David Torn: acoustic and electric guitars
Mark Isham: trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn, synthesizer
Tony Levin: Chapman stick, synth bass
Bill Bruford: Simmons drums, synth drums, percussion

Very well liked 1987 ECM release and the closest you will ever get to King Crimson on ECM!

“’Everything is in a state of transition,” David Torn explained. “Mercury is an element that captures the essence of change.” The changing soundscape of improvisation in the mid-1980s informs..

"Montréal Quebec's ambient power trio Torngat create majestic instrumental music that is at times as breathtaking as the glorious Quebec mountain range from whom they take their name. Torngat return with La Petite Nicole, the follow up to the critically..

A new, young progressive rock band who are making their debut here. A 5 piece who fill their music with vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, Hammond organ/Fender Rhodes/piano/synths/mellotrons,, bass & drums, this has received a lot of attention recently. I...

A new, young progressive rock band. A 5 piece who fill their music with vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, Hammond organ/Fender Rhodes/piano/synths/ mellotrons, bass & drums, this is a recording of their performance at NEARFest 2002, which went over...

The sixth album by this excellent and now even better band. They've been changing their sound since their last one, and this completes the change in sound towards something different and ever more 'progressive rock' sounding (and I mean that in a...

"Millions Now Living Will Never Die is the second full-length offering from Tortoise. The majority of the material was first conceived during an idyllic 10-day retreat in Northern Vermont, where the group were able to explore their ideas in a setting...

This is the 8th full album by this fine, genre-defining, nearly all instrumental Chicago band (2 songs with vocals that won't kill you but don't need to be there either). The number of people paying attention now is much less than when they were in vogue, 20 years ago, but they remain just as excellent and fun. Highly recommended.

"Simply put, Tortoise has spent nearly 25 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago-based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz...

"Tortoise's third full-length release, TNT, was written and recorded during a 10-month interval in 1997. This longer-than-usual writing/production schedule was purposefully undertaken by the group in the hopes of crafting an expansive, diverse, yet...

"Why Waste Time is a brand new, Japanese-only CD release from Tortoise. 'Ruba'iyat' and 'Passerine' are both exclusive to this release and have never before been released. 'Gigantes (Mark Ernestus Version)' previously appeared on a 12" vinyl only EP...

Ricardo Toscano saxofone
João Pedro Coelho piano
Romeu Tristão contrabaixo
João Lopes Pereira bateria

"The prodigal son of Portuguese jazz is finally on record. Since his teenager years until he became a young man (25 years old in 2018) we get used to only hear him on stage, improvising with the tunes of American masters like Charlie Parker, “Cannonball” Adderley, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, among many others of different times in the “jazz continuum”. Now, we can seat at...

promo copy. Comes in carddboard slipcase.

''Before this, there was no disc presenting the great tradition of the two rows melodeon in Sardinia where this instrument has developed a spectacular degree of virtuosity. Here not only we have its best performer, but also a unique collection of the r...

Elizabeth Carson-vocals
Martin Burley-guitar
Michael Burnett-organ/piano
Colin Jones-bass
Ian Willis-drums
with
Susan Elliott-oboe
Anne Bowditch-flute
Michael Newhouse-vocals

This is an extremely rare private pressing that was recorded in 1972. It is thought to be a soundtrack to an original folk / rock musical from a London college.
The recording quality is good (not fantastic) and it sounds to me like a live run through of the songs, recorded in a reh

"Casamance au Clair de Lune is the most "roots"-oriented album issued by the Senegalese band Touré Kunda, and one of their very best. Dispensing with the occasionally kitschy pop and funk arrangements that diluted many of their prior and subsequent efforts, they succeeded in fashioning a recording brimming with the life of West Africa while still sounding unmistakably modern. There are several percussion interludes (such as "Manoir") that one wishes could go on forever, so infectious are the rhythms and...

"Acclaimed Malian musician Sidi Toure returns with his fourth album, Toubalbero. Named after the large traditional drum used to gather people in the Malian region of Gao, Toubalbero is a danceable, dynamic, and despite the region's significant political challenges, joyous album.
For his first electro-acoustic album, Sidi Toure (vocals, guitar, and calabash) is joined by bassist Baba Traore drummer Mamadou 'Mandou'Kone (who also plays with Vieux Farka Toure), electric guitarist Djad' Traor', N'Goni...

One of the most purely 'fun' shows I've seen in the last decade was the legendary New Orleans songwriter Allen Toussaint performing solo. He played some of his billions of hits that he wrote for ... well, everyone, and he told great stories.
This is with a band, but it captures some of that show's warm brilliance and charm.

"Live archive release from the New Orleans R&B legend. The Chicago Blues Festival began in 1984. Allen Toussaint headlined on the Sunday night of the 1989 festival...

For over 35 years, Ralph Towner has been 'the man' on acoustic 6 and 12 string guitars, his music displaying a deep, deep beauty, but never becoming too sweet. This features an ECM all-star band: Ralph Towner-12 string and classical guitars, piano, Jan...

Ralph Towner: classical, 12-string and baritone guitars
Paolo Fresu: trumpet, flugelhorn

An exciting new duo, of unusual instrumentation, initiated by American master guitarist Ralph Towner. Towner’s acoustic guitar concept has long since ab

Colin is a well known and respected UK jazz big band arranger and composer, although he's pretty unknown outside of Europe. For his most recent album, he's returned to one of his original heroes, Frank Zappa (note: LOTS of great composers are obviously...

Mat Walerian - alto saxophone, bass clarinet, soprano clarinet, flute
Matthew Shipp - piano, organ
William Parker - double bass, shakuhachi

"Recorded December 15, 2015 in Brooklyn, New York. This is Polish multi-instrumentalist Mat Walerian's third CD, all for ESP and all with Matthew Shipp. Walerian's first album was the last new release approved by ESP-Disk's founder Bernard Stollman.
This Is Beautiful Because We Are Beautiful People takes its title from something William Parker

Toyz are a Dutch, instrumental symphonic rock band with a name straight out of 1980s L.A. hair metal! But, name aside, this is sold and straight-forward, modern, symphonic rock, with lots of melodic soloing from the keyboards and guitars, both...

The final culmination of the musicians from Parson Sound, Harvester & International Harvester. Amazingly enough, this *isn't* a reunion; the band never broke up, and kept on working together for all these years! The sound has obviously changed and evol...

40 years after they started and this quintessential Swedish proto-stoner/proto-progressive band still are hitting a lot of musical highs and this is a fine album!

"Just in time for Träd Gräs och Stenar's ("Trees Grass and Stones") 40-year anniversary, the Swedish psychedelic trance-rock pioneers release a new album, Homeless Cats. The first one in 7 years, and the seventh since they began in 1969. Eleven boundless tracks with organic music for open minds. Back in 1967, the guitarist BoAnders...

"The long-awaited new album from the legendary pioneers of transcendental psychedelic rock music and DIY culture in general. Tack För Kaffet (So Long) is a tribute to the deceased band members and dearest friends Torbjörn Abelli and Thomas Mera Gartz. It becomes something of a farewell show for the old Träd, Gräs Och Stenar because all the old and new members, including founder Bo Anders, Torbjörn and Mera, and Reine Fiske (Dungen, The Amazing), are all contributing to this album. The sounds were...