"Finally back in print: the acclaimed 2004 compilation of current underground folk music, as selected by Devendra Banhart. This is more than a compilation -- it's expertly sequenced and paced, like one long, slow flow of a particularly rich vibe. Liner...

'Tzadik artists and special guests paying tribute to one of the great geniuses of American music. Modern jazz greats (Horvitz, Frisell, Baron, Douglas, Medeski, Martin & Wood), rock luminaries (Quine, Patton, Ribot, Kramer, Honda, Holcomb) and experime...

''A superstar since the 1950's in his native France, Gainsbourg is barely known here in the US -- a condition this special tribute to his genius hopes in some way to remedy. 21 tracks by 21 artists -- over 74 minutes of music, all on one dynamic disc.'...

“The first volume in Glitterbeat's Hidden Musics, a series of unmediated field recordings of lesser-known global music traditions. War Is a Wound, Peace Is a Scar is a haunting audio document recorded in the summer of 2014 by Grammy-award winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Malawi Mouse Boys, the Good Ones).
The sepia-tinged songs are sung and played live and direct by elderly Vietnamese musicians using half-forgotten traditional instruments. These musicians all have deep, personal connections...

"With this third volume of I Never Metaguitar, I'm thrilled at the notion of an ongoing process of discovery and the continuous pleasure of surprise at the inventions of these inventions: new sounds, processes, techniques, melodies, riffs, gestures...

"...and here is the fourth volume of this ongoing compilation organized by Elliott Sharp and covering «the parallel realities of contemporary guitarism». As Sharp himself wrote on previous liner-notes, each new collection of guitar pieces reflects «the never-ending joy of hearing fabulous sonic visions» with the guitar or its derivatives, as the main subject. You may not already know every chosen guitarist, but you will soon thanks to this series of recordings. Some of the artists need no presentations...

DVD AUDIO RELEASE: The 1st new music to take advantage of the surround sound possibilities available in the DVD medium. With all new works by Pauline Oliveros, Ingram Marshall, Meredith Monk, Ellen Fullman, Lukas Ligeti, Paul Dresher, Maggi Payne, Carl...

“Compilation curated by Steven Stapleton (of Nurse with Wound) of creative-experimental-unlikely music, originally released in 1984.
Released on his United Dairies label that he had created with John Fothergill, he naturally called on Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé, who were then playing with Bernard Vitet in Un drame musical instantané. The compilation would be named In Fractured Silence.
Alongside Nurse With Wound and Un drame musical instantané, could be heard Hélène Sage (whom Birgé...

"An amazing 33 track double CD compilation on Ochre Records featuring various artists from the experimental underground including Stylus, The Freed Unit, Avrocar, Magnetophone, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Yellow 6, Five Way Mirror, 90 Degrees South...

“’International New Jazz Meeting Burg Altena 1972-1973' is an 8CD box set of exciting and adventurous new jazz recorded live at the Altena Castle in West Germany on June 24/25, 1972 and June 23/24, 1973. Includes 2 x 28-page booklets with concert pictures, flyers and newspaper clippings (in German and English). Includes complete performances and improvisations.”

CD1: Dobrowolski & Bednarek + Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath
CD2: Michal Urbaniak Group + Karl Berger Company...

A sampler of artists from the Dunya/Felmay home of traditional music."In a time of change, a new snapshot of the Italian roots music panorama now seems more necessary than ever. Ranging far and wide across the country and covering most of its regions, ...

Czech jazz compilation

CD comes packaged in hard bound CD sized book

"Juncture is a large-scale collaborative project made up of original stories, drawings, paintings, photos and music by over fifty of the finest artists of our generation. The book, with accompanying visuals, was recently published by Soft Skull press...

This compilation of electric Afro-pop of the 70s and 80s is charming, musical and hugely fun.

"Great East African "Kenya Special was one of Soundway Records' most popular releases and is considered a milestone in East African compilations. This time the team of compilers have gone to even greater lengths to share a small part of what is slowly being accepted as an essential element of East Africa's cultural heritage: the history of recorded popular music. The featured songs on Kenya Special...

“Klar!80: a label with no program This compilation represents an initial -- and long overdue -- foray into the years 1980-82, when Klar!80 was a cassette label, paired with a shop of the same name in Düsseldorf. Founded by Rainer Rabowski, Klar!80 released 18 cassettes of varying length and a box set containing three 12" vinyl EPs which fetch handsome prices among collectors nowadays. The Klar!80 - Ein Kassettenlabel aus Düsseldorf 1980-1982 collection reaches even further back in time than the Sammlung...

With lp-only tracks by Adele Sebastian, Nate Morgan, Jesse Sharps, Billie Harris, Creative Arts Ensemble, Dadisi Komolafe, Rickey Kelley and Roberto Miranda. "All of this music was recorded in the early 80's. Seven of the nine tunes were released on di...

If you love/follow jazz of the 40s, you eventually end up here, if you didn't start here: with an appreciation and understanding of how the Hispanic (mostly Cuban, but others as well) residents of NYC mixed with the emerging boppers in the 40s and came...

"This compilation recalls an exciting time in the former West Germany when a real spirit of optimism prevailed and a musical phenomenon emerged which became internationally known as Krautrock. With performances from Karthago, Grobschnitt, Guru Guru...

For fans of psychedelic music, this compilation of tracks from 1969 - 1974 (late by US psych standards, but it took a few years for the patchouli oil to hit Africa) is well done and great fun and features music I doubt you have heard before. "This is v...

“Crammed's legendary MADE TO MEASURE Series of New Music was described at the time as the aural equivalent of a collection of art books. Charting a map of some of the most interesting instrumental music of the era, thirty-five albums came out between 1983 and 1995. The loose idea behind the title of the series was: this is music which has been or could have been "made to measure" as a soundtrack for other media (film, theatre, dance, video).
Several years ago the label discreetly started...

"Inspired by punk and post punk, vibrant scenes dedicated to independent self-actualization by means of self-distributed cassettes - the cheapest and fastest medium - were developing on each side of the Cold War's confrontational line. Albeit, under quite different circumstances. While there was a DIY euphoria in the West, which would also have had ideological motives, subcultures in the East simply had no other means. Even the first act of replication meant moving into illegal territory, since every...

“Mixed Up Minds Part 13 offers another tantalizing dose of forgotten dreams from the suburban drifts of Britain. In the aftermath of psychedelia, and in a less flamboyant 1970s, fading stars continued to shine as brightly, but to little acclaim. Amidst the glam rock and progressive bourgeoisie, pop songs knew their place, but for every T-Rex, 10cc, Bowie, and Queen, there was a more unlucky and less commercial other, sat in the underbelly of pomp and hysteria. Part 13 collects together 20 gems that were...

“Released in the summer of 1967, this oddball documentary focused on the more unconventional inhabitants of Hollywood, such as multi-millionaire Lewis Beech Marvin III (founder of the mysterious Moonfire cult), celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring (later murdered by the Manson gang) and psychedelic pioneer Richard Alpert (an associate of Timothy Leary at Harvard). Its equally unconventional soundtrack boasts a rare performance from cult singer-songwriter Bobby Jameson, as well as garage rock from The...