New Arrivals

New Arrivals
Teddy Lasry is best known as being one of the reed men in the first edition of Magma, appearing on Mekanik, 1001 and Kobaia.
But after leaving Magma circa 1973, he made a bunch of library music albums (which I have never heard), as well as two very excellent, more keyboard / electronic-styled progressive albums for RCA in 1976 and 1979, of which this is the first.
At one point, I tried to license the two RCA albums for Cuneiform, so you know that I think highly of them; this is its first-ever...

“Legendary and rare folk-psych private press record from 1967 that holds up well. Furthermore, the LP is legendary in a literal sense: until recently, few collectors really even knew it truly existed. And Roger Salloom? imagine Jack Kerouac, John Belushi, Lord Buckley, and Lenny Bruce, then throw in Leadbelly, Jimmy Reed, Lonnie Johnson, and Geoff Muldaur… all rolled into one person, and you have a glimpse of poet, singer-songwriter Roger Salloom.
Salloom was in the center of the 1960s San Francisco...

"Official vinyl reissue of this epic heavy UK hard rock album from 1972, produced by Deep Purple's legendary frontman, Ian Gillan, originally released on the Decca/Deram label.
It was Gillan who said of them: 'Not many bands really excite me. But this one's so raw and completely unpretentious. They make the biggest, bloodiest noise you can imagine, tempered with moments of extreme emotion.' And, of course, he's right -- the music is a menacing combination of over-the-top vocals and screaming lead...

“We brought you Rialzu, Skryvania, Cheval Fou, and now it’s time for the first vinyl reissue of Alpha Centauri’s diamond: "Alpha Centaury."
Originally privately released in a limited pressing of 300 copies in 1976, this hard-to-find gem is shrouded in mystery. Despite extremely limited resources, including having to borrow friends' cars to travel to the few provincial venues they managed to book for live shows, Alpha Centauri nevertheless composed an absolute must-have for French prog/psych...

“Oddly, "Aún es tiempo de sonar" marked the beginning of the end for the Argentinean band Banana: the end of their mass popularity, having been recognized until 1978 (and still to this day) as one of the most recognized outfits in Argentina thanks to their ballad-driven compositions — and the beginning of a wholly new orientation in a symphonic prog vein.
César Pueyrredón, the mastermind and Banana’s main composer, his passion for melody, and his unique romantic style were the main drivers behind...

“Heavy psychedelic rock band from NYC. Opened for Acid Mothers' Temple, Endless Boogie, No-Neck Blues Band, Sightings, other bands between 2000 and 2003.
Long, noisy, blues-based freakout chaos. For fans of Les Rallizes, High Rise, and Fushitsusha.”

“Psychedelic rock from NYC's No-Neck Blues Band commune. Egypt’s live shows from 98-99 were truly mind-blowing experiences that inspired this writer to start the Psycho-Path Records label to release their psychedelic music.
“How Many Pieces” album was recorded in the studio, in 1999. Four long tracks, Beefheart-meets-Sun Ra style.”

This is absolutely one of the great deals in our extensive offerings; don’t blink and miss it!

New, fifth release and back on track after their disappointing last one. Really good!
BB&F are a unique German trio who combine certain aspects of progressive/postrock bands like Tortoise, Jaga Jazzist with the rhythmic aspects of Nik Bartsch's Ronin, a Steve Reich/Philip Glass/Michael Nyman maximum minimalist sweep and 'die mensch machine' esthetic of Kraftwerk and lots of techno influence as well...

Typically thorough reissue on Garden of Delights of the exceedingly rare (only 150 made) self-released 1969 album by a trio of organ/piano/trumpet/vocals, bass and drums. Obviously very influenced by The Nice and perhaps to a lesser extent early Soft Machine, this album was recorded live to stereo tape and has a really raw feel to it. The band later metamorphosed into the equally obscure Sixty Nine (a drum and keyboards duo). Includes a thorough band history and many rare photos in the 16-page deluxe...

Limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies and includes a 20-page booklet. Gatefold cover as was the original. First time vinyl reissue, made from the master tapes.

“Sophisticated Rock with polyphonic vocals, multi-layered structure and frequent rhythm and tempo changes, like Gentle Giant. All self-written songs.
The LP by the Wiesbaden band was recorded in Fred Kersten's studio in April 1976 and was released on the Kerston label in 1977, in an edition of 1000 copies.

