Brandon Ross - electric guitar, soprano guitar, vocal
Graham Haynes - cornet, electronics
David Virelles - keyboards, piano
JT Lewis - drums
Hardedge - soundesign

“Ross began Phantom Station as a springboard for his creative pursuits with Hardedge, an electronic artist, whose singular soundesign work is employed to generate interactive sound worlds with textures and palettes conceived for the settings or ensembles. Hardedge’s electronics thus maximize the sonic and textural

This is a well recorded soundboard of Steve towards the end of his solo career as a bandleader, performing in support of the Open album.

“Addressing the audience in French throughout, 'Paris Bataclan 11.12.79' documents a sparkling & joyous performance from one of the 20th Century's guitar greats & his band: Miquette Giraudy - synthesiser, vocals; Andy Anderson - drums; Paul Francis - bass, vocals; Dave Stewart - guitar.
The 100-minutes of music on 'Paris Bataclan 11.12.79' are presented...

“Sun Ra At The Showcase: Live In Chicago contains previously unissued live recordings of the legendary intergalactic composer/pianist Sun Ra captured live at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase in Chicago, IL. between 1976 and 1977.
Researched and compiled by longtime Sun Ra archivist Michael D. Anderson, and transferred from the original tape reels. Liner notes by James Corbett, and interviews and statements from photographer Hal Rammel, Michael Weiss, Marshall Allen, Thurston Moore, Jack DeJohnette, David...

“A new edition of the wonderful 1976 album ‘Marscape’ by Jack Lancaster And Robin Lumley, taken from newly discovered master tapes.
This excellent album was recorded and released in 1976 and was composed and conceived to mark the landing on Mars of Nasa’s Viking 2 Explorer in September of that year.
For the sessions, saxophonist and woodwind player Jack Lancaster and keyboard player Robin Lumley were joined by John Goodsall on guitars, Percy Jones on bass and Phil Collins on drums.
The...

"Careful compositions converse with focused improvisations under the precise direction of Steve MacLean who, on this CD, after various excursions that took him through experimental works for piano, interactive insect/guitar compositions and pure electronics, returns to a performing band and a journey through complex polyrhythmic compositions imaginatively intercut with careful, atmospheric inventions, for guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion and various objects. There is a quiet rigour, almost a formality...

"In 1996, at the end of a two year residency, Fred organised an event at L'Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne in France involving as many of the students as possible, grouped according to their departments - early music, rock, African drumming, classical etc. Each group was set up in a different room in the school building and during the concert the public was encouraged to wander around creating their own mix, or to sit in the courtyard and listen to the sound drifting out through the open...

"A remarkable set of pieces for mediated acoustic piano that operates in the shadowy territory between what is playable and what is programmable; between narrative simplicity and performative complexity; between hopeful intentionality and flawless execution. Unusually, Steve has put our ear right inside the piano, sans artificial reverberations and blurring tools and, over the course of the CD, various musical dialects are explored and extended - from the plausible, through the exquisite, to the...

The good: This is great stuff!
The bad: They go out of their way to hide the fact that this material has been out before on the records ‘Munic & Elsewhere’, ‘The Last LP’ ‘BBC Sessions +’ and the double CD version of ‘Faust IV’.
If you own these, you own this material. If you don’t own these, these are well worth picking up!

Amoeba Split are a Spanish, progressive jazz/rock band with heavy Canterbury-scene influences. After 4 years of work together, in 2010 they released this, their first album, in a numbered, limited-edition package of 500 copies!

We sold a lot...

For many years, I was under the mistaken impression that this Spanish band had only released one album, their classic, self-titled progressive / hard rock debut release. But I was wrong.
With a changed line-up, in 1979 they issued this second album. Much like the first, it features prog-oriented hard rock with great guitaring.
This is the first-ever legitimate reissue and it is a hand numbered edition of 500 and includes a bonus track.

Guthrie Govan – Guitar
Dimitris Sevdalis – Keyboards
Yiorgos Fakanas – Bass
Menios Pasialis – Drums

A fine Greek rhythm section of world-class players that I’ve never heard of back up super stunt-guitarist (possibly best known here for his work with Aristocrats) and the end result is very strong, in-yr-face, modern fusion.

“A double live fusion release is pretty rare. This one rates it. High energy slamfest, featuring smokin' versions of many of the best tunes from Fakanas.

“We’re truly honored to welcome US Black Ambient veterans Sutekh Hexen to the fold. Both defiant and meditative, their latest self-titled full-length and first studio album furthers the project’s inquiry into opposition, endurance, and paradox. Both hypnotic and cruel, these ten highly charged tracks transgress yet again any previously imposed boundaries while upholding their raw ethos at its root, and at times defying the listener's expectations altogether. Though tempestuous as ever, with this work...

“Reissue of the limited self released album from 2019. Den Sorte Død (The Black Death) is a ritual performance by artists Offermose and Angst. From deep within the dark forests of Sweden a depressive spell is cast. Drawn-out and haunting notes ooze eerily from distorted keys, conjuring up images of underground landscapes crawling with unseen apparitions. A lone silhouette wanders endlessly through sunless deserts and smoldering wastelands. Low rumbling echoes from distant mountains, releasing a putrid....

