"Univers Zero's new album follows the lineage of Phosphorescent Dreams, the group’s last album. Lueur is the fruit of two years' work and reflection, the foundations of which were laid by Daniel Denis (keyboards, drums, percussion), then enriched by the contributions of Nicolas Dechêne (guitars), Kurt Budé (clarinet / bass clarinet) and Nicolas Denis (bass, percussion, vocals), all three present on Phosphorescent Dreams. With this reduced line-up, Lueur offers a dense journey, rooted in the balance...

Over 30 years ago, after 3 years of work and rehearsals, a group of seven unknown Belgian musicians gathered in a small basement studio to record their first album, which they released themselves in a tiny edition of 500 copies. The album was untitled...

John Dikeman saxophones / Jon Rune Strøm double bass / Tollef Østvang drums / Joe McPhee pocket trumpet, alto saxophone.

"John Dikeman, Jon Rune Strøm and Tollef Østvang choose as the name of their trio the title of an Albert Ayler’s...

“L'UNIVERSO is a collective of musicians that revolves around the bass player Adriano Barbiero. We are in the Venetian hinterland, which boasts a thriving musical scene in the 90s (Spirofera, Estasia, Nema Niko, Miraspinosa, Antinomia, Bondage, Ledel, etc.) from which L'Universo drew, now musically projected into a cosmic-ritual timeless dimension.
"Atema Ndanaxeo" is proghedelic alchemy in a single suite with the attitude and spirit of cosmic kraut-rock ("at the gates of the cosmos that is up there..

"A lynchpin of the Oakland rock/improv scene and now based in Brooklyn, Ava Mendoza has been taking Downtown NY by storm, performing with many of the best musicians around and leading her own dynamite bands. Her cutting edge guitar playing is front and center here in nine hard-edged and steely blues-tinged rock instrumentals. With a twisted sensibility and plenty of shredding, psychedelic effects and surprises, the music features Tim Dahl (Child Abuse, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus, Pulverize the Sound) on bass...

"Two years only after “Il paese del tramonto”, Unreal City return with a new work, “Frammenti notturni”. If the two previous albums (the debut album “La crudeltà di aprile” was released in 2013) contributed to spread the band’s name all around the international progressive scene, thanks to concerts played in Europe and overseas at the Canadian Terra Incognita festival, this third chapter is destined to consolidate their status as one of the of the most important names in the Italian prog-rock panorama...

"Unreal City are a young band from Parma, who present a symphonic prog-rock with strong dark and gothic influences. Born in April 2008 from an idea of keyboardist / singer Emanuele Tarasconi and guitarist Francesca Zanetta, the original line-up was then joined by Francesco Orefice on bass guitar (in 2010) and Federico Bedostri on drums (in 2012). In June 2012 Unreal City released a self-produced EP and were therefore contacted by Fabio Zuffanti (Hostsonaten, La Maschera Di Cera, Finisterre…), who...

Matthew Shipp, the supreme jazz pianist of his generation, and Mat Walerian, the finest Polish jazz woodwind player of his, have combined their talents in concert on several occasions. This album documents one such instance, from May 2012...

Physical copies of the hard to find third release by this bafflingly brilliant outfit.

"Sometimes albums are the collective energy of the people involved and how they interact with their surroundings. This would be that. On our third album, we were down to the original 3 members and it was back to basics.
By this time we had figured out that the only way we could excel as a 3 piece of 2 guitars & drums was to play tightly knit short songs that had little room to breath for all involved. I...

First-time on CD for this 1987 debut from Ur Kaos (Lach'n Jonsson, Johan Hedren, Mats Paulsson).

"With their subtly nuanced modulations of unresolved tension and atmosphere of sooty desolation, Sweden's Ur Kaos are one of the precious few bands vibrating at an emotional frequency in tune with the resigned doom of This Heat's Deceit. Unlike the visceral immediacy Charles Hayward's grave intonings lent those late 70s mavens of desperation however, Ur Kaos' lyrical intentions can only be guessed...