Peter K. Seiler – organ, synthesizer, piano, Mellotron, celesta
Ronald J.D. Brand – bass, vocals, guitar, percussion
Charlie Jöst – drums, percussion

“Tritonus from Mannheim are sometimes compared to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, but they were definitely independent. At the keys - including the Mellotron - was Peter Seiler, who later had a good run with many of his own releases and gigs and is still active today, mainly in the field of electronic music.
Here is the digital edition of thei

First-ever legitimate reissue!

“The Dortmund group's first album, recorded in 1972 at the Windrose studios in Hamburg after their name change from Faces to Chris Braun Band. Comparable in style to Frumpy, not only because of the female singer. Blues influences are audible.
If you didn't know any better, you might think of an English or US group. A touch of Janis Joplin can also be heard, if you want. All the songs were written by singer Chris Braun.”

“Fairly period-typical German...

Werner Frey – guitar, vocal
Helmut Heisel – bass
Günter Lackes – keyboards
Sefan Dörr - drums

“Gäa from the German state of Saarland have become quite known in collectors’ circles thanks to their LP "Auf der Bahn zum Uranus" from 1974.
In early 1975 they recorded three tracks for a unfinished second album. These tracks [over 20’] are simply brilliant and show how mature and inventive the band was at that time. The tracks have been rediscovered only recently and form the heart a

Prosper were a dual guitar, Fender Rhodes/mellotron/mini-Moog, bass and drums progressive band. The keyboards give it a jazzier/fusion touch.

“With a history going back to various 1960's blues and early-1970's prog bands, Prosper were part of a family of bands that included Wallenstein, Tobogan, Aera and Contact Trio.
After splitting up once, they reformed in 1975. Guitarist Evert Brettschneider played with both Contact Trio and Prosper at this time, doing the technical noodly jazz with one...

“We welcome Berlin based Italian Vince Gagliardi and his audiovisual project The Nent, who’s dream-like aesthetic is rooted in a passion for broken ambient textures, eerie field recordings and poignant percussive elements. His debut album “Vulner“ (mastered at Dadub Studio) offers 3 long progressions with explosive culminations. Mostly composed with field recordings and samples collected over the last sixteen years, all with a deep personal meaning. All tracks are interconnected and draw a path from...

“The Floating World is the solo project of Amanda Votta. Begun in 2005, three albums have been released so far; Full Sturgeon Moon (Hand/Eye 2005), Unda (Barl Fire 2005) and River of Flowers (Foxglove 2006), appearing as well on a few compilations. Amanda has also collaborated with Gustaf Hildebrand in Lacus Somniorum, as well as with Far Black Furlong and New Risen Throne. She also has a band, Secrets to the Sea, with Neddal Ayad from Desolation Singers.
The Apparition is Amanda Votta’s attempt to...

“New album by Norway’s Cinematic Drone project Taphephobia. On is now 8th full length, we’re offered a dreamlike experience based upon personal emotional states and reflections of both the immediate environment and far reaching “outer” world. Not a concept album but rather a collection of feelings and visual impressions that revealed themselves in the compositional process. “Blue Hour” is dedicated to the unique atmosphere of the northern landscape. Artwork by Nihil. Edition of 300 copies in 4 panel...

“Sixth release (and the first for Cyclic Law) of the Norwegian drone ambient project Taphephobia created by Ketil S (also of Mulm and ex-Northaunt.) As emphasized by its title, this record is intented to take one away from the mundane everyday world, it is not a concept album, rather an album where both the music and the titles are open for interpretation. The soudscapes lead to an inner experience where you can discover your own hidden voices and your own secret world of colours. An inner journey which...

“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...

Andrea Carletti - guitar
Roberto Cippitelli - bass, glockenspiel, synth, vibraslap
Matteo D'Amicis - drums, shaker, agogo, tambourine, wooden güiro, senasel, samba whistle, marranzanu
Luigi Farina - guitar, classical and acoustic guitars, synth

TRAMA! is the second album by the instrumental Italian art/metal/progressive band Juggernaut.

“Avant-garde post-core that is both charmingly catchy as interesting from a musical point of view. Sometimes weird but never....

“Emanation's One Soul, One Body, One Spirit is an obscure Spanish Black Drone project with a mixture of experimental black ambience and drone industrial dirges that is heavily inspired by the field of spiritism and séances along with other, more esoteric leanings, crafting a ghostly soundscape that gradually evolves into a kind of blackened hypnotic noise metal.
Even from the start, this puts off an unmetallic vibe. The title track creeps out across the first few minutes in a hazy cloud of murky...

