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Susana Santos Silva, trumpet and flugelhorn / Torbjörn Zetterberg, double bass.

"Be warned. It doesn’t prepare you for what’s inside “Almost Tomorrow” knowing that Susana Santos Silva has some side projects in the fields of avant-jazz and non...

"...the results are a mix of electric jazz, minimalism, and Brazilian samba, bossa nova, and street sounds. Percolating textures, crackling cornet (smacking of Miles Davis and Don Cherry), and surreal electronica process local riffs and rhythms for...

"São Paulo Underground's work - all of Mazurek's work, really - draws from multiple traditions, each of them already porous and absorbent, and combines ideas from each into something utterly new, while keeping it welcoming to almost any curious listener." – The Wire

"Mixing the opaque with the diffused and blurring the lines between electric and acoustic, Rob Mazurek’s wide ambition continues to race toward the outer limits of what is possible in music." – Something Else
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Tres Cabeças Loucuras is the third album by Sao Paulo Underground. It's a very catchy, jazz + electronics album filled with sunny melodies, beats, noise, sounds and songs. The group formed around Rob Mazurek (cornet and electronics), a key player in...

Pharaoh Sanders, tenor sax / Rob Mazurek, cornet / Chad Taylor, drums / Guilherme Granado, synths / Matthew Lux, bass / Mauricio Takara, percussion.

Oh, yeah! This is Rob Mazurek and both the Sao Paulo Underground AND Chicago Underground duo and

The career of pianist and composer Heikki Sarmanto spans five decades and has seem him work with various genres from jazz and avantgarde to classical and even opera. His artistic roots lie, however, in the so-called new jazz music of the sixties. It is this free-flowing and more avant-garde side to Sarmanto that the three album series The Helsinki Tapes wants to emphasize. The music on these three albums was recorded live at the N-Club, a small basement rock club in Helsinki in 1971 and 1972. A far cry...

"The career of pianist and composer Heikki Sarmanto spans five decades and has seem him work with various genres from jazz and avantgarde to classical and even opera. His artistic roots lie, however, in the so-called new jazz music of the sixties. It is this free-flowing and more avant-garde side to Sarmanto that the three album series The Helsinki Tapes wants to emphasize. The music on these three albums was recorded live at the N-Club, a small basement rock club in Helsinki in 1971 and 1972. A far cry...


Julian Sartorius : drums, cymbals, spanish goat-bells, gongs, vibrators, rubber balls, sound bowls, bull-roarer, shruti box, lumbers, glockenspiel, kalimbas, tubes, mbira, metals

"'Zatter' is an old Bern-German word which simply means 'the....

Bernardo Sassetti piano
Carlos Barretto double bass
Alexandre Frazão drums

"On March 23rd 2021, Nelson Carvalho, the amazing sound engineer who accompanied all of Bernardo Sassetti”s recordings and concerts, texted me with a finding. The recording of the memorable concert held in 2007 at Culturgest’s Auditorium (Lisbon), one of Bernardo’s favourite venues, was intact and waiting to be published.
The occasion celebrated the Trio’s 10th anniversary but, in truth, Bernardo Sassetti...

"The release of this new recording by Portuguese pianist Bernardo Sassetti is one of those moments that give full meaning to the whole activity of a record label like Clean Feed. In Indigo Sassetti proves himself to be one of the most talented piano playe

Bernardo Sassetti, piano / Carlos Barretto, double bass / Alexandre Frazão, drums.

"After seven years of the enormous success obtained by the album “Nocturno”, the most selled instrumental jazz record ever in Portugal, the Bernardo Sassetti...

"Known for his film soundtracks as much as for his straight-ahead jazz recordings, Portuguese pianist and composer Bernardo Sassetti has with the new "Unreal: Sidewalk Cartoon" his most ambitious work ever, comprising the two aspects of his musical output

Yossi Sassi is the ex-guitarist of Israeli progressive metal band Orphaned Land. He left that band to pursue a more personal (not to mention less commercial) music that blends jazz/rock with the music of the Middle East. The group is...

This is the fourth album, but their third in their "Bad Trip Simulator" series and I think it's their best yet. For the 1st time, you can REALLY hear the Brazilian influences in their music and it works great with their 'channel-surfing' esthetic, and...

Some of you will remember the now defunct Polish band Collage. They were not only one of the best progressive bands out of Poland, but, since they seemed to get lumped into the 'neo-prog' category, I'd even say that they were the top of the heap as far...

