“Written and produced by Michael Gira, Leaving Meaning is Swans fifteenth studio album and features contributions from recent and former Swans, members of Angels of Light as well as guest artists Anna and Maria von Hausswolff, Ben Frost, The Necks, Baby Dee, and a Hawk and a Hacksaw.”

Michael Gira explains, "Leaving Meaning is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the lineup of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 - 2017. Swans is now comprised of a revolving cast of...

"One of the heaviest albums from Father Yod and crew. Along with I'm Gonna Take You Home, it's just the best -- one of the finest sacred space cadet acid-mantra psychedelic death trips of all time, for sure. Captain Father Yod moans and groans a perfect..

"Back in the early 70s a curious group owned and operated a health food restaurant in Los Angles. The Source Family was a religious group of young people centered around the father figure of Father Yod, a WWII flying ace and spiritual searcher...

Taku Yabuki is a Japanese keyboardist, best known to Wayside’s audience as the keybordist of Koenjihyakkei.
This is one of a number of solo releases he has recorded and this one is heavily in the fusion genre, with nods to progressive rock. As such, it reminds me of some of the classic fusion / progressive works that David Sancious made in the mid 70s, except with a much larger group of players here and perhaps a bit heavier (it is 50 quite heavy years later, after all....)
There’s a lot of...

"Super political, rocking, anti-establishment communal band (c. 1970) put together as a result of the Kent State Massacre. As the Euphoria Blimpworks Band, fronted by Howard Berkman from morose garage punksters the Knaves, they played demonstrations...

Eri Yamamoto, piano, voice
David Ambrosio, bass
Ikuo Takeuchi, drums
Rika Yamamoto, Bruce Barth, Ikuo Takeuchi, Rich Lamb, chorus on Track 4

All of these songs are about my experience of the pandemic while living in New York City. I had never written lyrics or sung on an album before. But I was thinking about certain incidents every day, and for two of the songs, the lyrics came to me with the melodies like an emotional release.
The woman with a purple wig is me. To protect

“A seed is a star, a star is a seed. Stevie Wonder's cosmically aphoristic title could also describe pianist and composer Eri Yamamoto's Goshu Ondo Suite.
"About two years ago," she writes in the liner notes accompanying her momentous seven-part opus, "I was vacuuming my apartment, and with the rhythm of the movement, I began singing "Goshu Ondo," a traditional circle dance song from Shiga, near Kyoto, Japan." This is how the prolific musician channeled deeply felt resonances with various traditions...

"Pianist-composer Eri Yamamoto returns with a bountiful new collection of her singular all-original music, performed with her perennial trio partners of deep empathy, bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi. As the album title suggests, the material moves through a far range of emotional evocation, from ebullient to thoughtfully introspective, reflecting the absolute vibrancy of her long-time adopted home, New York City, and the importance of finding space within the perpetual motion of the city...

“The first ever boxed set celebrating the work of Stomu Yamashta for Island Records between 1972 and 1976. Remastered set including the albums
Floating Music
The Man From The East
Freedom Is Frightening
One By One
Raindog
Go
Go… Live From Paris

Born in Kyoto, Japan, Yamashta studied music at Kyoto University and Berklee College of Music. His athletic and virtuoso percussion style came to prominence in the early 1970s when his work with the Red Buddha Theatre brou

Yang, a French quartet whose stunning compositons combine intricate guitar parts with driving rock, is the newest project led by French guitarist and composer Frederic LEpe. LEpes former projects include founding two of the most intriguing all-instrume...

Four musicians perform on thungpchen (a long, deep-toned instrument similar to the alpine horn), Jya-ling (a double reed shenai, cousin of the oboe), kangling (thigh bone trumpet), dun-kar (conch shell trumpet), na (large double-headed bass drum, cymb...

"In the Now, the debut album from the John Yao Quintet, signals the definitive arrival of trombonist and composer, John Yao. Demonstrating a broad textural palette and drawing from an array of stylistic influences, Yao explores the concept of opposing...

This is Palm Desert rock band Yawning Man with guest guitarist Bob Balch from stoner rock band Fu Manchu.