“Spanish ritualistic industrial sorcerers BLACK EARTH return with "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" - a sophomore full-length of unreal cinematic sonic disembodiment, conceived with the aim of turning the listener into a sacrificial centrepiece to a surreal ritual nightmare. Following in the steps of their debut LP "A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth" and of their followup mini-album "Diagrams of a Hidden Order", on "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" Black Earth further refine and sharpen their horrific

"Around 1980, Carla Bley seemed to find herself torn between several possible avenues of expression. On the one hand, you had her wild (and wildly successful) projects like Escalator Over the Hill and Tropic Appetites, where styles and musicians were combined with inspired abandon. Then there was the romantic classical aspect as shown in her composition "3/4" and, with jazz influences, her fine, ambitious Social Studies release. But, always lurking beneath the surface was her itching desire to have...

"As is made all but plain by the title, Appearing Nightly is a live outing recorded by Carla Bley's big band over two nights at New Morning in Paris in the summer of 2006. Of course we've heard Bley's large group in live settings many times over the years, but in this case it's been five years since we've heard them at all -- at least on a recording. Her last outing with a large ensemble was in 2003 for the pre-election year political album Looking for America.
Bley's last couple of records were...

"Japan's proggers Flied Egg, consisting of former Strawberry Path alumni Shigeru Narumo and Hiro Tsunoda, supported by former Brush leader, Masayoshi Takanaka, released two albums in the early '70s, Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg Machine being the first and undoubtedly the better of the two. Dr. Siegel's..., originally released in 1972, is a much more keyboard-oriented affair, with Narumo adding a Moog, celeste and harpsichord to his usual Hammond and piano line-up. On this album, the musical influences are more...

Zeena Parkins-acoustic harp and objects, electric harp and electronics, small percussion, foley, harmonium, ondéa-ondes mrtenot, synth, accordion
Ikue Mori-electronics, small percussion, foley, processing

“Inspired by the short stories of Japanese author Izumi Suzuki, who was married to musician Kaoru Abe and tragically ended her life at the age of 36. Suzuki’s original stories broke open the science fiction genre and in many ways foretold the cyberpunk movement. Ikue and Zeena have created...

“Two extended live duos on drums/objects/electronics & harp/melodica/ electrification. From almost subliminal to searingly intense.”

“This album is very much a game of two halves, consisting as it does of two live imporvisations by Chris Cutler and electric harpist Zeena Parkins (News From Babel, Skelton Crew, Bjork). The style is not that far removed from the Cutler/Frith improvisations, although (perhaps surprisingly) it often comes closer to straight ahead rock music than the guitar/drum duets..

Anthony Pirog-guitar
Joe Lally-bass
Brendan Canty-drums
James Brandon Lewis-tenor sax

“On their Impulse! debut album, Washington DC's experimental jazz punk trio the Messthetics join forces with acclaimed jazz tenor saxophonist, composer and bandleader James Brandon Lewis. Together, they widen the reach of decisive instrumental music through their overlapping of jazz, punk, funk, aggression and innovation.”

Elliott Sharp : guitare électrique, électroniques
Colin Stetson : saxophones basse, ténor et alto
Billy Martin : batterie, percussion
Payton Macdonald : marimba, vibraphone et gyil (xylophone africain)
Enregistré au 39e Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville le 20 mai 2023.

“The quartet sounded like they had been working together for many years. Everyone got to solo and stretch out at some point and all four members shined at different times. This was a..

“A shadowy entity hailing from the fertile underground of Portugal, Dead Procession began in 2009 with a series of three, super-limited demo tapes - each limited to only 33 copies, in fact. The style back then was keyboard-driven ambient/drone, but with the release of a split 7" with fellow countrymen Black Cilice in 2013, Dead Procession developed its ambient/drone to include vocals, and also garnered more attention due to the fortuitous pairing: a shared sensibility of otherworldly wanderlust, of...

“Having perfected a distinctive musical expression, Process of Guilt are one of the main driving forces on the Portuguese underground. Delivering massively heavy riffs on top of a precise quasi-industrial rhythm section, they possess a unique intensity that attracts listeners from a broad spectrum of music genres. Their live performances are pure displays of ferocity that leave no one indifferent.”

