Various Artists

2008 is the 10th anniversary of the extremely excellent 'jazz and beyond' label Cryptogramophone. To celebrate they've thrown themselves (and all of us too!) a great party with this release. For an amazing price - the same price or less than a typical...

"This third volume in a series compiled by Laurent Jeanneau from his continual journeys into the more remote tribal areas of Southeast Asia features field recordings of the Giay, Lu, Red Zao, and Black Hmong peoples from North Vietnam. The five...

A compilation of 29 one minute tracks by a number of very well known 'unknown' artists (including: Haco, Pierre Bastien, Bratko Bibic, Fred Frith, Tatsuya Yoshida, Iva Bittova, Frank Pahl, Lars Hollmer, Tom Cora, and many others, presented in both...


"Soul Jazz Records are releasing separately on CD the soundtrack to this film (with bonus tracks). Featured groups include Theoretical Girls, UT, A Band, Rhys Chatham, Chinese Puzzle, The Static, Morales, Youth in Asia, Steven Piccolo and Jill Kroesen."

Curated by guitarist Henry Kaiser, 156 Strings is his personal selection of acoustic guitarists "who sound like themselves and have something special to say." The 19 guitarists here are both well known & unknown: Duck Baker, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Rao...

"A collection of 62 classic radio spots promoting the sales of everything from etiquette advice from Mitch Ryder (minus the Detroit Wheels) to Hormel Weiners to a Troggs beer commercial. Acid flashbacks without the acid."
Psychedelic Ad - Psychedelic Circus
Jefferson Airplane - White Levis Jefferson Airplane
Psychedelic Ad - Lee Jeans commercial
Psychedelic Ad - The Living Eye
Psychedelic Ad - The Hippie Revolt
Psychedelic Ad - Psychedelic Cola Commercial...


The German label No Man's Land has always made it its prerogative to release music that fits in no known category including avant-garde. Each album offers a very personal sound universe that often allies experimentation with potentially crowd-pleasing...

“It's been three years since Jazzman's A New Life alerted jazz heads to the existence of an unknown world of British jazz private pressings and indie obscurities. Back for a second round, compilers Francis Gooding and Duncan Brooker have dug deep into the archives to assemble another ground-breaking collection of Brit jazz anomalies and outliers from the 1970s and 1980s. A New Life, Vol. II picks up the story where A New Life left off, searching out overlooked jazz gems from across the length and...

“The Abatwa ("Pygmy") are one of Africa's most endangered peoples. This album is a stunning, spirited document of their deep and varied musical culture, it collects rough-hewn, tribal sonics from the Rwandan borderlands. One-string violins/ 11-string harps/ haunted solo & duo singing/ battery operated loop machines. The textures are strange and abstract but at the same time intimate and joyful.
A featured instrument is the 11-string Icyembe, one that has a resemblance not unlike a surfboard and when..

A reprint of an early lp dedicated to the electronic and electro-acoustic modern composers of TODAY! An early classic of the genre and still excellent listening TODAY!...

"Here is the fifth release in Syllart Productions' African Pearls series of compilations, this time coming from Côte d'Ivoire. A natural West African crossroads, the Ivory Coast has always been at the forefront of musical trends, be it black American...

"A 2CD collection of music from '70s Senegal. More than any other country in West Africa, Senegal has been strongly influenced by Cuban music coming to Dakar through Cuban sailors. Widely broadcast, the Afro-Cuban repertoire stands at the bottom of...

Do you look at the listings of African pop compilations and albums that I am always saying nice things about and wondering what it's all about? Well, have we got a nice, budget priced sampler for you!

"A retrospective "discovery price" sampler...

“I grew up in the US South during this fertile musical period in the 1960s, but I was too young at the time to have known about any of these bands, much less having heard this music. All these years later, it's a joy to catch up with these "great lost Southern popsike" tracks. To sum up the sound even more creatively, the liner notes call this compilation a "trip into the obscure backwaters of Southern popsike, blues-infused garage and bubblegum soul." Throw in a bit of sunshine pop and you have...

A lower-priced sampler which includes tracks from many different Ambiances Magnetiques releases. A good way to sample what A.M. do.

This mid-priced sampler has tracks from CDs released between1985-2000.