Swedish band from Gothenberg, who specialize in mystery (there's basically no information about them on the web or from their record label) and in space-electro-punk. This is their debut release. The only thing that their press release contains is...

In the early 1970s, Michal Urbaniak had one of the best jazz/rock bands in Eastern Europe. This is his two studio albums from 1973, ‘Paratyphus B’ and ‘Inactin’, both of which are very good (and only one of which has ever been released on CD before), after which he relocated to the USA where he formed a group called ‘Fusion’, and toured opening for Weather Report (where I saw them in 1975).
This is those two studio albums as well as a very excellent and lengthy never before released and lengthy 1972...

Do Roger Dean covers come any more awesome and any more wizardly than this?

"This is the album that solidified Uriah Heep's reputation as a master of gothic-inflected heavy metal. From short, sharp rock songs to lengthy, musically dense epics...

Heep's fifth album and one of their early progressive, heavy classics, with a progressive and heavy Roger Dean cover and mucho bonus tracks here!
"Initially released in 1972 ‘The Magician's Birthday’ is the fifth album by British rock band Uriah Heep. Fast forward 46 years it still remains a timeless classic. Painstakingly remastered by Andy Pearce this 2CD set also includes alternative mixes that excite, reignite and rejuvenate. Extensive liner notes penned by best-selling author Joel McIver tell...

Dutch band who mix folk/progressive/psychedelic with spacerock touches for a sort of a cross between Mellow Candle & moments of Gong/Daevid Allen. Only downside is that during the rock parts they use a drum machine. Still, for all the acoustic parts & beyond (& there's much more of that than the rock parts), this is pretty much spot-on. This could even be at home on the Kranky label.

The Use of Ashes, formerly known as Mekanik Kommando, released this on their own label as a vinyl-only release in 1988 and this marks its first release on CD. The band is : Simon Van Vleit-percussion, electronics, mellotron, violin, tapes, sounds, Jac...

This CD combines the 1st two 12" releases by Ut. Ut were a NYC based art-core / no-wave trio, who recorded all of their early releases at Cold Storage and who had a working partnership with Tim Hodgkinson for a while (he produced a couple of albums by them, and I believe he is a guest on one of these two).

"Ut is a radical rock group founded by Nina Canal, Jacqui Ham and Sally Young in NYC in Dec 1978. Originating in the downtown No Wave scene and inheritors of the collision between rock, free...

"A treasure trove of previously unreleased West Coast guitar psychedelia, 1966-1975. This is the incredible story of Uther Pendragon, a lost psychedelic band from San Francisco whose music has remained buried until now.

Formed in the Bay Area in 1966 as a teen garage group called Blue Fever, Uther Pendragon lasted from 1966 until 1978. During that time, the band went through different names and phases, as their music evolved from garage to psychedelia to hard rock, but the core of the band....

“The combined forces of Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi (Gong/ Cardiacs/ Knifeworld/ Guapo) and Michael J. York (Coil/Teleplasmiste/Guapo) have arrived at no less than a modular driven kosmische colossus of transcendent power enough to drive all talk of green baize firmly into the blue yonder.
With Davis’ modular geometry and ambient structures weaving with Torabi’s keen and skewed sense of melody and York’s various gifts for pipes, drones and fevered abstract – the result is a beguiling tapestry as likely..

"These arthouse-punk-ska rockers from Prague deliver the goods..This band sounds like a mix of Mr. Bungle, The Residents and Frank Zappa. This album features an American producer, the same one responsible for the now defunct band Idiot Flesh (who later turned into Sleepytime Gorilla Museum). This one isn't for everyone, but definItely a great album is you love agressive, creative music and don't mind that it is sung in Czech."-Mark Catalano

“The show on this album was performed in Olomouc, Czech Republic, at the Moravian Theatre, in the year 2010. The Ceasar gallery organized a retrospective exhibition called "The Residents Residence" in Olomouc. The exhibition contained art, constumes, masks and other artefacts of The Residents and Už Jsme Doma were asked if they could create their own versions of The Residents' songs, and play them to support the exhibition.
As Randy, the Residents' singer, was invited for the opening and was staying..