One of the greatest bands to emerge in the year of the summer of love, their “Mr Fantasy” album is my favorite psychedelic album.
These BBC sessions have been out many times in many ways, but if you don’t have them, they present an alternative look at many of the tracks from Mr Fantasy & more!

“Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi formed Traffic in April 1967. Expectations ran high and were triumphantly met by Paper Sun, which became a smash hit upon release in May (and,,,

Remastered in 2002 with a bonus track! The wonderful psychedelic proto-progressive group Traffic came to a grinding halt sometime in late 1968, when Steve Winwood left the band to join Blind Faith or th...

David Tranchina - Bass & Compositions
Gary Fukushima - Piano & Wurlitzer
Trevor Anderies - Drums
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Argenta Walther - Voice

“Grey Sky, bassist and composer David Tranchina's debut album as a leader, is an impressionistic cycle of somnambulant movements that wander freely from a base in jazz to psychedelic ambience and beyond. An unmistakable sense of curiosity and exploration is prevalent throughout the seven pieces on the album and is shepherded by two wordless vocal...

3rd album from Bethesda, Maryland's post rock/electronic heroes...

"Trans Am's third and most controversial album, The Surveillance, marks a new direction for them as it is the first that they recorded and mixed entirely by themselves. Like their two previous full length releases, this record is a mixture of rock and electronic sounds. However, it features less lush production than Surrender to the Night, instead moving from sparse and paranoid electronic jams to balls-to-the-walls rockers...

"If having a balletic sense of time made percussionist Jeff Arnal very requested among choreographers, his hability to deploy a wide range of colors and dynamics turned him into a composer, even when he’s just improvising. An incontornable figure in the..

"The Esoteric Antenna label is pleased to announce the release of the new album by internationally acclaimed British saxophone and flute player and composer Theo Travis 'Transgression' his first solo album in eight years, with his band 'Double Talk'...

''Following up their journey in the traditions of Piedmont Tre Martelli . We have a new confirmation of the skill of this band, the real leader of the roots music in Piedmont.'' [Felmay/Robi Droli]

"Krautrock from 2005 -- on their analog-recorded debut album the quintet Treacle People very impressively and with lots of love to the detail revive the spirit, the musicianship and the passion of their British/German idols from the early '70s...

"Oregon's fathers of freak-folk/folk psych pioneers The Tree People have, incredibly, made another album once again. Responsible for two awesome works in the late '70s and early '80s, here they are now with a new album and they sound exactly as they...

For me, Trees were one of the greatest of the great first generation UK folk rock bands, sporting a great, truly psychedelic lead guitarist a wonderful vocalist and excellent musicianship and especially vision from all. This is their two albums, plus two new discs of alternate mixes, early demos, BBC session tracks and 2018 live recordings in London.

“A beautiful hybrid, Trees found a unique space between intimate folk and freewheeling psychedelia. Musically ambitious yet brilliantly balanced...

Trephine are a Baltimore based metal/prog/punk/math band who use a guitar/bass/drums/found object percussion lineup to beat all listeners into submission. They've been around for a few years now and I saw them several years ago, and they were quite fun...

Per Zanussi double bass
Raymond Strid drums and percussion
Martin Küchen baritone, alto and sopranino saxophones

"After “...was there to illuminate the night sky...”, “Bruder Beda” and “Human Encore”, this one with Joe McPhee as special guest, Trespass Trio is back to tell us another story without words. There’s a narrative structure developing from start to finish, with a cinematic quality, but everything goes through an emotional level (from rage to a disarming tenderness) and the..

Joe McPhee, tenor saxophone and pocket trumpet / Martin Küchen, alto and baritone saxophones / Per Zanussi, double bass / Raymond Strid, drums.

"A dog barks during a trumpet solo and a car alarm ends a piece: this is reality music, music coming..

''Tri Muzike is a band formed by some of the best Italian players of Klezmer and East Europe music. This is the first recording by this group and presents music from the Balkan area and the Middle-East, mostly dancing tunes and songs. Arab influences, ...

2005 edition in mini-lp sleeve. "A short-lived, obscure group. In fact, no one knows even the names of its members. A large part of this album is instrumental, such as the 4-part suite "Sabazio". This is typical keyboard-based, classically-inclined pro...

"The 4th and final album of the Swedish progrock band - digitally remastered! The Swedish symphonic rockband TRIBUTE was founded 1982 by the two musicians/composers Gideon Andersson and Josef (formerly Christer) Rhedin. The band created four albums - "New Views", "Breaking Barriers", "Live" and "Terra Incognita". "New Views" was the first album and was the one that gave the group their breakthrough in Germany and Sweden in the middle of the nineteen eighties. TRIBUTE toured continuously between 1983 and...

Excellent instrumental quartet of keyboards, guitar, bass & drums playing a jammy-styled psychedelic spacerock. They refer to their music as 'heavy zen jazz' and while they certainly aren't a 'jazz band', this comfortably fits into the heavy/hard fusio...

"Denver-based trumpeter-composer Joshua Trinidad makes a strikingly original statement on his RareNoise Records debut, In November. Recorded in Giske, Norway, this highly evocative trio outing features the adventurous Norwegian guitarist-composer and ECM recording artist Jacob Young and drummer Stale Liavik Solberg, a central figure on Oslo's improvising music scene.
Brimming with deep and winding lyricism, Trinidad's elegiac seventh album as a leader is a compelling mix of bold long tones on...

"Once upon a time...back in the ancient era of the 70s there was a fantastic but little known German fusion band called Katamaran. They made three phenomenal albums that would send Return To Forever fans into ecstasy. Then they were gone. Guitarist Franz Holtmann is 1/3 of Trinity Xperiment.
A bit later in the 90s...perhaps not so ancient...there was an intense German fusion band called Matalex. Keyboardist Matthias Krauss was an active member. He is 1/3 of Trinity Xperiment...

"In mid-October, 1969, I left the UK to meet up with bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Stu Martin to begin working with them as "The Trio".-John Surman (notes to “Way Back When”)
This was the band that Surman joined in the fall of 1969 that led to him becoming an early Brit-jazz expatriate for about 3 years but that also led to him becoming internationally known, especially on the European continent.
Their first release was a pretty powerful blast then as it still is today.
Due to his...

OLIVER LAKE ALTO SAXOPHONE, SOPRANINO SAXOPHONE / REGGIE WORKMAN: BASS / ANDREW CYRILLE DRUMS

"Time being what it is, there are several ways to approach Time Being, the latest and, I think, best of the Trio 3 albums – among them, its...

Reggie Workman: Bass / Andrew Cyrille: Drums / Oliver Lake: Alto Saxophone, Flute / Geri Allen: Piano

"Geri Allen is a natural choice, an already well-established collaborator with each member of Trio 3. Cyrille played on her 1984 debut...

Irène Schweizer: Piano / Reggie Workman: Bass / Andrew Cyrille: Drums / Oliver Lake: Alto Saxophone

"What we get to hear on this album is a transatlantic encounter that casts an up-to-date yet historical light on many relations and cross...