Lelo was the keyboardist for Grupo Um, a very good Brasilian fusion band and he also has played with Hermeto Pascoal. This is his fifth album and features typically enticing Brazilian-style jazz-rock fusion mixed with Afro-Brazilian forms and rhythms. This features "special performances by guest artists Felipe Ávila (Sexo dos Anjos, Percussônica) and Teco Cardoso (Pé Ante Pé, Pau Brasil)."

"This is the 13th release from Australian maverick trio The Necks, now approaching their 20th Anniversary, and still occupying a genre-group of one. Their slow, gripping, development of a single idea over the length of a whole CD, while somehow obvious, has proved un-copyable, mostly because it so much depends on the unique musical personalities and extreme virtuosity of these three, profoundly different, musicians.
Having established their theme, The Necks, with Chemist, break the habit of a...

Anders Hallberg (vocals)
Magnus Könberg (drums)
Johan Luyckx (electric guitar)
Markus Mannberg (bass guitar)
Ana Marega (vocals, theremin)
Tobias Petterson (electric guitar)

Very amusingly named Swedish psych band featuring personnel from Agus and Yuri Gargarin!

"Imagine Charles Manson and Anton LaVey teaming up with a band of fake Hare Krishna cult members speeding towards Kathmandu in a run down VW bus along the dusty Hippie Trail in 1966. That may give you the

Larry Coryell (guitars), Pete Jacobsen (keyboards), Ted Emmett (trumpet), Steve Clarke (drums), Wolfgang Schmidt, Chris Lawrence, Laurence Cottle, Jack Bruce (bass)

"The New Alchemy is all about Swedish artists Per Svensson and Ebbot Lundberg making dark, intricate, swirling rock psychedelia. Ebbot Lundberg and Per Svensson had started their careers as artists at the legendary Radium 226.05 in Gothenburg during the swinging 1980s. Per was releasing sound art and poetry and Ebbot was the lead singer of Union Carbide Productions at that time. During the following decades, both guys have been developing their art; Per continuing on as a solo artist and Ebbot as....

Guitarist/midi guitarist Hewins performs in an unusual duo with Battacharjee, an actor & musician. Here Battarajee performs on voice, drum & midi devices. An amalgam of these two musicians & their respective (& quite different) backgrounds, bringing together Indian & European influences. Sometimes reminsicent of Peace One/Peace Two from McLaughlin's My Goal's Beyond.

There are many, many players operating in the 'new American primitive guitar school' and there are many fine ones, but for me, one of the real standout players is this guy. He captures a feeling of Americana that probably never really *did* exist, but was what I think that the originators of the style (John Fahey, Robbie Basho, etc) were aiming for. He also isn't afraid to use modern ideas and production values with his music, which also gives him a singular sound on his albums. I keep singing his...

“Dark and majestic, News from Babel remains ahead of their time.”-Michael Draine

“News from Babel was the song project inaugurated by Chris Cutler with fellow ex Henry Cow composer Lindsay Cooper. The pieces for this first LP were written for a band that also included Zeena Parkins (harp - her first recording with the instrument) and the incomparable Dagmar Krause (another ex-band member) singing.
Using the studio as an instrument and experimenting with unusual instrumentation and techniques.

“Fresh from a British tour with Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd in mid-December 1967, the Nice paid a short visit to Scandinavia and performed this session for broadcast on Sveriges Radio in Gothenburg.
It captures the quartet at their early peak, playing a blend of covers and tracks from their newly recorded (and not yet released) debut LP, including a mind-blowing rendition of their signature piece, Rondo.
Preserved in superb fidelity, with remarkable contributions from guitarist Davy O'List and...

Nico solo on Top Gear, 1971 in excellent sound. A scary woman and her harmonium and her scary songs!

"Tired of hearing music designed for teenagers? Bored with all that revisionist jazz and self-indulgent art-noise? Here's something completely unexpected, from veterans of Motor Totemist Guild, Thinking Plague, 5UU's, and Giant Ant Farm. The result of this detour from their usual avant-gardism is a splendid recording, made mostly live in a barn in the south of France, of a 21st Century song-cycle representing a tongue-in-cheek manifesto for middle age in crisis. But this is not a collection of songs so....

Frank is known to us in the rock world for leading the avant-rock band Hardscore, but he is equally at home in the 'modern classical' world. This is an album of solo pieces in a sort of post-Bartokian vein. There's tons of great melodies as well as some great dissonances to keep it from getting boring.
Until the new age piano explosion completely destroyed the genre in the mid/late 1980s, solo piano music was some of my favorite stuff to listen to and Bela Bartok's piano music is one of my top 5 ...

A sublime late 60s singer/songwriter album. But what great, great songs!

"Nyro peaked early, and Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, just her second album, remains her best. It's not only because it contains the original versions of no less than three songs that were big hits for other artists: "Sweet Blindness" (covered by the 5th Dimension), "Stoned Soul Picnic" (also covered by the 5th Dimension), and "Eli's Comin'" (done by Three Dog Night). It's not even just because those three songs are so...

