised, relaxed, swing trance piece, UFO - Sun Ra's unashamed approach to disco...

“One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, RTTR originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal info on the Saturn pressing.
Recorded at several locations over several years (including legendary avant-garde arts enclave, the Squat Theater in NYC), the tracks here include everything from Ra’s sci-fi synthesizer insanity, Marshall Allen’s skronking sax, an excellent Arkestra vocal track “They Plan To Leave,” and so much more. Available on CD...

“2 CDs (one previously unissued)
A BluRay Disc of the Entire Film with bonus content
A DVD Disc of the Entire Film with bonus content
A 28 panel booket with photos and liner notes by esteemed Afrofuturism scholars.
All secured in a pizza box style package

A celestial journey is just what Sun Ra and his Arkestra have created with Space is the Place. Sun Ra’s opus is at its simplest, a trip through outer bound melodies! Planetary bodies, eras in time, crystals, space caravans…

I have a kazillion or so Sun Ra records, but my very favorite of his stuff is his late 50s recordings from Chicago, before he moved to New York City.
This is three of his amazingly great records from that period, which, if you don't already have them in other versions, are total must-owns.
You get: Super Sonic Jazz (recorded in 1957), Jazz By Sun Ra [aka Sun Song] (recorded in 1956) and Jazz In Silhouette (recorded in 1959).
EVERY ONE of these is a utter classic of far-reaching large...

"In 1973 Sun Ra and Arkestra established base in Variety Recording Studios in NYC to record an album for the Impulse! jazz label; depending on who you ask, this album was to be either titled Cymbals or Symbols. Half of this set eventually surfaced on the astro black market, but we've gone back to the original reels to bring you Cymbals as it was meant to be heard and paired with a second disc (Symbols) of unheard material from the 1973 sessions. Hear Ra's Baroque soundscapes, electrolytic clusters and...

"Together for the first time, ESP-Disk' is proud to present all three volumes of The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra in a gorgeous fold out digipack. Originally released as two volumes in 1966, and with a third volume uncovered in 2005, the landmark...

“Universe in Blue is a rarity. This collection of undated live club performances was issued in small-run pressings with two different LP covers on Sun Ra's Saturn label around 1972, but has largely escaped further notice.
The performances originated in the early 1970s at the rowdy Lower East Side jazz mecca Slug's Saloon, located at 242 East 3rd Street. Starting in 1966 (or possibly as late as 1968), Sunny and his band performed at Slug's almost every Monday night for several years, and took the...

“One of a number of sessions cut at the Choreographers' Workshop, this 1963 set establishes Sun Ra's Arkestra as aNew York band, sonically coupled to developments in the decidedly urbane downtown arts underground. The stargazing clamor of the music reflects the intensity of a cultural crossroads where concrete and dust pervade any skyward view, from East 3rd Street to Mars and beyond. One of Sun Ra's rarest releases, it had negligible circulation through shops.”

“...when Angels Speak of Love ...

Together again (semi-posthumously) for the 1st time!

“Officially licensed from Irwin Chusid of the Sun Ra estate, Cold Spring's Justin Mitchell negotiated rare and unreleased tracks from the Sun Ra archive to be remixed and treated by Masami Akita (Merzbow). The tracks incorporate the jazz power of Sun Ra, carried into brutal excess by the legendary Japanese artist Merzbow.”

This is one of the rarest Sun Ra titles and also one of the wildest. This marks the 1st time it has been issued on legitimate CD and they used the best sources that they could research out.

"My Brother the Wind is actually more a companion piece to Night of the Purple Moon than its Vol. 2 namesake.
My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2 is split between Ra's solo Moog workouts and full Arkestra proceedings, while My Brother the Wind shares the same lineup as Night of the Purple Moon, with Marshall...