"Heathen marks a new beginning for David Bowie in some ways -- it's his first record since leaving Virgin, his first for Columbia Records, his first for his new label, ISO -- yet it's hardly a new musical direction. Like Hours, this finds Bowie sifting through the sounds of his past, completely at ease with his legacy, crafting a colorful, satisfying album that feels like a classic Bowie album. That's not to say that Heathen recalls any particular album or any era in specific, yet there's a deliberate...

“David Bowie, live from NHK Hall, Shibuya, Tokyo on 12th December 1978 Bowie s farewell performance in Japan in December 1978 for the Low/Heroes World Tour offers a prized snapshot of the artist s work over the preceding 3 years with Young Americans and Station to Station featuring prominently alongside his two then new albums. Having left LA and a cocaine habit behind, Bowie was energized and on the verge of something ultimately and creatively new. With three bonus tracks from his appearance on...

“Carla Bozulich, an art-punk heroine with almost three decades of exceptional, iconoclastic musical activity under her belt, presents the third record of her storied career to be issued in her own name. Boy is Carla's self-proclaimed pop record and is a refreshing and much-needed reminder of what pop can mean in the hands of a ferociously commanding singer/lyricist who has cut her teeth on genre-bending, genre blending, and DIY production for 25 years. Boy is unmistakably a pop-influenced album by way...

“Sahari may be Aziza Brahim’s best album to date. The 2019 album finds the Sahrawi artist, whose emigration to Spain lives on in her music, showing further advances even beyond the brilliance of Abbar El Hamada. Never truly a desert blues singer, there were always touches of that style in her slightly weathered but elegant voice, and that has been played against elements of Spanish and flamenco to give Brahim something truly fascinating and unique.
Sahari moves Brahim even further, and the listener...

This is the original, first release by this 'Canterbury supergroup + Kramer' band, put together by multi-instrumentalist & producer Kramer in the early 90s. Long out of print until this recent reissue!

"Separately, Daevid Allen, Hugh Hopper, Kramer and Pip Pyle as members of Gong, Soft Machine, Bongwater, Hatfield & The North and Shockabilly, are among the surviving members of 'art-rock'.
Together as Brainville, their mind-bending live performances spark a psychedelic noise unto the rock of..

Note, all copies have a dinged corner!

Alan Braufman ¬– alto, flute, pipe horn
Cooper-Moore – piano, dulcimer
Cecil McBee – bass
David Lee – drums
Ralph Williams – percussion

“This is the first-ever reissue of this 1975 free jazz album, originally released by India Navigation.
In late 1974, India Navigation label owner Bob Cummins set up microphones in a New York City building's storefront, documenting two short sets by the band with no alternate takes or

Quiet and ethereal folk + electronics + orchestral (presumably all electronic) by this new generation folkie. Quite intriguing and lovely.

“A touring and studio musician who has been a longtime member of Sharon Van Etten's band among her other indie folk-minded collaborations, Heather Woods Broderick stepped out on her own in 2009 with the acoustic album From the Ground. She went on to expand her sound with atmospheric electronics on 2015's Glider and continues to fortify textures on her third...

“Warehouse find of the last copies of this long unavailable 2000 release. Jumping Off The Page is a studio recording by the quartet of Rob Brown (alto sax, flute), Roy Campbell (trumpet), Chris Lightcap (bass), and Jackson Krall (drums).”

"Alto saxophonist and flutist Rob Brown is often featured in the context of other leaders' recordings as an inventive improviser who has enough of the early AACM in him to stretch time, space, and harmonic ideas, and enough of the late-'50s hard bop tradition...

This was the follow up to the enormously successful "Time Out" album (the 1st jazz album to sell 1 million copies!) and it's great and it's also where many non-musician type folks first learned about time signatures.

"Unlike most sequels, Time...

I'm a huge Jack fan and I found this fascinating and wonderful, as it's from his early prime as a solo artist and just after his world-wide fame with Cream. And equally fascinating is the interview with Tony Palmer, the film maker about the making of the film. Lots of eye-opening discussion of the slums of Glascow, where Jack grew up.

"Born amid the slums of Glasgow, known as the Gorbals, his musical talent was quickly recognised and he attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music where he...

“Lenny's master work in many ways, it must be noted that if you are new to Lenny Bruce this is his thesis work towards his PhD in Freestyle Social Commentary. By this show Mr. Bruce no longer does bits, he is all free form, and lays this show out like a brilliant jazz piece. In lieu of a Louis Armstrong or Kermit Ruffins delivernig tales of love, loss, trials and tribulations through beautifully combined notes from their trumpets, however, his music is the truth and his instrument is his style.
This...

“Probably the last coherent performance Lenny Bruce ever gave, before a very appreciative and forgiving audience, and he was really great. There's even a moment where he loses his train of thought, and he makes a funny bit out of that. A really brilliant performance, and, although some of "those" words appear here and there, you might be surprised at how little of that there was--it's certainly quite tame by today standards. He didn't need to curse to be funny. He was a brilliant social commentator and...

