Mini-LP sleeve CDs

After a long period of great expectation - the band had been carefully planning this album for us during the last couple of years, Acid Mothers Temple finally debuts on Essence Music with two releases (see also 41st Century Splendid Man Returns)!...

Acqua Fragile only made 2 albums before they broke up when their singer Bernardo Lanzetti joined P.F.M. They never had too much success during their lifetime, but their albums have a nice sorta P.F.M-styled charm. This is their first album, & most...

The first release on CD by this somewhat obscure Italian progressive fusion outfit, consisting of Fender Rhodes, guitar, soprano sax, bass and drums. Comes in a nice gatefold mini lp sleeve. Originally released in 1976, this is excellent quality Italia...

The first release on CD by this somewhat obscure Italian progressive fusion outfit, consisting of Fender Rhodes, guitar, soprano sax, bass and drums. There is also a little bit of vocals on this one. It's surprising that...

Almendra are considered one of the founding fathers of the Argentinian rock scene. This was their second and final record from late 1970 and is a fun and well done rock/hard rock album of the period, which is definitely a bit more sophisticated than th...

"Packaged in a deluxe gatefold LP style Important jacket with printed inner sleeve. Anahita is Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and cellist Helena Espvall (Espers). Tara recently showed up on Important as part of the duo of Tau Emerald with Sharron Kraus...

This excellent and excellently recorded live album mostly consists of high energy versions of tracks from Gravity and From Within. Their current sound consists of a mesmerizing hard rock sound with lots of dark mellotron and other keyboards; as on...

"The second and the last album by Annexus Quam originally released in 1972 on the Ohr label. Sound engineer: Dieter Dierks. Reissue with elaborate miniature paper sleeve of the original LP (full color print, coated sleeve). 2008 digital remaster version,

"Annexus Quam is known as the first German rock band to play in Japan. They came to Expo'70 (Osaka) in 1970 and played at some places in Japan. This is their first album from 1970 originally on the Ohr label. Reissue with special pop-up gimmick paper...

Just when you think that there is nothing worthwhile from the lp era that hasn't already been reissued on CD, comes a small and very pleasant surprise. This is the final album (of two) by a Quebecois progressive/fusion septet who somehow managed to...

Just when you think that there is nothing worthwhile from the lp era that hasn't already been reissued on CD, comes a small and very pleasant surprise. This is the first album (of two) by a Quebecois progressive/fusion septet who somehow managed...


The first album from the band that I consider to be possibly the finest Italian progressive rock band of the 1970's, & certainly a band in the top tier of all early 1970's progressive bands worldwide! Area combined jazz/rock/stolen ethnic music (mostly...

Art Zoyd's early and great works have been unavailable for such a long time that it's too easy to forget what a strikingly original and amazing band they were in their prime. One of the original R.I.O bands (they joined in the second wave of bands...

Art Zoyd's early and great works have been unavailable for such a long time that it's too easy to forget what a strikingly original and amazing band they were in their prime. One of the original R.I.O bands (they joined in the second wave of bands...

Art Zoyd's early and great works have been unavailable for such a long time that it's too easy to forget what a strikingly original and amazing band they were in their prime. One of the original R.I.O bands (they joined in the second wave of bands...

Art Zoyd's early and great works have been unavailable for such a long time that it's too easy to forget what a strikingly original and amazing band they were in their prime. One of the original R.I.O bands (they joined in the second wave of bands...

Art Zoyd's early and great works have been unavailable for such a long time that it's too easy to forget what a strikingly original and amazing band they were in their prime. One of the original R.I.O bands (they joined in the second wave of bands...

While it's pretty certain that Miles kick started the whole electric jazz-jazz/rock movement with In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew in 1969, there were other people working towards the same goals at aproximately the same time, some of them better known...

"Albert Ayler teamed up with his brother, trumpeter Donald Ayler, on this record for the first time, with the exception of one slightly earlier track issued on an Impulse sampler. The concert performance with both Aylers, Charles Tyler on alto, bassist...

This album was the first solo album by the former leader of Camel after leaving Camel. It's very much a mixed bag; half of it is pretty stinky, like the worst of Camel (see: The Single Factor) and half of it is very good in a very Camel-esque way...

"First CD reissue for the ultra-rare second work of acclaimed keyboarder Luciano Basso. As usual a great instrumental work, mostly unknown, underrated and of course very rare in its original form. Musically it is the usual and great blend of classical...

This is one of three albums that Alan Holdsworth made with John Stevens in middle/late 1977. All three of these albums show a very different side to Alan - at least different from what he has presented on recordings, with a more 'jazz' and...

Another one-shot Italian band with a classic heavy keyboard-driven progressive disc. Their name translates as "Ticket To Hell"! Dual keyboards, guitar, vocals/flute, bass & drums. Some great interplay between the keyboards & the guitar. One of their tw...

Beautifully packaged in a mini-lp sleeve with a booklet and a number of color photos of the band that I had never seen before. That's the good news. The news that you were all expecting, I suppose, is that the sonics are strictly bootleg quality. It is...