"American Clave has been a label at the forefront of the explosion previously known as worldbeat and currently as world music. They issued progressive salsa from Kip Hanrahan, ambitious free music by Don Pullen, the lush, sensual tango of Astor...

"Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, 1981–1986 is the third release in a series of CDs compiled from The Kitchen’s archive that documents historic concert recordings at The Kitchen from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. While the first two releases, New M...

Early 90's PROMO ONLY Knitting Factory tour sampler featuring Amy Denio, Negativland, Roy Nathanson and Anthony Coleman. Cover is has a tear on the front and promo stamps and writing on it, disc is fine.

“This is is the first ever collection of Apala music to be released outside of Nigeria.
The album focuses on a wide selection of recordings made in Nigeria in the 1960s, a time when Apala music was at the height of its popularity. Apala is a deeply rhythmical, hypnotic and powerful musical style that combines the striking nasal-style vocals and traditions of Islamic music, the Agidigbo (thumb piano), and the equally powerful drumming and percussion rhythms and techniques of the Yoruba of Nigeria...


"Underground Welcome to Volume 2 of Astral Daze where we once again dip into the vaults of classic South African rock and pop , seeking out long lost psychedelic gems for your edification and earthly delight . Volume 2 finds the listener tripping the...

''A journey to discover the musical geography of Italy, where live side by side - from the deep North to the deep South - very different cultural areas, each one expressing a musical style and a secular tradition on its own, each one showing peculiar ...

These compilations of African rock/funk/Afro-hypnotic keep being released and they generally keep being great. This one, made up of releases from Burkina Faso, circa 1974-1979 is no exception. Conditionally highly recommended...

"Robbie Basho's guitar playing was first brought to light in 1965, when John Fahey released Basho's debut The Seal of the Blue Lotus (1965) on his own Takoma Records. Basho was armed with a unique and powerful singing voice, his 6 & 12 string guitar and a collection of special guitar tunings that he created (even originating the "Esoteric Doctrine of Color and Mood'' - a chart denoting a color and mood for each of his special tunings).
After three decades of recordings and touring and a prodigious....

A unique & truly fabulous disc of world music featuring various Indonesian artists & composers from the Batak area in North Sumatra. Performed on rebabs, flutes, oboes, shawms, gongs, & many drums. [New Albion]

Kavus Torabi (Cardiacs, Guapo, Knifeworld and the man behind the Believers Roast label) put on a one day festival featuring many of the best of London's modern progressive/unusual rock bands. All tracks here are not available elsewhere and this is a...

This is a fabulous compilation of swing jazz and big and small band blues & boogie, from 1936-1945, presented to highlight how this music blended with other American music and influenced and partially led to rock 'n' roll.
If you dig this sort of thing, this is nearly 80' of historic and fabulous sounds!

"Nearly 80 minutes of vintage music recorded between 1935 and 1945 and featuring some of the great names of jazz, blues and boogie woogie. The quality of the sound is generally good, given...

"This compilation makes great listening for '60s garage band mavens or lovers of audio perversion."-All Music Guide

“Under the influence of The Beatles, the Group Sounds movement swept Japan in the mid-1960s. This compilation -- out of print for well over 20 years -- collects some of the finest cuts made by several of the leading bands of the time, and makes its long-awaited CD debut here, together with background notes. Includes artists such as The Golden Cups, The Beavers, The Mops...

"This first volume of rare and previously unissued live recordings features Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. Precious little live material from these artists has survived into the 21st century and these recently unearthed...

Previously unreleased R&B from Muddy Waters (1958) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (1958), Louis Jordan (1962) and more recorded live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in England.

"This second volume of rare and previously unissued live...

Previously unreleased R&B from Sonny Boy Williamson (1964), Jimmy Witherspoon(1964), Howlin’ Wolf & Hubert Sumlin (1964) and more recorded live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in England.

"This third volume of rare and previously unissued liv

"9 CDs featuring the best of the European Jazz scene in 1970; 10 hours with the complete music from all three festival concerts; 32-page booklet with brilliant concert pictures - previously unseen!"
Disc 1:
German Jazz Festival Big Band - Introduction
German Jazz Festival Big Band - Intoxication
German Jazz Festival Big Band - Jazzminers Dance In Frankfurt
German Jazz Festival Big Band - Palazzo Blue
Dave Pike Set - Attack Of The Green Misers
Dave Pike Set - Turn Around, M

"This compilation drawn from both field work and recordings on the then Yugoton label gives a sense of the richness of Bosnian Muslim culture before the catastrophe. The music is admirably varied, ranging from mid-'80s local pop to shepherds' songs and...

