Fred Frith guitar, bass, voice / Carla Kihlstedt violin, nyckelharpa, bass harmonica, voice / Zeena Parkins accordion, keyboards, foley objects, voice / Matthias Bossi drums, percussion, sruti box, voice / The Norman Conquest sound manipulation...

Univers Zero play fascinating, modern, chamber music-influenced rock. Simultaneously gothic & futuristic, they are somewhat like the very best of Magma or Crimson, but infinitely darker, with helpings of Eastern European folk melodies added. This band and these discs are completely deserving of the mystique & legendary status that have grown up around them. Incomparable! This is their 1st in 13 years!

''The fall of Rome? The parting of the Red Sea? What else can compare with the monumental...

"Six years in the making, this is the sixth CD released by ReR from the visual/sonic art group Biota. Unique in their history and method, Biota painstakingly construct complex, organic structures that mix extensive studio processing and musique concréte techniques, with a highly eclectic orchestra of acoustic and electronic resources - from kit drums, through mediaeval winds, strings and barrel organs, to early experimental electronic instruments. Their works are always performance driven and interleaved...

A mostly Scandanavian space-rock/space-progressive collective in existence for nearly 20 years and with a huge number of studio and live releases, these folks are the real deal and are too little known to fans of the genre. Hopefully this, their 44th release (!) and their first on a label (yay, Ken!), will gain them a bit of the attention they absolutely deserve! These guys are always recommended by me!

Mattias Olsson (Anglagard) - drums, congas, mellotron, Poly D
Jonathan Segel (Camper...

“Even the most experienced ear will not come out of Pia-Noise unscathed. Consecrating the meeting of two consummate artists, this release confronts their universe like a massive head-on shock in the eye of a sound storm. Masami Akita (Merzbow) has been surveying the territories of noise music for more than forty years, directing all sorts of instrumentaria, analogical or digital, instrument or software-based. For this record he relied on his favorite combination, a mix of various effects pedals and noise...

“Keiji Haino is, without question, one of the truly iconic artists to rise beyond the dusk of the 20th century. An artist focused singularly of the beautiful visceral promise of music, his practice is a many-headed beast taking in movements from the gentlest of guitar play, through free improvisation and noise. As divergent as the work might be, it is held tightly by his unique way in sound, one that exists moment to moment with a force like no other.
20 years since its first release, Black Blues...

“On Into the Heaven, which was released in 1970, Terumasa Hino is surrounded by the same musicians as on Hi- Nology), released a year earlier: his brother Motohiko Hino on drums, Hiromasa Suzuki on electric piano, Kunimitsu Inaba on electric bass, and Takeru Muraoka on tenor sax. The eponymous piece, which lasts more than 20 minutes, is a jazz fusion giving room to choruses and which is reminiscent of the early electric music that Miles Davis then offered.”

This is comprised of outtakes from several great Brit-Jazz albums released on Deram in 1968 & 1969. So, even if you have the original albums by John Surman and Alan Skidmore, you don’t have any of these recordings!
Features everyone you would hope for: Mike Osborne, Tony Oxley, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Harry Miller, Alan Jackson, etc etc etc.

“On From The Source, Causa Sui's first new studio album since 2020, the band has created some of their most ambitious music ever -- simultaneously travelling through the sonic landscapes that has come to define the group's sound and pushing towards new horizons. With the four bandmember's ties to jazz, experimental and ambient music, Causa Sui is something of an anomaly in the ever-growing European psychedelic rock scene. Always following their own path. Never before has the group's wide-ranging...

This is the two shows that JC and the quartet did after the famous Antibes show where he performed A Love Supreme live.
These shows are unique in that they both feature a quartet version Ascension! Both are in excellent sound and this is a winner of late-period classic Coltrane quartet!

“The three concerts performed on consecutive days (the two in this set plus the famous July 26 live version of "A Love Supreme") were perhaps the best 1965 live recordings from this historic group.
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“Orang-Utan were in fact a London based band called Hunter, featuring vocalist Terry "Nobby" Clarke (of psych-pop legends Jason Crest), guitar player Mick Clarke, drummer and songwriter Jeff Seopardi, and bass player Paul Roberts.
They recorded their sole album in 1971 at DeLane Lea studios. In a bizarre twist of events, their producers/managers ran with the tapes to the US, where they placed the album on Bell Records under a new band name: Orang-Utan, without telling any of the band members....

This is an early, well-liked Belgian proto-progressive album from 1970. Lots of mellotron and also lots of influences from Jethro Tull.

"Regarded as one of the best European progressive rock albums from the '70s, the sole release by Belgian group Waterloo was originally released on the Vogue label and is a highly collectable item worth obscene sums in the collector's market. Released in 1970 and entirely sung in English, this brilliant album is a blend of progressive rock and heavy prog, with...

"An excellent set of fuzz guitar-propelled psych / hard rock... nothing short of great"-The Acid Archives

"This tremendous, dynamic album sits proudly atop the heavy psych heap. Savage riffs, throaty vocals, heavy and precise drumming, badass lyrics, woozy studio effects -- all are present and correct."-Endless Trip

“Ultra loud heavy psychedelic rock from Colorado, late '60s, with loads of fuzz guitar all over. Dragonfly were actually a band called The Legend, who changed their name just.

