Note: These German CDs are new and unplayed, but they are 20 years old and have been stored on shelves in warehouses known and unknown until you now have the chance to buy them for cheap, and the covers do show some shelf wear....

Chris Cutler-drums, low-grade electronics
Amy Denio-vocals
Bob Drake-bass, vocals, guitar, drums, percussion
Fred Frith-guitars
Claudio Puntin-bass clarinet
Stevan Tickmayer-keyboards, electronics.

Compositions by Stevan & lyrics by Chris.
This is the latest 'art song' work from Chris and assorted musicians & is in the tradition of News From Babel, Art Bears, etc.

Out of print for years and at a great price!

Yochk'o first came to attention as a member of Magma, and then as a founding member of Zao. After leaving Zao, he made a number of notable solo albums, of which these are two. Adama & Ima are both for multi-tracked saxes, voices (Yochk'o is a big man, but he has a beautiful, clear high voice!) plus Yochk'o's 'sound sculptures', which resemble a cross between a saxophone, drainage piping, and an plaster sculpture in the early stages of work...

"Brian Settles brings his buttery, powerful sax tone to his Engine Studios debut recording, along with a longstanding playing relationship with the musicians who make up his group Central Union. The listener hears mindful improvisation from those years...

"This is E. Sharp's third Tectonics cd. Tectonics is an ongoing solo project which combines his warped drum n' bass & beyond rhythmic foundations with his infinite/alien layers of guitar thangs & saxes. For me, most drum n' bass stuff is limited...

"Flow of shadows" is how I would translate the composite neolog title of this 1997 work for Orchestra Carbon and how I might describe the musical gestures therein.

In seven sections, Rheo~Umbra layers through-composed materials, algorithmic...

Violin: David Soldier; Viola: Judith Insell; Bass Clarinet: Evan Spritzer, Tim Smith; Accordeon: Ted Reichman; Piano: Zeena Parkins; electric bass: Marc Sloan; Drums & percussion: Joseph Trump, Jim Pugliese; electronic & acoustic percussion: Rea...

"Recorded live at the 2007 Donaueschingen Music Days, this CD captures the pairing of composers E# and Lang sharing an ensemble including vocalists Latasha Natasha Diggs and Mixmaster Todd, turntablist Philip Jeck, drummer Fredy Studer, reedman Hans...

“First solo work by Italian musician Martina Betti. “Falling Time” is an aural ticket to a non place. Swirling ambient sounds made of processed field recordings converge into a richly textured and harmonically layered narrative.
The tracks scan the phases of ascension to a suspended and formless destination, free from the bounds of time and space: a rite of passage. We are nowhere, a journey with no boundaries or restrictions transforming the smallness of ordinary life into transcendent magnitudes...

“As the '60s drew to a close in a hail of blood and lead, jazz gradually began to close its doors. What had blossomed in the '50s and '60s as young men struggled to raise a music out of the whorehouses of New Orleans and into the concert halls turned into something less and more than it had been.
Musicians like Archie Shepp no longer looked to the future or to what they might borrow from classical forms. Instead, they looked back to the cotton fields, the slave market, and the slum to find their...

"Don Shinn got a fantastic sound from the L-100... He and Jimi Hendrix were controlling influences over the way I developed..."-Keith Emerson

“The first official reissue of Don Shinn's Temples With Prophets, originally released in 1969. Having made several classic 45 with The Soul Agents (whose singer was briefly Rod Stewart), Don Shinn taped his remarkable debut album in London's Lansdowne Studios in December 1967. Featuring his explosive organ (a clear influence on the young Keith Emerson) and..

"Sidh is a fascinating hybrid between the traditional sounds of the Gnawa and the rhythms and melodies of the Mediterranean. Lila whose name significantly refers to the Gnawa’s spiritual séances is the work of a young Italian-based Algerian musician...

“Not to be confused with the Spandex-clad bass player from Kiss or the late British actress, Tupelo-born Gene Simmons was responsible for some of the best Rockabilly cuts never to emerge on the Sun label! A gifted tunesmith, Simmons' self-penned gems such as 'Juicy Fruit' and 'Crazy Woman' languished unissued for years, whilst his only Sun release, 'Drinkin' Wine' b/w 'I Done Told You', was held back by label boss Sam Phillips for eighteen months, by which point the Rockabilly craze had peaked, nixing...

“Digitally remastered release containing a pair of albums from the Jazz diva on one CD: Live At Berkeley (1970) and Gifted & Black (1971). Both albums were originally released on her then husband/producer/mentor's Stroud label in the early '70s, at a time when she was at the peak of her considerable powers. Recorded in studios in California, Gifted & Black comprises eight songs, four of which are hard-to-come-by original recordings. The other four are fascinating re-workings of songs Simone had recorded..