“It sometimes seems there must have been some indefatigable taper who followed Tim Buckley anywhere and everywhere he performed during his all-too-short lifetime, recording his shows with the determination of the most obsessed Deadhead. Ever since the release of Dream Letter: Live in London 1968 in 1990, long-lost archival recordings of Buckley on-stage have been surfacing with remarkable frequency, and coming from a performer who jumped stylistic borders with the ease and elan of Buckley, it's not...

Fun, extremely obscure psych/early prog British rarity, originally released on Nova.

"Amazing 1969 UK mod/psych/freakbeat rarity featuring soon to be members of T2 and The Flies. This is the first time it has been reissued officially on CD...

“While most of the rockabilly cats who recorded for Sun Records in its heyday seemed to believe in the idea that less is more, fronting bands that rarely had more than four pieces, Sonny Burgess had different ideas -- his group the Pacers was a full-bodied affair, featuring two guitars, bass, drum, piano and a trumpet, giving his best recordings a broad and full-bodied sound that sets his work apart from his peers.
Burgess also was willing to sway back and forth between his country and R&B....

Roberto Cacciapaglia made two amazingly great, space / minimal albums in the late 70s / early 80s.

This is his latest, released in 2014, which is still systems music, but it is more 'romantic' sounding and performed on solo piano ala some of Phillip Glass' piano works.

It's good. It isn't fabulous (at least not for this old minimalist), but we have a tiny number of copies at a relatively very low price for fans and completists.

“Studio demos by legends in Liverpool, Caliban play proto punk edged hard rock that conjurs elements of the Who, Stackwaddy, Third World War and Deep Purple, wild and aggressive singing and even an occasional hint of a Johnny Rottenesque sneer and Daltrey stutter.
Guitar dominated, Judas Priest once supported them, Caliban had a huge live following but never scored a recording deal. Hints of Glam mainlining Nihilism via monster riffs.”

This isn’t from Cab’s most famous period, which was 8-10 years earler, but Cab was justifiably proud of his band, which was always filled with great musicians, and he continued making great jive and swing as long as he had his regular big band (until the late 40s).

“The Jazztory label's two-volume history covering the more obscure side of Cab Calloway's Orchestra during the 1930s and early '40s concludes with Jiveformation Please, a 50-track collection spanning 1938 to 1941.
Collectors...

Superb, newly remastered edition of this classic progressive album that features liner notes by Mark Powell, bonus tracks and excellent remastering. Basically these records have been given the same excellent job that Decca gave to the Caravan catalog b...

“Warehouse find of the last copies of this long unavailable 1998 release. The Pyramid Trio, led by Roy Campbell, has been on the New York scene since 1984. Ancestral Homeland is their first domestic release and it features the original line-up of Campbell (trumpet, flute, and percussion), William Parker (bass, percussion) and Zen Matsuura (drums). The music of this group is based on the music of the world, both composed and improvised. By encompassing African, Native American and jazz structures, the...

Can live during the time that they were recording Tago Mago in excellent form and with very good & balanced sound (a bit ‘flat’, but it’s a TV broadcast from 1970 for goodness sake!).

“Can, live from Soest, Rockpalast, Germany in November 1970 This remarkable set is the earliest full concert recording of the mighty Can.
Performed in November 1970 for broadcast on the WDR TV show Karussell fur die Jugend (Youth Carousel) in Soest, 80 miles north of their base in Cologne, it features...

This is a nicely remastered reissue of the very first album by Captain Beefheart, which was originally released on Buddha in 1967. Also included are 7 bonus tracks from the unreleased second album from the Mirror Man sessions that were later re-recorded and used on Strictly Personal.

"With [Ry} Cooder supervising the music, the sessions proceeded more or less smoothly...Overall the music is still blues-based and almost commercial, but several of the cuts point to future directions, especially...

This is a bootleg repackaging of the first disc (the earliest material) from the now long out of print Grow Fins box set, so it's utterly worthless if you own that and really good and worthwhile and utterly revelatory if you don't!
1 Obeah Man (1965 Demo)
2 Just Got Back from the City (1966 Demo)
3 I'm Glad (1966 Demo)
4 Triple Combination (1966 Demo)
5 Here I Am Always I Am (Early 1966 Demo)
6 Here I Am Always I Am (Late 1966 Demo)
7 Somebody in My House (1966 Live)...

Cardboard Amanda is the work of Frank Camiola (along with two other musicians), who was one of the driving forces behind the band Frogg Cafe during their most interesting period. After leaving the band, he has been working on this album for a few years now and now it is here. It's a real weirdy; if this released was 30 years ago, all the hipsters would be talking about 'drug-coma induced tape fuckery' when this was re-discovered. For some reason he's using an alias here (sorry if I blew your cover, man!)...

“Fiddler, singer and songwriter Eliza Carthy, inheritor of the mightiest musical genes in all of England (her father is folk legend Martin Carthy, her mother the equally legendary singer Norma Waterson), has always exhibited a wonderfully healthy willingness to break out of the folk music ghetto without ever feeling the need to turn her back on it entirely, and this album sees her really coming into her own as an artist. Songs like the blues-rocking "Follow the Dollar" and the soulful, almost trip-hoppy...