Blood's second album, from way, way back in 1980, this is a classic of avant/punk/out/jazz/harmolidics, although nothing will ever touch "Captain Black". It's in print but only in Japan and is EXTREMELY hard to find, but we got 'em but only this one last time!!

"Guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer has been heard in many contexts, covering Ornette Coleman on the fantastic, muted Music Speaks Louder Than Words, playing gritty soul blues on the aptly monikered Forbidden Blues. But this 1980 set captures....

“The closest thing to Henry Cow in complexity...world class playing & singing...there is nothing else like this now.” – Chris Cutler

“U Totem is characterized by unsurpassed technique and perfect sound; in addition, this music is well written & well orchestrated...this must surely be the CD of the year!” –Gateavisa

U Totem is the combination of the 5uus & the Motor Totemist Guild. This pairing has brought out the best parts of both bands, combining the abstraction & lyricism of the.

Eddie Jobson-keyboards, electric violin
John Wetton-bass, vocals
Allan Holdsworth-guitar
Bill Bruford-drums

This well known live recording is taken from a broadcast recorded September 11, 1978 from Boston, MA on the band’s first US tour.
It was previously available as part of the super-duper-deluxe-oh U.K. box set that is no longer in print and this is, sadly, the only trace of UK in print outside of Japan
It’s also the band with Allan and Bill, which was, imo, by far the.

The fifth album for Uaragniaun, a key group in the research and rediscovery of Southern Italian folk music. It has an unbelievably great cover, although I am not certain what it means...

Ubi Maior is a relatively new Italian group working in the style of classic progressive rock. This is their second album and unlike the first, which strictly channeled the Italian sound, this still takes major cues from P.F.M. and Il Balletto di Brozno...

Asnake Gebreyes - Vocals
Damien Cluzel - Guitars
Lionel Martin - Tenor Sax
Adrien Spirli - Synth Bass Roland SH-2, Juno 60
Yann Lemeunier - Drums

“Yeketelale is the third album from Franco-Ethiopian group uKanDanz, combining a heady brew of rock energy, saxophone zigzags and Ethiopian melodies, all fronted by veteran singer Asnake Gebreyes grooving harder than ever.

Spotted by Francis Falceto uKanDanZ was invited to perform at the “Ethiopian International Music

"In today's increasingly barren rock and roll landscape, Ulan Bator stand as beacons of explorative songwriting. Formed in Paris in 1993 by Amaury Cambuzat (vocals, guitar and keyboards) and Olivier Manchion (bass), the band's atmospheric approach to composition has consistently yielded guitar-driven, avant-rock at once hypnotic and untamed. And while their sound has developed in a variety of directions - often in relationship to changing line-ups and various collaborations, including with Faust and...

This great, young 'jazz and beyond' talent from Chicago gets a bit of attention via Dave Douglas' Greenleaf Music label. What a composer!

"Expanding upon the artistic and critical success of his 2012 double album By a Little Light, Chicago...

“It is no longer startling to hear tubes and valves channelling breath and imagination into such fine gradations of utterance. The process of deterritorialization from the trumpet's inherited identity is too far advanced to spring major surprises. The pleasure of listening to Hautzinger and Ulher together lies in the success of their creative interaction, the synergetic uplift of their shared and distinct techniques, their spontaneous responses and intuitive leaps. Prolonged introspection blossoms into...

“Recorded and issued in 1982, Black Rock was James Blood Ulmer's second Columbia album, a follow-up to the previous year's Free Lancing. This was also Blood's first attempt to take the harmolodic jazz of Ornette Coleman and marry it directly to rock's visceral appearance and funk's in-the-pocket groove.
Certainly all his records from Captain Black on displayed this penchant in varying degrees, but all were linked to the deep exploration of harmolodic's scalular heights and unknown territories...

"Ultralyd is Kjetil Møster (The Core) on sax, Anders Hana (MoHa!) on guitar, Kjetil D. Brandsdal (Noxagt) on bass and Morten J. Olsen (MoHa!) on drums and vibraphone. This is their third album since the band was formed by legendary sax player Frode...

