Various Artists

“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...

"It's been a long, long time but finally it's here -- the second edition of Money Will Ruin Everything, Rune Grammofon's celebration of 5 more years of music. Originally planned as an update and slightly revised edition of the long deleted 2CD/book of...

"We are very excited to announce what we think is one of the most exciting jazz albums that have been issued in recent years. It includes the most beautiful unreleased live recordings from the German Jazz Festival 1966! Please check the whos's who of the German jazz scene in the tracklisting.
This 2-CD set comes in a SABA-style packaging. We had the impression that those recordings could easily have been part of the SABA/MPS catalogue back in 1966 - that's why we decided to design the cover and...

"This is a reissue of both Music From Yemen Arabia: Samar and Music From Yemen Arabia: Sanaani, Laheji, Adeni, recorded by Ragnar Johnson and Jessica Mayer.

These songs originate from the city of Sanaa, the sheikdom of Lahej and the port of Aden. These songs originate from the city of Sanaa, the sheikdom of Lahej and the port of Aden. Samar is the delicious, luxury time when people gather for relaxation, refreshment, and music. This record contains oudh playing, percussion, and singing from....

Zeleste was one of the main Spanish labels of the 1970s from the Catalan region, and the progressive rock and jazz-rock that they released reflected the sounds of that unique region. A fine sampler of work by a number of great artists, some of which...

12 early tracks by Maquina, Smash, Vertice, Musica Dispersa, Mane-Gong, Agua De Regaliz, Estratagema, Jordi Sabates, Nuevos Tiempos, Sisa, Gualberto. The only way to get these tracks. [Acutal]

unreleased/live tracks by: Pascal Battus, Sophie Angel, Jerome Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti, Carole Rieussec, Thierry Madiot and others.

(France) W/ Jim O'Rourke/Le Quan Ninh

New music for soprano, ensemble and orchestra. Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, alan Bullard, Alan Parsons, Trevor Taylor, Malcolm Ball, Eric Hudes, Nicola Ellis and Phil McGovern.

Great collection of wonderful progressive folk and folk rock from the late 60s and early 70s from the Island label. If you don't know this scene, this is a fabulous way to check out a bunch of great bands at a stupid-low price.

"When visionary...

“ESP-Disk' has a little bit of history with Argentina -- the label issued Gato Barbieri's first international release, and their Steve Lacy album was recorded there -- so the label couldn't resist putting out this compilation of 2012-17 recordings (most previously unreleased) from the Buenos Aires scene.
In his liner notes, compiler Jason Weiss writes, "In June 1966, just as General Juan Carlos Onganía was leading a military coup d'état, Steve Lacy's quartet arrived in Buenos Aires: not exactly safe...

"Recorded live inside the cave at Balve, West Germany, June 26/27, 1976 & June 25/26, 1977 8 hours of music recorded live inside the cave at Balve, West Germany 32-page booklet with concert pictures, posters and flyers
Includes complete performances and improvisations by Peter Brötzmann, Han Bennik, Archie Shepp, John Surman, Albert Mangelsdorff, Willem Breuker Kollektief, Joachim Kühn and many more!"
CD 1
Hugo Heredia Quintet
CD 2
Machi Oul Big Band - Celula Jazz Crew Prag
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"Box with 11 CDs featuring the best of the New Jazz scene from Europe and the USA in 1974/75; 13 hours of music recorded live inside the cave at Balve, West Germany 32-page booklet with concert pictures, posters, flyers and newspaper clippings (in German and English)."
Disc 1:
Contact Trio - Improvisation
Brötzmann; van Hove; Bennink - Improvisation 1
Brötzmann; van Hove; Bennink - Improvisation 2
Brötzmann; van Hove; Bennink - Improvisation 3
Brötzmann; van Hove; Bennink....

Founded in New York in 1971, The Kitchen is internationally known as a leading center for video, music, dance, performance, new media and literature. Orange Mountain Music has begun the restoration of audio reels from performances at The Kitchen with t...

"Strut present the rst new volume in their pioneering ‘Nigeria 70’ series for over 8 years, bringing together rare highlife, Afro-funk and juju from the ‘70s and early ‘80s."

A pretty great collection of little known [outside of Africa] Afro-pop classics.