Eric Zinman - piano
Mario Rechtern - alto, baritone and sopranino saxophones
Weasel Walter - drums

“A studio session of piano/reeds/drums based volcanic free jazz, the trio of Eric Zinman, Mario Rechtern and Weasel Walter meets the high standards of the classic Cecil Taylor/Jimmy Lyons/Andrew Cyrille trio in terms of blistering momentum, density and clarity, but pushes forward in their own distinctive and idiosyncratic personal voices.”

2005 remastered reissue of this classic album recorded by Peter Blegvad, Dagmar Krause and Anthony Moore in 1973. Produced by Uwe Nettelbeck (Faust's producer), engineered by Kurt Grauner (Faust’s engineer) and backed by Faust themselves at their legendary studio in Wumme, Germany.
Amazingly, this incredible album – maybe their best – was turned down by Virgin who made them re-do the album in a much less interesting way (and without Faust) in the early 70s and it lay unreleased until the mid 80's...

In May, 2000, hot on the heels of their excellent (if a bit over-produced) reunion album Ça Va, Slapp Happy embarked on their first ever tour of Japan. The original trio of Dagmar Krause (vocals), Peter Blegvad (guitar, vocals) and Anthony Moore (piano, keyboards) perform a wonderful selection of tunes from their earliest times to the then present, but with the most notable fact being the startling recasting of a large number of tunes from Ça Va in a very acoustic format where they work wonderfully well...

“Slapp Happy meanwhile was planning its second record for Virgin. One night the trio showed up at the quartet's door and proposed that the two groups make the second Slapphappy LP together...Henry Cow jumped at the chance and Desperate Straights was the result. It's still a gem to my ears, and now at last it's possible to release it, properly re-mastered (by Bob Drake), its sound closer to the original tapes even than our earlier Nimbus vinyl pressing. Great songs, great arrangements, great performances...

This unites drummer/electronic percussionist Joe (still playing a similar sounding electronic set as he used on Cruel But Fair) with Gary's wild/calm guitarwork

"If the mark of a great player is that you can recognise them from just one note, then look no further than Gary Smith. His electric stereo guitar sound is as distinctive as the sound of Miles, Getz or Hendrix, as individual as DNA. Using real-time electronics and pedals, Smith has the capacity to bend, shape and move notes in the air....

“Ray Smith was really one of the best rockabilly performers of his day and there are some killer tunes on this CD. Not as well known as other Sun recording artists but Ray had a real rocking voice and these sides jump!!! Ray Smith deserves to be better known. No rockabilly collection is complete without his work.”

Mike Ratledge-organ, synth, electric piano
Karl Jenkins-electric piano, soprano sax, piano
John Etheridge-guitar
Roy Babbington-bass
John Marshall-drums

Recorded October 11, 1975 at Nottingham University, this is a REALLY, REALLY good release from a period in the band's career that is not nearly as well documented as the earlier years and from the last tour to feature founding member Mike Ratledge

"Once again, Major League Promotions amaze us with a previously unheard..

By this time (1973), the band were pretty much a straight-forward fusion ensemble with many of their biggest quirks and oddities excised. And all the quirky old personnel too, with only Mike Ratledge remaining (for the time being at least). Hugh Hoppper left and is replaced by the great (but not as quirky) bassist Roy Babbington along with Karl Jenkins and John Marshall. The band is now 75% comprised of ex-Nucleus players, and while they don't sound like Nucleus at all, they also don't really sound so...

Licensed from SONY, this is a legit version that is sonically the exact same thing as the latest SONY issue, now out of print.
This was the last release that included bassist/composer Hugh Hopper, & the first that includes Karl Jenkins who replaced Elton Dean. Still on board are Mike Ratledge and John Marshall. Karl Jenkins (along with John Marshall) came in from Nucleus and the band begins to have a bit more of Nucelus' sound.
Originally released as a two lp set, the first lp was a live disc...

"The Original Delta Blues is a really fine distillation of the label's..highlights ...of blues legend Eddie "Son" House's 60s recordings.

These 55 minutes of music feature Son House and his National steel guitar, which he played with a slide, and Columbia have managed to include all of House's essential 60s songs.

The powerful a capella spiritual "John The Revelator" is here, as is the slashing slide guitar workout "Pearline", the sarcastic "Preachin' Blues", the bitterness of...

Spacebow is expatriot Massachusetts composer and sculptor Robert Rutman performing on his steel cello and bow chime (both of which are essentially huge steel structures played with bows) along with Carsten Tiedemann (of Mo Boma).
Long, fascinating, spacey drone pieces, comparable to Harry Bertoia or Long String Instrument. Great stuff and at this price anyone even remotely interested in drones/trance/American maverick composers should own this!