New Arrivals

New Arrivals
Wendy Eisenberg – guitar
Ava Mendoza - guitar
Bill Orcutt - guitar
Shane Parish - guitar

“I first saw the quartet in San Francisco a few months before this double live LP was recorded. I was already familiar with the prowess of Eisenberg and Mendoza, two of the most technically intimidating shredders to blast out of the noise/improv underground, and knew Parish as the mastermind behind the epic translation of Orcutt's quartet recordings into a fully notated score. I was ready to be..

“With King Crimson alumni Tony Levin on the Chapman Stick and drummer Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter brings is various Touch Guitars and soundscapes to a tour of Japan back in 2022 to mix original compositions with a salute to Robert Fripp in both sound and tune selection.
Vintage Crimson material from the golden days are delivered with 21st Century Schizoid fashion, as “Red” has Mastelotto delivering an avalanche of percussion around the fiery metallic strings, while “Lark’s Tongues In Aspic”

Ivo Perelman: tenor saxophone
Matthew Shipp: piano
Mark Helias: double bass
Tom Rainey: drums

"Water Music signals a pivot, marked by a quality not usually associated with Perelman’s music. His improvisations here contain a new emphasis on melodic lines; I’d even dare call them “lyrical." In fact, this was always present to some degree and maybe not always recognizable to everyone...
...Perelman’s music, like the ocean, has always had its own sense of time and rhythm, as it ebb

“Chronicles I is the first part of a retrospective of Eloy's band history, but it is no ordinary "best of" album. All the tracks were re-recorded in 1993 and cover Eloy's creative phase from 1977 to 1982.
"Chronicles I" is a brilliant album through and through. With barely any vocals at all, both, Frank Borneman on guitar and Michael Gerlach on synthesizer create atmosphere through sheer electronic mastery on each and every track. The reworking of the songs is symphonic rock with bite. The clarity...

“Hungary's gift to the world. Omega are a truly world class Progressive Rock band of the first order. These guys can be as good as anyone when they're on their game. And to me the mid to late 1970s was when Omega was at their peak as a band.”-rym

“After four studio albums and one compilation, the Hungarian megastars Omega were still much of an an insider tip in the West. However, sales figures were noticeably rising, though far from going through the roof. In addition, the band had evolved...

First-time vinyl release for this 2000 album.

“The formation OREGON has surely been well-known to most jazz and classical music enthusiasts. During the past 50+ years of band history, OREGON has become a synonym for genre-crossing music of the finest. Emerging in 1970 from the legendary Paul Winter Consort, OREGON combined elements of jazz with those of symphonic classical music and what is known today under the makeshift term "world music". Despite their music defying classification OREGON has...

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.”