The Blue Notes were the original group, led by Chris McGregor, who fled their homeland when the pressure of being a racially mixed group in 1964 apartheid South Africa became too much to bear. They eventually landed in London in 1966. Consisting of...

The only way to get this 1977 album by the leader/guitarist of Isotope is this Japanese mini-lp sleeve edition. Stupidly pricey, but still a good album. [Air Mail]

An unbelievable price on the hard to find Japanese version of this great album!

"Early 50s material recorded by the late Clifford Brown -- issued here in a classic "memorial" package slightly after his death in 1956! And while Brown never recorded

An unbelievable price on the hard to find Japanese version of this great album!

"This excellent trio session forms a sort of transition between bassist Ray Brown's work with the Oscar Peterson Trio and his own small-group sessions of the '80s...

This is a pretty great, very, very rare album from Italy. Using a lineup of acoustic piano, electric bass and drums, this has the sound of a jazz trio playing progressive rock. The music swings at points but there's too much 'trickery' and stop/start...

Remastered, 2005 edition in mini-lp sleeve. "Another excellent Italian one-shot...However, this album surely ranks in the upper echelon of the Italian heavy progressive albums, closest stylistically to perhaps Alphataurus or Semiramis. Campo Di Marte's...

This is somewhat of a real Italian rarity, making its first ever reissue here. This is a very good jazz/rock/progressive album from 1974 by an quartet of keyboards (piano, electric piano, ARP synth, Hammond organ and vocals), guitar, bass and drums. So...

"The first release of Cluster on Philips in 1971 and reissued on Sky Records in 1980. Experimental electronic sound! Producer: Conny Plank. Reissue with elaborate miniature paper sleeve of the Sky version LP. 2007 digital remaster version, limited...

In 1994, a few years before the resurgence of interest in all things Krautrock and kling-klang, this album was released in the USA on a tiny label. It marked the beginning of Moebius and Roedelius working together again after a number of years off...

An unbelievable price on the hard to find Japanese version of this great album!

"Sonny Criss' second of seven Prestige albums finds the passionate altoist using the same rhythm section as on the earlier date: pianist Walter Davis, bassist Paul...

Early German jazz and beyond supersession, recorded in 1967 for SABA, who eventually went bust and reappeared as MPS. Wolfgang Dauner-piano, prepared piano, Jean-Luc Ponty-violin, Gerd Dudek-tenor sax, clarinet, Eberhard Weber-cello, Jürgen Karg-bass...

An unbelievable price on the hard to find Japanese version of this great album!

Walkin’ is an example of eminent bop and cool performance that could serve as a musical text on how jazz should be played. It’s a fairly early sample of Davis’ work."

Mini-lp sleeve reissue of this 1973 album, about which Scented Gardens of the Mind said, "If one masterpiece should be singled out as the jewel of Italian rock, my vote would go to De De Lind's one and only album..."

"This album is an excellent mi...


This, their 1st, self-titled album is classic progressive/fusion release by a quartet instrumental Italian band. Fender Rhodes piano/synths/cello, guitar/tenor sax, bass & drums. Like a bit less adventurous version of The Muffins circa Manna/Mirage!...

Dice were a Swedish progressive band of the mid/late 1970's whose only album (this) was reissued in Japan on CD to great acclaim in the late 1980's, setting off an explosion of interest that the band never enjoyed during their lifetime. After being out...

Dice were a Swedish progressive band of the mid/late 1970's whose only album was reissued in Japan on CD to great acclaim in the late 1980's, setting off an explosion of interest that the band never enjoyed during their lifetime. This conceptual work...

An unbelievable price on the hard to find Japanese version of this great album!

"This cd is the first of three main recordings to feature this quintet's stay at the Five Spot cafe in 1961. The other releases featuring this set are vol. 2 and the...

An unbelievable price on the hard to find Japanese version of this great album!

"This cd is the second of three that chronicles Eric Dolphy's legendary concert recorded in 1961 at New york's Five Spot cafe. Dolphy' clarinet and flute lead Mal...

An unbelievable price on the hard to find Japanese version of this great album!

"The Memorial Album, although titled differently, was recorded the same night at the Five Spot club as Dolphy's other two "Live at the Five Spot" albums. Those who...

An amazing price on perfect copies of the Japanese mini-lp sleeve version of this classic fusion album. This was their fourth album and man, the notes are FLYING!

"One of the top jazz-rock fusion ensembles ever, the Dixie Dregs combined virtuoso..

This is a new copy, however the sleeve has some dents and creases.

All good things must come to an end, and eventually, even the Dregs had to pack it in. This was their sixth and final album, recorded in 1982 by famous Yes engineer/producer Eddy Offord. Obviously they are trying to be a bit more commercial here, as...

An amazing price on perfect copies of the Japanese mini-lp sleeve version of this classic fusion album. This album is not in print that I know of any other way. This was their fifth and last completely fantastic from start to finish album; they...

Sleeve is creased so we knocked a few bucks off the price of this copy.

Almost all instrumental music performed on electric and acoustic guitars, tenor sax and flute, bass and drums, with guest keyboardist Gian Piero Reverberi added on half of this 1973 album! Nice to have this available again, after many years of being...