“New offering from New York city’s master of Isolationist Ambient. A continuation of the previously explored realm of the spirit world through "Lucid Intrusion" (Cyclic Law 2018), we’re now being depicted a unique journey of an Outer Body Experience.
As the spirit leaves the physical body and is propelled to a parallel universe, it encounters unknown phenomenas and travels obscure and unrecognisable landscapes. An otherworldly journey through an infinite realm, a subconscious terra incognita...

Thollem (composer, Wavestate) Nels Cline (guitars) Pauline Oliveros (MIDI-accordion) William Parker (double bass) Terry Riley (vocals) Michael Wimberly (drums). “Creativity is theoretically infinite. Just as improvisors can play the same song every night and have it sound different every time, existing recordings can have their materials combined in different ways, re-mixed, re-ordered, re-everything'd. Some people prefer the comforting solidity of a single version, unchanging, but that is antithetical...

"A Chaos Of Flowers is an album that builds on their ferocious 2023 album Nature Morte. BIG|BRAVE's music has been described as massive minimalism. Their fusillades of textural distortion and feedback emphasize their music's frayed edges as much as its all-encompassing weight. The potency of the trio's work is their singular artistry combining elements of traditional folk techniques and a modern deconstruction of guitar music. Gain, feedback, and amplitude are essential.
For A Chaos Of Flowers...

"Oren Ambarchi has been collaborating with the Fire! trio (Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin) for over a decade -- and both Johan and Andreas played on Oren's Live Hubris as well. Oren and Johan began music-making together back in the early aughts -- but it wasn't until 2021 that the three of them got together to record music. That became the first Ghosted album. When they were done, it was clear they had founded a new group. A music of sustained tension and deep atmosphere marked by...

“With Time is Glass, Six Organs of Admittance is captured once again in the intricate tangle of the fretboards, soaring in open skies above. Like lens flare cutting through the speakers; spiderwebs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality. Blowing the dust away, cutting a new path for cognition. After 20 years of living on the road in different places, Six Organs of Admittance had returned home to Humboldt County -- a far country, to some, but still part of the world through...

Martin Carthy – guitar, vocals
Dave Swarbrick – fiddle, mandolin
These are historic, previously unreleased live recordings from 1966 and show these two in their early, stomping prime.

“Two of the seminal figures of the British folk revival together on one album. Martin Carthy MBE is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as...

One of the greats of the original era of Spanish progressive rock, this is a previously unknown, very high quality archival discovery from their original and greatest period, featuring the original lineup!

Founded in 1978 by Andrés Olaegui and Luis Cobo, two veteran guitarists and long-time friends with a huge experience in the Flamenco folk and fusion scene, GUADALQUIVIR was one of the most prominent jazz-fusion bands to come out from Southern Spain. The band took its name from the largest...

"Recorded in 1995 and 1996, mostly in John Fahey's room at a Salem, Oregon boardinghouse, the performances on Proofs and Refutations prefigure the ornery turn of the page that marked Fahey's final years, drawing another enigmatic rabbit from his seemingly bottomless musical hat. Cloaked in the language of dogma, this is Fahey dancing a jig in the Duchampian gap, jester cap bells a-jingling. Right out of the gate, Fahey re-materializes before us, somewhere between Oracle of Delphi and Clown Prince at...

This is the fourth solo release by Laetitia, who is well known as THE voice of Stereolab, and her first solo in a decade!
In addition to the official blurb, I thought that I’d mention that this reminds me a lot of Aquaserge in their most ‘song’ moments.

"Over the course of her career, spanning three-plus decades, Laetitia Sadier has never shied away from the hard topics, or stopped advocating for the possibility of self-determination and emancipation in the face of the powers that be...

One of a number of early/mid 70s albums featuring the great and still undervalued guitarist Ray Russell in a progressive/hard rock vein. The music is definitely of its time, but Ray's talents were and still are timeless.

"Mouse had their one and only album release during 1973 and its rareness has guaranteed it a place in the Record Collector Rare Record Price guide at £80 per copy! Now released on CD for the first time with 4 bonus tracks. The remastering and artwork has been overseen by Ray...

Excellent and TIGHT 10 piece, instrumental Brazilian band who fuse Afrobeat stylings with Brazilian influences to come up with a different spin on a familiar sound.

“São Paulo's acclaimed ten-piece instrumental collective return for their fourth album, Quebra Cabeça. Urban Afro-Brazilian grooves, empowered horn-driven melodicism, and massive dancefloor inspiration. One of South America's most exhilarating musical propositions.
Almost four centuries after the first slave ships loaded their...

“August, 1970: With Jim Morrison's ongoing Miami obscenity trial casting an ominous shadow over the band, The Doors flew to England to play the Isle of Wight Festival. Waiting for them at "The Last Great Festival" were over 600,000 fans who had already torn down the barriers, crashed the gates, and enjoyed performances by the world's top acts such as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell.
The Doors took the stage at 2 am, playing with the weight of the trial on their backs, and showed..