“This music is taken from transcription discs, usually pressed in quantities of 100, and used for broadcast in various countries in the mid/late '60s. The discs were then supposed to be destroyed, but many weren't. The accent is on British Beat music with a healthy dollop of pop music mixed in. Every group has a very short interview with Brian Mathews along with songs performed and recorded in the Paris Theater, a studio on Bond Street, or the Playhouse Theater for use on transcription discs...

Historically and sociologically fascinating and the large book tells the whole story, as best it can be reconstructed. Conditionally recommended...

Historically and sociologically fascinating and the large book tells the whole story, as best it can be reconstructed. Conditionally recommended...


A fine document from of various goings-on in the UK. This features Orlando Gough (Lost Jockey), Michael Nyman, David Cunningham, Steve Martland. All pieces are either extremely rare or unavailable elsewhere. [Felmay/New Tone]

A colection of original composition by some important post-minimalist composersCarl Stone (Kamiya Bar - excerpts)Ben Neill (678 Streams)Mikel Rouse (Autorequiem)Kyle Gann (Ghost Town)Nicolas Collins (Devils Music)[Felmay/New Tone]

“This volume feautures rare recordings by groups from 1966-67. The Shandells Inc. release is noteworthy for its classic Electric Prunes sound while the Shadows and Rocks are moody garage kings. The Feathers sound like a teenage version of the Beau Brummels and Byrds. Finally, the Lewallen Brothers and the Marsades of Tucson, AZ are represented with unreleased songs that range from mod garage rock to the outright bizarre (‘I’m Normal’).
Out of print CD with small drill hole.”

"After having explored the music of the Mediterranean, in particular that of the Balcan region, in its first two volumes, Circo Inferno Cabaret, promoted by Santarcangelo dei Teatri, dedicates its third volume to a particular notion of electronic music...

"Keystone works from the various streams of musique concrete, electronic music, soundscape, electroacoustics and plunderphonics - including two masterworks from Eastern Europe, a territory traditionally overlooked in collections of this medium.
This is the classic collection of Contemporary, Concrete, Tapeworked and Processed works - and an indispensable survey of a crucial field:
It comprises: John Oswald's 'Parade', a complex work drawn and extended from Satie's celebrated ballet composition...

"Keystone works from the various streams of musique concrete, electronic music, soundscape, electroacoustics and plunderphonics - including two masterworks from Eastern Europe, a territory traditionally overlooked in collections of this medium.
This is the classic collection of Contemporary, Concrete, Tapeworked and Processed works - and an indispensable survey of a crucial field:
It comprises: John Oswald's 'Parade', a complex work drawn and extended from Satie's celebrated ballet composition...

"An exciting and eclectic anthology of 14 new, previously unreleased pieces -- many written just for this CD. Music by John Luther Adams, Gavin Bryars, Rick Cox, Michael Jon Fink, Jim Fox, Peter Garland, Daniel Lentz, Ingram Marshall, Read Miller...

"Soundway Records presents the tropical sound of Colombia. From the salsas and descargas of Cali, Medellin and Bogota to the Afro sounds and raw cumbias of Cartagena and Barranquilla, this is the sound of Colombian dancehalls and clubs in the '60s and...

“In the 60's, Abilene, Texas had a thriving music scene. Bands enamored with the British Invasion sound of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, and The Beatles formed in droves. The top band in Abilene was The Chevelle V, whose best known track, 'Come Back Bird' employed the British slang for 'girl' and the beat of The Yardbirds' 'I'm A Man.' The other popular Abilene bands, such as The Livin' End, The Continentals and The Coachmen, comprise the other recordings on this album, making this the most....

A nice collection, this has 3 by Davey Williams & LaDonna Smith, 2 Hans Reichel solos, & 1 each by Paul Plimley/Lisle Ellis, New Winds, J.D. Parran/Ned Rothenberg, Rothenberg solo, & Nicols/Cooper/Schweizer. [Victo]