I've seen this wild, great and extraordinary power trio of electrified banjo, bass and drums twice and the second time was signficantly better than the 'already great' 1st time. Their mixture of the banjo's unique sounds combined with skronk/punk-jazz...

Brandon Seabrook - Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo
Nava Dunkelman - Percussion, Glockenspiel, Voice
Marika Hughes - Cello
Eivind Opsvik - Contra Bass
Henry Fraser - Contra Bass
Chuck Bettis - Electronics, Voice
John McCowen - Contrabass Clarinet, Bb clarinet, Alto and Bass Recorder
Sam Ospovat - Drum Set, Chromatic Thai Nipple Gongs, Vibraphone, Concert Chimes

“Guitarist and banjoist Brandon Seabrook is known for pushing his music past the far reaches of the extre

"Sylphid Vitalizers is the debut full-length from New York-based banjo/guitar shredder, Brandon Seabrook. Named "NYC's Best Guitarist of 2012" by the Village Voice, his work has been profiled by NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Fret Board Journal, and...

Great to see this very odd album reappear, now in a newly remastered edition, which includes 3 tracks not on the original album. This is definitely proto-progressive UK styled underground rock, with a lot of invention and ideas being shot about - some of them more successfully than other, but at least they have fresh ideas! When Second Hand finally wound down, the keyboardist and drummer later went onto 'fame' as Seventh Wave!

"Second Hand's debut album, Reality, is widely acclaimed as one of the..

"Mimicry Records, reissues two CDs by Secret Chiefs 3 with previously unreleased bonus tracks:First Grand Constitution and Bylaws and Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws, originally released by Amarillo, currently out of print. Taking their cue from...

"Around since the mid-1990s, Secret Chiefs 3 is one of the most popular instrumental ensembles working today, with a devoted cult following and a constantly changing lineup of stellar musicians. Featuring one of the best groupings they have ever had, in "Malkhut" they turn their hand to twelve tunes from Zorn’s "Book Beri’ah." Years in the making, SC3 mastermind Trey Spruance considers this to be one of his most ambitious and involved CDs to date. Even better than their "Masada Book of Angels" release...

Stephan Crump: Acoustic Bass
Mary Halvorson: Guitar
"From the very first notes they played together, Secret Keeper, the innovative duo of "NYC's least-predictable improviser" (City Arts) Mary Halvorson and Grammy-nominated Stephan Crump had a...

Amazingly enough, over 40 years later, the fifth, NEVER BEFORE RELEASED, STUDIO album, recorded in 1976, by Denmark’s greatest jazz/rock band gets a release.
Like their third album, Vidunerlige Kaelling, this was music done for a dance / performance work.

"The recordings of 'Striptease' were a long time lost. In 1975 Secret Oyster had reached broad acceptance in Danish cultural life and on the music scene. Their 3rd album 'Vidunderlige Kaelling (Astarte)', received massive media attention...

This is the 1st album by an Italian band who are blending together Celtic folk/rock, symphonic rock and just a touch of metallic in the guitars. Really nice, eerie female vocals and an over-all ominous air makes this one more than just another....

The latest by Yochk'o comes out at the same time as his old bandmate's François Cahen's last; a bit of a sad coincidence. This is more of a jazz release than some of this works, with a fairly standard line-up of Sebastien Lovato-piano, Didier Levallet...

Yochk'o first came to attention as a member of Magma, and then as a founding member of Zao. After leaving Zao, he made a number of notable solo albums in the 70's and early 80's. While he isn't as active these days as he once was, he's still a fine...

This is a new release by multi instrumentalist Jonathan, who is best known as a founding member of Camper Van Beethovan.
This veers between more out psychedelia and songs; to give you an idea of how far out it goes, I was pointed in the direction of this album by Hasse Horrigmoe, of Tangle Edge! It isn't *all* like that, but a good bit of it is and will please psych/progressive fans reading this...
Appearing here are
Jonathan Segel (vocals, guitars, keyboards, violin, bass)
Kelly Atkins.

“The debut album of Genova's IL SEGNO DEL COMANDO, 'The Sign of Command', was recently reissued by Black Widow. The album's conceptual inspiration -- as well as the band name -- derives from Giuseppe D'Agata's novel, and the Italian TV series (1971), that deals with occult matters, reincarnation and supernatural. The author himself called the album a perfect soundtrack to his novel. Before coming to my own reception of the music, I wish to cite the informative band page that describes the music so well...

"After their debut album brought very positive reviews from the critics, this is the second album from this up-and-coming German jazz group, led by bassist/composer Achim Seifert.
In 2010 The Achim Seifert Project won the "Future Sounds Award", a prestigious competition run by the Leverkusener Jazztage and in 2011 he performed on their main stage, which was recorded and broadcast by WDR.
The band has opened for jazz stars such as Randy Crawford and Christian McBride. Aside from his performing...

A driving force at the heart of the much acclaimed Kansai rock scene since the late 1980s, Yamamotos piercing guitar has energized some of Japans finest bands. From the spiritual madness of the Boredoms, the psychedelic trance rock of Rovo to the qu...

Trygve Seim tenor and soprano saxophones
Andreas Utnem piano, harmonium

"Modestly subtitled “Songs for saxophone and piano”, this recording quietly covers a lot of ground, with repertoire including new musical settings of parts of the...

well known Swedish vocalist

Ricardo Jacinto cello and electronics (+ harmonium on Cocuruto)
Gonçalo Almeida double bass and electronics
Nuno Morão drums and percussion

"The Selva is a string and percussion trio, with Ricardo Jacinto and Gonçalo Almeida on cello and double bass and Nuno Morão on drums. Formed in 2016, their music explores the intersections between the broad musical spectrum of each of its members, presenting live an improvised, electro-acoustic, multi-idiomatic musical dialogue and strongly ...

Ricardo Jacinto cello
Gonçalo Almeida double bass
Nuno Morão drums
"The Portuguese trio The Selva likes to make musical references, to symbolize and to propose dubious significations. The debut album of the group starts with a piece full of indeterminate allusions to the Far-Eastern traditional music expressions. It goes on with a virtual journey through Renaissance times and its aesthetic values, seeming to invite us to care more for the beauty of life. Only in the third track we find...

"Solo jazz guitar by Esmond Selwyn. Virtuoso jazz guitar - jazz standards played in concert and in studio."

Music from the occitanian valleys of the Piedmond region of Italy, performed by Silvio Peron and Gianrenzo Dutto on accordions and Gabriele Ferrero on violin. [Vi Vi/Felmay]

"Sentieri Selvaggi is a group made up of some of the best Italian musicians, united in a cultural project aimed to bring contemporary music to a larger audience. Founded in 1997 by Carlo Boccadoro, Filippo Del Corno and Angelo Miotto, the group has...

“Senyawa are a contemporary duo originating from Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Rully Shabara (extreme vocals) coupled with Wukir Suryadi's deft instrumentals (and homemade instruments) produce one of the most profound examples of experimental via traditional music happening anywhere today. By weaving Indonesian folkloric moods with various shades of modern genre hybrids, Senyawa has been navigating unexplored musical terrain for more than a decade. Sujud, their premier release on the Sublime Frequencies label...

Bolstered by six brand new tracks, this compilation is the perfect introduction to the world of Daniele Sepe: saxophonist, composer, agitator and militant on the Naples music scene. Deeply attatched to the cultural roots of his land, he has been able o...