"One would be hard-pressed to name a rock album whose influence has been as broad and pervasive as The Velvet Underground & Nico. While it reportedly took over a decade for the album's sales to crack six figures, glam, punk, new wave, goth, noise, and nearly every other left-of-center rock movement owes an audible debt to this set. While The Velvet Underground had as distinctive a sound as any band, what's most surprising about this album is its diversity. Here, the Velvets dipped their toes into dreamy...

Mark Dresser: 4 And 5 String Double Bass
Jerome Rothenberg: Voice, Poetry

“Mark Dresser, the world’s most acclaimed experimental bassist, who has literally written the book on extended contrabass techniques, presents a fabulous CD of solo bass music. Featuring his dear friend, the honored poet Jerome Rothenberg (then 91 years old) on one long epic track, this project continues a long tradition that goes back to the 1950s jazz-poetry experiments of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Patchen, and Ferlinghetti.

“Broadcast live in 1976 from L.A.'s legendary Roxy Theatre, this dynamic set captures Long Island's ultimate son and former Velvet Underground front-man, Lou Reed, working through a selection of some of his finest work he had released up to that juncture.
Together with the Everyman Band who would back up on Street Hassle in ‘78, free jazz icon Don Cherry adds regular, incendiary honks and bleeps for Reed’s iconic narratives and turns the set on its head while adding unique poses to Reed's electric...

Jaco Pastorious – bass, vocals
Peter Erskin – drums
Othello Molineaux – steel drums
Don Alias – percussion
Bob Mintzer – tenor sax, bass clarinet
Randy Brecker – trumpet, electronics

Good sound!!

“Performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival July 3rd, 1982 and broadcast by CBC radio.”

“One reviewer said this about “Lavender Daydreams”: “Blissed out folk psycher in the vein of Tim Buckley or Dan Fogleberg but waaay more psyched out. Richard has certainly dropped a tab or three in his time. A really, really good album to mind-surf to, and also poppy enough that it would sound good coming out of a boombox in a field while you are throwing the frisbee and smoking some bohoofus.”
And they were right — Richard did drop many a tab when writing and recording the album: "The songs ‘Lord...

These copies are completely new, perfect and sealed and this is a incredible deal on a limited vinyl set that went out of print over 20 years ago!
This is the Magic Band, sans Don, at the first sessions for Trout Mask, which were recorded at the Woodland Hills house they lived and practiced in, running through their repertoire.
The sound is quite excellent and the music is quadrupally amazing and finally you can HEAR the amazing band and hear exactly how incredible two guitars, bass and drums...

Pauline Oliveros : accordion, electronics, vocals
Anne Bourne : cello
Tony Conrad : electric violin
Alexandria Gelencser : electric cello
David Grubs : harmonium
Scott Olson : oscillator

“This is drone in praise of earthen forces over millions of years, and it builds to that massive size. Yes, her stuff with Deep Listening is great, but sometimes it feels more rewarding to be knocked over by maximalist shifting powerful sounds that collide and build rather than thee slow...

This double DVD set contains a full 3+ hours of live music; the highlights of a truly memorable edition of the Veruno Prog Fest of 2021.
The bands include Ariel Ganz (13’), Pain of Salvation (23’), District 97 (15’), Pure Reason Revolution (21’), Big Big Train (12’), Unitopia (19’), Ozric Tentacles (16’), La Cruna Del Lago (6’) and more.

"Arcansiel were born in 1986 from the meeting between keyboardist Marco Galletti (author and composer of all the songs) and drummer Gianni Lavagno. The publication of the first two albums "Four daisies" and "Stillsearching" was favorably received in the world of Italian prog by critics and the public, especially the suite "I'm Still Searching", present in the second. In the 90s Galletti was replaced by Paolo Baltaro, with whom the group released "Normality of Perversion" and "Swimming In The Sand".
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“Lunophone is a new musical project born from the collaboration between Dario D'Alessandro (Homunculus Res) and James Strain (Rascal Reporters). Six compositions from each member result in a total of 12 songs which were played and arranged from their respective locations in Italy and Ireland.
The result is an intriguing fusion of styles united by common tastes and feelings that lead the two musicians to craft a blend of progressive jazz-rock with influences from Canterbury/RIO and characterised by..

This is a messy hodgepodge of various French and US broadcasts from the early days to the end.
No documentation included, so guess away!

“Fleuves de l'Âme is the debut album of Paris-based Tunisan artist Houeida Hedfi. Originally a percussionist, Fleuves de l'Âme, is an elegant marriage of traditional folk music and contemporary sound design drawing references from Hedfi's drumming expertise and the textures of Tunisian music alongside a startlingly broad array of global genres. This desire for melody was not a purely artistic pursuit. It also represented a search for healing following Hedfi's experiences during the 2011 uprisings in...