Timba Harris – violin
Dorothy Wave – voice, keyboards
Toby Driver ¬– bass
Joel C. Murray – drums

“ULTRAPHAUNA is a newborn band of art-rock veterans whose wide-eyed, wriggling form is born of the music of Timba Harris (violin, trumpet) and Dorothy Wave (vocals, synths).
Toby Driver (bass) and Joel Murray (drums) crushed their studio performances in New York and Liverpool respectively, helping bring to life their debut album, No No No No.
As you can imagine from the histor

Fun, zippy, and very obviously a Dur et Doux band!

“ULTRA ZOOK is an unusual rock trio, first of all there is no guitar but a keyboard, then they don't play like maniacs, and finally they don't pout when they play... it's with a sparkling and mischievous eye that they interpret their songs whose originality is equalled only by the philosophical depth of the text.
To make dance the zumba by using tunes of traditional music from Auvergne, to make advance the society with deep philosophical...

“Umbra’s story is that of a band from the early 1970’s who recorded what they wanted to record: heavy, heavy music from the start of the “American Comedown Era” as we’ve seen it described by our friends for their “Brown Acid” series; a band whose music, terrific though it is, has never to this point been released out into the wide world.
The tracks are hard-edged and heavy, verging on acid rock at times, which makes sense, as Umbra was a power trio most of their too-brief existence. Yet the songs...

"A Travail Egal Salaire Egal was Un Drame Musical Instantane's third album, originally released in 1982 on the group's own GRRR label.
Since its creation in 1976, featuring Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé, the group has decided to promote collective musical creation, co-signing their albums, which they consider as artworks in themselves, or their live shows which they try to renew every time they play.
Un Drame borrowed their sources from rock (synthesizer player Birgé and...

“Un Drame Musical Instantané [UDMI] were founded in 1976, featuring Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé. Their aim was to promote collective musical creation, co-signing their albums, which they consider as artworks in themselves, or their live shows which they tried to renew every time they played. Their sound was created with many influences: rock ; jazz, and classical modern music; as well as movies or world news; they were the first in France to give a new impetus to live music on...

"I do a lot of sketching. Always have. Every idea I have gets fixed in the medium it came to me. Some sketches are conceptual (what would happen if I did xyz?) and go in my notebook. Some sketches come to me at the piano and get notated on scoring paper. And some sketches result directly from getting my hands dirty with sound-sculpting while working at the computer with software, or with electronic gear like stomp boxes. Those get recorded in the computer.
"Over the past year or so a new theme...

CD-R release.

This is where it all began for vocalist Nad Sylvan, who leapt from this studio-only project to singing for many years now with Steve Hackett!

“This is the self-titled first album by Unifaun. The Swedish duo of vocalist and instrumentalist Nad Sylvan and keyboard player Bonamici (Christian Thordin) came together after Nad saw the Genesis tribute act The Musical Box perform in London in 2003. A visit to Genesis internet forums saw him introduced to the music of Bonamici and after some discussion...

Unbelievably cool and avant-garde rock album (recorded in 1967 and released in 1968) by a band who was, imo, one of the three truly avant psychedelic US bands of the time (along with 50 Foot Hose and Silver Apples). The (in)famous Joseph Byrd led and provided keyboards and electronic music, Dorothy Moskowitz sang, Gordon Marron played electronic/ring modulated violin, Rarnd Forbes played fretless bass and Craig Woodson played drums.
If somewhat dated now in parts, the good stuff still raises a chill..

New band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, playing symphonic rock in the South American as most obviously typified by Sagrado Coracão da Terra and O Terço.

If you like that lush, symphonic sound, you're sure to enjoy this one...

"Since the late 70s, Univers Zero composer and drummer Daniel Denis has been pursuing his vision of a chamber music that borrows the energy and production of rock, especially working with stereo extremes, but with a classical ambiance."-John Diliberto/...