“Soul Jazz Records' Nigeria Soul Power 70 album showcases the influence of funk, rock and disco on Nigerian music during the 1970s. Originally released as a now-long-out-of-print collectors' 7' RSD box, this fully expanded album release now also includes extra tracks from Sonny Okosuns, Wings, Chief Kollington Ayinla and more. While for many people the fusion of funk and jazz music with Nigerian rhythms and aestheti

''Traditional songs from Valle Sabbia (Lombardy). Every year the eve of Epiphany the singers sing the repertoire of Star Songs (Canti a Stella), a repertoire of songs to collect money for the church that resembles the Laudi Spirituali of XVII Century. ...

"Despite the fact that the sacred steel tradition was over a half-century old in the House of God Congregation, it had not been documented until the 1990s, and since then its irrepressible spirit has propelled the music out of the churches and into the..

(Japan) Japanese-only sampler of rare Euro jazz: Wim Stolwijk/Pacific Eardrum/Misha Mengelberg et al.


T.A.C. – An Elegy 5:35
Riccardo Sinigaglia – Magik 3:59
Bene Gesserit – Lacrima 2:31
Francesco Paladino – Headfish/Eatfish 4:32
LA STPO – Fetides Humbert et Jacques 3:09
The Motor Totemist-Guild – Black Phoebe 3:26
Sigillum S – Happiness in the Kooky Kraks among Dimensions 4:25 ...

"A diverse roster of recording artists - spanning half a century between the oldest and youngest - have contributed contemporary interpretations of traditional English songs to a new album released as a companion piece to The Folk Handbook: Working With Songs From The English Tradition.
This album compiles 17 songs from the book in performances all but one of which have been recorded in recent years; many have been recorded specially for this album and thus are unavailable elsewhere."...

"With the help and support of Argentine musicians, radios, press and friends, George Haslam set out to compile a selection of some of the exciting contemporary jazz played in Argentina today ~ from La Plata and Buenos Aires to Patagonia, Mendoza, San L...


This is just big fun that touches on many different sounds from beginning to end!

"Soundway presents the second volume in their Panama! series, showcasing the unique tropical music created in Panama during the fertile decades of the 1960s and...

"A wonderfully diverse 2CD set with handsome packaging. … a definitive collection of great artists … required listening and a must-have. Your collection of British folk won't be complete without this."-George Maida, WCVE Radio, Richmond, MA...


This is a compilation of bands performing 'the trend-setting music of the Nintendo Entertainment system'. Why is this here? Well, mostly because Ahleuchatistas are here and they turn in just an unbelievably slamming performance. Also appearing are...

This double CD set presents highlights from the second Prog Exhibition Festival, which was held October 21-22, 2011 in Rome. Like the 1st event, this features well known bands in the scene, but often performing with special guests, which ups the...

Hipsters claiming progressive as their own! "Whoever came up with the over-pretentious, collective term 'Progressive Rock' couldn't have been less forward thinking. Prog rock in its truest form was not a 'restrictive' genre -- it was a movement that u...

Brand new release of professional recordings by the bands who appeared at 1998's Progday festival. Includes photos and a great Michael Bennett cover. Includes the following live material that is not available anywhere else: Crucible (25'), Soundscape (...

Great price on this nearly 2 hour set featuring tracks from many of the bands who played at Progfest '97 in San Francisco. This includes the John Wetton Band (doing two U.K. songs), Le Orme (doing Felona e Serona!), Arena, The Flower Kings, Spock's...

“We make it to the Garden State and boy did we find some fantastic unreleased tapes and Acetates, as well as some rare and uncompiled 45s Featuring 32 tracks and lots of band photos and bios!”

“Continuing on the tradition, some obscure 60s garage- rock and light psych from the Garden State this time. Highlight of the disc is " Cry With Me" by The Story Tellers which is Back From the Grave level-worthy goodness. There's a smattering of other above average tracks with the Galaxies IV's reworking....

“We make it back to the Garden State and boy did we find some fantastic unreleased tapes and Acetates, as well as some rare and uncompiled 45s. Featuring 29 tracks and lots of band photos and bios!”