"Satellite, one of the best (neo) progressive rock bands in the world, returns with more beautiful and inspiring music! The new album entitled "Into The Night" is the final chapter of the trilogy started in 2003 by "A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset"...

"Satellite returns with more beautiful and inspiring music! "Nostalgia" is the follow up to the highly acclaimed album "Into The Night" from 2007. As the band claims, it's their fourth and most mature offering. Most of the album was recorded in Wojtek...

“Satin Whale was a popular German prog band that for some reason got very little attention when the CD world took shape. Only one of their albums - Lost Mankind - ever made it to the silver disc. Their debut "Desert Places" was originally released on the Brain label in 1974. Its one of the great titles from the label - ripping guitar, flute, and Hammond organ through out. "Lost Mankind" follows in kind. Quite a solid prog album. After that the albums are still proggy but a bit more commercial...

''Danny Zamir is an astounding young alto saxophonist/composer from Israel who plays with a passion, command and mastery unheard of in a musician of only nineteen. Moving to NYC in 1998, Danny hooked up with two kindred spirits to create their telepath...

''A beautiful live recording of acoustic Klez/Jazz by one of the most exciting young bands working today. In the year that has passed since the release of their first CD, Satlah has grown more confident, increasing in both power and sensitivity. Taking...

1971 psych/weirdo/jazz-rock Japanese classic rarity featuring Shungo Sawada (acoustic guitar), Masaoki Terakawa (bass), Louis Haynes (drums), Kimio Mizutani (guitar), Hiro Yanagida (organ), D.D. Dickson (trombone), Jochen Stadt (trombone), Jackie...

Heavy space rock/psychedelic rock influenced by Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, etc. This is basically a one man band created by Luis Simões. Heavy guitars and Hammond organ, bass, drums and more. My favorite line? "Fractal horoscope...and the smell of dope"...

“The brand new album by the Portuguese cult act SATURNIA convinces with a fascinating mix of psychedelia, space rock, electronica and Indian sounds.
Launched in the mid-90s by the Portuguese multi-instrumentalist LUIS SIMÕES as a solo project and occasionally supported in the past by top-class colleagues such as DAEVID ALLEN (GONG), NIK TURNER (HAWKWIND) or STEFAN KOGLEK (COLOR HAZE), since then seven have been released by fans and Critically acclaimed longplayer. Now the brand new album of the...

Featuring Kenny Wheeler, Stan Sulzmann, Chris Laurence, Stuart Laurence.


Emerging in 1968, Savage Rose are one of the best known Danish rock bands, featuring the distinctive 'wild child' vocals of Annisette, piano and organ with guests: Ben Webster (!) tenor sax, Alex Riel-drums, Niels-Henning rsted Pedersen-bass and Peter ...

“From the darkling psychedelic folk of Anaconda, via the bathetic psychedelic anguish of Arcadium, Miguel Sergides finally arrived from London at the Antipodes in a mid seventies Disco Frenzy and recorded his ultimate masterpiece as The Savanna Silver Band.
Long a cult item for disco and funk collectors, this is the first reissue of a classic masterpiece, where Sergides aptitude for long complex progressive compositions morphs seamlessly into a gorgeous funk disco setting, the result, is pure gold...

"This is the reissue of album released originally only in Italy in 2007. An arresting mix of painstakingly overdubbed vocals, human beatbox effects, African-inspired choral music, plus the odd visit to the world of Jimi Hendrix (an extraordinary...

Boris Savoldelli: all vocals, vocal noises and electronics
Raffaele Casarano: saxes and electronics
Marco Bardoscia: double bass and electronics
with special guests:
Dewa Budjana: guitars (Track 6)
WK569: background sounds manipulation (Tracks 6 & 7)
Maurizio Nobili: reciter (Track 5)

"There’s an old joke among instrumentalists: What do you call someone who hangs around with musicians? Answer: A singer.
While this stereotype is overgeneralized to the point of be

"Boris Savoldelli’s new MoonJune Records release Biocosmopolitanis nothing short of a tour de force of vocal artistry. Listeners who are only familiar with the singer’s previous MoonJune CD – the edgy, shape-shifting Protoplasmicduets with legendary...

"Following a Milano gig by New Yorker Elliott Sharp's Terraplane, the Italian singer Boris Savoldelli handed the guitarist a copy of his freshly-recorded solo album Insanology. Sharp was blown away, and the pair met again a year later in Padova. Savoldell

Recorded live at the 20th FIMAV festival on 5/17/03. "It was extraordinarily involving music, in part because it was a performance in which there appeared to be significant risk - in which its sometimes delicately attenuated textures seemed poised to b...