"By most accounts, 1973 was not a good time for Phil Ochs; it had been three years since his last album arrived to indifferent reviews and dismal sales, and his drinking and creative lethargy took a heavy toll as the great protest singer of the '60s was trying to find a new voice in the '70s. But you wouldn't guess any of that to listen to this recording of Ochs playing a club date that year in the Midwest; Live Again! captures Ochs on a night when he was in good voice and good spirits, playing songs...

“Alison O'Donnell is an Irish musician, singer and songwriter. At the age of 11 she co-founded the progressive folk rock band Mellow Candle with school friends Clodagh Simonds and Maria White. They released their first single, Feeling High in 1968 and lived and worked in Ireland and England between 1969 and 1973 releasing their first album, the highly acclaimed Swaddling Songs on Deram in 1972.
O'Donnell has released a number of albums over the years including The Virgin Prophet, an album of...

“The legendary British composer will always be most identified with his breakthrough long-play composition "Tubular Bells" and the way it was used to illuminate fear in The Exorcist. The happy truth is that since then he's amassed an incredible catalog of over 20 albums featuring just about every instrumental form but jazz: pop, classical, new age, world music, computer game, film soundtrack, etc.
The title of his 2008 45-minute classical-influenced opus Music of the Spheres is a reference to the...

“As a long time enjoyer of XTC, I occasionally check in on what Andy Partridge is up to, and recently came across a blurb about him producing this album by Jen Olive. Brief snippets I heard sounded interesting, so I gave it a try.
The first track, "Boulevard", scared me a bit, because with its from-left-field guitar technique and melodic sensibility, I thought "Here's someone wearing their XTC influences a bit too prominently....", but that fades before too long, and I start to instead catch whiffs...

This late 60s album was one of the earliest sightings of Peter Schickele aka P.D.Q. Bach!

“Perhaps the original avant progressive album. Despite featuring a psych album cover, the group clearly has an academic pedigree, while the music is rooted in both classical and jazz. Basically a trio of three keyboardists, with organ (some wonderfully fuzzed out and compressed), electric piano, acoustic piano, electric harpsichord and clarinet. There are some oddly placed vocals, that give it a offbeat...

"The Outcasts (of San Antonio) whose signature song 'I'm In Pittsburgh (And It's Raining)' has been covered by numerous neo-60s bands and is just one of their 12 great recordings on Route 1966, and all of them have been re-mixed from the original four track masters for the first time.
These recordings reflect the short-lived era, when the Farfisa or Vox Continental was a mainstay for a rock and roll band from Texas, just before the psychedelic music craze got underway, led by The Psychedelic Sounds...

One of the earliest, almost forgotten pioneers of minimalism, along with La Monte Young & Terry Riley. These are not his earliest recordings that have more recently been found and published, but they were the second of his recordings to be released. This reissues a very rare Shandar lp of very personalized piano music. This is a total classic of the genre and time.

“One readily pictures Charlemagne Palestine sitting at the Boesendorfer piano bestrewn with teddy bears, glass of cognac at hand....

Udo Pannekeet is the current bassist in Focus and this is his second solo album.

“Having followed Udo through his work in Focus and a few listening's of works in his native Holland I was unsure what to expect from 'Electric Regions'. He is a magnificent bass player, one of the best in my ears, in the current musical climate. I was amazed by the expanse and the depth of the various moods on the album. The musicians jelled and produced some superb quality of sound, only showing the scale of Udo's...

“The entire original WDHA-FM broadcast of Parliament Funkadelic, live from the Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey on 6th November 1978.
3CD Clamshell Box with Individual Card Wallets and Full Colour 8 Page Booklet. Killer track listing.”

“Good songs and for a live recording of 1978 also good sound quality.”

“Hot damn...this is it, Ladies and Gentlemen: the P-Funk Rosetta Stone of concerts by The legendary band Parliament/Funkadelic. It captures them in the midst of an Anti...

“Jaco Pastorius established himself as one of the greatest electric jazz bassists before forming a big band, Word Of Mouth, in the early 1980s.
Taken from a National Public Radio "Jazz Set" broadcast of a concert at the Kool Jazz Festival in New York Lincoln's Center on June 27, 1982, this set features versions of songs from both Word Of Mouth albums.
Also included is "Mr. Fone Bone", a composition by Word Of Mouth member Bob Mintzer that would never be issued on a Pastorius album during...

“By early 1968, The Paupers were heading towards meltdown. Against all odds, the group rallied and recorded its second album, ‘Ellis Island,’ arguably one of the best records to emerge from the Canadian rock scene during the ‘60s. In many ways, it was a more mature offering than their debut. One small problem: if the Verve label had difficulty understanding the Mothers of Invention and the Velvet Underground, where the Paupers fit into their plans was anybody's guess, as the band touched on a variety...