1 The Young Monkey Men-I'm Waiting for the Letter
2 The What-Nots-Morning
3 December's Children-Society
4 The Offset-Aluminum 304
5 The Abstract Sound-Blacked Out Mind
6 The Saucer Men-Another Chance
7 Alexander Rabbit-I Didn't Even Thank Her
8 The Conchords-Magic Long

1 –Tetragon Snowstorm 7:50
2 –Xhol Surrealistic Scenery 12:11
3 –Yggdrasil Lizzy's Song 4:40
4 –Zoppo Trump Wellengang 6:46
5 –Radio Noisz Ensemble Circkus Minor 3:58
6 –Guru Guru Das Zwickmaschinchen 6:22
7 –Embryo Dance Of Some Broken Glasses 9:01
8 –Sündenfall II Montpellier 3:18
9 –Surgery Intro 4:47

"This recording consists of eight electro-acoustic compositions and two pieces by each of the four composers. Pauline Oliveros: 'Mercury Retrograde, 'Cyber Talk.' Francisco Lopez: 'untitled #270,' 'untitled #273.' Doug Van Nort: 'Outer; Inner.' Jonas...

Features over 70' of music by Robert Wyatt, David Thomas, Henry Kaiser, John Oswald, Jean Derome, Jocelyn Robert, Iva Bittova/Pavel Fajt, When, Musci/Venosta, James Grigsby, Bill Gilonis, Joseph Racaille, & many more. This is a really good collection; ...

Artists featured include Boris Kovac, Volapk, Giovanni Venosta, Keith Rowe + Alain De Fillips, Shelley Hirsch/Jon Rose/Chris Cutler, Thomas Dimuzio, Marie Goyette, Ken Ando (of 5uu's), Brian Woodbury, Philip Perkins, Steven Tickmayer & more. All titles are exclusive to this release.

Electronic/space music performers Airsculpture, Wolfram Spyra, Free System Projekt, Star Sounds Orkhestra, Paul Lawler, Dave Brewer & Bill Fox played in various permutations live in the Mojave Desert April 25-29, 2003. It doesn't tell you who is on...


Twenty-one tracks (72 minutes), the best of the rare singles recorded by bands like Free Love System, Los Texao, Los Incógnitos, Madera Fresca, and Opus who thrived in Arequipa, Peru during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Arequipa? yes, Arequipa...

Terrific release in a great package of 1950s African music that definitely points the way towards the music of the 60s/70s. Highly recommended!

"Originally released on Crammed in 1993, this beautiful 20-song collection - re-released as part of...

Fantastic compilation featuring both volumes together in one package (I bought them seperately as imports, damn it!) of great proto-African pop. Recommended for fans of the sound! "The best of early Congolese Pop Music: two compilations featuring hits...

''There's some of everything here - improvisers, technicians, gentle musicians, violent musicians...'' [In Poly Sons]

"Post-war apartments dominated the views of Düsseldorf in the early 1980s - cement slabs, the "art bunker" known as the Kunsthalle, and the elevated railway called "The Millipede". Yet reconstruction was in full swing - bank buildings on the "Kö" received postmodern interiors, the old town became stylishly retro-rustic, and advertising agencies displaced industrial companies. Music took all of this on. Punk was finished, but its pathos drifted through pubs and shared flats. At the same time, synthesizers...

“'The Scene Club was red hot, the hottest little club in London and in 1963 London was the centre of the world - even if the rest of the world didn't know it quite yet.' Norman Jopling (Record Mirror).
The club in Ham Yard, off Great Windmill Street, in Soho, central London had previously been a jazz club, but by 1963 it had become a revered mod venue, playing soul, R&B, blues, ska and rock'n'roll records to a sharply dressed crowd. This new compilation collects some of the classic tracks played...

A new compilation explores the far reaches of the post-punk, experimental and electronic landscape in Switzerland in the period 1980-1990. Includes a 32 page booklet!

"In 1984, Adrian met three American musicians who would have a pivotal effect on the future direction his music would take. Collaborating with former Sugarhill Gang members Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald and Keith LeBlanc resulted in some brilliantly unclassifiable beats-and-sample laden records as Tackhead, with various weird and wonderful off-shoots exploring different permutations of their blueprint. The new sound they developed caught the ear of artists from the industrial scene, resulting in work with...

"Under the influence of LSD, by the late 1960s the sands were shifting fast for acoustic music. This new compilation showcases 20 of the best tracks to have emerged from the underground folk revolution, taking in artists from Britain and America, as...

Since I have a personal interest in early jazz, this was a great, great watch and listen personally.
This is in English, with subtitles in Italian, English, French, Portuguese, Japanese.

"A journey inside the Sicilian chromosome of jazz, forgotten by the official history; the incredible story of a Sicilian who became the world's first man in jazz. Sicily Jass: The World's First Man In Jazz is a film directed by Michele Cinque, about the life, the music, and times of Nick La Rocca, a son of...