"Bob Balch here. In November of 2022 I went out to Joshua Tree for a day of jamming with the guys in Yawning Man with the intention of calling it “Yawning Balch.” No riffs were planned. We just plugged in and played. The only discussion beforehand was that Gary Arce and I wanted to mess with tons of guitar pedals. I knew that while we were jamming it sounded great, but it wasn’t until I got...

“A longtime dream has been to capture Yawning Man performing in the very environment that so inspired their music. The opportunity arose in 2020 from the challenges artists and musicians faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, social distancing forcing artists to creatively adapt to alternatives to express themselves musically and visually. Yawning Man's answer to this calling is Live At Giant Rock. This cinematic concert experience is intimately and beautifully captured by videographer Sam Grant in the...

“Nomadic Pursuits is the second Yawning Man studio album, released in 2010. With a five-year gap between the first album and this one, the band had time to further expand on their freeform desert sound.”

“Originally released in 2009. Heavy Psych Sounds is reissuing the Yawning Man old demo recordings record, The Birth Of Sol, with a new cover. Dating back to 1986, these demo recordings by Yawning Man were originally only spread amongst close friends of the band.”

"This is the debut full-length release by Yawning Sons, a unique collaboration between musicians from different sides of the Atlantic. In July 2008, Californian desert-rock veteran Gary Arce (Yawning Man/Ten East/Fatso Jetson/Dark Tooth Encounter...

Dee Byrne: Alto Saxophone
Elliot Galvin: Piano & Electronics
Chris Guilfoyle: Guitar
Lukas Traxel: Bass
Clemens Kuratle: Composition, Drums & Electronics

“Many important drummers are great bandleaders. With their overview and their sense of rhythm and form they show the band the way. The young Swiss drummer Clemens Kuratle has made a name for himself in jazz and pop formations as a sensitive and accomplished musician. Now he has launched Ydivide: a quintet that unites the hip...

Matthew Yeakley - Guitar
Matt Politano - Piano/Rhodes
Cooper Appelt - Electric and Upright Bass
Aaron MacLendon - Drums
Mike Cottone - Trumpet
Gina Saputo - Vocals (Deanna)
Jesse Palter - Vocals (Sadhana)

"... jazz that grooves ("A Place to Call Home"), bops ("I Wish I Could've Known You Better") and takes chances ("Periculum N"). Yeakley's polished guitar style is what we've come to expect from the town that gave us Larry and Lee. It's a lot of music to drop on an...

"This remastered album was originally recorded for the Resident's label Ralph Records in 1981 and contains the seminal singles 'Bostich' & 'Bimbo' and also contains 5 bonus tracks, 4 on CD for the first time including 'Thrill Wave' (from the soundtrack Jetzt und Alles), 'I.T. Splash' (single B-side), 'Gluehead' (single B-side) & 'Smirak's Train' (also from the soundtrack Jetzt und Alles) plus 'Bostich' (N'est-ce pas) from the Yello Essential CD."

"Yello doesn't get much weirder than they did on...

Excellent quality video EP of 4 tracks from 1969/1971 by the Anderson/Tony Kaye/Chris Squire/Bill Bruford line up with Peter Banks on the earlier stuff and Steve Howe on the later stuff. I've Seen All Good People, Yours Is No Disgrace, No Opportunity N...

2003 remastered edition with liner notes, unseen photos and bonus tracks. Rick Wakeman returns, so the line up once again is: Wakeman/Anderson/Howe/Squire/White on this 1977 album, which I sorta considered their last hurrah until recently. This include...

2003 remastered edition with liner notes, unseen photos and bonus tracks. Rick Wakeman's out and his replacement is the equally talented, but extremely different sounding Patrick Moraz, who only lasted for this one 1974 album. This is when I first saw them and it was quite a show; I still remember the big Roger Dean-designed things - whatever they were - on top of Allan White's drums flapping their wings during his big solo. One of the bonus tracks is a studio run-through of Gates Of Delirium!

2003 remastered edition with liner notes, unseen photos and bonus tracks. For their 3rd album, Yes truly became "Yes", with the arrival of Steve Howe. This lineup didn't last long, because they decided to dump organist Tony Kaye for 'keyboard wizard' R...