"Though hes renowned for his roles in Acid Mothers Temple and Zeni Geva, and for leading the bands Koenjhyakkei and Koekyojinn, since 1985 Ruins has been Tatsuya Yoshidas primary musical outlet. Beginning in 2006, Yoshida would occasionally fill the vacant second slot with alto saxophonist Ono Ryoko, one of Japans most indemand studio musicians. Their duo, Sax Ruins, transforms Yoshidas compositions from heavy, nimble prog to dense, hyper kinetic big band jazz, not entirely unlike Sonny Rollins sitting...

Donika Pecallari: voice
Adrianna Thanou: voice
Robert Tralo: voice
Aurel Qirjo: violin and voice
Telando Feto: clarinet
Agron Murat: llautë (lute)
Agron Nasi: dajre (frame drum)
Pëllumb Meta: fyell (flute) and voice

"Why not give yourself a break from the unending cavalcade of modern high-speed insanity, and rest up with this album of deep soul from Southern Albania."-Ry Cooder

"...the debut of Saz'iso, a group of virtuoso musicians and legendary s


"A brand new studio album by the legendary progressive rock/jazz band. Limited edition digipak with bonus tracks. SBB, a legend of Polish music scene, return with a brand new studio album. The band, comprised of the phenomenal composer Jozef Skrzek...

"SBB, a legend of Polish music scene, returns with a new studio album. The band, comprised of the phenomenal composer Józef Skrzek, the excellent guitarist Apostolis Anthimos and the flawless drummer Gabor Nemeth propose a perfect blend of the sincerity..

Here is the hype sheet, as apparently written by Borat! Jagshemash! "Legendary SBB, reborn as the Skrzek - Anthimos - Wertico trio, presents a new album for the new century! Definitely a special, breakthrough album: atmospheric ballads are accompanied...

"One of the best progressive rock/jazz bands from Poland, return with a brand new studio album simply entitled "SBB". The band, comprised of the phenomenal composer and multi-instrumentalist Józef Skrzek and the excellent guitarist Apostolis Anthimos...

Great, instrumental, technical-metal/art-metal band consisting of dual guitars, bass and drums that has a lot of similarities with Canvas Solaris musically, although their own sound, which has a bit more of a progressive rock influence (think Canvas...

First-ever reissue of this rare album that has always gone for good money. Now you can own it for only 'ok' money!...

"The only album by Scapa Flow is a highlight of Nordic progressive rock. The beautiful and effortless vocals by Noponen and....

"Cleveland, OH based wordsmith Matthew Wascovich leads this amorphous unit of avant-rockers in a noisy fusion of hardcore poetry and houserocking skronkitude. Two brand new releases featuring an all star band of avant renegades including John Morton...

"Cleveland, OH based wordsmith Matthew Wascovich leads this amorphous unit of avant-rockers in a noisy fusion of hardcore poetry and houserocking skronkitude. Two brand new releases featuring an all star band of avant renegades including John Morton...

Founded in 1995, in 2004, this Finnish instrumental art rock quintet released their first album, which was very good and showed promise, but this, their second goes beyond promise and delivers the goods! Their distinctive sound is predicated on the fac...

Andreas Schaerer: voice, electronics
Lucas Niggli: drums, percussion


"Just vocals and drums – that’s the line-up of the dream team of Andreas Schaerer and Lucas Niggli. Outstanding virtuosity and enormous creativity combined with the

"Setting the Yiddish poetry of the revered Civil Rights advocate Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel to music, Basya Schechter has created a rich new collection of Yiddish songs. Colorful arrangements featuring many of the downtown Jewish scene’s greatest...

An absolutely stunning instrumental album from Basya Schechter, the beautiful vocalist and guiding force of the popular group Pharaoh's Daughter. Collaborating with Alan Kushan, a virtuoso on the santur, they combine influences from both Jewish and Ara...

One of the available self released titles by electronic artist/multi-instrumentalist Frohmader. [Nekropolis]

"Here’s some fantastic music with an agenda, or more exactly, an entire program of action. Since the days of the researches developed by the likes of Globe Unity Orchestra and Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath the challenge remains the same: how to make a big band improvise without the restraints usually applied when there’s the idea that a large ensemble needs a tight organization? In the mentioned cases the musicians involved were free improvisers wanting to establish some kind of order through...