“Process of Guilt can't exactly be said to make beautiful music, but at drawing a dark, mechanized...

“Jeff Lynne's ELO, whose music has touched fans deeply across three generations now, has found himself in recent years at the peak of his powers as a songwriter, musician and producer. This collection features a buoyant title song which opens the 10-track record including the wistful "Help Yourself" to the celebratory "Down Came the Rain" to the churning rocker "One More Time" to the sweet closer, "Songbird."
As does it's predecessor, 2015's Alone in the Universe, From Out Of Nowhere shows Lynne...

“Boris Kovacs was born in Vojvodina, the multi-ethnic region of what was then Yugoslavia. He studied accordion and saxophone, going on to teach himself many other instruments. On this record he plays mainly soprano saxophone, leaving Jasna Jovisevic to take alto and bassclarinet. Like pianist Slobodank Stevic, she was classically trained, as was bassist Sinisa Mazalica. The drummer, Boris' son Lav Kovac, is celebrated for his very different playing in Howling Owl and with a variety of eastern bands...

"Ad Hoc Records' new, four-panel digipack reissue of The Hat Shoes debut album will be especially welcomed by lovers of intelligent and thoughtful progressive music, with a hint of Romanticism.
Originally released in 1991, Differently Desperate is a studio offering of diverse avant-pop songs by a 'super-group' comprised of members Bill Gilonis (The Work), Catherine Jauniaux (Fluvial), Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now) and Tom Cora (Skeleton Crew, Curlew). There's also a slew of well-known...

Recorded live in 1984 at one of Sun Ra's many US concerts, this captures the Arkhestra in full big band mode, blowing up a storm that could probably be heard on Venus. This is a good, solid, representative mid 80's show with very good sonics (by Ra standards) by the Arkestra.

“This is a stunning late period Ra album. Beautiful space-chants and atonal keyboard freakouts plus a mix of Ellingtonian Ra-jazz as only the Arkestra could do it.
Maybe not the album to start with if you are unfamiliar..

"Although following The 5th Elephant in its musical organisation - around grids of pulses and highly crafted, rich sonorities - this work is more evolved, more focussed and more internally economic. Following a narrative thread this time, the whole is bound into a complex and ramifying exposition of repetition, transformation and evolution, where a return is no return and where perceiver and perceived are lost to time.
Tightly bounded by speech-derived (but massively re-formed) sonic materials, as...

Kahil El'Zabar - multi-percussion, voice
Corey Wilkes - trumpet, percussion
Alex Harding - baritone sax
with
James Sanders - violin, viola
Ishmael Ali - cello

“Celebrating 50 years of Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble’s legacy and unwavering contribution to Great Black Music. ‘Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit’ is a new Ethnic Heritage Ensemble sound, constantly shifting gears and tempos in a jazz-blues continuum, in perpetual spontaneity, combin

“Following the success of their collaboraton with Peter Hammill, Sweden’s Isildurs Bane return with a new album.
 This time, the band is joined by singer Jinian Wilde, 
best known for his work in The David Cross Band. 
The result is another shift in direcon while remaining true to the ethos that inspires and animates IB.

Mats Johansson, who joined IB in 1977 standing not only as its longest-serving member, but also its principal composer and keyboardist comments, ‘Our work with Jinian is similar to...

“Following the success of their collaboraton with Peter Hammill, Sweden’s Isildurs Bane return with a new album.
 This time, the band is joined by singer Jinian Wilde, 
best known for his work in The David Cross Band. 
The result is another shift in direcon while remaining true to the ethos that inspires and animates IB.

Mats Johansson, who joined IB in 1977 standing not only as its longest-serving member, but also its principal composer and keyboardist comments, ‘Our work with Jinian is similar to...

Syd Barrett was the leader, guitarist and songwriter for Pink Floyd during their early psychedelic peak in 1967, penning a bunch of brilliant pieces (and playing amazingly great too). He left the band in mid 1968, a casualty of business pressure and drugs. This is his first solo album, which came out in January 1970. It's a haunting listen; even without reaching for hype, it is simultaneously compelling while being the sound of someone loosing their mind. Backing on 2 tracks by the 1969 edition of Soft...

“Luca and Markus began playing together in 2005, when Markus formed an international ensemble to play at the Suoni delle Dolomiti festival. One year later they performed as a quintet in St. Maternus in Cologne, Germany, where they recorded a live album, which initiated the project called “Flowers of Now”. (Intuitive Music in Cologne, Horus Label, 2008).
Later on Markus played on two tracks of Luca’s Tacet (Extreme Records, 2008) and on the double album Songs/Signs of Luca’s project Flos with Stefano...

Lino Capra Vaccina : Analog Synthesisers, Percussion, Vibraphone, Piano

“Once again Lino surprises us. Always a poet of silences and strictly acoustic sounds, now he offers an album where synthetic sounds are the protagonists.
On the other hand, since the time of the collaborations with Franco Battiato, the VCS3 has been in the poetics of Lino and Franco.
Thus, as often happens, even the new and the old are in sympathetic symbiosis. And this album is the definitive proof of this...

Keith Tippett: piano
Claudio Gabbiani: acoustic & electric guitars
Roberto Musci: sampler, percussion, theremin, Vx7 (didgeridoo, bass clarinet), electronics
Recorded live at Palazzina Liberty, Milan, Italy October 21, 2000.

“Music for Labyrinths is an open live project for a soundtracks of labyrinths around the world and inside us. A labyrinth is an ancient symbol that relates to wholeness: it combines the imagery of the circle and the spiral into a meandering but purposeful path...

"First CD for the Roman Divae Project, descendants of Divae, the band which released the album DETERMINAZIONE in 1995.
STRATOSFERICO
The project was conceived by Guido Bellachioma (music critic, director of «Prog Italia» magazine and of the Progressivamente Festival since 1993) and Davide Pistoni (multi-instrumentalist and uniquely talented composer), who developed and worked on the ideas together, right up to the final mix, obtaining a full-bodied and nuanced sound. Around them they gathered...

Puer aeternus in mythology is a child-god who is eternally young.

“Each of us can be “Puer aeternus”, each of us is partly so.
This is how the story of the concept album “Puer aeternus” begins:
“He,” Puer, being incorporeal with no definition of age or sex, finds himself in an apparent Eden. An eternal limbo, pleasant, illuminated; always the same, and perfect, but at the same time “dead” because it is totally devoid of growth. He is imprisoned in a dimension where he is neither adult nor

“The return of FAVERAVOLA with a concept album that is also a medieval prog-rock opera, narrating the saga of the Zumelle Castle and the love between the knight Muricimiro and Atleta.
Those who loved the 1970s proto-prog and the epic, fairy-tale atmospheres of "La Contea dei Cento Castagni" (2006) will only be able to welcome FAVERAVOLA's recording return with great enthusiasm.
The Venetian band, made up of musicians with distant experiences in the 70s, stylistically a progressive mix between Le..

“The group’s first and second album: LOGOS (1998) - ASRAVA (2001).
1998-2001 years, without a label and the internet far from today's potential, production and distribution for Logos’ first two releases had a very limited range of action: a very few copies, recorded with anything but professional equipment, mastered at home and distributed to friends or people at various concerts.
Once the few self-produced CD copies sold out quickly, the band's first two albums were no longer available....

Apparently there are two ‘new’ versions of The Trip. Furio Chirico’s version released a new album 2 years ago and now there’s this.
And both bands and their releases are good and sound like old school RPI! Go figure!

"This album is the new album with new and totally unreleased songs by The Trip that Pino Sinnone (historic drummer of the group) brought back to life in 2017 with a very valid lineup that enchanted the whole of Italy in the festivals and concerts in which he participated....

Mauro Pini - vocals
Stefano Onorati - piano, synth, electric guitar
Luciano Tonetti - electric bass, ukulele
Marco Santinelli - drums
with
Alessandro Corvaglia - vocals
Raffaella Izzo - vocals
Gianluca Milanese - transverse flute
Giuseppe Tonetti - bouzouki

“After the homonymous first album (2013) which celebrated AURORA LUNARE of the 70s, and the interlocutory "Translunaggio" (which paid homage to important progressive bands), the band from Livorno returns

Nik Comoglio: composition, orchestration, hammond, juno dist. moog, mellotron, keyboards
Riccardo Ruggeri: composition, vocals, lyrics
Marta Caldara: vibraphone, marimba, keyboards
Gigi Rivetti: acoustic Piano, electric piano. clavinet, hammond, moog, accordion
Simone Rubinato: Bass, fretless bass, electric baritone guitar
Ciro Iavarone: drums, percussion
Guest:
Rebecca Onyeji e Charlie Poma: backing Vocals

"Sit down, make yourself comfortable. This is the story o